floren

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by floren 1y ago
> Pre the end of the 20th century most people considered knowledge and skill to be the peak of human progression. Now it is money and image. The 80s would like to have a word
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by floren 2y ago
Lip smacks and audible intakes of breath?
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by floren 2y ago
Hey, my model year 21 German EV is still getting updates... mainly because they keep having recalls which get fixed in software.
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by floren 2y ago
It's been weird going a year or two without really following astralcodexten and suddenly it's pivoted to All AI All The Time.
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by floren 2y ago
If you're ever in Pullman, Washington, stop in at the WSU dairy store and get a few cans of Cougar Gold cheddar. Cheese in a can sounds weird, but it's delicious, made by the students, and it ages really well -- I've got some
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by floren 2y ago
Hot spares and remote hands will get you a lot. And when you get down to it, AWS isn't actually that reliable. I thought EBS volumes had magic redundancy foo but it turns out they can fail and they fail in a less obvious way than a reg
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by floren 2y ago
Basically a common StackOverflow problem: "Well, you asked for X, but I don't know how to do X, so here's how to do Y instead."
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by floren 2y ago
As someone who has dealt with a lot of syslog over the years... There are RFCs which specify the overall structure and the correct timestamp format, but many tools (open and closed source alike) follow the following "standard" ins
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by floren 2y ago
> This just reads as angsty teenage frustration. And it's a hacker news standby. Any discussion of schools will have at least one commenter calling them prisons.
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by floren 2y ago
If everyone is treated poorly by the HOA, you should be able to get them together and dissolve the HOA. Read the documents, there should be a procedure for dissolution.
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by floren 2y ago
Sure, if you're going to deploy it on your company site, but I think if you're running a personal website and want to throttle LLM crawlers without falsely advertising that you're a furry, you could just go and modify this pi
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by floren 2y ago
Just change the pictures in cmd/anubis/static/img/ to whatever you prefer, I think.
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by floren 2y ago
And Keen 4 was more fun.
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by floren 2y ago
It just means that you cry so hard your face is all twisted up and you go red and and your mouth is hanging open and there's snot dripping out of your nose, as opposed to simply shedding a couple tears. It's not really disparaging
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by floren 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNR2iZarhs
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by floren 2y ago
For whatever reason, "Bluey made me ugly cry" is a very minor meme among parents on the Internet. I've seen it elsewhere too.
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by floren 2y ago
As I read through it, it all felt like it was designed to give the kids the feeling that they were doing the same things mom & dad do on their phones.
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by floren 2y ago
Somebody gave us that when our child was born. I donated it somewhere pretty quickly, not interested in reading a smartphone training guide to a 6 month old.
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by floren 2y ago
The Discworld books are great but yeah, they're very much at the level of say a bright 15 year old. I've been reading them since I was that age, and I always find plenty to enjoy, but I think they're really at their best for
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by floren 2y ago
I appreciate the Plan 9 colors in the webmail UI.
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by floren 2y ago
They'll lie to you by saying that back in the 50s when the top tax rates were so high, the rich just "didn't pay". Well, if you look at the revenue vs spending lines, SOMEBODY was paying!
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by floren 2y ago
Conveniently color-coded so you could tell at a glance which were the older crappier ones!
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by floren 2y ago
Well, years kater, K had some more ideas for programming languages... :)
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by floren 2y ago
I think we ought to democratize more professions, like surgeons and dentists and airline pilots.
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by floren 2y ago
Read the title, thought it was a reference to The Prisoner Read the article and realized it wasn't. Thought about it some more and realized it was, just accidentally.
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by floren 2y ago
The various iterations all look quite attractive, and the final one especially looks kind of like if an Apple IIc and a computer from Brazil had a baby -- in a good way! I congratulate the creator on producing so much real hardware and not
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by floren 2y ago
For a while I had one of the chunky old black AT&T desk phones set up in the living room, wired to our ISP-provided VoIP box. One afternoon my 7 year old niece was visiting and we realized she'd never actually interacted with a lan
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by floren 2y ago
> They show up, if you're lucky > do everything exactly to code if you're lucky > as fast as they can if you're lucky
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by floren 2y ago
When the author needed to make a hole for the power cable, he drilled it nicely and fitting a plastic insert. When the builders cut holes for the water hoses, they just spent 10 seconds hogging out a rough rectangle with a Sawz-All and then
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by floren 2y ago
I run a text-only Usenet server. As a sibling commenter says, you work out with your peers what you want to receive. I carry most of the text newsgroups, and according to my daily report I got about 3000 new messages yesterday totaling a bi

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