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by bluedino 1y ago
The current urban legend is swapping a junkyard 5.3 for the Chevrolet 6.0 in a U-Haul truck, rent one and switch them and return it.
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by bluedino 1y ago
> This editor pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor Oddly, it looks more like Borland's editor.
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by bluedino 1y ago
> Bespoke coding is easy and slow, and you end up an expert in the systems you make. What good is that when the code gets written by a fresher from Accenture, or someone who ends up leaving the company (average job length for a software
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by bluedino 1y ago
I thought this would let you run some version of edit.com
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by bluedino 1y ago
I can't figure out if you're talking about Chrome or Edge but both browsers have made so many bad UI decisions
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by bluedino 1y ago
> In fact the folks at PARC had never accomplished it, and they later told him they were amazed that he had done so. Reminds me of the story where some company was making a new VGA card, and it was rumored a rival company had implemented
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by bluedino 1y ago
I think it's more the drive or the interest, instead of the energy. I miss walking out of Borders with a PHP book dreaming of the websites I would build, or walking out of Best Buy with a iPad, imagining new games to create.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Reminds me a lot of the IBM 486 we had in school, it was the first Windows PC I had ever seen, most everything else was either an Apple II or an IBM running PC DOS. It had a CD-ROM, speakers and sound and color and everything. I think it wa
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by bluedino 1y ago
I was always afraid of a lot of the IBM and Compaq computers because of all of the incompatibility notes or issues I'd read about in README.TXT (usually minor workarounds), and then to a greater extent in getting Linux running on them.
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by bluedino 1y ago
> Are all developers like this? No, there are different types of developers. Some are like this (and so are some sysadmins) but others have strengths in different areas.
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by bluedino 1y ago
First web job I had, there were a pair of barely working Dell computers in a dark corner. They were there to test Windows XP and IE6 I virtualized that crap a couple weeks later.
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by bluedino 1y ago
I had soemthing like -9.50, but had LASIK, and now I can't focus on anything less than eight or so inches away. I have never tried AR glasses or a VR headset, would they work?
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by bluedino 1y ago
I think you're confusing that with the people that slacked off the entire time.
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by bluedino 1y ago
For some people. What's the average including the people who were running errands, walking their dogs, watching their kids, sleeping, etc during work hours?
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by bluedino 1y ago
I agree that these are very simple cases, and it's like benchmarking compiliation or execution of helloworld.cpp It would be interesting to see something like: - cold boot - load Windows - load Office - open a 200 page document - cre
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by bluedino 1y ago
Wasn't there some common Windows 10 bug a while back where Command Prompt would take forever to load because of DNS lookups or some crap? These days you aren't just opening a 64k executable (notepad), you're calling back to t
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by bluedino 1y ago
Every FedRAMP/GRC cloud service seems to be some funky version that's missing features or behind on releases
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by bluedino 1y ago
Except for when say, your utility company withdraws the wrong amount from your checking account (using your debit card), causing you to be overdrawn, and then you have no money for two weeks while they sort it out. Of course, there's a
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by bluedino 1y ago
https://youtu.be/sWoqj-JxwXo?si=IbC-MdVvmS9qpmch Quite a few YouTubers out there show you how to do it
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by bluedino 1y ago
> Most people pay off a credit card in full every month According to Google it's about half.
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by bluedino 1y ago
People use debit card in the USA as well
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by bluedino 1y ago
Most people use credit cards vs debit card for daily purchases in the USA because it's a safer transaction and you get points.
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by bluedino 1y ago
If you live in a "food desert" you can get a frozen burrito at Walgreens or a corner store for $1
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by bluedino 1y ago
> In brazil, many people don’t eat meat because it’s too expensive During the 2008 recession, I remember a woman who called in to one of the financial advice radio shows (Dave Ramsey?). She was talking about how her husband has been laid
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by bluedino 1y ago
Everything is just outsourced to the lowest bidder anyway
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37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings(systemadministration.net)
101 points by bluedino 1y ago|54 comments
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by bluedino 1y ago
It seems like the neighborhood Facebook feeds are full of people complaining about incorrect orders, missing food, stolen food, food that got delivered to the wrong house, as well as drivers complaining about not getting tips, customers inc
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by bluedino 1y ago
Easier to put chicken nuggets in an air fryer than order them from DoorDash last time I checked
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by bluedino 1y ago
I should know the answer to this, but was using the BIOS the only way to interact with hardware like disks, mice, and keyboard? I remember copying code to make wrappers for those in C from books but can't remember if that was the only
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by bluedino 1y ago
We have kiosks at grocery stores etc where we can get renew documents and print new license tabs etc, you can also do most things online and receive your new documents in the mail. You really only need to go there for driving tests (for tee

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