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by dcminter 8mo ago
I don't know how their switches worked, but the Wang 2200 terminals¹ that my father worked with had an interesting angle on tactile feedback; on each keypress a single chunky solenoid attached to it physically moved to give a satisfyin
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Yes, but also very early microchips! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, Rust, technical writing & presenting Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/
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by dcminter 9mo ago
The "interim computer museum" has some (most?) of that now: https://icm.museum/?faq
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I'm rather tempted. I'm funemployed at the moment and live over in Stockholm so it's just a (long) train journey away. I used to enjoy messing around on Vaxen in my college days. I can't see myself ever using VMS profess
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Meanwhile I get a green check for CDN - presumably because I'm not using Cloudflare, but I am using CloudFront which is AWS. So the tool's a good idea, but currently very inaccurate.
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I roo am trying to curate my RSS feed to be doom-scrolling free. These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect of living in abnormal political times.
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Julia Evans is an absolute treasure.
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by dcminter 9mo ago
That wasn't working for me, but this one was: https://archive.ph/QCMjJ
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Show HN: A GTK app for Linux to show file buffer progress
1 points by dcminter 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I used to (half) jokingly tell people to go to the next human unit. A few days? At least a week. A week? A month. A month? A year. A year? Uh... decade or never... It's wildly pessimistic but not as inaccurate as I'd like.
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I just hopped into the show page - of 30 items perhaps half a dozen are mildly interesting to me. There's a lot of "Something zomething agentic zzzzz..." that may well hide something good. A bunch of things that are perhaps g
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Does your ISP attack you often?
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by dcminter 9mo ago
There's something a little like this in Strata by Pratchett (which is lightly sending up Niven's Ringworld and a non-robot-related but similar idea there).
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by dcminter 9mo ago
Best QA people I worked with were amazing (often writing terrific automated tests for us). The worst would file tickets just saying "does not work" I sometimes suspect that the value of a QA team is inversely proportional to the q
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I have this printed on a sweatshirt - it saddens me a little that people who get it are so few and far between these days :'(
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by dcminter 9mo ago
"...nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..." - Douglas Adams
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by dcminter 9mo ago
I'd imagine there are a good few, but that for a lot of them their websites expired when the owner did. For example my Dad's is gone now and he was only a bit younger. Wayback machine likely has a lot of them in its index if you c
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by dcminter 9mo ago
This is correct (I've done it a few times). I think there's an edit window though and at 8 hours we're well outside that. The other option (e.g. when it's not your submission) is to email the mods, which I've just d
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by dcminter 10mo ago
> In large organizations, decisions get made in meetings you’re not invited to, using summaries you didn’t write, by people who have five minutes and twelve priorities. If no one can articulate your impact when you’re not in the room, y
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by dcminter 10mo ago
This is very clever. I've often needed to figure out what some running process was actually for (e.g. because it just started consuming a lot of some limited resource) but it never occurred to me that one could have a tool to answer
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Ok, I was a little tongue in cheek, so I agree it's a bit more complicated than just asking any question that pops into my pretty little head. But I do think that not worrying about whether people will think I'm ignorant for ask
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by dcminter 10mo ago
My superpower as a staff engineer was having zero shame in asking questions. Anything from "what does that abbreviation stand for?" through to "what will the traffic look like when we go live?" - mostly people are worrie
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by dcminter 10mo ago
While we're wishing, can we split CSS into two parts - styling and layout? Also, I'd like to fix the spelling on the "referer" header...
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by dcminter 10mo ago
I beg to differ. All their verbiage about not charging fees is absolutely intended to create that impression in less educated customers.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Yes, after the flurry of Covid cancellations I avoid using OTAs. Where we had flights booked direct with the airlines getting our money back was much swifter than where we had gone through an intermediary. Also EU bookings were much quicker
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by dcminter 10mo ago
They're doing business in the EU. Amusingly my voluntary subscription was just under the cut-off amount and I cancelled it as soon as this came in. I bought a subscription to The Economist instead.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
He's very good at marketing his airline (often with outrage inspiring press releases) and very good at finding ways to squeeze more blood out of the stone of budget travellers. I don't really care whether he's "good&quot
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by dcminter 10mo ago
To be clear, the currency scam was a last straw, not the major dark pattern. When you compare list prices for flights with them versus almost any other airline you are comparing apples with oranges. The only way to figure out exactly what y
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Ubiquitous currency exchange at the point of sale does not though.

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