fd111

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by fd111 8mo ago
HP-42S; cold dead hands; etc. Why? Satisfyingly-clicky real buttons in memorizable positions Easy to grab without thinking I have a functionally identical emulator on my phone, which is far better than the built-in calcualtor, but it's
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by fd111 2y ago
Download this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/hist01... Outlays jumped over $2T in 2020 (3rd column, 127th row). We all know why. Outlays have not come down to anything close to pr
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by fd111 4y ago
As exhibited in?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) ;-)
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by fd111 4y ago
A couple of times in my career, I've had the extreme pleasure of working as a dedicated support/backstop engineer within a small-ish (~20 person) development group buried deep inside a giant multinational corp. (I'm one of
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by fd111 4y ago
A small assortment of HP RPN calculators. Cold, dead hands, etc.
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by fd111 4y ago
Everyone has different obsessions. Within one's obsession, design/variety/change represents progress. It's great! Outside of one's obsession, design/variety/change is maddeningly useless churn. It's a
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by fd111 4y ago
> a lot of devs just never found out they'd written buggy code and couldn't do anything even if they did. This is undoubtedly true. No doubt there are countless quietly-malfunctioning embedded systems all around the world. The
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by fd111 4y ago
It was great. Full stop. A sense of mastery and adventure permeated everything I did. Over the decades those feelings slowly faded, never to be recaptured. Now I understand nothing about anything. :-) Starting in 1986 I worked on bespoke
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by fd111 4y ago
Thank you. When you make keyboard software with nine different toggle settings, most/all of which are unknown to 90% of users until they read a HN comment buried 43 pages down, you've lost the plot. :-) Didn't Apple used to p
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by fd111 4y ago
Seconded. I bought the First Person DVD set many years ago just to get this episode, which I first saw on (IIRC) IFC. I rewatch Denny's episode every year or two. Chills every time.
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by fd111 4y ago
For many decades I've kept an HP calculator on my desk within easy reach. I use it regularly for one thing or another. (day job: programmer) Due to force of habit, my physical calculator is easier and faster to use than on-screen calc
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by fd111 4y ago
The worst offender in recent memory was Walt Disney World. Starting about nine months after a physical trip to WDW, my Disney hotel reservation email address received spam from the following Disney-related enterprises before I finally blac
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by fd111 7y ago
I had a tilt-mech-ish problem with my Aeron when it was just past its ninth birthday. I don't know about warranty policies on current sales, but my Aeron came with a 10 year warranty. My local H-M dealer dispatched a service tech to