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by defaultcompany 3y ago
For a great satire of this tendency see David Macaulay's amazing graphic book Motel of Mysteries[1] where a motel is unburied thousands of years in the future and everything in it is classified as part of some ceremonial burial rite. 1
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
The SNOBOL4 language translator was still written in assembly language. However the macro features of the assembler were used to define the virtual machine instructions of the SNOBOL Implementation Language, the SIL Was SIL the inspiratio
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
See "OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell" - Eran Hammer's resignation letter from his role as Oauth 2.0 spec lead author and editor: https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a...
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
This reminded me that I used to view images over my dialup connection directly in the terminal by catting the image to pbmtoascii and making my terminal font 1 pixel high. It wasn't exactly pretty but it worked.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
"Raking the forest" while a totally viable approach in very specific strategic areas is just way way too expensive and time consuming in the general case. California has like 30 million acres of forest land. Removing brush from a
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
You could look at Adobe Character Animator.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Next stop 69,105. https://zork.fandom.com/wiki/69105
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
"You’ll own everything, and it’ll be yours forever." This is overstating it. You cannot "own" a domain name. Domains are essentially rented and eventually (whether on purpose or by accident) your domain name will expire.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
This title is a bit click baity. The FBI investigated a potential homicide of an unknown individual based on footage found on a super 8 film camera. Once they were informed that the individual in the film was Trent Reznor and the footage wa
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
DIA has not been around for 40 years. Maybe he went to those square miles before it was built?
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
It did seem a bit tone deaf but five months baseline severance is no joke.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Yes! Complexity is Apex predator of grug brain developer.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
In documentaries I worked on we would tell people what we were doing and ask them if we could talk to them and then get a release afterwards. Not sure about other types of shows.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
When I worked in film/tv production we were perpetually getting signed releases from people who were in the shot. Is this just not a thing now? Or is the downside so low that nobody cares?
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I wonder if there could be some kind of inland Cajun Navy [1] which operates using trucks and plows or snowmobiles instead of boats for disasters like this. Although given the remoteness and conditions this just might not be possible. [1]
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
This guy is driving himself like he's a machine. When he feels like giving up he pushes on the gas and forces himself to do it anyway. My take is he needs to loosen up and take a break, maybe rethink his inflexible definition of succes
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I have so many but the one I always look back proudly on was non-technical and fairly devious. I was a disaffected middle-schooler. I had lost my science book which I would have to pay for if I didn't find it. I had, however, "pro
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I clicked through to their website and it is hmmm... different? Like I think maybe it was created using Microsoft FrontPage in the mid 90s and never touched again outside of posting new photos of company events. While trying to discern what
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Yes with Prisma.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
This is great and something I do with my kids as well. I’d suggest recording them on your phone (or wherever) for posterity. It’s so much fun to go back and listen to them!
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I took it to mean that they got COVID and were out of commission long enough that the domain was sold by the time they “came back round to reality”.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
You don’t own a domain name you rent it. If you ever forget to renew it or you are unable to renew it for some reason then it becomes available for anyone else to register. At that point the new owner can receive all your email and potentia
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I’m glad I didn’t realize this was fiction until after I read it. My brain was doing backflips. Well written!
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I think people who get their email on their own domain generally consider it as their permanent home and don’t think about what will happen when the domain no longer is registered to them. Using the apartment rental analogy works up to a po
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
It’s a misnomer to say you can “own” a domain name. You cannot. The better word would be “rent”. Because of that you should think about what could happen if your domain name registration lapses and someone else registers it.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
I quit smoking in a similar way. My buddy and I agreed that the first one to smoke a cigarette paid the other one $100. We’re both competitive people and we both actually wanted to quit so it worked for us.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
This is a very bad idea which I have also done and am currently in the long process of undoing. I have >800 email addresses on my own domain. What happens if I do not renew the domain name - either by accidentally missing the renewal dat
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Winnie the Pooh also comes to mind. There was one beautiful and very authentic animated movie followed by two or three terrible films that just felt like a horrible caricature of anything the original work was about.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Ha… It might take only three clicks but I once did this in gmail (deleting over 50k emails by clicking select all and then delete) and my account was inaccessible for multiple hours. So tread lightly.
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by defaultcompany 4y ago
Which games did you play? TIS-100 and Schenzen IO and Exapunks definitely felt more like programming games than puzzle games to me.

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