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Concentration and practice. If you are moving, concentrate on the moving. When you were younger, movement was natural and in the background. Older, you need to focus...
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Anything I can offer will be anecdotal. I have been placed somewhere on the autistic spectrum so perhaps that is a factor. People who constantly think and wrestle with things are driven to do so. Those who don't, aren't. I know of
333.
by every 6y ago
I was in college when unix was invented...
334.
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Old person here (+7 decades). Not much you can do about physical deterioration. The only thing I've found you can easily carry into old age is (assuming no senility or debilitating disease) coordination. One can be weak and frail yet s
335.
by every 6y ago
You can get a lot of mileage out of aliases, especially compound ones. But eventually you may run up against something they don't handle very well. For that a simple shell script might be the next logical step. And fortunately, they ar
336.
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There are over 3000 counties or equivalents in the US and each one has their own particular take on the mail-in process. This isn't where I would start if I wanted to influence the tallies beyond a strictly local level...
337.
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As a child I got to play around with a war surplus shortwave in the 50's and 60's. The English language Radio Moscow signal was very strong, even in Texas. The stories, vignettes and takes on the news were an interesting and somet
338.
by every 6y ago
The nethack equivalent: https://nhqdb.alt.org/?latest
339.
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A small sample of retirement. The seasons become your timepiece...
340.
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Facts can be inconvenient and falsehoods comforting. We are dealing with people after all...
341.
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Gopher was a menu-driven interface via ftp to search, find and download files for academics who weren't particularly computer savey. It also gave them a platform to publish their own research for others and have it indexed and searchab
342.
by every 6y ago
Gopher was designed for and by academia. It is simply a research tool. It is a way to post, find and retrieve textual data on a topic. It still does exactly what it was designed to do. That what it was designed to do is no longer relevant,
343.
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Perhaps. Gopher is simply a single, world-wide, hierarchical, indexed and searchable directory tree. Its sole means of transport is ftp. It can move all manner of formats about but only display ASCII text. The only thing resembling hyperlin
344.
by every 6y ago
I still maintain a gopher presence[1] as a mirror. Once it was determined that gopher could neither be monetized nor weaponized, it was doomed to obscurity. It is an open academic tool for open academic purposes. As an aside, I actually saw
345.
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Ah, for the want of a comma...
346.
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For me, AWK is mostly for one-liners, at which it excels...
347.
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There's science and there's politics. Guess which one usually prevails in the short-term...
348.
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Assuming GnuCash can do some sort of plain text record dump, I would probably try to cobble something together to convert that to an acceptable ledger format. Maybe with AWK or something similar...
349.
by every 6y ago
I've been playing around with ledger[1] recently. On one level, it is the simplest of tools requiring only a command line and a text editor. But once you wade into the documentation[2] you will begin to see it quite differently. Its ca
350.
by every 6y ago
I can anecdotally confirm that the Walmart Grocery website has improved steadily over the last few years. They got hammered with disrupted supply chains, the collapse of just-in-time inventories, staffing shortages and irrational consumer b
351.
by every 6y ago
This may be what you are looking for. An ARPA membership with a small annual fee... https://sdf.org/?faq?VHOST?01
352.
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Mine[1] is rather tiny and simple. It is actually generated by the tree command in about a second. It's a port from the gopher protocol and is hosted by the venerable sdf.org[2]. I decided to pay an exorbitant $60 a year for an enhance
353.
by every 6y ago
The World Book Encyclopedia, complete with a two volume dictionary and an annual supplemental volume. I spent much of my childhood and adolescence buried in the many thousands of glossy, fine print pages. And the most awaited day of my summ
354.
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Apparently some here are unfamiliar with this holiday tradition: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89283/stories-behind-12-...
355.
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Definitely a Brave New World. I guess we won't be getting our His and Hers gold plated, nuclear powered mini-subs this Christmas after all...
356.
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I once worked for a chain of nightclubs. We used a poor man's form of demographic analysis. We looked to see where the major franchise food operations were building and would shop for a property there. People eat and people drink...
357.
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I worked bar and restaurant for 25 years. I would never, ever open or own a restaurant voluntarily. The margins are minuscule and require huge up-front costs with micro-managed inventory, labor and quality control to break even. Bars howeve
358.
by every 6y ago
Faint memories of MUMPS...
359.
by every 6y ago
You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/
360.
by every 7y ago
This was on metafilter.com a few days ago and I felt compelled to create one: https://colornames.org/color/13916e

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