alrs

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by alrs 6y ago
I'm usually in #tildetel and #tilderadio. https://tilde.chat/
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by alrs 6y ago
LED lighting, especially in its application to bicycles.
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by alrs 6y ago
Tell that to Friendster.
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by alrs 6y ago
A workstation is not a desktop PC. I can guarantee you've never seen a workstation used as a kiosk or a POS.
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by alrs 6y ago
No need to pivot, they invented cloud computing. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240061933/Sun-enables-o...
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by alrs 6y ago
The heavy lifting in Python is usually happening in CFFI, so even if your Python house is completely in order you're still on the hook for having the just-right versions of C libraries like 'libxml2' installed. There's a
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by alrs 6y ago
A keyboard without ESC is a gaming keyboard. Nope.
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by alrs 6y ago
There's some projection-psychodrama to it, but it goes along with the tape on Zuckerberg's webcam: they really don't want Google, Amazon, or their Chinese competitors on their corporate network, especially not with cameras an
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by alrs 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
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by alrs 6y ago
Sell your old mac and buy five comparable used Thinkpads?
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by alrs 6y ago
So you're saying that any reply that starts with "so" is willfully dense, and never exists to point out a logical flaw or unintended consequence of the written argument?
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by alrs 6y ago
Unlikely.
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by alrs 6y ago
It felt that monumental at the time. I recorded the evening news to VHS that night.
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> Its a script that traces the path to a host No, it's not a script.
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by alrs 6y ago
With a current release, but far enough out in the long tail of relevancy to have AmigaOS and the x86 port of VMS as neighbors.
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by alrs 6y ago
> I have worked in the type of role where I was expected to lead a transformational change. Most roles have nothing to do with leading transformational change. You can concede that much?
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by alrs 6y ago
Slack is ~60 years too late to be a precursor of the field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software
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by alrs 6y ago
Parallel construction, I'm glad you beat me to it. This isn't quite "we correlated historic cellular records and the RFID tags in her shoes, but gave credit to a psychic medium," but it's pretty close.
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by alrs 6y ago
GOMODULE111, who needs it? :)
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I had. I wrote some Applesoft BASIC as a kid, and was handy enough with LOGO that they brought in teachers from around the city to have me teach them at age 12. My first and only lisp. The other side of this story is that I always encourage
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by alrs 6y ago
I love poking around. I love poking around with vi, more, and grep. I cannot fathom how someone would want to poke around with a mouse while pointing, clicking, and peering into a little 2" x 2" dialog box.
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by alrs 6y ago
Absolutely. It's great hearing tales of people who used and loved Smalltalk. I'm pushing back against anyone repeating the received wisdom "zomg genius! it was too good to live in this fallen world" without having ever u
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by alrs 6y ago
Who's to disagree with your aesthetic judgement? You're not wrong to like it, if you like it. I found it sufficiently obtuse that I walked away from my life's dream. The nostalgia circuit touts it as an amazing educational en
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by alrs 6y ago
I took my first college-level programming class in 1997, learning Smalltalk. 1. IBM VisualAge didn't run in Linux, so I had to buy a second hard drive and a copy of Windows 95. 2. I wanted to be working in a terminal, Smalltalk only le
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by alrs 6y ago
The Netherlands does not have a 1:1 parallel infrastructure that completely separates bicycles from cars. If a car isn't allowed where a bicycle is, then a bicycle isn't allowed on the road.
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by alrs 6y ago
You can get an idea of how scandalous Little Richard was if you look up the original lyrics to Tutti Frutti, "Loose Booty."
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by alrs 6y ago
Building a bicycle infrastructure parallel and separate from the existing transportation infrastructure is absolutely infeasible. This boils down to "bicycles should not be allowed on the road." If that's your argument, make
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by alrs 6y ago
I should have said "the US, today?" In the 1940s the United States was able to mobilize into a war economy in months. Today we are incapable of manufacturing medicine and surgical masks. It absolutely happened quickly back then. T
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by alrs 6y ago
...and high speed limits are maintained. The poor still wind up with highways through their neighborhoods, and a blanket of noise covers the country. Everyone breathes vehicle exhaust, asbestos particulates from brake pads, and ground-up ti
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by alrs 6y ago
Re-engineering cities, even if there was a popular will to do so and it served the right business interests, would in the US be a multi-generational project. I'm not going to outright reject "it needs to be more than reduced spe

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