arcade79

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by arcade79 4y ago
That's what he said.
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by arcade79 4y ago
What exactly is insane about it? I was surprised when my parents had 1Gbit in 2009. I was delighted when I could get 500Mbit in 2013. I'm slightly miffed that I don't even get 1Gbit in 2022. I literally laugh at providers attemp
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by arcade79 5y ago
Can't help to think that if I pricked my finger while working with prions, I'd amputate that finger ...
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by arcade79 5y ago
Not necessarily what you're looking for, but I always found The Shockwave Rider to be impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider 1975 though, so quite recent.
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by arcade79 5y ago
The main reason I miss the office: Meeting my workmates regularly. I want the ability to go to the office most days, while having the opportunity to take a couple of days a week from home. If it wasn't for open floor plans, I'd pr
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by arcade79 5y ago
Skipping past the telnet bollox pointed out by others, the next paragraph is the following gem: "Browsers started using a centralized resolution system called the domain name system (DNS) to make things more user-friendly when the inte
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by arcade79 5y ago
I wonder if someone will create 'pine' - "pine is not elm". (For younglings: elm was an email client. pine was also an email client. The latter was often thought to be short for 'pine is not elm').
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by arcade79 6y ago
It's not unheard of, but it happens quite rarely. Violence, or threats of violence, typically leads to being escorted out immediately here in Europe too.
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by arcade79 6y ago
It's less than 30 years since we had a much, much larger eruption than Eyjafjallajökull. Mount Pinatubo erupted one June 12th 1991. That was a VEI-6 eruption. Eyjafjallajökull was only VEI-4. Now, one can argue about how Eyjafjallajö
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by arcade79 6y ago
Reading through the webpage, I was thinking that points 1, 2 and 4 really wasn't relevant. We're talking about bandwidth limitations being the key factor here - not the rest. 1. Page Loading Issues are irrelevant, unless it'
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by arcade79 7y ago
Subject of the post is wrong. This is a common mistake between the user and whichever shell the user is using, not the user and the command itself. The find command works exactly as expected.
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by arcade79 7y ago
Interesting. When I've seen other describe this kind of spatial skill, I've always imagined it being with imagery. Which I don't have. I wouldn't be able to draw an image of it, except xkcd-like 2-d stuff.
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by arcade79 7y ago
And I'd posit that you're wrong. :-) The reason? I do neither. I do not have an internal monologue. I can construct one if I want to, but I do not have an "inner voice". When I type this, I do not prepare the sentenc