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   by acheron 3y ago

   "Here's a 4000 year old letter from a merchant to his partners describing how to avoid taxes by smuggling goods in their underwear." ( https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/trade-and-contraband-anci... ) vs
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   by acheron 3y ago

   > SWE is a common abbreviation for Software Engineer This only started in the past 10 years or so, and I don't think I've ever actually seen it in real life. I don't live in SF though -- I assumed it was something Google d
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   by acheron 3y ago

   I just wish that if interviewing was going to become “random irrelevant stuff from second or third year CS” that we had gotten automata theory, because that was actually fun.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   Town of ZZT animated movie when?
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   by acheron 3y ago

   Gotta watch out for the Michelangelo virus.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   You know, or not. "This shift from plastic film to alternative bags resulted in a nearly 3x increase in plastic consumption for bags, which is not widely recycled." https://www.freedoniagroup.com/press-releases&#x2
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   by acheron 3y ago

   I only knew this from “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, I didn’t realize there was this much behind it.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   Embedded in styrofoam shoes, Carl is sent to ‘sleep with the humans’.
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   by acheron 3y ago

   “Good Booze/Bad Booze”: https://www.alcademics.com/2015/09/good-booze-bad-booze.html
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    by acheron 3y ago

    My wife had a 2003 Vibe, they were contacting her about the airbag recall years ago. I'm not following why there's an update now? Isn't this the same recall?
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    by acheron 3y ago

    That I got new? Probably alarm clock with the red LEDs, from 1991ish. I have an early-1960s waffle iron but it was refurbished and bought just a couple years ago.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Think of all those extra ad impressions though!
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Real enlightenment comes when you realize “Debt” was mostly nonsense too.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Yeah, and add in when you have to buy the new BMW, and have to go on international vacations every year, and that salary looks even smaller! Or you could buy a used Honda instead, go somewhere cheaper for vacation, and not live in the most
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    by acheron 3y ago

    And that time was 2009? Who with any morals would have worked at Google at any time since then?
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Venenya vilyanirwanen ná quanta as angolingwi https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
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    by acheron 3y ago

    > Official archives can mean a few boxes in the basement “Beware of the leopard”
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    by acheron 3y ago

    The real question is if you're still not allowed to use iTunes in nuclear weapons. (answer is yes, that's still banned! https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iTunes.pdf )
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I once talked to a guy who worked at the CIA who said "when people ask me what movie most accurately reflects working at the CIA, I say Office Space ".
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Reminds me of the old XKCD about "there's a monk out back with a ladder!" https://xkcd.com/794/
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Disclaimer I haven't tried this yet, but I found this project recently that supposedly downloads all iCloud photos (e.g. to a NAS for local backup). https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
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    by acheron 3y ago

    I had forgotten about list.com! Wow, what a sudden memory. Looks like it was Vern Buerg: https://github.com/sebras/buerg
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    by acheron 3y ago

    BTW -- this book is a wonderful look at the shareware games of the era: https://sharewareheroes.com/
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Bunch of games, mainly from the big names (Apogee and Epic). Only "indie" game I can think of right now is Megazeux, though there might have been others. Oh, there was one from a local guy that I'm not sure ever spread beyond
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    by acheron 3y ago

    In the 90s? Huh, it came out in 1995. I don't think I ever saw it until a couple years into the 2000s. I think I did buy it.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    If you just want the Wikipedia article, you can go straight there. Why are you searching for it?
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    by acheron 3y ago

    One crush avoidance is 10 gems, but buy a pack of avoidance for 200 gems!
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Get a refurbished vintage one: toastercentral.com
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Don’t feed the trolls.
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    by acheron 3y ago

    Seconded. There are also great interviews with Bruce Shelley and Bryan Reynolds there. The most recent episode with Jake Solomon involves a lot of Firaxis stories as well.