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by ahonhn 3y ago
I'm reminded of the last page of "Orbitsville" (Bob Shaw, 1975). "In time even the flickering ships ceased to ply the trade lanes between the entrance portals, because there can be no reward for the traveller when depart
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Many cases of this happening in Singapore where people get tricked into installing malware. It feels like the banks have been going out of their way to make it hard if not impossible to use many services without installing their app now, so
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Does this suggest an extra-galactic origin for The Moon?
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Don't think it works for Win10 Home, but with Pro use gpedit and go to Local Computer Policy --> Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows Components --> Windows Update for Business, find "Select
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by ahonhn 3y ago
We used to have a thing called TV Mobile on the bus here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVMobile Anytime you wanted to get from A to B you would be subjected to noisy TV, and it was invariably something tedious like e
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by ahonhn 3y ago
I've been avoiding Sony products almost 20 years now because they thought it was a cool idea to put autorunning rootkits on audio CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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by ahonhn 3y ago
An example from last month. "Byron Bay breach victim told to pay Adidas, National Basketball Association $US1.2m by US courts" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/byron-bay-data-breach...
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by ahonhn 3y ago
For me dialup wasn't an option to get fish disks. Nearest BBS were in the city, so it was a long distance call ($$$), and I'd have to stick to 1200 bps because of the line noise. Downloading a full 880k disk would have tied up the
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by ahonhn 3y ago
When you are young, 2 or 3 years actually seems like a reasonably long length of time. When you are fifty it feels like a couple of weeks, so replacing products that last 2 years feels like you're replacing the damn thing every month.
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Absolutely right about the paper. I use copier paper to write on, and a specific brand of it, because even between the brands of identical looking paper there are huge differences. Some branks seem to suck up the ink like blotting paper wit
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by ahonhn 3y ago
I've been using a Platinum Plaisir as my daily driver for 5 years now. ( < $20) It uses the same nib as the ultracheap Platinum Preppy ( < $5 ) (of which I also have far more than I need).
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by ahonhn 4y ago
And if you're after old & classic pens (including New Old Stock), Peyton Street Pens is an awesome source https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/
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by ahonhn 4y ago
I've not done much soldering because the cheap soldering iron I bought to do occasional fixes can't actually melt solder.
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by ahonhn 4y ago
For the last few decades I've been using Avery Lee's VGAPaint386. I downloaded it in 1997 and I should really get around to updating to the 1.4 version he released in 1998. One of these days I guess.
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Makes me think of Krikkit in HHGTTG (from whence the view of the rest of the universe was cut off by a dust cloud. When its inhabitants finally did get to see it their immediate reaction was "It'll have to go")
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Its been years since I've seen any bottles or packs of full dose Aspirin in a pharmacy here (Singapore). Seems like nowadays you can only get those low-dose tablets for blood thinning and they cost a fortune (compared to generic Panado
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Yes, there were viable alternatives right up till quite recently but unfortunately that wrong something seems to be ubiquitous now. My work and all our customers do most communication on Whatsapp now. My spouse's work is just the same.
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by ahonhn 4y ago
I'm a prolific follower and follow several thousand accounts making it my primary source for getting a heads-up on what people all over the place in those fields that interest me are thinking and doing (IT, politics, gaming, art, busin
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by ahonhn 4y ago
The branch splitting technique here is how I always used to doodle pictures of trees in the margins of my notes when I was listening to lectures at uni. (Also at school and work but not so much there as I'd often get scolded for doing
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by ahonhn 4y ago
I have Crafting Interpreters (if only I had some time to get into it) and am currently reading Game Programming patterns. Love his writing style. Also love how the illustrations are done by hand. fwiw I would recommend all programmers read
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by ahonhn 4y ago
I really hated on-call support last time I had to do it, and we were all already putting in vastly more than 40 hours a week (seriously are there really any developer jobs that are only 40 hours in practice?). The ridiculous thing was that
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Clay Shirky posted an interesting talk quite a while back that gets into some of this - "A group is its own worst enemy". https://web.archive.org/web/20030713130936/http://shirky.com...
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Civ 1 works well in DOSBox too
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by ahonhn 4y ago
As an Aussie who has lived overseas for decades even the SMS option is not available to me as it requires you to have an Australian phone number. You can't install the myGov Code Generator app without an Australian phone number either.
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Yes, but if you linked before that then you don't have to update (for now).
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Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs(innovationaus.com)
136 points by ahonhn 4y ago|187 comments
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Samplers were cheap? I remember the few I might have been able to acquire from the one or two local shops that had Amiga stuff being at least a hundred bucks - a comparative fortune back when I was on $5 a week pocket money.
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Ask HN: What are the best eyedrops to help pass my psych aptitude interview?
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by ahonhn 4y ago
Ah - your day job isn't tech. Was wondering how you could get permission and time to do it. Every tech job I've had here in SG expected full ownership of any and all IP created whilst an employee, no moonlighting, and always ended
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by ahonhn 4y ago
I can open an app on my phone, swipe around a bit and within half an hour food of my choice will magically appear. Unfortunately this also involves money in my bank account disappearing so I can't afford to do it very often :-(

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