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by bluedino 8mo ago
Yea, basic data validation on the page/form
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by bluedino 8mo ago
It always seemed like there were three tiers of students/projects when the science fair came around each year. 1. Just generic stuff. Growing plants with something different in the soil/water, what shape of balsa wood makes the st
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by bluedino 8mo ago
We had a contractor write a replacement for some green-screen software that we ran for years. The replacement was of course a web interface, written in PHP, and nicely themed and all that was great in 2005. We kept running into all kinds of
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by bluedino 8mo ago
I had a boss once who had "this is sent from my phone, please excuse any spelling or grammar" as his email signature
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Malaysia isn't going to attack Russia.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
We used to see who had the most powerful PC by seeing how many videos we could play at once. Long with Robroy and whatever other video was on there.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit? Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
I'd like to see someone build the Linux source code leak that came out not to far after Quake was released.
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by bluedino 8mo ago
Somehow my 2011 MacBook Pro was the fastest laptop I had ever used. After I put an SSD in it, that is. I wonder what my Apple silicon laptop is even doing sometimes.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Probably, but it's hard to take them seriously after the EU cookie debacle.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Sad day. Was such an amazing product and gave a start to so many companies back then.
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Washington Post cuts a third of its staff in a blow to a legendary news brand(apnews.com)
19 points by bluedino 9mo ago|4 comments
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by bluedino 9mo ago
> Few people would bring an illegal firearm into NYC or other major US metros Someone is. They recover thousands of illegal guns in Chicago alone every year. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/report/firearms-trace-da
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by bluedino 9mo ago
> These are parts that take very little stress and can be relatively easily printed and used to hold together all the other parts that actually hold the stress of firing the bullet. A lot of the polymer guns (1911, AR15) need to be reinf
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Not cast iron https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/how-colonial-gunsmiths-f...
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by bluedino 9mo ago
You can buy it online from Sunoco https://petroleumservicecompany.com/sunoco-supreme-112-octan... I think they only sell the unleaded race gas at the pumps now but I may be wrong.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Things were named fine back then. Small Business Server, Office, Frontpage, Internet Information Server, Visual Studio...
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Was there ever a web-based Jigdo?
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by bluedino 9mo ago
This would be great for real estate ads. Make the rooms look their actual size and dark and dirty. Lived-in, if you will.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
For non-Americans, an American Football field is about 1-1/3 acres, a little smaller than a football/soccer field at about 1-3/4 acres
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by bluedino 9mo ago
They all blindly chant "no datacenters" across all forms of social media. Ironic.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
Very few people work in datacenters
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by bluedino 9mo ago
My vps provider bills in $5 blocks
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Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push(cnbc.com)
16 points by bluedino 9mo ago|5 comments
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by bluedino 9mo ago
McDonalds solved that problem by basically not having employees go up to the counter anymore.
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by bluedino 9mo ago
I help run a fleet of GPU servers, and I might see 1 DIMM or SSD failure for every 50-100 GPU failures. I realize NVIDIA is just cranking them out as fast as they can, but the quality on them is terrible. They overheat, disappear after you
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by bluedino 9mo ago
A cleanroom trained LLM would be needed, no?
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by bluedino 9mo ago
On the whole, there's a difference between 'got accepted to Harvard and dropped out after 2 years to start MegaCorp', and 'never went in the first place'
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by bluedino 9mo ago
> UAW pays better In some cases: Target - in 2022 we enhanced our starting pay again, offering a range of $15 to $24 per hour UAW wages at the big three automakers start at $18 and top out in the $30's. Meanwhile, UAW jobs at supp
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by bluedino 9mo ago
The manual transmission crowd cannot be convinced. Even when you show them the performance advantages etc. They just want 'fun' and 'engaging', however they define that.

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