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by acheron 1y ago
The problem is that generally the community does flag these posts, but the moderators (Dang or others) turn the flags off.
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by acheron 1y ago
I like your joke and agree wholeheartedly with your point, but it is awfully difficult to upvote a comment that contains “/s”. Usually that’s an auto-downvote. Just let your comment stand. You don’t need to call attention to the fact t
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by acheron 1y ago
On one hand, it ruins DNS, but on the other hand, it makes ICANN a lot of money.
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by acheron 1y ago
Exactly. The earlier post is overlooking the insanity of giving Google money, and acting as if they wouldn’t just track you harder now that you have to be logged in with an account connected to your real identity and a credit card. I wouldn
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by acheron 1y ago
Right? I like jokes in programming. I do not like jokes coming from the evil dystopian megacorp that ruined the Internet.
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by acheron 1y ago
You can take my em dash from my cold, dead hands.
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by acheron 1y ago
> Recently I had to teach my kids to use a PC (they no longer teach that in "computers" at school, by the way, iPads only) The middle school here has a "computer applications" class that covers all that kind of thing.
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by acheron 1y ago
Can't tell you about the kids, but I started out with an amber monochrome CRT, and I used plenty of Apple II and MS-DOS text mode over the years, so it's not a lately adopted affectation. :) But I'm being around 75% facetious
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by acheron 1y ago
I was wondering recently about where the original sin of “light mode” came from. Guess it was him! > The Apple II displayed white text on a black background. I argued that to do graphics properly we had to switch to a white background li
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by acheron 1y ago
Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
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by acheron 1y ago
…the whole point of this story is that the court is forcing them to collect the data.
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by acheron 1y ago
“use a Google product to avoid privacy concerns” is risible.
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by acheron 1y ago
I've been heavily feeling that recently too. I think in 20+ years of working there were maybe 2 or 3 of them where I had even a little bit of "valued".
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by acheron 1y ago
My teenage son just bought a 3D printer there in January.
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by acheron 1y ago
Usually it's "anyone with more money than me has too much".
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by acheron 1y ago
I don't think so. My dad worked for a consulting firm ("Big Eight" as they called it back then) in the early-mid 80s and as far as I can tell his job mainly involved slinging Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets on PCs. PCs very quickly
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by acheron 1y ago
The original Tysons Corner store (shown in that Steve Jobs video in the article) closed a couple years ago and moved to a different spot in the mall. Even before relocating it had gotten a major remodel at one point, when they took out the
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by acheron 1y ago
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Enumerative Combinatorics Enumerative Combinatorics Considered Harmful
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by acheron 1y ago
So many poor interviews I've seen are what xkcd described once as "communicating poorly then acting smug when you're misunderstood".
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by acheron 1y ago
Is "Don't be curmudgeonly" a new addition? I don't remember that one before.
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by acheron 1y ago
I used Procomm for a bit and then Telix. Never used QModem myself but I appreciate any dial up BBS reminiscence.
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by acheron 1y ago
Real ID requirements started 20 years ago, which I suppose is “recent” in government terms, but not really. In some states everyone has already had a Real ID compliant license for years. In others, notably California, they’ve been kicking t
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by acheron 2y ago
2003 was after the dot com boom and crash . There is no possible definition of "early Internet" that can include 2003.
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by acheron 2y ago
Is this an example of how to integrate ads into an AI response?
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by acheron 2y ago
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
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by acheron 2y ago
Windows 3.0 was good. 3.1 was a minor improvement.
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by acheron 2y ago
People called things like Lotus 1-2-3 “killer apps” in the 1980s. A reference from 1989: https://books.google.com/books?id=CbsaONN5y1IC&pg=PP75#v=one...
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RFC 9759 – Unified Time Scaling for Temporal Coordination Frameworks(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by acheron 2y ago
L’enfer, c’est les autres.
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by acheron 2y ago
iOS autocorrects -- to an em dash. It's not complicated at all.

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