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The New Personal Website Isn’t a Website at All(theatlantic.com)
9 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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by akoster 5y ago
Update - We are continuing to work through some issues with one of our database clusters. We are still rate limiting login traffic. Next update in 15 minutes. Jan 26, 12:21 PST Update - We have instituted a rate limit on logins to manage t
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by akoster 5y ago
https://archive.is/L6TDA
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by akoster 5y ago
I used to use the Java versions of these applets [1]. I'm glad and thankful he rewrote these in JavaScript but there are sadly so many great Java Applets I have come across (games, but especially STEM demos [2] [3]) and not to mention
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by akoster 5y ago
Direct link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hCjPz_gNYVcvhek5_fd8...
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Plaid Settlement Affected Services Google Spreadsheet(old.reddit.com)
1 points by akoster 5y ago|1 comments
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by akoster 5y ago
Original mailing list post (also linked in article): https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqee4x3pij.fsf@gitster.g/T/#u
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by akoster 5y ago
> If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progress. You are far from alone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... > … they're already in t
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by akoster 5y ago
US/Southern California Similarly cannot get rapid test kits at drug or department stores. I too heard this was due to our government pushing for a "warp speed" vaccine plan but not focusing as much on testing. I am holding
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by akoster 5y ago
I’m excited to try it but getting “ 500 Internal Server Error.” right now. Will check back later- looking forward to it!
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by akoster 5y ago
http://box.com Box’s free tier used to occasionally have 50GB for free offers but file size is limited to 250MB iirc. My family has been using their accounts when this deal was on a few years back and the file history recovery
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by akoster 5y ago
Wired had a interesting piece on this back in 2015: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/ And with some spooky details on San Diego, California (and many other places): https://www.wi
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by akoster 5y ago
I have heard both the market is competitive but also the talent pool has to be somewhat slimmer than the general software market as a whole. I knew of someone who worked at Blizzard for maybe 2 years IIRC, claiming he felt it wasn't a
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by akoster 5y ago
Without a paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20220121171619/https://www.nytim...
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by akoster 5y ago
Indeed Vodeo games proceeds this in North America in December as indicated by the NYT piece posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30026473
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Activision Workers Forming a Union(nytimes.com)
33 points by akoster 5y ago|12 comments
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by akoster 5y ago
Yandex Translate? http://translate.yandex.com Or Babbelfish? https://www.babelfish.com/
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by akoster 5y ago
Yandex Connect? https://yandex.com/support/connect/add-domain.html Up to 1000 mailboxes per domain https://www.yandex.com/support/connect/create-mailbox.html For free, for now (though th
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by akoster 5y ago
Though it looks and sounds good, how would security be impacted by using the google chrome-based electron runtime to run the desktop client’s TypeScript and CLI runtime to run the server’s C# code? Wouldn’t this increase potential attack s
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by akoster 5y ago
Like HRW_14’s comment [1] and yours it’s quite staggering all the investments China-based gaming companies own or own stakes in such as Tencent [2], let alone your GitHub example. What also concerns me is a similar relationship playing out
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by akoster 5y ago
Funny because for this developer [1] [2] it appears that small user base more than pulls its weight for submitting high quality bug reports. (That alone seems like great value that should encourage supporting alternative platforms like Lin
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by akoster 5y ago
Other made in the USA N95 options include Prestige Ameritech[1] which was referenced in Rick Bright's testimony mid 2020 [2] when masks were extremely scarce in the USA. It seems to buy genuine Prestige Ameritech masks, one needs to g
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by akoster 5y ago
Nice post - Reminds me of my experiences using an IBM Thinkpad T42 (2GB RAM, 1.6 GHz single core CPU) and Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM, 700MHz single core CPU), quite a bit of compilation required these days due to a lack of binaries bu
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Slackware Linux 15.0 RC3(slackware.com)
95 points by akoster 5y ago|43 comments
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The Subversive Genius of Slow Email(theatlantic.com)
2 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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ICQ(icq.com)
2 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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by akoster 5y ago
And another far-from-original variant is still kicking, aptly named ‘ICQ’ [1]. AOL sold off its ICQ assets to Digital Sky Technologies (now Mail.ru) group [2] which continues to develop and invest in it to this day. From what I understand
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Poll: How long after Jan. 1 can you wish someone a “Happy New Year”?
2 points by akoster 5y ago|3 comments
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by akoster 5y ago
Within 1-2 days
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by akoster 5y ago
Within 3-4 days

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