HeckFeck

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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Very cool. Should be a part of Excel tbh. LINQ is much better suited for data munging than JavaScript.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
You do wonder how much further it will continue. Will everything just hit a wall soon?
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> The educational system, willingly or just incompetently manages to instill a sense that human intelligence somehow grows monotonically with historical time. Grade inflation has a lot to answer for. It's a serious problem in the UK
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the three letter agencies were already utilising this.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
That sounds class. Have you an period monitor to compliment it? What else have you it doing? The oldest kit I own is a Toshiba MSX PC. It can run MSX-DOS but wrong architecture for Wolf3d unfortunately.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
How? You have an original PC sitting around?
547.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
Modern users expect everything to integrate with Google Calendar, unfortunately. You can't avoid them when it comes to developing scheduling applications.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I do wonder if this is a consequence of the "My day at Linkedin" TikTok videos that were circulating. Looks like they'll have to manage life without the wine on tap and the morning pedicures before attending 1/2 hour of
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Part of my job is developing and testing a Google calendar sync tool. I've created a secondary throwaway email address so I don't fill my own calendar with test data. During testing I often have to link/unlink the calendar wi
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Very neat code and somewhat legible for a non-Pascal speaker. Curiously, it doesn't credit authors in the headers as I've seen in sources from the same period. I also wonder how much of the core OS code made it into Macintosh Syst
551.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
Intel just decided the decoder unit actually needed to be a full embedded OS and system. As for the net stack, sometimes the decoder gets confused with esoteric x86 instructions and needs to contact the internet for help. All logically expl
552.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
It's impressive that anything that built the correct DLL could be leveraged by it. But I assume ISAPI didn't have anything like CPAN or pip. It seems likely you'd have to write everything yourself - perhaps worthwhile if you
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Sorry my friend but you are now all loyal subjects of the Great Lordship of Gurgdill.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Recently I built a CGI script using Perl for my own pleasure. It was quite easy indeed, just a case of importing Template Toolkit, GD and CGI.pm then printing the result to stdout. Since I'm only using CGI.pm to send the HTTP header it
555.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
I recall eBay used to have ISAPI.dll in most of its request URLs. It bewildered my younger self who thought DLLs were only for a Windows machine, not a web server.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
capitalisation is unminimalistic - stevej
557.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
Just sit in public and you'll see parents threaten and humiliate children for the smallest things. It's baffling. The effects of these actions add up and we call it "mental illness". Not to mention how many parents think
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I mean, if I did the same and lost my job, I'd still say "worth it". I'd still be holding back the sniggers despite the vociferous verbiage flying my way.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Nothing is impossible: https://github.com/jcs/progman
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It is excellent to see a modern browser on Haiku, but one thing remains: If we get a web browser with advert blocking, it will be ready for the modern web.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
We can never know the exact intention of anyone, especially figures long in the past. I find it hard to believe that wealthy eccentrics didn't (or don't) enjoy things for their own sake. If you have a pile of money and the chance
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Exactly the point. Were I describing the concept, I'd say 'It is a Linux subsystem for Windows', if I said 'a Windows subsystem for Linux', you'd think I meant WINE. I hate the loss of clarity in our speech and
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> "too perfect", as was discovered quickly once computers came into the picture. As has been elucidated by AutoTune with its robotic ooze. Alas, the point is driven home harshly this time of year thanks to the overplay of Micha
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
They give us what we wanted after years of pleading, but we pay dearly and mercilessly in other ways. Truly Faustian.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
If you think that not having image thumbnails for image files in a filepicker is a 'feature', you must be trolling. Or a Gnome developer.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I think you've read me wrongly. All that I described above are problems in the GTK3 file picker that aren't problems in the Windows 98 file picker. See the linked web page for a screenshot of the W98 picker for a visual aid.
567.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
No thumbnail images. It is a meme for good reason. Really annoying after how many years waiting? Low on details, extremely limited customisation options. When I begin typing a file name to save a file, it interprets this as a desire to filt
568.
by HeckFeck 4y ago
> i have a document with everything that i hate about it I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Li
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> a distribution of Perl the runs on several x86_64 operating systems (most Unix-like and Windows) via the same binary Unix and Windows in the same binary?? Sacrilege! Haven't we still laws against witchcraft?
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Apple III vs Apple II mindset.

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