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by bklaasen 6y ago
Be careful using Thunderbird to move mail between IMAP4 servers, on Linux at least - I've had it lose messages on me, deleting them from the source before they're successfully written to the destination. I was moving mail from a G
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by bklaasen 6y ago
See https://vintageapple.org/byte/ and search on the page for "Java chips" or download the PDF directly at https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199611_Byte_Magazine_Vol_2... I remember
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by bklaasen 6y ago
I think a mention of Gary Bernhardt's "functional core, imperative shell" talk from 2012 is worthwhile here. My mind was blown when I first saw it. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog&
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Surveyor 3(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bklaasen 7y ago
It does in Firefox on Android.
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by bklaasen 7y ago
That banana peel hoax was still doing the rounds when I was in secondary school in the early eighties in Ireland.
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by bklaasen 7y ago
A related talk, delivered a few months before TFA: "Neil Postman, 1998: six questions on technology" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlfPhsrvtw Neil Postman was very far-sighted; "Amusing Ourselves to Death&
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by bklaasen 7y ago
I listened to it again in 2017, having read it a few years after it originally came out. It still stands up well. I consider the book to be one of the best general introductions to the history and politics of the establishment of the ARPANE
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Iranians mainly speak Farsi, an Indo-European language. There are other minority languages, none of them related to Arabic. They use Arabic script (with modifications) to write Farsi.
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Nope! This is an area where software, society and gender overlap, so it's been getting a fair bit of attention, most notably by Professor Marie Hicks: https://adanewmedia.org/2016/10/issue10-hicks/
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by bklaasen 7y ago
In Western Europe, I can highly recommend Geert Rolf's "House for Retired and Aged Computers"[1] a few kilometres west of Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. It's a private museum focusing mostly on DEC and Sun hardware. Many
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by bklaasen 7y ago
In "Moving targets: Elliott-Automation and the dawn of the computer age in Britain" Simon Lavington has documented[1] a computer built by Elliott Brothers (later Elliott Automation, then subsumed into ICL) named OEDIPUS that used
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Imperialism in the Anthropocene(monthlyreview.org)
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Steven Levy's 1992 book "Artificial Life" is well worth a read.
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Time for a shout-out to Lea Verou's terrific fifty-minute tutorial "Regexplained" and accompanying regex playground: https://youtu.be/EkluES9Rvak https://regexplained.com/
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by bklaasen 7y ago
The tooling isn't the first problem you need to work on; you need to change the system first. Take a look at this: https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/linkedin/2019-07-... To help make the case to
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by bklaasen 7y ago
> I find it hard to believe deep down there are generally curious tinkerers who haven't found their way to a programming language of some sort? I know one. He's rigourously logical. As a hobbyist, he's worked with electron
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by bklaasen 7y ago
> 5. Testing is still hard: 49% of respondents encounter the most delays during the testing stage of the development lifecycle. > Half of those surveyed called out testing as the biggest source of delay in the development process, r
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Dell Latitude 7440s are terrific machines which run Linux beautifully. They're better Linux machines than the XPS, which is severely over-rated in my opinion. I've had an XPS laptop as my main machine since 2014 and I recently rep
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Actually I think the "summon lift" button is a better example of idempotence. It doesn't matter how many times you mash the button, the lift is coming ASAP, no quicker. Hitting the button when it's lit doesn't cance
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by bklaasen 7y ago
My head is reeling. Do you have a source for that?
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Fascinating. "See Implementing the 1996 OECD Recommendation on the Tax Deductibility of Bribes to Foreign Public Officials, OECD (May 26, 1997) (Report by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs ("CFA") to the OECD Council at Ministe
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by bklaasen 7y ago
Brian Okken's "Python Testing with pytest"[1]. More recent than Harry Percival's book. [1] https://pragprog.com/book/bopytest/python-testing-with-pytes...
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by bklaasen 7y ago
There is a similar dynamic originating from outspoken members of the "Context-Driven Testing" community. There are ways to deal with this behaviour, but unfortunately communities tend to close ranks around toxic leaders, exposing
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by bklaasen 7y ago
For searchability later: Emerson W. Pugh, MIT Press
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by bklaasen 8y ago
No mention of having fixed screen tearing in videos. I'm a longtime Xubuntu user because it just gets out of my way and is rock solid, but the apparently unfixable screen tearing makes me weep. Seemingly Manjaro XFCE edition[1] solves
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Quite a surprising selection; I'd have expected to see books by Neil Postman, Bruno Latour, Simon Schaffer or any number of other authors. A fifteen minute read.
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Books on Philosophy of Technology Recommended by Evgeny Morozov(fivebooks.com)
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If this kind of thing floats your boat, I can highly recommend Peter Hopkirk's "Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia". https://www.bookdepository.com
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by bklaasen 8y ago
To quote Jerry Weinberg: "Quality is value to some person"[1]. Any reasonably complex system is going to have different users with differing quality requirements: administrators, tactical operators, strategic operators, sophistica

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