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   by acheron 6y ago

   > Another fun fact about NES - they were really pushing server side Javascript as the development language for the web I started “web stuff” with Apache and Perl CGI, and I knew NES existed but never used or saw it myself. I had no idea
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   by acheron 6y ago

   Sounds like a good way to get voted out in favor of the other guy who promises short term benefits.
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   by acheron 6y ago

   Wrong story, this one isn’t about Chrome.
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   by acheron 6y ago

   > document-corpuses (corpii?) “Corpora”, if you want. (cf. “corporeal”)
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   by acheron 6y ago

   My kids have done the Kiwi crates and the Atlas crates and they've really liked all of them. I would bet they'd like the Eureka ones when they're older.
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   by acheron 6y ago

   This is not true, it came from an inflectional ending in Old English. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-and-us... uses the example “cyning” (king) and “cyninges” (king’s). In theory the apostrophe
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   by acheron 6y ago

   There isn’t anything irregular about it, pronouns are just different from nouns. His, hers, yours, ours, theirs, its.
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   by acheron 6y ago

   But it also doesn't matter. I still think of "nano" as "like pico", but I would bet at this point fewer than 10% of the people using nano today ever used pico or maybe ever heard of it. They just know the editor is
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   by acheron 6y ago

   I use the Dark Reader extension [0], and the standard HN topcolor stood out too much, so I darkened it to #fff0e6. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
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    Proto-Elamite: Decoding the World's Oldest Undeciphered Language (2013)(historytoday.com)

    1 points by acheron 6y ago|0 comments
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    by acheron 6y ago

    For anyone interested, this company is unrelated to the original Microprose from a corporate history perspective, it’s just some people who bought the name “Microprose” at an IP auction. However they have enlisted Wild Bill Stealey as some
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    by acheron 6y ago

    Same. I've been using DDG regularly since.. I don't know, 2013 maybe. (iOS 8 added DDG as a choice for a default search engine; that was at the end of 2014, and I had already been using DDG for quite awhile when that happened.) It
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    by acheron 6y ago

    More than 10. Chrome came out in 2008.
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    by acheron 6y ago

    This suddenly reminded me that as a kid I somehow learned how to use EDLIN in MSDOS. Once I got 5.0 with the full-screen EDIT, all knowledge of how to use EDLIN immediately left. I think quitting EDLIN was Q.
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    by acheron 6y ago

    I had the exact same question, thanks for posting it. My issue is that 15 years of using Steam have taught me to almost never buy a game unless it's on sale, and Factorio doesn't go on sale. I get they're taking some sort of
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    by acheron 6y ago

    The puzzles in the Sherlock series have a wide range in complexity. I've tried all of them I think and I ended up gravitating to Mrs Hudson the most but I can see why other people would have other favorites. I like several of the non-S
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    by acheron 6y ago

    I figured it was a Google thing. Still being worried about Microsoft sounds like that classic Guardian article about the unending Myspace monopoly. But the EEE philosophy is all over Google now.
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    by acheron 6y ago

    I first played Sherlock as a MS-DOS program in 1992 or so. Of his many variations on the theme, I like "Mrs. Hudson": http://www.kaser.com/mh.html
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    by acheron 6y ago

    Same. It’s very comforting to be using that font.
20. 890.▲
    by acheron 6y ago

    Is this like when Redditors found the Boston Marathon bomber?
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    by acheron 6y ago

    Having been reading Greek myths recently, I initially pronounced it to rhyme with "Persephone". I guess it's supposed to be "Pine" "Phone" though. Why Pine? Like the email client?
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    by acheron 6y ago

    "I wrote a long letter because I didn't have time to write a short one." ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ )
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    by acheron 7y ago

    > what would it cost to placate them? You’ve only to pay ‘em the Danegeld and then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
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    by acheron 7y ago

    And now we’re back in the “this page works best with” days.
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    by acheron 7y ago

    If I don’t get my coffee I shall shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.
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    by acheron 7y ago

    Remember Telix played C-E-G on the PC speaker when it connected?
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    by acheron 7y ago

    Not sure if there's anything particular to discuss about this page, but it does appear on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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    by acheron 7y ago

    Yes, the list of cities does not include nomads. Also, this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars does not include Valencias.
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    by acheron 7y ago

    Now you have... quite a few problems.
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    by acheron 7y ago

    Note: the title is overstated, this is actually a pretty good discussion of Racket and not just the kind of bashing you would think from a title “I hate Racket”.