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121.
by every 4y ago
Texas has long had something like this but its main purpose has been to protect the establishment from any liability. All servers have to be certified. If something goes wrong they are the liable party not the business. CYA...
122.
by every 4y ago
I simply use the ansiweather app [0] through an alias in the terminal... [0]: https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
123.
by every 4y ago
We are in the process of doing something similar. My wife watches a lot of Netflix so we will be keeping that (for now). But between us there is only a single product on Google TV we watch regularly and it is going from 5 days a week to 1.
124.
by every 4y ago
It's apparently volunteers and donated hardware so things tend to fall between the cracks...
125.
by every 4y ago
On and off, I've spent several decades on the Super Dimensional Fortress [0] and have never encountered anything remotely like it... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System
126.
by every 4y ago
I have the ability to pop into w3m from lynx[0] to view tables when necessary. I also have the option to call the x-www-browser script from lynx for the full graphical/js/css treatment, such as posting this comment from my account
127.
by every 5y ago
https://every.sdf.org/
128.
by every 5y ago
I had a chess phase. I used to play a guy with some national ranking. He wiped the floor with me. He told me my game pretty much sucked but he enjoyed playing me because I was always seeing and doing things that would have never occurred to
129.
by every 5y ago
"I hate the living..." -- Dr. Weaver
130.
by every 5y ago
Doesn't look good on actual plain text browsers such as lynx or links2, but still works, sorta...
131.
by every 5y ago
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury Murder in the Cathedral - T. S. Eliot Our Town - Thornton Wilder
132.
by every 5y ago
The first 128 characters of Unicode (UTF-8) correspond one-to-one with US-ASCII...
133.
by every 5y ago
This is not about alphabets or character sets. It is about the first standardized computer-to-computer textual protocol. And that is US-ASCII. That it is all skewed to US characters is a derivative of where it was initially developed. But n
134.
by every 5y ago
US-ASCII predates the internet, UNIX, WWW and almost anything else you currently use. While seminal, it was certainly not prescient. Now it is little more than a fun artifact to play around with: https://every.sdf.org/
135.
by every 5y ago
128 character US-ASCII is indeed fundamental. It is an almost verbatim translation from the teletypewriter command set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
136.
by every 5y ago
Unfortunately the PYREX prices are ridiculous. It's just lab glass...
137.
by every 5y ago
That would be the original borosilicate Pyrex which is no longer made. Fortunately, I inherited a ton of it from my parents...
138.
by every 5y ago
I'm old by any measure and yes, there were plenty of things that could have gone better and a few that are still cringe-worthy even after seven decades. But I'm not that person any more. I have experiences and insights that "
139.
by every 5y ago
It's a very simple formula. You do a stupid, egregious and immoral thing and we shut down your entire economy. Any questions?
140.
by every 5y ago
I'm a bit of a fan: https://every.sdf.org/
141.
by every 5y ago
Well, there go my borscht futures...
142.
by every 5y ago
Ukraine was supposed to be low-hanging fruit. Should it turn into a prolonged and costly slog I don't think we will have to worry about Russia taking on the likes of NATO any time soon. Not only are the arms and munitions flowing in to
143.
by every 5y ago
Been there, done that...
144.
by every 5y ago
No, it was more in terms of techniques, motifs and styles of working the medium. Possible cultural contacts, mostly via trade, were a consideration. There were similarities between the two but so was the case with the Incas who obviously ha
145.
by every 5y ago
For what it's worth, I spent an entire semester researching possible gold links between Schliemann's Troy and the Royal Graves at Ur. My eyes glazed over while reading and I was unable to finish the piece...
146.
by every 5y ago
NOAA offers text only forecasts. Here's my current one: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.7089&lon=-9...
147.
by every 5y ago
My goto source is the text version of NPR, much of which is directly from the AP: https://text.npr.org/
148.
by every 5y ago
Given the antiquity of dc, ed would probably be a better match. And nobody willingly uses ed anymore...
149.
by every 5y ago
I use dc almost every day. I even do my taxes with it. I will forever be in her (and others) debt...
150.
by every 5y ago
Cutting off your nose to spite your face...

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