Finnucane

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by Finnucane 5mo ago
I keep a small collection of nuclear testing-photography related books, looks like I'm going to have to add this one.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
I remember using Wordstar for CP/M. It did pretty much everything you needed, and it didn't get in your way. I was also a heavy user of XyWrite. One of the fun things about XyWrite was you could get it do almost anything. If there
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
"The Dutch government's choice of Forgejo, not GitLab, was deliberate." And since Gitlab seems to have looked over at what is happening at Github and decided, we want some of that, that was probably the right choice.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
If people are collecting them, they're collectable.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
>this garbage ad-ridden website And that's not Youtube?
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
The note callouts are all borked.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
Jeez, "wheels not falling off car" has been a solved problem since at least the 1965 Corvair.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
As much as you could at 9600 baud.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
Corporate bonds won't take you to Disneyland.
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
A new Leica M6 goes for about $7K at B&H. When you could still buy them, Rolleiflexes were about that much. A mechanical camera hand-made in short runs in Germany? Not gonna be cheap. If you can afford and think you'll use it enoug
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by Finnucane 5mo ago
My first thought is, that looks cool. [looks in wallet. Looks at cabinet with other cameras. Looks at wallet again.] Oh well.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Are you going to give your cc number to every website in the world? Also, is that really an ID?
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Use every means necessary. If that can be organized, do it.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
I use a Melitta pour over cone, a Baratza grinder, a kettle with a temp control, and a spoon. Once in a while, I'll get out the French press. Good coffee doesn't really need to be complicated. You just need decent fresh beans and
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Having been on the other side of that, there is a point. When an editor writes a rejection letter, aside from the fact that it already means what you wrote was better than 97% of what the editor saw that week, telling you why they turned it
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
I was the editor who published Super Cannes in the US. It still makes my day to see it mentioned.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Many new trade hardcover books will not last that long. I work at a university press, and we still use acid-free paper, quarter-cloth bindings, sturdy boards, and other niceties that the big trade houses are increasingly giving up on. Guess
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
The enormous waste of resources? The environmental destruction? The damage to education? To the labor market? I mean, it's a long list.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
"It's never RICO"--Popehat
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Must...resist...obvious..jokes...resist...
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
I still remember seeing Terry do a reading of this at Lunacon, I think, shortly after it was published. It was a good reading, he really knew how to land a joke.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Actually reading the comments first because the page isn't loading for me.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
Heh, up until a few years ago our inventory system ran on an AS/400, and we had to use 5250 emulators to log in. Don't miss it.
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by Finnucane 6mo ago
They might be, but that’s not really a reason to let bad people stay in jobs they shouldn’t have. Otherwise e might as well give up any pretense of accountability and just let them do whatever they want.
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
There was also SpaceWar! from MIT, which Nolan Bushnell turned into a standalone cabinet game. Though I think you could make a case for Pong being the first coin-op video game, a commercial game rather than something that primarily existed
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
consumer space and space space chips.
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
Just gotta zoom _way_ in to make the text readable, though.
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
I spent years as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor. One of the reasons I don't so much any more is I was getting too many political books, books where the authors were not so interested in facts or logic--or even internal consiste
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
"The fight has been about the Pentagon wanting to use Anthropic’s models even more than the company wants, which doesn’t seem like the thing you’d fight for if you thought the models presented security risks." Well, remember who&#
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by Finnucane 7mo ago
I know this is a developer, so they're never going to suggest anything except number go up, but if the cost to buy is going up faster than the cost to rent, that suggests a distortion in the market that is not entirely about housing su

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