bluedino

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by bluedino 2y ago
Similar things exist for dyslexia, introverts, etc
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by bluedino 2y ago
It's worth it just to watch the frustration of a junior when they try tacking more arguments on the end of a command.
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by bluedino 2y ago
Apartment dweller here who misses his Weber and Blackstone. A regular pan on a hot plate or portable induction hob makes a far, far better steak than a Foreman. I'd be a crime to put a decent steak on one of those things.
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by bluedino 2y ago
Also, many software vendors don't support Centos stream.
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by bluedino 2y ago
We had Rite Aid and Walgreens, then Rite Aid went bankrupt or whatever all they aren't here anymore (they would always be across the street from each other). Now you have a 45 minute wait when you go, they never have stuff in stock, th
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by bluedino 2y ago
Microsoft shipped OSes with a crappy version of BASIC. But every computer did, before the PC came out.
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by bluedino 2y ago
I can't think of too many apps that I use that are truly FOSS. Databases, compilers/interpreters, web servers, operating systems...but apps? (Other than gnu/bad command line tools of course)
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by bluedino 2y ago
Anyone remember Evernote?
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by bluedino 2y ago
On the other hand, I've seen developers who don't know about things like that start up a project on a small instance and wonder why everything is running at turtle speed. People that stopped running tests because they were configu
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by bluedino 2y ago
> One of the definite positives of AI is that kind of stuff is now fairly easy to solve. I agree that 'AI' feels like a fancier/faster 'Google' (I've done the thing where I find a Github issue from 4 years a
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by bluedino 2y ago
It was crazy how fast things moved back then. A friend of mine had a 233MHz P2 with 32GB and a 2D card, and within two years it was a dinosaur, being shown up by machines like yours, 400-450MHz, 3D cards, way more memory....
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by bluedino 2y ago
> I agree, but I look at it like trying out for an athletic team. Pro teams have scouts, draft based on college performance, trade or poach players from other teams. They don't even have tryouts 99% of the time. You have to be a pro
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by bluedino 2y ago
There should be an updated article, "Does Visual Studio Code Rot the Mind?" In the old days , when we set our development environments up by hand , you usually ended up learning quite a bit about your setup. Or you at least ha
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by bluedino 2y ago
And if you want to pay for support you can reach out to CIQ https://ciq.com/products/warewulf/
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by bluedino 2y ago
It's complicated https://brassicgamer.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-almost-definit...
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by bluedino 2y ago
> I remember Slack eating up my CPU when it had to display several animanted emojis at once. I remember using phpBB back in the late 2000's, viewing a page that had at least 100 animated emoticons on it. It would slow IE6 down to a
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by bluedino 2y ago
But was that in Watcom? I don't think gcc was on DOS until DJGPP v1 which was...1992? I don't remember if gprof was ported. iD did use DJGPP for Quake in 1996. I'm guessing they used gcc on NeXT but profiling that platform pr
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by bluedino 2y ago
I think you're thinking of the 486SLC The 486SX was fully 32-bit (unlike the SLC and 386SX) and the 486DX had the integrated FPU, and the 487 was a drop in 486DX which disabled the 486SX
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by bluedino 2y ago
I used to always chew on a scrap piece of CAT5 when doing cabling etc
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by bluedino 2y ago
> Nor does ChatGPT ban you from the entire network because you answered a Palestine question on the politics sub-section. (Happened to me.) Some Reddit subs (as well as web forums/messageboards) have the same problem. If your views
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by bluedino 2y ago
SO also has the "eternal September" problem
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by bluedino 2y ago
They weren't? My view is certainly skewed since we had a 386SX, but there were tens of thousands of BBS's running back then. Online services exploded in the early 90's, shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein sold hundreds
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by bluedino 2y ago
Did he tell the interviewer that? Or did he just expect him to have known? I have had maybe two interviewers ever mention anything on my GitHub, which I usually include on my application/resume.
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by bluedino 2y ago
Didn't Benjamin Franklin suggest the Turkey instead?
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by bluedino 2y ago
Love this stuff, reminds me of old 2600 articles
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by bluedino 2y ago
All of the big PC companies had factories in Texas in the 80's and early 90's, didn't they? And Dell became a case study of outsourcing everything (and sending your stock and profits soaring the whole time), until you have no
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by bluedino 2y ago
I couldn't find an app that I have open right now that still uses the Cocoa toolbar widget.
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by bluedino 2y ago
Your insurance company blindly cut a check and didn't send an adjuster out to see how old your roof was and deny the claim or pro-rate it to only pay 10% of the cost?
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by bluedino 2y ago
Isn't this what happened in areas of California?
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by bluedino 2y ago
My hospital system has a surprisingly decent web app. I can log in and see my appointments, pre-register for office visits, view lab results, medications, request appointments, do virtual visits... The amazing stupid part is when I have to

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