acheron

20 ms·

331.
by acheron 3y ago
I’m not going to read this link because nothing is worth trying to deal with the Twitter UI, but if you’re interested in the topic there’s a bunch on it in Andrew Robinson’s book Lost Languages .
332.
by acheron 3y ago
Very nice. Will be interesting to see what comes out of studying these. Semi-related, I still hold out hope for more discoveries of the Isthmian/Epi-Olmec script. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script
333.
by acheron 3y ago
People want their question answered accurately, which is many times more likely to happen after clicking through than by relying on some opaque Google process that may or may not have interpreted the information correctly.
334.
by acheron 3y ago
His year is off -- my area code is where I lived in 2002-03 and specifically not in 2005, but yeah. I blocked all that area code except for a couple specific numbers.
335.
by acheron 3y ago
Sorry, just making low content posts. It's a punchline from an entirely unrelated Norm Macdonald joke ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBs5Al_eudc ), but I thought of it because Seger had a famous song called "Ka
336.
by acheron 3y ago
More great work from the University of Bob Seger.
337.
by acheron 3y ago
I don't think I have anything 90s that still works. I remember ordering from Amazon in 1999 or earlier but my current account has my first order from early 2002, so I must have recreated the account for some reason. Ebay is about the s
338.
by acheron 3y ago
> can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now? More. Gen Z is ahead of previous generations. “30% of 25-year olds owned their home in 2022, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age.” > Why? Low int
339.
by acheron 3y ago
But if there’s no login how do they track you for marketing purposes? This doesn’t sound like a web app at all.
340.
by acheron 3y ago
“Will MySpace Ever Lose Its Monopoly?” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.... “In social networking, there is a huge advantage to have scale. You can find almost anyone on MySpac
341.
by acheron 3y ago
Fire up the subspace ansible and create a holodeck room for us to talk about it. You can't name the holodeck program "CON", "LPT1", "PRN", or "AUX", though, because those are MS-DOS device names.
342.
by acheron 3y ago
Yeah, when I was looking for a house several years ago I didn’t remotely consider anything new. Aside from the fact that almost all new construction has HOAs, I also assume any new house was shoddily built with poor labor as quick as possib
343.
by acheron 3y ago
Works fine in reader mode.
344.
by acheron 3y ago
Regulations require backup cameras now, so you’re not going to get it.
345.
by acheron 3y ago
While we’re bringing up random people that the article isn’t about, what’s your opinion on King Valdemar IV Atterdag of Denmark?
346.
This is your Anti-Productivity Pod (2004)(blog.codinghorror.com)
2 points by acheron 3y ago|0 comments
347.
by acheron 3y ago
> "my interest in webdev is still dead" > Have you gone through your college career and you realized you do not like CS? The Venn diagram of “web development” and “computer science” is two separate circles.
348.
by acheron 3y ago
Just hope the King of Sweden doesn't make another February 30. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
349.
by acheron 3y ago
Maybe somebody bumped the desk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23472870
350.
by acheron 3y ago
Uh oh, do they have my payment info from when I bought Castle of the Winds?
351.
by acheron 3y ago
You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic, and went to Reddit? That’s, uh, optimistic.
352.
by acheron 3y ago
I was a bit older, but I definitely had a page prominently featuring the running moose from https://gifcities.org/?q=moose
353.
by acheron 3y ago
I don’t get credit for my tiger-repelling rock even though we haven’t seen any tigers.
354.
by acheron 3y ago
It’s not right wing unless they sit on the right side of the National Assembly and support Louis XVI.
355.
by acheron 3y ago
EGA Trek for DOS got a sternly-worded letter. Later versions had “USS Lexington” fighting the “Mongols”, rather than the Enterprise and Klingons.
356.
by acheron 3y ago
WCRB in Boston does a Bach show every week which is available for streaming. Lots of times there's a cantata that fits the calendar. https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-bach-hour
357.
by acheron 3y ago
If we’re imagining a parallel universe where things make sense, let’s get rid of CSV files altogether and use the ASCII field separator characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...
358.
by acheron 3y ago
To be fair, sometimes you get "Oops, an error occurred, LOL!"
359.
by acheron 3y ago
Yes, that time was 1996-2002 or so, and they were called "AOL keywords".
360.
by acheron 3y ago
"falsehoods programmers believe" articles considered harmful.

More ›