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by dublin 7y ago
I've designed hardware and software for a number of touchscreen devices and applications. I even invented the double-sided touchscreen, which may show up in phones in another few years.) So I love touchscreens, BUT, he lack of feel m
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by dublin 7y ago
Kinda defeats the whole purpose of SVG. Only photos should be bitmaps. Graphics should be vectors. This is the 21st century, folks...
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by dublin 7y ago
Just drop the eighth bit and use 7-bit ASCII like God intended and it's not a problem... :-)
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by dublin 7y ago
No, but that would be my dream job...
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by dublin 7y ago
Remember to start your FORTRAN statements in Column 7!
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by dublin 7y ago
Check out Microsoft's new Windows terminal ( https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsTimeForYouToInstallWindows... ) It may be the most modern, capable, and yet compatible terminal I've come across, and works well
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by dublin 7y ago
Some people have a natural ability to repair teeth - I'm one of them. I've never had a dentist find a cavity in my mouth, though I've had perhaps a half-dozen cavities over the years. (I'm in my 50s.) When that happens,
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by dublin 7y ago
I bought a Surface Pro 3 when it came out in 2014 (subsequently upgraded to newer versions several times), and I can honestly say that there is no other piece of technology I've ever encountered (including smartphones) that has more
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by dublin 7y ago
Austin's city government is famously unresponsive to its citizens, viz the city's "CodeNext" building code reforms that are roundly hated by hippies, environmentalists, businesspeople, homeowners, and liberals and conser
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by dublin 7y ago
Gab's rework of Mastodon is starting to look like this.
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by dublin 7y ago
And this is exactly why SSL everywhere is a really, really, bad idea. (Plus the problems of IoT server certs, mentioned above...)
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by dublin 7y ago
NO! Two big reasons, among many others: 1) These are unnecessary third-party entanglements, allowing anyone to be slienced within a year simply by refusing to renew their certificates. 2) It's the 21st century, very soon, most serve
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by dublin 7y ago
Yeah, you can use Zapier for that, but you haven't mentioned anything that couldn't be done just as easily with curl and a shell script... I don't have anything against Zapier, in fact I have a good friend (a dietician) wh
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by dublin 7y ago
Nothing like waking up in the morning to find it's still 85, and only gong to get 20-25 degrees warmer as the day goes on. Welcome to Texas. (And yeah, I get that you probably use those insanely crude metric degrees that are too coar
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by dublin 7y ago
The old GTE payphones up in Georgetown, Tx (suburb of Austin, now) when I was a kid would let you dial with the switchhook - no coins required. Agreed, zeroes were a pain, but this was partially compensated for by the fact that 5-digit dia
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by dublin 7y ago
It can work quite well, especially when combined with other tools that leverage the same kind of model, such as, say, Carlo Strozzi's NoSQL (his use of the term predates and is totally different from what we think of today as NoSQL), o
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by dublin 7y ago
You're doing something wrong. I've used awk to run big data reformatting jobs in under an hour that took most of a day to run in Scala on an Apache Spark cluster. In the vast majority of cases today, if speed is your problem, th
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by dublin 7y ago
Awk is the ideal AWS Lambda language, and should be supported as a first-class citizen there. Add the ability to tag such a function from a URL (w/o the API gateway cruft), and AWK and netcat could replace tons of troublesome and expe
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by dublin 7y ago
Howard Hughes Sr's tricone rock bit truly revolutionized the world, and made the oil and gas industry possible. It's success was staggering: only a few years after he dropped dead of a heart attack, his son Howard, Jr (the one yo
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by dublin 7y ago
^^THIS^^ is one of the best answers here. There's no doubt the ancient Greeks could have built a phonograph - the Anitkythera mechanism is proof.
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Metric time and dates notably fail to work with the observed motion of the Solar system. The time metrics we use are determined by the rhythms of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. Metric time offers no benefit. (And for the record, Napoleon trie
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by dublin 7y ago
Interestingly, the Romans might have entered the steam age if their empire had lasted just another few decades - there's a lot of evidence they were on the verge of an industrial revolution - look at their early water-powered textile a
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The Pentel P225 is the best mechanical pencil ever. There can be no argument.
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by dublin 7y ago
This one just requires a lump of germanium and a pin or small wire.
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by dublin 7y ago
I'd argue firearms are the most important mechanical devices, as they and their production led directly to interchangeable parts, mass production, and precision tooling of all kinds. The modern world is literally impossible without fi
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by dublin 7y ago
Fountain pens are the ultimate in no-waste - Clean them, refill them and keep using them. I have a handful, the oldest is 73 years old, but I have several that are around 50 years old. Cleaning, refilling with ink, and very rarely, a new
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by dublin 7y ago
I have several fountain pens, and vastly prefer them to anything else for note-taking (even the pen for One?Note on my Surface Pro!) My favorite was made in 1947, and still works as well today as it did then. With care, it'll still w
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Why, when watching any of the pompous Asgardia videos, am I unable to think of anything other than this? (Rufus T. Firefly of Freedonia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk
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The simple fact is that the vast majority of the people writing programs aren't very good programmers, even if they've been trained to be. We need more languages like Tcl and Lua that are quick and easy for beginners to pick up a
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I haven't looked in ages - is AOLserver still the best Tcl web-app platform? Tcl is an amazingly direct programming language, which makes things easy to do, and with the significant advantage of crystal-clear readability, and less err

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