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by antod 1y ago
I met a new age architecture consultant (not an actual architect) back in the 90s that was convinced his bag of Epsom salts and a copper spring was protecting him from the cancer causing electromagnetic fields produced by house wiring.
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by antod 1y ago
Yeah, one house I lived at would get these random silent vibrations that would rattle plates on shelves for about 15 to 20 secs. Turned out it was one particular ferry in the harbor. It was a smallish catarmaran fast ferry and when it was c
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by antod 1y ago
Genuine People Personalities. Sounds ghastly. Come to think of it maybe a Marvin one would be funnier than Eeyore.
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by antod 1y ago
I'd forgotten about CherryPy until Turbogears was mentioned the other day in the Django birthday thread. But yeah Python was on an upswing for webdev and sysadmin (early DevOps?) tooling, but took quite a hit with Ruby eg Rails, Puppet
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by antod 1y ago
It's as close as they'll get to private methods while still having the "we're all consenting adults" philosophy that doesn't prevent you doing something dumb. Or if you use this and it breaks, you can't sa
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by antod 1y ago
I liked Turbogears, but their approach of using "best in breed" libraries kinda burnt them as what that meant kept changing and leaving them behind.
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by antod 1y ago
I'm guessing "throw" came about after someone decided to "catch" errors. As for "raise", maybe exceptions should've been called objections.
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by antod 1y ago
There are two main reasons people hate modern ads. One is the annoyance/distraction, the other is all the myriad privacy issues. Printed newspaper ads were only the former (and an easily skippable version compared to tv), while this to
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by antod 1y ago
Those are the ones have frickin lasers on their heads.
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by antod 1y ago
That's just one accent. Most accents pronounce that W (especially outside the US).
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by antod 1y ago
My kiwi teenage daughter and her friend didn't really use it, but did hear it used occasionally. Interestingly they both had different definitions of Next Friday though, and both thought there was only one way of defining it.
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by antod 1y ago
yeah, that's a better way of expressing it.
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by antod 1y ago
We must move in different circles then ;) Maybe I should ask my kids...
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by antod 1y ago
Reasonably commonly used in Commonwealth countries. Next Friday is sometimes too ambiguous, you can never be sure you share the same definition with the other person. Is it the same as This Friday (the very next occurring Friday), or Friday
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by antod 1y ago
I also first tried Linux (with zero unix knowledge) about 98 or 99 with RH5.1 which I think was the 2.0.3x kernel. Frankly I'm amazed I got as far as I did despite it was mostly uninformed blundering about and bashing my head against t
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by antod 1y ago
I had the opposite, lots of that lead me to Debian instead. It wasn't so much the pain of compiling something once, but the ongoing pain of updating.
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by antod 1y ago
I think what they meant was not literally the bottom floor, but the columns at the bottom floor.
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by antod 1y ago
That is the single most useless dialog/question in IT. I wonder how much money that costs the global economy a year.
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by antod 1y ago
I think a more common legit fear is paying for flights, accommodation, conference etc then getting turned back (maybe after a short detention) because of some social media post in your past or your name was on some misidentified "woke&
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by antod 1y ago
The poster was talking about the ecosystem not the core platform. The wider Java ecosystem was heavily dominated by many Apache (and other) open source libraries vs commercial products for the C# ecosystem.
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by antod 1y ago
I think the difference with geeks is that they're/we're willing to put up with up front one-off friction to avoid ongoing friction.
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by antod 1y ago
Office 4.3 loading on Win3.1 was glacial. I haven't forgotten.
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by antod 1y ago
Saying Mussolini developed iconography involving equestrian portraits is not the same as saying he invented equestrian portraits.
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by antod 1y ago
I'm not sure subject matter experts will still be a thing. I worry that we'll just see expectations gradually lower to the point where kinda shitty is the baseline, and we just trust or accommodate the machine for everything.
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by antod 2y ago
I used the NT 5 betas for a while, and loved alerts not stealing focus. But that came back in the released W2K, and I remember being slightly annoyed by it.
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by antod 2y ago
yeah while 2K was their best ever single breakthrough improvement, it was a v1 and XP/2003 in classic mode was a more refined 2K eg more drivers and better plug and play, more graphics compatibility. And 2003 Active Directory had a num
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by antod 2y ago
If thats your water quality, worrying about flouride seems misplaced.
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by antod 2y ago
Is that due to all the roundabouts switching direction relative to the Coriolis effect? Hence the relevance of the UK? Presumably without roundabouts it's all random directions and balanced? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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by antod 2y ago
I saw somewhere that Britain and Israel are in more independent positions than other F35 buyers. Britain got control over the software and has developed some of their own, while Israel has been able develop their own electronics for it as w
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by antod 2y ago
With slashdot I wouldn't RTFA (hadn't used that term for ages) until after reading some or most of the comments to give me an idea of whether or not it was going to be worth it. And often any comment I made was in relation to the

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