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by donatj 6mo ago
Probably ten years ago with name.com I had a .at domain expire. I caught it like a day or two later, and successfully renewed it through their site but it did not take. There was somehow already someone up squatting my domain. I contacted s
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by donatj 6mo ago
I wish hacker news both - had notifications of comments on threads - let you comment on very old posts I recently discovered someone on HN in 2014 commenting on something I wrote in 2006 and I'd love to be able to reply AND h
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by donatj 6mo ago
I redid the backbone of my home in 10Gb fiber, and "cheap" is not the term I would use. Especially when you can get perfectly cromulent 1GbE switches for like $10 these days. The Mikrotik switches [1] work technically speaking b
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by donatj 6mo ago
Why connect it to both computers?
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by donatj 6mo ago
This wraps Fyne? As a long time user of Fyne, what does this provide beyond Fyne itself?
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by donatj 6mo ago
I feel like paying your most experienced employees to quit is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft needs right now. Paying to get rid of your institutional knowledge and experience is an insane move, especially as everything is on fire.
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by donatj 6mo ago
I tend to be very exacting in my word choice. If I used a specific word, I meant it. Many people I find speak in what I would describe as tone poems. They circle around an idea using whatever word is within reach, and expect you to understa
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by donatj 6mo ago
I run a tiny site that basically gave a point-at-able definition to an existing adhoc standard. As part of the effort I have a list of software and libraries following the standard on the homepage. Initially I would accept just about anythi
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by donatj 6mo ago
There's a comic of this that circulated a number of years ago that I thoroughly enjoyed. https://imgur.com/gallery/last-question-9KWrH
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by donatj 6mo ago
I like the article overall but the continually repeated 'Language X didn't have that until <YEAR>' is very grating after the first ten or so. I also wish there were concrete code examples. Show me what you are talking a
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by donatj 6mo ago
When I got my Switch years ago my reaction to the UI was basically "This is it?" It felt like an un-styled working prototype. My thought was "Nintendo rushed this thing out the door to stay in business, surely they'll ad
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by donatj 6mo ago
I am reminded of how the CD burning app Disco for Mac would actually smoke while your disc was burning. Standard looking Window but with semitransparent smoke billowing out the top. If I recall, Steve Jobs showed it off on stage and loved i
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by donatj 6mo ago
I can almost almost understand the logic behind not backing up OneDrive/Dropbox. I think it's bad logic but I can understand where it's coming from. Not backing up .git folders however is completely unacceptable. I have hun
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by donatj 6mo ago
The examples chosen are particularly interesting to me. In particular Microsoft Word 2000 was panned at the time for not following native conventions. Its inputs, buttons, and File/Edit menus actually do not match the underlying OS.
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by donatj 6mo ago
You're not going to get any sort of concerning level of methanol though from home distilling unless you're collecting and drinking just the heads. You'd have to be trying, and even then it would be difficult. It's basica
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by donatj 6mo ago
For fun, I recently rebuilt a little text adventure some friends and I had built in the early 2000s. Originally written in QBasic, I translated it line by line in Go, and set it up as a little SSH server. For posterity, I didn't want t
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by donatj 6mo ago
I assume you can use a physical keyboard on an iPhone like I can on Android via USB? Presumably you could buy a wired Czech keyboard to access the device? Twice I have had the touchscreen fail on Android devices and been able to get what I
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by donatj 6mo ago
The antidote to methanol is just ethanol. If you find yourself drinking something untrustworthy you can at least cure yourself with a chaser of an equivalent amount of everclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_t
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by donatj 6mo ago
The number of offer emails I have gotten for my Chrome extension is wild, and I've only got a little over 100 installs. I'm honestly surprised this is not more common.
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by donatj 6mo ago
There are definitely corners by the trackpad, at the gap for opening the lid. They are quite stabby and I hate them. https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/aca51a7051edc493b19cfd93da...
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by donatj 6mo ago
I've still got my Kindle Keyboard on fine condition...
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Amazon Is Pulling Support for Kindles from 2012 or Earlier(cnet.com)
12 points by donatj 6mo ago|7 comments
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by donatj 6mo ago
I have a tool on my website that gets about 250k unique views per day. During COVID I decided to put a single ad on the page to try to make up for my wife's lost income. It was for a time bringing in close to $500 a month, and was a ni
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by donatj 6mo ago
The problem was in the early 2000s it was basically accepted x86 was a dead end whose days were numbered. Itanium was the heir apparent but importantly basically vaporware. How do you develop software NOW and more importantly sell and shi
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by donatj 6mo ago
Social media left me. I at one time had a decent following on Twitter, just under a thousand people. I could post something I was pondering about and get a whole handful of peoples opinions. I once pondered why Apple wouldn't distribut
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by donatj 6mo ago
It's interesting because this isn't that exactly the same thing Fraunhofer did with the MP3 patent?
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by donatj 6mo ago
I feel like this fails to consider my own valuing of my time. Free Chocolate? Sure. 13¢ chocolate? I've gotta try to make change? An awkward amount no less. 3 pennies? They are getting hard to come by. I didn't even want a chocola
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by donatj 6mo ago
If they are genuinely only using the information to detect bad actors and maintain site stability as the affidavit states, and if they can prove it, this seems like potentially a non-issue? I am not a lawyer, but site stability seems like a
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by donatj 7mo ago
The GB Operator will let you dump photos from a Game Boy Camera as well as stream video from the camera in real time. It's a fun little device. They'd promised a webcam driver, but that never materialized and instead just gave ins
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by donatj 7mo ago
I would genuinely like to know more about these supposed users who are side loading things and getting hoodwinked. It seems high enough friction that you have to have something of an idea of what you're doing to begin with. Everyone I&

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