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961.
by bluedino 3y ago
A little further back, us kids loved DOS shareware games like Epic Pinball (yes, that Epic) https://www.mobygames.com/game/263/epic-pinball/
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by bluedino 3y ago
Here's a good example of how empty those razed lots are https://maps.app.goo.gl/3XA5JtEn9xmfk3g16
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by bluedino 3y ago
Think of that closed-down K-Mart that's been empty for 25 years on the main shopping drag in a medium-sized town. There's probably 25,000 of those across the USA.
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by bluedino 3y ago
It's like a scene from some movie, there's a hacker in a dark room, connects to some machine deep inside of mega corp and the login prompt comes on screen... Connected to 123.4.002.312 Welcome to OpenBSD 6.2! lo
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by bluedino 3y ago
At Sam Goody or Camelot Music, CD's were $14-20 Meanwhile at Best Buy (and other places I'm sure, but I worked at Best Buy) they were $9-12
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by bluedino 3y ago
Why would they continue with on-prem? It has to be a support nightmare.
967.
by bluedino 3y ago
They didn't have any software and didn't emulate dos or windows Why would anyone run it
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by bluedino 3y ago
Looks like the crowd from a console video game
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by bluedino 3y ago
Phone apps continue that with the lack of being able to select on screen text. At least on the iPhone you can get around it by taking a screenshot, then selecting the text
970.
by bluedino 3y ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/m2_bfeGOzvg?si=2pjk2hD8W6Y_CKXK This kind of thing for people who were wondering
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by bluedino 3y ago
It has to be customizable or people won't buy it. After all, they just want to re-implement their current, CRM solution (which is terrible, and is why they want to buy a new one in the first place) in the new fancy CRM.
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by bluedino 3y ago
https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/
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by bluedino 3y ago
He was building for at least Windows and Linux, and didn't have OpenGL so he was doing all the 3D manually. Plus assembly code, hardware specific versions like Verite, had to handle all the raw networking code, wrote tools to work wit
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by bluedino 3y ago
It's been a year or two but last time I tried networking tools like nmap in WSL I would get all kinds of errors.
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by bluedino 3y ago
And 1 year after Windows 3.1 (which was Pretty Good )
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The Pixel 8 Pro has better cameras, a brighter screen, anda lotof new AI tricks(theverge.com)
11 points by bluedino 3y ago|3 comments
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by bluedino 3y ago
We have a traditional cluster, and we were asked to investigate cloud usage. Ended up with a bursting type setup where you can use the cloud to spin up more nodes than we have in our cluster, or larger nodes than we have available. Sounds g
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by bluedino 3y ago
The first CD-ROM connected to a computer that I ever remember was Grolier's (Compton's?) encyclopedia we had in the school library. It was a DOS program that ran on an IBM 286, external caddy-loading CD-ROM, and then a laser print
979.
by bluedino 3y ago
You know how you can tell they are about to lie, they use the scripted "Wow. Yea. Great question, analog31. So, as a company, Foobuzz puts their customers first, so..."
980.
by bluedino 3y ago
If you live next to a farm field, you get the same thing. And at certain times of the year, the "dust" smells like manure.
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by bluedino 3y ago
Isn't that how the big name consultants work? Price it out like you're getting experts from a famous firm and then send in a green team to do the work?
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by bluedino 3y ago
Interview question (from the job seeker): can I see your application logs? I once worked at a place that could flood the error/warning logs in two seconds (Ruby). Unless it was causing an issue, all warnings etc were ignored. Is that t
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by bluedino 3y ago
Judging by my traffic logs nobody actually looks at those anyway
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by bluedino 3y ago
Intel would squash an internal project like that, or drown it in politics. You could sit here all day with examples of "why did big company let little company become successful"
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by bluedino 3y ago
I have never heard of anyone referring to a CNA (certified nursing assistant) as a 'nurse' What most people mean by 'nurse' is an RN (registered nurse)
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by bluedino 3y ago
Your last sentence is interesting. Nurses make 2-3 times as much as (K-12) teachers in the USA
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by bluedino 3y ago
Hose water is delicious
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Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as News Corp Chairman, to Be Succeeded by Son Lachlan(variety.com)
2 points by bluedino 3y ago|0 comments
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by bluedino 3y ago
Our Dell rep really talked this up a few months ago, but didn't have any benchmarks. Impressed with OpenFOAM results, as that's a typical workload for our users. However, the AMD system is basically equal.
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by bluedino 3y ago
Parking was free it's just a fine to park over night Eventually they boot your car and you have to go down and write a check

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