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by acheron 2y ago
Similar story here.. At one point Intuit would send you a demo of Quickbooks on 7 or so floppies, so a friend called up and requested X demos and we split up the resulting disks. I was still saving college papers and projects on old Quickbo
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by acheron 2y ago
Yeah seems fine. Some people got upset that they were boycotting Russia or something, but those people can be ignored.
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by acheron 2y ago
The issue isn’t the doctor knowing when to use the algorithm and when to deviate, but explaining that deviating from the algorithm was the right choice to the judge and jury in the subsequent lawsuit.
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by acheron 2y ago
“Livestock culling”
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by acheron 2y ago
You get a 401k from working at McDonalds. Yes ordinary people own stock.
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by acheron 2y ago
Mostly it's Google's fault. I sometimes think this is not entirely fair of me -- if it hadn't been Google it would have been someone else? E.g., I'm sure there's a parallel universe where the Internet ended up being
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by acheron 2y ago
Can go back to Arthur Conan Doyle, who disliked having to keep writing Sherlock Holmes stories. (Famously killing him off, only to bring him back later when a successful story was needed.)
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by acheron 2y ago
I'm plenty old enough but somehow have never seen or heard of this. Fantastic.
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by acheron 2y ago
Music, movies, microcode, and high speed pizza delivery.
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by acheron 2y ago
In the 1800s the US used to mint a half-cent coin. It was discontinued when it wasn’t worth enough to bother with. It was worth the equivalent of about 20 cents today.
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by acheron 2y ago
Padme: So then Brave isn’t going to be based on Chrome anymore, right?
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by acheron 2y ago
Breaking news from 5000 BC
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by acheron 2y ago
This is nonsense. I mean, I WFH now but when I worked outside the home there was a pattern of 1) UPS guy tries to deliver package 2) nobody is home, because it is 1PM 3) I have to go to UPS distribution center to pick it up Finally I got t
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by acheron 2y ago
Yep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
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by acheron 2y ago
You must be old. Nowadays even Harvard students aren't expected to be able to read anything complicated. From coincidentally, another New Yorker link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/th
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by acheron 2y ago
Lunchtime doubly so
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by acheron 2y ago
I fondly remember When Did Wild Poodles Roam The Earth?
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by acheron 2y ago
Doesn’t Gitlab blatantly discriminate in salaries?
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by acheron 2y ago
Awhile back I wrote a clojure program to take old PLAY statements (for playing notes on the PC speaker) from GW BASIC and generate a wav file. At the time writing GW BASIC it seemed pretty straightforward, but there are a lot of interesting
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by acheron 2y ago
No, that’s a reason to not upgrade, so that I don’t have to replace all my cords.
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by acheron 2y ago
No? Why would it matter if it’s an AI image or a stock photo?
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by acheron 2y ago
Instagram and Pinterest are garbage tho. Are there actually still forums for something like this? I agree that would be a better method of discovery.
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by acheron 2y ago
Sure, then we can switch to French Revolutionary metric time.
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by acheron 2y ago
Interesting. I tried to read it in the late 90s and bounced off it, I wondered if it was “you had to be there” thing for the 80s.
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by acheron 2y ago
Advertising company’s browser makes it hard to remove advertising: news at 11. Don’t use Chrome then.
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by acheron 2y ago
If voting could change anything it’d be illegal.
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by acheron 2y ago
> am i not truly independent Correct. If you advocate and vote for the same party in everything at all times, you are not independent. If you say you are then you are lying to yourself and/or others.
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by acheron 2y ago
Beep boop, humans are so illogical.
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by acheron 2y ago
So many interviewers fall into the old xkcd “communicating poorly then acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness”.
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by acheron 2y ago
Sapir-Whorf is nonsense.

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