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by acheron 2y ago
I think Electron is giving you your wish.
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by acheron 2y ago
I just got a Miele dishwasher recently, not cheap whatsoever, and there's no wifi or app or anything at all.
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by acheron 2y ago
Watch out, they can also listen to you via the radio waves coming from your dental fillings.
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by acheron 2y ago
I had a boss who did that many many years ago and it was like nails on a chalkboard. I'm glad you have corrected yourself. :)
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by acheron 2y ago
I have never heard anyone say "regex" with an /eɪ/ sound like "RAY". It's /ɛ/ like in "meh", or indeed the first syllable in "regular". (though "regex" has a "s
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by acheron 2y ago
Thanks for that. Does sound interesting, I wonder if Disney will try something else similar or if they're going to run far away after they had to close Starcruiser.
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by acheron 2y ago
The original Eternal September was about AOL users getting access to Usenet in 1993. And yet, “people on AOL in 1993” would easily be in, what, the top 5% in quality of Internet users today? Maybe higher? Hell, your “masses” flooding the In
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by acheron 2y ago
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
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by acheron 2y ago
Is this supposed to be an endorsement or an indictment?
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by acheron 2y ago
He says he doesn't remember why he picked blue for the screen, but that was a standard color for screens depicted in Win 3.x and Win95 icons, so I would assume he was just following that.
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by acheron 2y ago
That’s fine. Eastern should be the only time zone anyway, all other time zones are just kidding themselves.
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by acheron 2y ago
This is not a real thing outside of a tiny number of people.
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by acheron 2y ago
iOS autocorrects -- to an em dash. I do it a lot. Though true I would have spaces around it.
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by acheron 2y ago
What's wrong with dashes?
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by acheron 2y ago
In the early 90s, Gateway had a keyboard called "Anykey" that let you program macros into the keyboard firmware. We programmed several DOS commands into ours. It had two full sets F1-F12 of function keys, both along the side like
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by acheron 2y ago
Yes, a classic reference. (No pun intended.) One I’ve referred to before: https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/PotamosAkheron.html
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by acheron 2y ago
To be clear to others, that guy is a crank. There is no accepted decipherment of Indus Valley writing.
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by acheron 2y ago
There are usually independent yarn shops around. More likely than independent resistor shops, anyway.
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by acheron 2y ago
School? You want to see my 1999 Java code? I’ll go dig out the 3.5 floppy for you.
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by acheron 2y ago
What were the ones that were narrower that usually said things like “Apache” or “XHTML” or something technical? Ah here, 80x15 badges: https://web.badges.world I think those were popular a bit later than the 88x31 ones.
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by acheron 2y ago
memorably in "Lazy Sunday".
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by acheron 2y ago
If there's one thing I hate, it's stuck up bodies of water. It's like, get over yourself, Lake Superior. (a Norm Macdonald joke, RIP.)
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by acheron 2y ago
The “team of people that build 1000s of houses” have the motto that if they didn’t make any mistakes, they’re not working fast enough. Give me one guy who actually cares any day.
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by acheron 2y ago
Everyone wants your data.
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by acheron 2y ago
They can’t do that, no matter how much corporations try.
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by acheron 2y ago
YT: "Stupid name." Hiro: "But you'll never forget it."
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by acheron 2y ago
Won’t someone shed a tear for the poor advertisers?
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by acheron 2y ago
Ha that never even occurred to me because I've had the Subaru Starlink for years.
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by acheron 2y ago
Sounds good and noble to me. Most public schools are terrible and should be destroyed.
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by acheron 2y ago
Exactly what I was thinking.

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