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by antod 3y ago
Be careful your marketing department isn't a bunch of mindless jerks that will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Share and enjoy!
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by antod 3y ago
Being as generous as possible and without other context, I would interpret that as a request for some background info you trust that they could use to catch up on those concepts in their own time without derailing the meeting by getting y
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by antod 3y ago
I will pay for exterior painters - the cost to my own state of mind with painting a house is too high. I will glady do harder jobs than painting myself, but nothing pisses me off more than painting for some reason.
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by antod 3y ago
I also hate Christmas for similar reasons. Choosing gifts that don't feel like giving unnecessary junk/clutter is very hard and stressful. It has got a bit easier as I get older and the circle shrinks a bit, plus usually we only g
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah, but you were refuting someone pointing out why that was with the difference between a later green field system in a smaller problem space that could learn from earlier systems vs one with a lot of extra use cases pulling in different
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by antod 3y ago
As someone who dealt with Java and Python 20yrs back, I don't think Java is a valid comparison. Java had a terrible or non existent OS integration story - it didn't even try to have OS native stuff. It was it's own separate i
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by antod 3y ago
My quieter corners of usenet were still usable/valuable up until 10-15yrs ago. I miss it too, but aren't quite sure how much of that is rose tinted nostalgia.
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by antod 3y ago
Vultures wait until you're dead to pick over your bones.
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by antod 3y ago
> Any ideology that doesn't allow Ukraine to make their own destiny is unacceptable. Thank you for stating that. I hate when smaller countries are just talked about as pawns in a chess game between larger powers with no self deter
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by antod 3y ago
LTO is one of the best choices for compatibility. I remember just how awful DDS (same sort of media as DAT) tape backups were - due to differences in head alignments, it was a real lottery as to whether any given tape could be read on a dif
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by antod 3y ago
Our wedding rings are titanium. The engineering geek in me loves it for nerdy reasons, and the metal allergies in my wife love it for other reasons.
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by antod 3y ago
That's the one! As a kid back then, I had no idea who he was but later in life would always recognise his name from that book.
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by antod 3y ago
The limits of my experience with his work was a tongue in check overview of early 80s arcade games and the players. He painted them as defenders of earth against an alien onslaught.
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by antod 3y ago
A counterpoint: Speaking for myself who had also been mildly depressed since teenage years, it didn't kick off into actual breakdowns and medication until after having kids. Previously it was probably so mild it wouldn't have coun
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by antod 3y ago
I found the same thing, already onto reading my third article there. You could almost call it procrastinating.
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by antod 3y ago
I'm probably mistating my "never felt" earlier. At the time it was the common assumption for those on slashdot (incl me) who had heard all the soundbites but not actually read it. It was only a bit later I realised it was abo
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah I never felt proprietary was the cathedral, more like GNU was the target there.
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by antod 3y ago
I often think of it the other way round, ie Reddit is the usenet of its time.
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by antod 3y ago
The 42S was my calculator as a structural engineering student in the early 90s. I now regularly use the Android version of Free42 - I should try and find my old manuals though, so I could operate it as well as I used to.
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by antod 3y ago
It's not exactly what you're asking, but a few years ago I revisited the Spectrum programming of my youth in an emulator using modern editors and assemblers etc outside the emulated hardware. The emulator could pause and trace all
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by antod 3y ago
They did have something like that for the original A1000 intended to do just that. Sidecar I think it was called? Something with an x86 for running DOS apps.
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by antod 3y ago
I kinda feel there was quite a time and tech stack gap between sshing into a server to edit .htaccess files and Vercel. I wouldn't think that live .htaccess file editing was what they were disrupting :)
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by antod 3y ago
There's two of us! Although Obsidian only made it to awareness for me - I haven't used it. But I hadn't heard of Notion.
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah I don't think I ever saw an issue of Wired back then that didn't talk about agents being the next big thing in multiple articles/listicles.
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by antod 4y ago
It almost feels like I'm reading Wired Magazine back in the mid 90s. Or at least how they imagined the web to be 5yrs later. I mean that in the best possible way.
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by antod 4y ago
I built a few of them back around 2008. Bought the parts from a tech wholesaler as we were a reseller then. They were quality and good value too.
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by antod 4y ago
>Your daughter can use the new learning tutor, based on generative AI, that helps with her coursework and learn new materials. It's like an expert tutor in a bunch of fields that she didn't have access to before -- at least no
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by antod 4y ago
Yeah, I had an old car where the useless tape deck developed a short (I think) that would drain the battery after about a day. I didn't know it was the stereo until I played around with removing fuses one by one though.
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by antod 4y ago
Yeah, I'm never without coverage in Wellington on Spark. Even our rural property in a valley gets 50-70Mbs on 4G.
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by antod 4y ago
The X1 is an ultrabook (or at least the continuation of ultrabooks) and not so repairable. The T series though sacrificed a little weight and thickness for more durability, expandability and servicability. The sacrifice was pretty small tho

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