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by dugmartin 2y ago
You would be surprised. When my brother was a movie theater manager he got invites to a lot of pre-screenings of movies. I was able to go with him a few times and I'll never forget seeing my first movie print before it went through c
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Apartment building on Pine Grove in Lakeview for me and then a beautiful old two flat in Ravenswood. My rent in Pine Grove in 1999 was $400 I think for a two room apartment.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
That is the first mention of a Challenger 1 I’ve seen in quite a long time. My parents bought my older brother a Challenger 1p around 1978 and I learned to program on it. That thing was literally a tank. My brother had soldered on a joys
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The Hamachi UI and UX were great. I was very sad when it got bloated and then killed like a beached whale. I just looked and I guess it lives on as a whalezombie at https://vpn.net/ .
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by dugmartin 2y ago
You can use the Roo Code extension and point it most any api, including Anthropic: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RooVeter...
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I have no association with the author but this site has been a good search result source for me over the last few years when I've had questions: https://www.accountingcoach.com/
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I'm guessing it is because the developer at Netscape that added frame support thought about it for 5 seconds and came up with the name. Maybe if Lou Montulli sees this he would know?
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by dugmartin 2y ago
We are going through this now with our youngest. All the private schools are $85k+/year but every one of them has offered a merit scholarship that brings the price down to around $5k above the public schools. Such a great deal.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Yes, I (a student at the time at a midwest USA university) remember being on a BITNET relay chat in the fall of 1989 chatting with a German university student while the Berlin Wall was falling down. To me that was magical - it was like h
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by dugmartin 2y ago
You can play with an educational flooding simulation a great developer (not me) at my company built as part of a research project: https://flood.concord.org/ NOTE: you need to change the model values in the bottom toolbar t
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by dugmartin 2y ago
You can also use this to lookup a code: https://www.census.gov/naics for instance: - https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=computer&year=2022
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by dugmartin 2y ago
My CS 101 class in 1989 was all in Pascal and had to be entered via a IBM terminal and ran as a batch job on our school mainframe. There was no interactive feedback and you had to hike across campus to a basement of a building that had an
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by dugmartin 2y ago
This plus immutable data is what makes doing web apps in Elixir using Phoenix so nice. There is a (demi-)god "%Conn" structure passed as the first parameter that middleware and controller actions can update (by returning a new st
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I think I paid $299 (one time fee) for a license for PKZIP in 1993 for a product I was building. Open source is pretty amazing.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The US SBA (Small Business Administration) has a table of industries with their definition of small using either dollar amount of receipts or number of employees: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2023-0
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by dugmartin 2y ago
If you want to try out a more topical model try this: https://wildfire.concord.org/
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It sounds like you missed the fun that was stack ranking in the ‘90s. Combine that with “360 reviews” like we had at GE where team members rank each other and the only sensible thing was to “defect” and rank everyone low in the hopes someo
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It was done in other cities. Boston flooded a bunch of towns 60 miles to the west to build a water supply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quabbin_Reservoir New York City built three long aqueducts to bring in water: h
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The icing on the cake is that you can also enable Phoenix channels to fallback to longpolling in your endpoint config. The generator sets it to false by default.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I think I’ve posted this here before but the best short explanation of recursion I’ve ever heard was from my programming languages professor 35 years ago when we were testing out algorithms in a toy Lisp we had to write at the start of the
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by dugmartin 2y ago
QModem got passed around to the CS freshman by an older student when I started college in ‘89. It was my gateway to the local BBS scene where I made a lot of friendships, both online and at monthly “swap, meet the sysops” meetings we had a
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Some say the craft beer revolution was sparked by him signing the repeal of the outlawing of home brewing. https://beerinfo.com/homebrewing-law-signed-by-jimmy-carter-...
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Wikipedia’s random link is great for learning something new. It is described here as I can’t copy the real link on my phone without it resolving to a new page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It’s Chrome only but the file system access api lets you do this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file...
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by dugmartin 2y ago
It doesn’t mention the big drawback of SSE as spelled out in the MDN docs: “Warning: When not used over HTTP/2, SSE suffers from a limitation to the maximum number of open connections, which can be especially painful when opening multi
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I think partially it was because it was so cheap. In the late 90s I had an apartment a block from the lake in the Lakeview neighborhood in the Chicago north side and it cost $400 a month. Before that I lived out in the Chicago suburbs and
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by dugmartin 2y ago
Just curious what you used to generate the video? I like the per pill progress bars.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
As a former Chicagoan I'd have to agree. I always thought Malort was just a running gag to play on visitors.
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by dugmartin 2y ago
The same thing happened to my mom in her 50s after 6 hour quadruple bypass surgery. They basically kept her awake for two days doing tests every hour after her surgery. She eventually started hallucinating from lack of sleep. It just seem
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by dugmartin 2y ago
I can't say for all states but here in Massachusetts we have an annual tax free weekend where sales tax (6.25%) is not applied for "most retail items of up to $2,500, purchased in Massachusetts for personal use" ( https:&#x2F

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