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781.
by dmd 2y ago
https://weathergraph.app/ is its spiritual successor.
782.
by dmd 2y ago
That sounds similar to MUMPS, one of the most horrible languages ever (because of its syntax, not the persistence).
783.
by dmd 2y ago
xkcd what if covered it: https://what-if.xkcd.com/140/
784.
by dmd 2y ago
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785.
by dmd 2y ago
We all try to do our best to forget HP-UX. I worked on it at Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1999 and hated every minute of it.
786.
by dmd 2y ago
(As someone who hires) the correct answer to any question involving datetimes is always "use a [good] library - do not attempt to reimplement all of human civilization from scratch".
787.
by dmd 2y ago
You think there's "easily" the same order of magnitude Windows Server backend machines in the world as there are humans in the world?
788.
by dmd 2y ago
So my org (a random medium-sized healthcare system), with ~100k seats, was more than 1% of the devices? I don't buy it.
789.
by dmd 2y ago
You mean … the same court and judge that imposed the fee in the first place?
790.
by dmd 2y ago
This was in Northampton Massachusetts about 25 years ago. I did go to UMass’s legal help clinic who told me basically “Yes, that’s how it works, it’s awful, but unless you want to spend the next few years of your life and every penny you ha
791.
by dmd 2y ago
Sure, but that would have cost me way more than a couple hundred dollars. (This was about 25 years ago.)
792.
by dmd 2y ago
The built in Books meets all those criteria.
793.
by dmd 2y ago
I had to pay hundreds of dollars in court fees after all shoplifting charges against me were dropped by the prosecutor when they noticed the person on camera was not, in fact, me, or anyone looking even remotely like me. The mall cop just g
794.
by dmd 2y ago
> Maybe they want to make GitHub like VSCode in the browser? It already is. Hit the “.” key in any repo and it literally opens the repo in VS Code in your browser.
795.
by dmd 2y ago
And for anyone who wants to read about Russia in an alien dimension, I can't recommend highly enough Charles Stross's "Merchant Princes" and "Empire Games" series!
796.
by dmd 2y ago
Also, recording a rocket launch with your phone is even more pointless than recording a concert with your phone.
797.
by dmd 2y ago
Unfortunately I'm still waiting for "Solving environment". It's been 8 years. Please send help. I'm so hungry. (Yes, I know about mamba.)
798.
by dmd 2y ago
NoMachine absolutely does do remote applications. I use it for that every day. Instead of "Create a new virtual desktop", choose "Create a new custom session" and under Application "Run the following command" (
799.
by dmd 2y ago
I’ve never seen a cockroach (or any other insect but an ant) in 12 years living in this house.
800.
by dmd 2y ago
I was still getting this in middle school in 1990, when several teachers refused to accept anything printed from a computer because "the computer wrote it, not you". Funny that now we live in an age where their complaint might act
801.
by dmd 2y ago
I think the problem is that people who don't have nostalgia for using real shortwave radios won't care/understand the interface, and people who DO ... will be actively annoyed by/won't understand the interface!
802.
by dmd 2y ago
They also remove their dead from other places. For instance, if I squish an ant in my kitchen, somewhere between minutes and hours later it will be carried off by another ant.
803.
by dmd 2y ago
Same. I have absolutely no idea how to interact with this. It expects me to enter a number, but ... this isn't actually a radio and has nothing to do with frequencies. I can't enter the frequency of a station I want and listen to
804.
by dmd 2y ago
Something like ksh, you mean? Like they talked about in the article?
805.
by dmd 2y ago
I’m embedded every night for 6 to 8 hours.
806.
by dmd 2y ago
Er, what? AOL was one of the most successful companies… ever. Things moved on, but this is like saying the roman empire was never successful.
807.
by dmd 2y ago
Ah yes the United States, famous worldwide for its empty prisons and lack of overreacting to minor offenses
808.
by dmd 2y ago
I've got one of these too, albeit much lower resolution. I bought it as a Krush Flip Clock at CES 2016, and wrote a Python driver for it. Looks like it's the same exact protocol. https://github.com/dmd/clack
809.
by dmd 2y ago
What would this be for? I can't figure out why someone would want this.
810.
by dmd 2y ago
This conversation exemplifies every positive interaction I've ever had with any of my really good advisors or bosses. It's exactly what I want from my boss - to be told "that good, but not quite good enough, and I know you c

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