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by acheron 6y ago
That pig would have to be ten times more charming than Arnold on Green Acres.
842.
by acheron 6y ago
I thought FreeBSD died when Netcraft confirmed it.
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by acheron 6y ago
“Until you stalk and overrun, you can’t devour anyone.” https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/20
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by acheron 6y ago
Another consequence of incomplete geography and unclear surveying was the Toledo War between Ohio and the Michigan Territory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War In the end, the loser was Wisconsin: Ohio got Toled
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by acheron 6y ago
I always liked that dd story but it's probably not true -- it's based on the DD command in IBM JCL, which stood for "data definition".
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by acheron 6y ago
It happens. I make Casablanca references and that's a movie my grandparents would have seen in the theater when they were young adults. Not to mention how many English phrases come from Shakespeare or the King James Bible.
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by acheron 6y ago
"You make a grown man cry..."
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by acheron 6y ago
Based on nothing more than my memory, I believe it was in 2015, around the time Seveneves was published.
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by acheron 6y ago
The true spirit of Internet Explorer lives on.
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by acheron 6y ago
I've never been especially happy with any browser PDF viewer and always use something else. On Windows I mainly use SumatraPDF, which is super lightweight.
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by acheron 6y ago
And then show you ads when you look at them.
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by acheron 6y ago
What's the difference between a viola player and Dr. Scholl's Footpads? Dr. Scholl's bucks up the feet. Apparently viola jokes as a genre are 300 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_jokes
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by acheron 6y ago
Making effort to deal with scams doesn’t scale.
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by acheron 6y ago
Chrome took off because Google leveraged their position in another area (search engine) in order to push it. Exactly what people were concerned about with Microsoft and Windows/IE.
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by acheron 6y ago
You in 2005: "The web targets IE6! Firefox should acknowledge reality!"
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Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script (2016)(nature.com)
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by acheron 6y ago
Same character, but that one specifically is when she reprised it for SNL in the late 70s.
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by acheron 6y ago
"Our technology is so sophisticated even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it?.. We don't care, we don't have to." https://vimeo.com/355556831
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by acheron 6y ago
I was thinking Little Shop of Horrors.
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by acheron 6y ago
Imitating this style is a good chunk of the Onion's humor. E.g., "Congress Approves $4 Billion For Bread, Circuses" https://politics.theonion.com/congress-approves-4-billion-fo...
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by acheron 6y ago
You’d fit right in in a 1910s factory.
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by acheron 6y ago
This was also how graphics worked in Prodigy, IIRC.
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by acheron 6y ago
Stack overflow exception
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by acheron 6y ago
It's to cut down on the tedious arguments. If someone posts something stupid, you could get into a long, drawn-out argument with them that goes nowhere and clutters up the comments, or you just click downvote and move on. Same reason f
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by acheron 6y ago
> List MOOCs, certificates, or free online courses on your resume. 99% of these require no commitment and don't teach you anything. Listing them signals that you care about cheap credentials more than learning. How I can tell you
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by acheron 6y ago
Reminds me of the classic Daily WTF "wooden table" web design: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1
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by acheron 6y ago
That depends on what it is you're programming, surely.
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by acheron 6y ago
I have requested directions from Vienna to Paris before. ( https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=0dd3fe2f-ccc9-4899-8923-a5859... ) With enough context I could leave off any additional info when talking with a human, but there wou
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by acheron 6y ago
That's also the time period of the invention of both cuneiform writing in Sumeria as well as "probably" separately, Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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by acheron 6y ago
> the old-timers would always trash on server-side javascript. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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