dingosity

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by dingosity 5y ago
Yeah. Linden was this weird mixture of Games Programmers and Enterprise Software Architects. Games programmers all know the absolute most important thing in the world is ship date and since you never re-use your code, who cares if it's
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by dingosity 5y ago
Games programmers in the 90s had this belief that UDP was faster than TCP. And in some cases it was. I don't think there was a standard way to change your stack's behavior for startup and congestion back then (we have CUBIC, BIC,
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by dingosity 5y ago
Maybe before saying furries are "jokes" and "weirdos" you should talk to a furry. Calling people names says a lot more about you than it does about furries and "weirdos." I am happy you are in no way responsibl
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by dingosity 5y ago
hmm... you say "flying penis" and it only takes 40 minutes for QDot to show up. I think that means the internet is still working.
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by dingosity 5y ago
You say "in danger of being spammed by helicopter penises" like it's a bad thing. Vladislav Surkov doesn't work for Putin anymore, so the likelihood he'll be griefing Kasparov with flying penises is pretty low. But
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What is VWRAP? (Linden's ten year old open Virtual World protocol)(meadhbh.hamrick.rocks)
74 points by dingosity 5y ago|57 comments
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by dingosity 5y ago
Why are we even talking about ASN.1/DER/BER? We should, like the ancient Egyptian priests who opposed Akhenaten, chisel it's name from every public edifice. Referring to it not as "ASN.1, the platform-independent abstrac
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by dingosity 5y ago
Just a nit. Color Television was demonstrated in 1928. Telechrome was demonstrated in the 40s. The NTSC color spec was complete in 1953 when a color performance of Carmen was broadcast. But yes, it wasn't until 1965 when all prime-time
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by dingosity 5y ago
Oh. It wasn't just me.
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by dingosity 5y ago
You mean the brave new meta walled garden?
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by dingosity 5y ago
cool. the other cool thing about the archive's copy is you can move backwards to hear other people chat about ergonomics or forward to hear tech news from the era (like the Japanese consortium that fabbed a 1Mbit ROM. 128kbytes! WHAT W
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by dingosity 5y ago
Oh wait. @hypertexthero changed the link in their posting. So... ignore this post while I try to figure out how do delete it.
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by dingosity 5y ago
A few hours ago someone posted this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379952 which references a YouTube video with just the bit of Susan Kare explaining the basic functions of the Mac UI and some of the reas
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Susan Kare and Jerry Manock Explain Mac Ergonomics on Computer Chronicles (1984)(archive.org)
2 points by dingosity 5y ago|2 comments
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by dingosity 5y ago
Stewart Cheifet has repeatedly pointed out he prefers people to reference copies of Computer Chronicles on archive.org. Computer Chronicles is still under copyright and the Internet Archive has the only license to host it as a free[*] strea
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by dingosity 5y ago
Also. Property tax in Texas is high relative to other states. So it makes sense to give Samsung a break on Ad Valorum taxes (not that a corporation with sufficient lawyers would pay them anyway.) They'll just make up the difference by
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by dingosity 5y ago
I think there are quite a few people who are not moving to Texas, myself included. Though I did briefly consider moving back to Ft. Worth so I could vote for Big Bird in the upcoming US Senate race. That being said, I do really like visitin
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by dingosity 5y ago
Windows claims to be POSIX.1 (IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 / ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990) compliant which doesn't cover command line utilities. You might be thinking of POSIX.2: Shell and Utilities (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992), which does cover f
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by dingosity 5y ago
Random factoid since we're talking about PowerComputing. Back in the day, you could run MacOS on an IBM RS/6000-43P (I think it was the only RS/6000 with MacOS drivers) and you could run AIX on the Apple Network Server machin
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by dingosity 5y ago
I think money wasn't as big a problem as it's been reported. Take this snippet from the wikipedia: "Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $300
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by dingosity 5y ago
meh. install windows 10. install WSL(2). install apache in WSL(2). start edge. point the edge browser at WSL(2). Notice the default network settings disallow edge from talking to WSL(2). or start up something that uses mDNS. or try to use n
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by dingosity 5y ago
oh man. there have been at least three efforts i'm aware of to standardize the metaverse in the last 30 years. none of them really went anywhere. fb was invited to participate in the last one i paid attention to (VWRAP), but they polit
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by dingosity 5y ago
I'm going to chime in and say the only benefit we got from CodeDeploy was its cost was folded into our AWS account. We didn't have to go through the hassle of explaining why we need "yet another <$100/month expense&qu
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by dingosity 5y ago
Worms? was a FORTH jam, or at least that's what David Maynard said in a recent interview (since it seems this thread is becoming a list of FORTH games.)
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by dingosity 5y ago
people talking about how cool FORTH is. @cblum made his own sector forth. this is my tribe. i honestly thought there were no stack fans left in the world, thanks for proving me wrong.
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by dingosity 6y ago
To follow on to dshoemaker's excellent response. ESOPs are definitely a lottery ticket based on the value of an upcoming liquidity event. There is a very small, though not entirely absent, market for shares in private companies. The ch
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by dingosity 7y ago
If you're following RFC 4122, v4 and v5 UUIDs can be differentiated by looking at the version number field. (See section 4.1.3 of RFC4122.) So if you're worried about collisions between the two versions, as long as you're mar
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by dingosity 7y ago
Or as we call it, "Autumn."
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by dingosity 7y ago
I think we all prefer what we're most familiar with. VMS hearkens back to an era before tab completion was common and it still throws me when I have to type DIR instead of ls. But... VMS does have some interesting features. Even if y