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by PTOB 1y ago
My first bug fix ever was getting rid of that stupid tail that kept growing and wouldn't go away when you moved in NIBBLES.BAS.
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by PTOB 1y ago
As someone who spends lots of time in Autodesk tools, this made me tear up a little bit.
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by PTOB 2y ago
Don't know why this is getting downvotes. It's apropos to the post.
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by PTOB 2y ago
This is absolutely beautiful. I love it so much, and I want the rest of the world to be like this.
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by PTOB 2y ago
I too had this experience in Texas over the holidays. Sigh.
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by PTOB 2y ago
Are you trying to start a flame war?? :-D
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by PTOB 2y ago
Instead of brutalist, I'd call it "NASA Revivalist" as it is very reminiscent of the 1970s NASA graphic design style manual[0]. Having personal experience designing in the context of / restoring brutalist architecture (t
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by PTOB 2y ago
Not just them. I predict it will extend to all classes of folks who use popular schemas for naming taken from self-isolating social forums.
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by PTOB 2y ago
It's PhD philosophy dissertations all the way down.
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by PTOB 2y ago
The real question - which I do not intend to answer - is, "Are the same HN users who are receptive to the metaphysics here also providing the 'experts disagree' retorts?" If we were to categorize the different mindsets
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by PTOB 2y ago
This is why I come to HN, for nuggets like this. This is improving my life as I listen. Thanks for sharing!
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by PTOB 2y ago
I appreciate how you added an extra letter to "bloat". It's like visual onomatopoeia.
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by PTOB 2y ago
The current Dell version of this: upgrade to 64GB is $1200. Found this the hard way when trying to get my engineering team what I thought would be a $200 upgrade per machine from their stock 32GB Precision laptop workstations.
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by PTOB 3y ago
<cough> AUTODESK <cough>
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by PTOB 3y ago
Me too, friend. Me too.
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by PTOB 3y ago
And now: - the 4-hr Work Week toolkit is complete. - deep-fakes are now just regular fakes
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by PTOB 3y ago
It is of type <T>.
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by PTOB 3y ago
Could you recommend some titles? I not only enjoy German thoroughness, but I am also tickled by the schlamminvordstogezah style of German tool naming.
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by PTOB 3y ago
Amen. That deadpan price tag drop at the end.
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by PTOB 3y ago
Tell me more!
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by PTOB 3y ago
"switched everything to UDP 15 years ago" ME: <Nods head approvingly in 25-years-ago-LAN-party>
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by PTOB 3y ago
Try this on: "A non-trivial number of Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and hobbyists have ..." Took some philosophy courses for fun in college. I developed a reading skill there that lets me forgive
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by PTOB 3y ago
Wow, this brings back memories. Years ago, the persistence of this particular bug led me to believe that Firefox was "buggy" and "messy". It broke any perception in my mind that Firefox is an elegant tool. It hit whateve
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by PTOB 3y ago
I would slaver at mouth over that opportunity.
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by PTOB 3y ago
Fortunately, this is a solved problem. Professional Engineers and Architects in non-software fields require licensing. One can't legally give yourself those titles in other fields. You have to prove you have the map nailed down in your
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by PTOB 3y ago
This is a great sample of "truth [being] stranger than fiction". Can verify many of the examples from memory. Most memorable: the Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROM illustration/splash screen.
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by PTOB 3y ago
SCENE: COVID, clients started backing out of / delaying design contracts. My boss first cuts his own salary. He has seven kids. PPP comes out and he applies for/receives it. Still keeps salary cut. Company stays afloat through s
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by PTOB 3y ago
There's plenty of instances of this exact thing captured on YouTube. Police can be seen walking up to people filming and placing themselves in close proximity to block views.
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by PTOB 3y ago
And Logo drives the turtles.
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by PTOB 3y ago
Plot twist; he's got an "Ask Me about Neal Stephenson" t-shirt.

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