drummojg

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by drummojg 4y ago
I read it as ironic.
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by drummojg 4y ago
Most definitely! https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java_Edition_version_histo...
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by drummojg 4y ago
I agree, it's an old notion, and reads somewhat Gibson-ish. I am enjoying the article. In a way the narrative matters less to me than the fact that it feels like the old days, and I'm glad this kind of zeitgeist is still clack
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by drummojg 4y ago
One would be, Richard Bland College of The College of William & Mary. I'd point out "The College of William & Mary" except it is no longer in their (e: W&M's) branding standards, but it is the official name
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by drummojg 5y ago
One of the best literary long-tail effects of having a child has been that my wife and I became huge Margret Wise Brown fans. She was a fine artist and a true blueblooded bohehmian, and I'm grateful I got to "know" her &
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by drummojg 5y ago
It's been a minute since I've thought about mc--which is the point, I reckon.
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by drummojg 5y ago
The game is an interesting mix of mobile fun with the concept for El-Fish. https://www.wired.com/1993/02/maxis/
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by drummojg 5y ago
There is nothing CNN loves so much, as doom.
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by drummojg 5y ago
I have never contributed much to open source, but my high water mark was writing reportdhcp, the first available tool to report the status of DHCP pools. I wrote it because I needed it and none existed that I could find anywhere. It got pac
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by drummojg 5y ago
A hapax legomenon, one of my favorite literary terms.
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by drummojg 5y ago
It's really ironic that MegaTaylorism is touted as such a great "innovation." I wonder if, like Uber is doing with transport, Amazon is scaffolding their warehouse processes so that it will be an easier transition when the da
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by drummojg 5y ago
Oh no, that's too mild. Things that rise to the level of "offensive" are "violence," not merely "abuse." Tongue somewhat in cheek, of course, but I do have a friend whose claim to the "Me too" m
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by drummojg 5y ago
I was thinking "cargo cult" reading your first point, and was quite happy to see it mentioned in the second.
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by drummojg 5y ago
When I was in college, we would set the process name of the MUD client to whatever WordPerfect used on the VAX so we wouldn't get busted for playing games during non-gaming hours. Of course the sysadmins saw right through the charade,
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by drummojg 5y ago
One of the oldest is "Armies march on their stomachs."
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by drummojg 5y ago
> I disagree. I went to school to learn how to solve problems, not somebody's subjective view of ethics https://www.jstor.org/stable/378062?seq=1
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by drummojg 6y ago
It's my favorite work of nonfiction.
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by drummojg 6y ago
It's what drove me out of wanting to work in Web authoring. I looked at CSS and literally decided "I am not going to learn this."
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by drummojg 6y ago
That's part of what bothers me about this whole story--it says they were running BIND, which configs on text files for goodness sake. These critical records were tiny and could fit anywhere & transfer in the blink of an eye. That
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by drummojg 6y ago
Russia is a terrible threat to the US. How much/many of their disinformation and memes (in the traditional sense) are correlated with disrupted political discourse, extremism, and disunity in the US? They don't sponsor squads of
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by drummojg 6y ago
I was very sad my character got scrubbed for not logging on enough. Alas and alack, another relic of life passes because of old age and inattention. The last time I'd logged on was the night PTerry died, and that was a fine capstone
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by drummojg 6y ago
Is the letter "T" somehow associated with FSMs? I'm taken right back to one of the hardest assignments I ever had, which was learning C in order to write an interpreter for a FSM descriptor language (called "T") ou
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by drummojg 6y ago
I used to get new Slackware by taking over a row of lab machines and FTPing to A:. I'd move all but one chair out of the way & roll down the line; by the time the last one was started the first one was done. I would get A, AP, an
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by drummojg 6y ago
I was taught the same through Shotokan Karate. The credo spoken at every training (called "Dojo Kun") starts with "Seek perfection of character" and ends with "Refrain from violent behavior."
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by drummojg 6y ago
I like using ^W for this nerd-rhetoric trope so I don't have to count letters.