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541.
by acheron 4y ago
Being social is fine. That’s what I have real friends for. I don’t need pretend friends at work.
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by acheron 4y ago
“Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”
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by acheron 4y ago
It’s way better than the constant headlines about Twitter drama.
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by acheron 4y ago
Netcraft confirms it: Apache and Nginx are dying.
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by acheron 4y ago
“Seemingly reputable publication like the guardian” Ha. No. Now realize that every other article in the Guardian is just as deliberately misleading.
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by acheron 4y ago
When do you think the Internet was set up?
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by acheron 4y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen a Who's Firing thread before. Agree a regular one like that would be better.
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by acheron 4y ago
Not true, I just did it a few weeks ago when moving to a new phone. Just screenshotted the backup QR code and when I got my new phone later I used the screenshot.
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by acheron 4y ago
Reddit people complaining about something is a good sign that whatever it is is correct.
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by acheron 4y ago
First graphical browser I used was Slipknot [0], which doesn’t appear to be listed. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlipKnot_(web_browser) (Edit: I see it now, must have skipped over it before.)
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by acheron 4y ago
Everyone has a test environment. Some places also have a production environment.
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by acheron 4y ago
That sounds like it might be an audit restriction. Those places have very strict rules separating who they do accounting or consulting for vs who they audit, for obvious reasons. So it might be that they’re saying you can’t do work for them
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by acheron 4y ago
I learned about tafl from a program called "Zillions of Games" which was a board game playing system from the early 00s. Had a custom rules engine where you could teach it to play any kind of board game with perfect information, a
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by acheron 4y ago
I had an Overdrive that went from an original Pentium to the Pentium-MMX I think, while also doubling clock speed (75 MHz to 150!).
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by acheron 4y ago
Exactly. I used Keepass for years but it became too much of a pain. (Though I suppose changing a bunch of passwords that I had in LastPass is also kind of a pain.)
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by acheron 4y ago
"That sounds cool. But I bet the first comment to the article is going to be some cynical negative bullshit." click "Yep." Never change HN.
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by acheron 4y ago
There was an interesting article in the Athletic the other day about what happened to Apple (which had been rumored all along to be the one to get this package). There were specific points of disagreement, but it overall mainly comes down t
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by acheron 4y ago
I’ll put in a plug for the Netherlands Bach society’s “All of Bach” project. https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach Also if you have a local group that performs Bach works, they’re great to hear live. The Washingto
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by acheron 4y ago
That's hardly a good faith interpretation of the post you're responding to. Do you actually want to discuss something or are you just looking to insult people?
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by acheron 4y ago
I will never use social logins to sign up for anything. What a terrible idea. I assume anyone doing that is just doing it for tracking or scamming purposes.
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by acheron 4y ago
Ugh. I probably need to start using Apple Maps more often, don't I?
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by acheron 4y ago
I use Waze but that part of it actually bugs me, because it's hard to tell if it's telling me to go on some side route for a real reason (avoiding a big accident) or just because it's guessing it will be 90 seconds faster.
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by acheron 4y ago
As that one xkcd goes, “Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.”
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by acheron 4y ago
The US uses miles, they’re not just imperial. Maybe you needed to tell it not to use imperial units or US units.
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by acheron 4y ago
I stuck with local BBSs and don't think I ever wound up with a big phone bill that way. I did one time rack up a large bill when Sierra came out with their "Sierra Network" dialup service. I don't remember if that was a
566.
by acheron 4y ago
And I thought “Computer, disable holodeck safety protocols” was too simple.
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by acheron 4y ago
I’m kind of shocked Slate still exists tbh.
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by acheron 4y ago
Not that I know of, nor did anyone in my family. Got the original vaccine when it came out, and then a booster in early Jan (so the original booster, not the bivalent one). I stopped with the masks altogether back in the spring (with the ex
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by acheron 4y ago
I've been using DDG regularly since 2012 or so. For most of that time the results have been great. I sometimes read comments about how people struggle with switching from Google to DDG, and I always thought those comments were.. "
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by acheron 4y ago
Name literally any activity you do, and there's a HN commenter ready to lecture you about it.

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