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by dcminter 1y ago
Alas the ntkmart domain is being squatted by someone and I presume the shop was inactive long before that. I loved the Elite-style shirt but mine left this mortal plane long ago.
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JANET – The UK Joint Academic Network (1988) [pdf](serials.uksg.org)
8 points by dcminter 1y ago|4 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
Off topic, but... > to cuss and discuss ...is a turn of phrase that's new to me and I love it. Totally stealing that.
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by dcminter 1y ago
What kinds of breakage do you have in mind though? The number of times I've segfaulted the JVM is tiny.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Eh, that's also kind of the East London aesthetic for you. It used to be (maybe 30 years ago) very dodgy and is now (mostly) very hipster. The Bar Americain which he mentions but doesn't show a picture of, on the other hand, is ex
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by dcminter 1y ago
I had an MRI scan today, and while (as I expected) it was all very noisy, some of the noises were much more melodic in nature than I expected. I did a bit of googling when I got home to see why and found this fun little essay.
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The Sounds of MRI (2024)(larsonlab.github.io)
4 points by dcminter 1y ago|2 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
> why I invested in Kagi Do you mean in the sense of investing in your tools, or do you mean that you're one of Kagi's investors?
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by dcminter 1y ago
This is the only issue preventing me from buying a subscription. Kagi looks great but this is a major stroke against it for most Europeans. Choosing to ignore the provenance of your suppliers is absolutely a political decision even if you w
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by dcminter 1y ago
On a related note and a slightly larger scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_anode
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by dcminter 1y ago
I wonder if Oh my Zsh and its equivalents for other shells might be what you're really after? https://ohmyz.sh/
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by dcminter 1y ago
Huh, I know about Bob Dobson et al, but MOO-ism somehow escaped my notice back in the day. http://textfiles.com/occult/MOOISM/ I have some retro-reading to do.
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I don't care about those people's opinions, so I don't care. This was stronger before you edited in the longer paragraphs telling us that you look through their comment histories. Look, you do you, but I'd rather he
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by dcminter 1y ago
I do get where you're coming from; for me I think it interrupts the way I scan text - a date would be unconsciously absorbed but these stand out as abnormal artefacts requiring full attention.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Eh, I also think it's harmless, and lends a certain "brand" to their posts - which are usually quite good otherwise. Better to be weird than dull, right?
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by dcminter 1y ago
...and if he does, why does he then consider the year 99999 to be out of reach? As I understand it the idea is to promote "long term thinking" but I really don't see how this affectation is actually supposed to achieve anythi
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by dcminter 1y ago
That. Personally I think it's performative nonsense, but you have to admire the commitment to it.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ah, how lucky we were to have such benevolant benefactors as William Randolph Hearst and Robert Maxwell running those organs of old ;)
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by dcminter 1y ago
In the victorian era the attitude would have been that it was "just a cat" and if it got killed they'd just get another one. We're a little more humane nowadays. Towards animals (cute ones) at least.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Pratchett, characterising cats, said: "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this."
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by dcminter 1y ago
I suppose Larry's something of a mascot⁰, but I think the roles differ a little. ⁰ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_mascot
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by dcminter 1y ago
A similar example I've seen is a photo of a British railway carriage full of commuters staring glumly at their phones. It makes me laugh because we all just used to stare glumly at our newspapers! It's not like we were discussing
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by dcminter 1y ago
If you're thinking of the 5th Element remote-controlled cockroach attack vector ... I think you're over-estimating what's feasible at the moment (even in a mouse sized package). Probably not too far off though.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Bear in mind that it's of Georgian construction and Grade 1 listed (so not just a façade), so there is presumably plenty of wood and plaster in its construction with corresponding voids. With humans comes food morsels. Some of the room
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by dcminter 1y ago
(Self-reply as I'm outside the edit-window) I think Amos's title here is a little tongue-in-cheek by the way - it's more like a half-hour to skim through it, but with this at hand you'll be in a much better place to star
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by dcminter 1y ago
Despite its age I still think that "A Half-Hour to Learn Rust" is an excellent starting point: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
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by dcminter 1y ago
Oh that's gooood. Got a cite or is it yours?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Better PEM handling in the jdk libraries is a nice smoothing over of a rough patch; I'll enjoy having that by default instead of build-time conversions or fiddly little utility methods.
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Larry (cat)(en.wikipedia.org)
350 points by dcminter 1y ago|74 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
I rather like the snark of: there's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny. Apparently⁰ by Philip Scott Bowden¹ ⁰ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html ¹

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