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by aliqot 4y ago
"Why not make ugly people" .. scrolls down .. "hey that mechanic guy looks like m-" ok HN, you guys got me this time. well played.
752.
by aliqot 4y ago
Goerge doesn't owe anybody anything. The kid's following his whims. What's wrong with that? I'd rather this than some long and drawn out stagnation of comma.
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by aliqot 4y ago
When it's your actual track record it's not bragging. It's just facts. edit: apparently this is a hot take to some, but no real substantive refuting of what's being said- only appeals to greater authority. "Well so
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by aliqot 4y ago
I have a commonly misspelled name and thank you, yes, this is my number one pet peeve.
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by aliqot 4y ago
The Silian Rail font is up for download. You can use it in your projects to subtly detect people of taste and distinction among your peers. https://bigbrandboys.com/downloads/silian-rail.zip
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by aliqot 4y ago
Tangentially related and relies on the person asking the question to already know the answer, but to remind themself given your context.
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by aliqot 4y ago
gorilla/session is nice
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by aliqot 4y ago
> time to fork. Knew you'd come around. Now I just need Rapnie from the other day to put their blessing on it and we can call this a done deal.
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by aliqot 4y ago
To be a fly on the wall at Geohotz's office right now..
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by aliqot 4y ago
> drive fear at Twitter Auditing what you just bought is about as smart as taking the used car you just bought to the shop to get everything checked over and tightened and lubricated.
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by aliqot 4y ago
> even the first draft isn’t complete right now. Aren't you comparing it to C++23
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by aliqot 4y ago
Get help.
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by aliqot 4y ago
also carbon, which is brand new.
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by aliqot 4y ago
I have not a single clue what's going on here, because I'm not a designer.. but I like it.
765.
by aliqot 4y ago
On this blessed day we are all Charles Mingus' ghost.
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by aliqot 4y ago
Absolutely agree. The older I get the more I realize we all have a few callings in life, and not all of them are justly compensated for the purposes they fill, but it does not make them any less significant in my eyes.
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by aliqot 4y ago
Rest in peace, thank you for the path you cleared for the rest of us. Your legacy will outlive all of us.
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by aliqot 4y ago
I have a theory that people who coin new terms that catch on stand better chances at being promoted or hired. Maybe it's marketing running the show and I'm just an old grouch. Both are equally possible.
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by aliqot 4y ago
Check it out: https://youtu.be/hWfsxyOtXqE Lively was like metaverse with legs and no need for a headset. It stayed populated until the day it died in 2008/2009.
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Why is metaverse never compared to Google Lively despite being almost a copy?
2 points by aliqot 4y ago|2 comments
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by aliqot 4y ago
It takes a bit of practice, I'll admit. Start with some basic desk clutter items like a nice cigar that you can rest on a stately ash tray, something that's hard to knock off the desk and takes a while to enjoy. Have a puff betwee
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by aliqot 4y ago
Exactly. If you have never built a can fortress, we ain't kin.
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by aliqot 4y ago
I started on DOS and early Linux. F-keys absolutely make sense. I never incorporated home, end, page up/down into my flows. Essentially anything to the right of the arrow keys has no use in my life except SysRq and delete. The keyboard
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by aliqot 4y ago
It's like trying to reinvent Google Lively.
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The Evolution of the Desk Setup(arun.is)
4 points by aliqot 4y ago|1 comments
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by aliqot 4y ago
Cheers
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by aliqot 4y ago
Now that's cool! Did you ever see someone try and write data to regular audio cassette with them? One of my earliest computers you could record programs off the radio and play them into the machine and it'd run if you were lucky.
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What's the coolest thing you've seen in a 5.25 tower bay?
6 points by aliqot 4y ago|7 comments
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by aliqot 4y ago
Right, hence the link to the PDF
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by aliqot 4y ago
Yes! Thank you, what a creation.

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