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by bondolo 4y ago
I loved the sentence: "We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project."
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by bondolo 4y ago
Do credit scores and the costs of borrowing associated with specific scores correlate to the actuarial risk of default or is it just a huge scam to justify usury? What is to stop them from charging twice as much for 2% additional risk? &quo
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by bondolo 4y ago
When was it ever just or working?
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by bondolo 4y ago
For more detail about JPEG XL: https://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xl-whitepaper.pdf
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by bondolo 5y ago
I remember something I read from the 1970s which suggested that the Earth’s carrying capacity was about 2.1 billion. That number of humans could be sustained indefinitely. Going higher than that would result in environmental degradation tha
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by bondolo 5y ago
There are going to be a lot of people in this self-selected group who will have had experiences with gifted education or, like myself, felt the distinct lack of those opportunities. In my own case, I grew up in a rural area with very small
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by bondolo 5y ago
One thing that seems to have changed is the understanding of impermanence. I loved the things I built with Lego but quickly had to accept that none of them was permanent. Kill your darlings to build the next thing. Being too enamoured with
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by bondolo 5y ago
Imagine you have gym membership. The Gym is OK but the equipment isn't always maintained and the staff are underpaid. One day you come in and dead centre is a brand new expensive and loud fart machine. You decide this is too much and j
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by bondolo 5y ago
GTA 6 was as inevitable as more Fast and Furious movies.
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by bondolo 5y ago
I feel mixed about this because "sold by Amazon" meant that if there was a problem I got to deal with Amazon customer service rather than trying to get service from some Joe with a mailbox 3rd-party reseller. Yes, I often knew I w
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by bondolo 5y ago
"the whole world is talking about the test certificates of a tennis player right now" No, I don't give a shit about any tennis players and am tired of celebrity and sports activities being "news". Very few people ac
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by bondolo 5y ago
The PDP docs only had the instruction set. The boot deck that was being used would have been a custom "site" deck that in addition to booting the computer also provided information about the peripheral configuration. The program l
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by bondolo 5y ago
The problem was that the first card was damaged, it was "eaten" by the card reader and about the left third of it was completely missing.
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by bondolo 5y ago
One of my first summer intern jobs was recreating the boot deck for a PDP 8. The first card in the deck had become damaged and there was no backup. We had an old assembler listing of the boot program but no assembler. I did not know PDP ass
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by bondolo 5y ago
I started on monochrome dark screens with white, green or orange phosphors. When I first started (briefly) using a Lisa in 1983 and then a Macintosh in 1984 I found that I really liked the paper-white look. Eventually I decided that I prefe
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by bondolo 5y ago
Yes, I got it on the recommendation of a friend but have read less than a quarter of it so far so don't have my own opinion yet. Because I am cheap bastard I got my copy on eBay for $4.
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by bondolo 5y ago
I started developing software in the days before the Internet. It was indeed very different. My choices about what to remember and how I remember things have changed significantly since the ubiquitous availability of searchable information.
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by bondolo 5y ago
The only thing I liked about my c2003 Toshiba laptop was the physical controls; a volume dial and a wifi switch. I also did like the Blackberry dial, scrolling through messages on my mobile isn't as convenient one handed as it was with
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by bondolo 5y ago
Why would you want to live there? I can imagine the moon being a place for mining, industrial operations and as a staging base for outer system missions. But a place to live? No, sorry, if a place fails the test that Antarctica is more hosp
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by bondolo 5y ago
"a citizen with the surname Li had signed up" Well that certainly narrows it down.
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by bondolo 5y ago
Editor fetishism should have died in the last millennium.
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by bondolo 5y ago
This is more of a "hacker" tip than something for web developers but "Show Page Source" will show you the full raw HTML for any page. Be careful where you use it though as it is illegal in some states.
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by bondolo 5y ago
You mean this one? https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175... Or if you prefer OpenJDK: https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175...
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by bondolo 5y ago
That contract was signed by Sun before the acquisition and was discontinued by Oracle as soon as they could.
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by bondolo 5y ago
Sun did it originally during the waning days as well as an even worse yahoo toolbar. Oracle discontinued the contract as soon as they could after acquiring Sun.
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by bondolo 5y ago
Or you can pay to license the JRE and include it.
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by bondolo 5y ago
Does the password strategy really just truncate passwords over 64 characters? I don't use them often but since text passwords typically have low number of significant bits per character I have always assumed that the input string was h
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by bondolo 5y ago
When the $100 system can run for 5 years of continuous production get back to me. I would be surprised if the system, as described, would work beyond a couple of days. Other than for emergency situations this isn't useful.
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by bondolo 5y ago
I once cried in a meeting because someone on another team reused a bit flag in a struct for a different purpose than I had intended. Luckily this was the day before a three week vacation, my first in several years. Thankfully it was in the
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by bondolo 5y ago
My wife's urologist in Berkeley was Dr. Piser: http://www.goldengateurology.com/md-joel-piser.html

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