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by antod 10mo ago
Yeah me too. The only recent O'Reilly books I have came from humblebundle specials. I've also been pretty disappointed with their quality and/or usefulness lately. They seem to just cover stuff in a less technical vague high
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by antod 10mo ago
Especially the wascally ones.
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by antod 11mo ago
There were back in CSS 2 display values for table, table cell, table row etc which meant you could make divs or other block elements layout like tables did. Of course it wasn't supported in a certain browser with 90% market share.
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by antod 11mo ago
I haven't kept up, but do they support display port daisy chaining and multi display docks now?
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by antod 11mo ago
XSLT is really separating (XML) data from markup in the case of the web. More generally it's transforming between different XML formats. But in the case of docs (eg XML-FO for docbook, DITA etc) XSLT does actually separate content from
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by antod 11mo ago
I got up to the compuserve bit before realising you were talking about the past rather than the (very corporate) present web.
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by antod 11mo ago
One side effect of devops over the last 10-15yrs I've noticed as dev and ops converged is that infrastructure complexity exploded as the old school pessimistic sysadmin culture of simplicity and stability gave way to a much more optimi
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by antod 11mo ago
IBM VisualAge Perl++
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by antod 11mo ago
So a virtual impossiblity? That's a finite improbability rather than an infinite improbability. I think I need a fresh cup of really hot tea.
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by antod 11mo ago
"Some say it has already happened..."
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by antod 11mo ago
"You know who else made laptops wear pieces of flair?"
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by antod 11mo ago
No, although my old one (HP42S) used 3 of the smaller stubbier batteries.
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by antod 11mo ago
Good question. I still use an HP42S these days, but it's an app on my phone or desktop not a separate device. Replacing batteries was a big pain on the original.
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by antod 11mo ago
I thought they were currently addressing any risks by restricting air traffic?
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by antod 11mo ago
Ruby is like Smalltalk, but with some Perl (for good or bad) mixed in too IMO.
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by antod 11mo ago
Passes the butter is a euphemism for churn?
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by antod 11mo ago
Yeah, I would say id (in the quake era) did far more to keep opengl alive than Apple. Without quake and a few other popular games, it is likely direct3d would've been the only thing supported by non professional graphics cards.
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by antod 11mo ago
Linux had mature stable desktop stacks in the past, but they kinda sucked. Churn (and consequent ongoing immaturity) seems to be the price we've paid in the last 10-15yrs of "progress" making them suck less. I hope it settles
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by antod 11mo ago
As someone who had a 20yr break from MS software until a recent new job, I'm not sure it was Google who demolished Office. I reckon it was MS. I can't believe how confusing/confounding/frustrating the modern MS Office an
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by antod 11mo ago
They might've been trying freebsd back when pf wasn't well supported. Back when I last used openbsd (which might be nearly 20yrs ago now - eek), pf support on freebsd was lagging quite a bit. Not sure what things are like now thou
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by antod 11mo ago
Was that a dig at the recent RubyGems situation?
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by antod 11mo ago
One helpful element that has changed over the years compared to the old wild west days is the large number of PEPs that have quietly in the background bit by bit standardized packaging formats and requirements. Some foundations have moved i
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by antod 11mo ago
Shudder. I'm guessing it was the always breaking libxml2 compilation step right?
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by antod 1y ago
Didn't they have some issues when you tried charging from the left side ports? Eg overheating and throttling etc.
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by antod 1y ago
Let alone the hordes who think "critical thinking" just means disagreeing with things.
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by antod 1y ago
Was that from actual experts, or bad faith strawman coverage (plenty of that about). At least in my country, there was sober objective coverage from experts about their purpose and percentage effectiveness at reducing the range and spread o
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by antod 1y ago
That's if it was coming from Mars specifically.
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by antod 1y ago
It was also a great experiment in delegated decentralized moderation (and meta moderation) in a pretty hostile environment.
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by antod 1y ago
When the term first came about, it was mainly used to contrast with what was around earlier. "Earlier" could be anything from Usenet to forums etc that were based around topics. Your view of content was based around the topics you
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by antod 1y ago
It sure was. Although my favourite Elite port was the Amiga one. Another one I was amazed by was Tomahawk on the Spectrum. A wireframe helicopter gunship flight sim with live ground campaign happening around you in 48k.

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