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by drivers99 10y ago
BASIC also did this on pretty much every microcomputer in the 1980s.
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by drivers99 10y ago
"Thus far, the system has been built in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Swahili, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, and, starting next month [article is from Nov 2015], Arabic" http://qz.com/561
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by drivers99 10y ago
Oh yeah, I remember buying a license for kali.net (which apparently the service and website are both still up) to play Warcraft II. It allowed IPX protocol gaming over the Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_%
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by drivers99 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans#/media/File:C... The light blue counties are the ones with German being the most commonly reported ancestry during the 2000 census. Personal note: Being from the
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by drivers99 10y ago
This article[1] though on a biased (in that they have a point of view) site, has links to some state data, so it's convenient to link to it. It's also specific to medicaid benefits. > Of the 50 companies with the most employees
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by drivers99 10y ago
Wouldn't you get an immediate "connection refused" for localhost, not have to wait for a timeout?
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by drivers99 10y ago
It should be other way around, like speaker : what_they_said So it would be: The Pirate Bay founder: Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’
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by drivers99 10y ago
That's mentioned in the article.
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by drivers99 10y ago
This seems similar to the guidelines from the book "Diet Cults" called "agnostic healthy eating" which is a list of foods with the better foods to eat at the top of the list. Essential foods (eat more of these than the o
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by drivers99 10y ago
So one side of the street is big box stored with giant parking lots, and the other side is parking garages with 1st floor businesses. Looks 1000% for cars and not transit.
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by drivers99 10y ago
Related to GUMPS: In driver's education, I learned DSMBV [doors (locked), seats (adjusted), mirrors (adjusted), belt (seatbelt, attached), ventilation (adjusted as needed)]. It's not needed in my own car, but it is still useful to
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by drivers99 11y ago
This is somewhat offtopic, but I've tried building crystal radios over and over again in my life, and have never gotten them to work. I've built them from kits. I've studied them online and built them from scratch, in various
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by drivers99 11y ago
I had an acquaintance who was sued by Blizzard under the DMCA for creating a game server for StarCraft. That was under Vivendi which they are no longer a part of, so maybe it's different now, but I would not trust them myself. https:
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by drivers99 11y ago
Something limited to "educational purposes only" is technically not "open source". (It doesn't fit the Open Source Definition, and licenses such as GPL would not be compatible with such restrictions either.)
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by drivers99 11y ago
Linux/UNIX has the equivalent: kernel panic
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by drivers99 11y ago
It could also be if he's on a Mac, you have to go to Terminal -> Preferences -> select your current profile -> Keyboard -> check "Use option as meta key" I found that out because I was trying to start using org mo
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by drivers99 11y ago
I like Merriam-Webster's take on it. "Whenever a word from a foreign language enters English it becomes an English word and gets inflected just like other English words." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2m
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by drivers99 11y ago
I have a Palm IIIxe and it lasted months on a pair of AAA (not AA) batteries. (Still have it but don't use it. Can't believe I used to keep it in my pocket. It's huge by today's standards.)
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by drivers99 11y ago
> I always dream about an RTS where one gets to be the DM (God, Gaia... whatever you call it) where computer players fight against each other. Reminds me of "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin. It's in the Dreamsongs volume
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by drivers99 11y ago
I also subvocalize what I read which slows me down, but also helps me remember, I think. My eyes can read faster but if they get ahead of the sound, I will get tripped up and have to backtrack. I also subvocalize my thoughts as one-way disc
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by drivers99 11y ago
> "The palm tree is the dead giveaway: This is El Paso, not the Himalayas." Palm trees aren't native to the Chihuahuan desert, yet certain places that can afford it (UTEP as seen here, NMSU in Las Cruces, banks, etc.) plan
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by drivers99 11y ago
> GitLab has integration for it even. It actually is included with the gitlab omnibus installation package now, and then it uses gitlab's LDAP for logins. I just had to set a few options in gitlab.rb because I wanted to use SSL and
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by drivers99 11y ago
If parts pop off during a competition, you're allowed to put them back together. I'm not sure if that includes a full explosion (when a majority of the pieces come off the cube). It probably doesn't matter because it would ta
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by drivers99 11y ago
Looks like it's also available on steam and gog, so you don't need an iPad. This looks like it could be my type of fun. SpaceChem was awesome because it made me feel like I was designing microcode in a way (in that you have to coo
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by drivers99 11y ago
David Burns (in the book "Feeling Good") wrote about the "disarming technique" which is "find some truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems totally unreasonable or unfair".
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by drivers99 11y ago
I'm not so sure it is so useless. Consider when you want to "grep something access.log". Then you want to look at yesterday's so it's "grep something access.log.1". Then you want to look at the log befor
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by drivers99 11y ago
Terraform can generate graphs of your dependencies using the unix "dot" program. And then there is terraforming which can create terraform scripts from your existing infrastructure. So maybe if you can change terraform to output
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by drivers99 11y ago
Yeah it's not even a hotlink. It's just a link.
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by drivers99 11y ago
Tamagotchi was a huge fad for a short time in the 90s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi It was a digital pet and you had to press certain button to feed it, keep it happy, healthy, etc. The joke is they added
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by drivers99 11y ago
Thomas Edison claimed to have a long lasting light bulb before he actually did. He showed it to reporters one at a time in a booth. Between observers, he would change out the light for a fresh one. Source "How We Got to Now: Light&quot

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