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by antod 2y ago
Or executable line noise (I think I heard that one from slashdot)
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by antod 2y ago
My first job was AutoCAD drafting on a DX50 with 16MB. Quite high specced in the early 90s. Not sure I would've noticed the difference compared with a DX2 though.
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by antod 2y ago
A 486DX and a 487? I thought the 487 was only useful for the SX chips? ...looked it up, apparently the standard 487 was a full 486DX that disabled and replaced the original 486SX. Was this some sort of other unusually awesome coprocessor I
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by antod 2y ago
On Android, I just went straight to using an emulator of the HP42S that got me through engineering school in the early 90s. The muscle memory for the basics was still there, even if I can't remember how to use the advanced functions an
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by antod 2y ago
True, but the relevance or importance of a message is orthogonal to the hypocrisy of the messenger. Citing the hypocrisy of some messengers as a reason not to care or do anything just means someone really wants an excuse not to care or do a
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by antod 2y ago
In companies that aren't completely pathological, HR complaints often will eventually oust a toxic manager. But sadly the key word is 'eventually'. It will usually take sacrificing multiple employees and/or the leaving f
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by antod 2y ago
They are emphasizing the queuing implementation.
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by antod 2y ago
> It's a belief in no god(s) That would be better stated as "no belief in gods". The vast majority of atheists in non religious societies aren't spending much time thinking about how there are no gods, or reading up o
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by antod 2y ago
In the words of DevOps Borat... "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops."
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by antod 2y ago
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by antod 2y ago
"saving the planet" as a phrase is something I usually seem to hear more as a strawman against doing anything at all. The advocates for taking action are usually talking about limiting damage rather than restoring anything.
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by antod 2y ago
I wouldn't call the old stuff social networks. What made social networks a new thing was the social graph of connections becoming the information architecture of the content rather than topics. You found stuff (or it found you) by pers
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by antod 2y ago
Yeah I know. Because I just don't like pop music, and having understood she's got a reputation as really talented, actually hearing her music only risks downgrading my impression of her. I'm fine with being out of touch/
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by antod 2y ago
I had forgotten just how much I hated that inescapable song in the 80s. Definitely close to my worst song ever. There's plenty of 80s pop that I've softened my views on as I got older and even started to grudgingly appreciate, but
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by antod 2y ago
My overly snide point about regexes was that most of the time "verifying it works" is more like finding and fixing a few more edge cases on the asymptotic journey towards no more brokenness.
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by antod 2y ago
Rhetorical question: Can you ever fully be sure you have the regex you wanted?
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by antod 2y ago
Yeah, I'm of the same vintage. Never really felt eternal september impacted the newsgroups I frequented as they didn't appeal to AOLers, and felt it was exaggerated. But it feels real now with engagement metric following content c
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by antod 2y ago
I'm old enough to have seen multiple golden ages / phases of the internet and was thinking about pointing out every era has one based on your age. But then again, I kinda suspect there's some deeper truth going on where your
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by antod 2y ago
Your talk at webstock back in 2008 is what originally got me interested in OpenID.
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by antod 2y ago
Computer banks to rule the world.
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by antod 2y ago
Makes sense to me. Part/most of the appeal of coding 6502 or z80 for a retro platform is just how deterministic and predictable they are down to the clock cycle. AI is the opposite.
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by antod 2y ago
Not reasonable at all... it's Corporate Summer Holiday around here.
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by antod 2y ago
Yeah that was going to be my answer too. They're some of the few books I've actually remembered stuff from. The absurdity and slant on looking at things helps keep life in perspective (wasn't trying reference the Vortex there
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by antod 2y ago
Hard agree on the global Ruby import issues. I remember inspecting large custom Rails or Capistrano codebases in pry and having thousands of names imported. That and monkey patching had me wishing for Python with imports only having module
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by antod 2y ago
Extra points if they can compare to bridge engineering too.
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by antod 2y ago
I use Linux at home and Macs at work. I get what you mean about current MacOS - I don't like it the way I used to with older versions, and find Gnome good enough. But I was one of those rare wierdos that really liked the later Unity ve
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by antod 2y ago
I think the web had peaked by 2012. I'm now wondering whether Chrome overtaking Firefox might be related.
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by antod 2y ago
Yeah Deluxe Paint was mindblowing to me - I spent ages using that program. As amazing as it was, I would still be flabbergasted by what some of the really good artists could do with it.
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by antod 2y ago
Yeah, to put it in perspective, in 1988 I was still dreaming about an Amiga 500 or 2000 with less than 1% of that RAM.
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by antod 2y ago
Yup. And it's about transforms too.

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