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by acheron 3y ago
> ICANN sold out the internet. Breaking news from 2011.
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by acheron 3y ago
I'll take "Considered Harmful" any day over "Falsehoods Programmers Believe".
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by acheron 3y ago
Because it’s giving money to Google? Plus half the problem is the tracking, they’re not going to stop tracking me if I pay them, and then I have to use it logged in which just makes the tracking easier.
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by acheron 3y ago
I guess. Do people really connect work accounts to shit like that? Where on earth do you work?
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by acheron 3y ago
Interesting, guess we'll see what comes from that. Thanks.
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by acheron 3y ago
I got a Hubitat box that has both Zwave and Zigbee. I've only ever used Zwave devices and they all work very well but I guess I have the option of Zigbee if I need it. I've avoided anything Wifi or Bluetooth. I don't really k
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by acheron 3y ago
I remember the old one but I've never seen that one. That's great.
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by acheron 3y ago
Ha yes it is. And the two sets of function keys. I loved the Anykey keyboard.
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by acheron 3y ago
Rather than "like the flu" maybe more "like HCoV-OC43". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43 (Summary is that there was a "Russian Flu" epidemic in the 1890s that raged aro
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by acheron 3y ago
No it's not true. But people like to create strawmen in their head that they can feel superior to. "I'm better than all those dumb rubes!"
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by acheron 3y ago
It’s also not actually what happens in the US either. The poster is lying for whatever reason, probably because making negative comments about healthcare is good for Internet points.
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by acheron 4y ago
Admiral Grace Hopper would talk about commuting by boat to Navy Yard, IIRC. Didn't know about this one.
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by acheron 4y ago
> Instagram (62%) I don't use Facebook, I use [thing that is also Facebook]!
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by acheron 4y ago
There was a bug fix in Nethack a few years ago to make eating parchment spellbooks break vegetarian conduct. Which at one level makes perfect sense: of course parchment is an animal product. But the fact that it comes from the intersection
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by acheron 4y ago
Having consulted at government agencies, it’s all AWS and Azure that I’ve seen. There’s a lot of government out there so I wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if somebody somewhere is using GCP but it’s not at all common as far as I can tell.
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by acheron 4y ago
"The Clbuttic Mistake": https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
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by acheron 4y ago
Not if you want to generate a picture of Xi Jinping.
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by acheron 4y ago
RIP. I first played Settlers 20 years ago and now play it with my kids sometimes. Not sure what is special about "dicebreaker.com" but here's an official announcement from the Catan site https://www.catan.com/
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by acheron 4y ago
No, the post you're responding to is mistaken. They were both written at the same time. It sounds like Clarke and Kubrick got together to hash out the plot and some of the details, then went off and each made their own version. The fil
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by acheron 4y ago
Because Reddit is garbage? I mean, Lifehacker is too, but in theory yes of course there’s a place for advice that isn’t garbage, even if LH isn’t it.
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by acheron 4y ago
Nobody remembers UMG vs mp3.com? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co... . This isn't exactly the same thing, but it's close. Of course this was always going to be ruled against.
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by acheron 4y ago
Huh, really? I thought it sounded interesting years ago and checked them out. I then read that it was for jobs/people in San Francisco only, and my reaction was, as the kids say, "lmao". Never thought about them again. Had no
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by acheron 4y ago
> Microsoft must stop shoving down their ecosystem for one tool they want me to try out. I mean, it worked for Google.
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by acheron 4y ago
I always think of a Dilbert from the mid 90s along the lines of “when working from home, do I owe the company 8 hours of productive work, or just the same 2 hours of productive work I’d do if I were in the office?” (Found it : https:/
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by acheron 4y ago
My Lucky Charms weren’t made by a leprechaun?
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by acheron 4y ago
Don't feed the trolls. Click on the comment time and there's a "flag" link, which is better than replying.
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by acheron 4y ago
I have a Brother laser printer that I got back in 2009-10 or something. It's never had a problem with cardstock, though I guess I've never thought about it. What problems do printers have with cardstock?
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by acheron 4y ago
Not really true, as the actual studies show if you read beyond the headline. And dumb "life/advice" subreddits are all "creative writing" at best, and just straight trolling/karma farming more often. Nothing po
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by acheron 4y ago
I don't use Spotify and never will, but the Amazon Music app did that too and it's incredibly annoying.
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by acheron 4y ago
Given how much effort has been spent in shoving Javascript into places it doesn't belong solely so that programmers don't have to learn something else, that seems to be more true than not.

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