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by ceautery 3y ago
Novice level posts are great. Someone found something exciting to them, not new to us, but we should encourage them to keep exploring and writing.
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by ceautery 3y ago
The math in this article is wrong. Assuming companies file for bankruptcy at the same pace throughout the year, this article is simply multiplying the number of current startup bankruptcies by 2, but it was filed on August 4, day 216 of the
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by ceautery 3y ago
This is the first time I've seen a WorldsAway reference outside of my friend group of former CompuServe employees. I remember during that time first switching over to cable internet, and how my provider was adamant that you not run a w
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by ceautery 3y ago
Central Services finally caught Archibald Tuttle, now everything is falling apart.
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by ceautery 4y ago
This is type of thing I've seen Eric O. over at South Main Auto[1] fix in dozens of videos. Mad troubleshooting skills, works hard to find root causes of things. He's pretty amazing, hidden away in some no-account town in upstate
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by ceautery 4y ago
Yep, still alive. He plans on being shot in the back while fleeing from a jealous husband in 2043, according to his Stanford bio[1] 1 - https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/
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by ceautery 4y ago
That's pretty funny. I worked at a unix shop and occasionally got a kick out of things like the following, if I ever saw one of my buddies logged in at the same time as me: echo 'Terminal overheating, please blow on screen' &
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by ceautery 4y ago
Naturally.
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by ceautery 4y ago
Don't stop caring. Caring is good, you should care about things. Caring is humbling. It helps you see the damage your actions and attitude cause people. I doubt you walk around flipping off your coworkers and knocking their plants over
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by ceautery 4y ago
Good lord, I've had that wrong for ten years! Thanks for the correction. I think I was blending NAND into his name.
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by ceautery 4y ago
This reminds me somewhat of Nicod redefining Sheffer's Stroke as NAND instead of NOR. (edit: Use the correct name)
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by ceautery 4y ago
That's awesome! Ironically, Xmodem wouldn't have worked well over CIS's network, since to talk to the X25 nodes you had to have software flow control enabled in your modem connection. Small transfers might work, but when you
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by ceautery 4y ago
Fantastic! Thanks, man.
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by ceautery 4y ago
I’ve always seen “phreaker” on 80’s era BBSes. This is the first time I’ve seen “phone phreak”. Maybe regional differences in us old school nerds?
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by ceautery 4y ago
Originally I used BLACK, WHITE, SOUND, and tried to guess from there, occasionally throwing in GRUMP if the word wasn't obvious. I didn't like the repeated vowel, and knowing if there was a Y in the word would help, so I switched
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by ceautery 5y ago
The site uses an inline CSS statement to set the font size. I like the attempt, though. I could go off on an old-man tangent about "kids these days don't even know what a fieldset is!" or whatever, but I very much appreciate
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by ceautery 5y ago
You're confusing literacy with numeracy. To give you a counter-example to what you're saying, my son reads above grade level, but has math anxiety, and would struggle with some of the questions that mixed percents and fractions, e
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by ceautery 5y ago
I would love to live in that world.
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by ceautery 5y ago
After looking at a handful of questions, I'd want a teacher who couldn't initially pass this test to be trained in math at this level first, but not disqualified from teaching. Teach them what they need that they're missing.
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by ceautery 5y ago
https://www.physixfan.com/wp-content/files/GEBen.pdf
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by ceautery 5y ago
I don't think it's planned, it's just how things tend to turn out. At least for the three startups I've worked with. If you're really good at cranking out code before your fledgling company runs out of money, that d
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by ceautery 5y ago
A pattern I've seen a lot of is people joining a young startup as the founding engineer, and then move to an engineering director role once the company gets a good round of funding. Eventually the startup will push them out, where they
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by ceautery 5y ago
https://github.com/GregoryCannon/StackRabbit if you'd like to test your casually flippant statement.
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by ceautery 5y ago
Right. I vaguely remember when that happened. I think USR was trying to rush a 56k modem out before Hayes, so they invented their own protocol instead of waiting for ANSI to standardize V.90.
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by ceautery 5y ago
The price reflected that they could also talk to mainframes, which didn't use an async bit stream. Couriers could support synchronous communications, and programs like CLEO could use that to support bisync and SNA protocols using the E
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by ceautery 5y ago
I had no idea Jack looked like that. He has good Iron Maiden cover band vibes.
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by ceautery 5y ago
Coincidentally, we're close to the 10 year anniversary of https://xkcd.com/936/
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by ceautery 5y ago
Is this the one by the Cyber Ninjas guy?
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by ceautery 5y ago
Flaming logo... spinning logo...
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by ceautery 6y ago
There's a picture of the Drunken Canal newspaper at the top of the NYT article you're talking about, and the very text you nitpick mentions "the publication's unmarked white newspaper box" so saying it's unclea

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