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by floren 4y ago
I always thought KDE of that vintage was extremely attractive and pretty damn usable... Shame it got too "shiny" after KDE 1.
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by floren 4y ago
Good news, a lot of the screenshots are just pulled from http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html , which works perfectly well without JS.
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by floren 4y ago
I designed a small circuit back in January. I ended up going with a PIC microcontroller because it was the only thing I could find that supported USB and was in-stock. I ordered enough parts to build four, from Digikey. Now, 6 months later,
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by floren 4y ago
I see a surprising number of people wandering around downtown or through a department store with their phone held out in front of them for a video call. Not even "I'm showing you the options for that thing you wanted", just &
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by floren 4y ago
I wish there was more opportunity for adults to play amateur baseball. Lots of softball around, but the feel of catching and hitting and throwing a baseball is just so much more satisfying. I'll try and catch a game of BAVBB some time,
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by floren 4y ago
Slavery was not legal anywhere in the US in 1886.
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by floren 4y ago
> The cars are rundown and often smelly. I don't take Uber/Lyft often but yes, it seems like at least 25% of the time it's obvious that the driver smokes in the car when not driving customers. I've also been in a lot
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by floren 4y ago
Cruising. See American Graffiti
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by floren 4y ago
It's things like this that always made me look a bit askance at Smalltalk. It feels a little like "Document_Final_FINAL_v3_(2).docx", a little like a dirty old whiteboard where you can still see outlines of notes from last ye
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by floren 4y ago
> Only annoying bit is how often you have to reshuffle, which isn't a problem if you play some of the excellent apps available. If you spend an hour learning how to shuffle properly, the reshuffling becomes just another enjoyable pa
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by floren 4y ago
There's no board, but I find that Bananagrams has the fun parts of Scrabble with a faster pace (no waiting for your little brother to figure out his optimal word). Stretching even further, I love cribbage (hey, there's a board inv
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by floren 4y ago
But 99.99% of people could stream Twitch 10 hours a day, put out half a dozen Youtube videos a week, chase every TikTok trend, and never make a dime. And at the end of it all? They wasted so much of their time doing things to chase the mone
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by floren 4y ago
I prefer "mexican blend" (cheddar, monterey jack, asadero, queso quesadilla) cheddar for garnishing Mexican-type foods. Pure cheddar is great stuff, but I'd prefer store-brand Mexican blend over grated Tillamook Sharp if I&#x
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by floren 4y ago
> Have you ever tried putting half of an onion in the fridge? I wrap it in aluminum foil and never have a problem. Bonus: touching the foil neutralizes the smell of onion on my hands.
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by floren 4y ago
> Overall, it gives the impression that this person actively searched for something to feel insecure about and then wrote a looong article about it. Hello and welcome to modern long-form thinkpieces. The Walrus kinda seems like it wants
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by floren 4y ago
Hey, I'm making the world a better place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols!
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by floren 4y ago
The behavior of the commenters is pretty abhorrent. It feels awful to make something you're excited about, put it out there, and get shit on by the people you thought you were making it for! Now, there is something about the animat
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by floren 4y ago
> A survey of first-time hires by ZipRecruiter found that a diverse and inclusive workplace outranked paid sick time, vacation and health insurance. Good news for cynical employers looking to save a buck?
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by floren 4y ago
the year is 2122 and all the "good" (short, memorable) DNS names are owned by ghosts. in the grim dark future, there is only joe_smith_from_minneapolis_born_2055.com
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by floren 4y ago
Correct. I run mpd on my desktop machine, then connect to it from a client either running on my desktop ( https://github.com/floren/Ampd ) or on my phone or my laptop. However, regardless of where my client is executing,
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by floren 4y ago
mpd plays music through the audio device of the system running mpd, though, right? It doesn't stream, unless there's some configuration I missed... I've been using it locally for years and it's fine at that use-case.
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by floren 4y ago
I'm puzzled by the devterm, because it seems like if they had just made it the same size as a TRS-80 Model 100 , it would have been perfect! Those were certainly portable too! Maybe they couldn't find a big enough screen?
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by floren 4y ago
> If I want to take photos I use Pentax ME Super A man of culture!
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by floren 4y ago
Mine too! They were set upright (like they are on a vehicle) and partly buried in the ground. Kids would crawl in them and just hang out in the cool shade inside. There were 3 tires, one was definitely "the best", and you had to b
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by floren 4y ago
Plan 9 does that, I'm not sure why it never made it into Unix because I always loved it. Your networking-related commands were in `/bin/ip` and you'd run e.g. `ip/ping 1.1.1.1`. If you created the dir `$home/bi
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by floren 4y ago
I could run my 38 year old Macintosh off solar panels if I wanted to. In contrast, I'm not aware of any currently-produced computers made from completely-recycled materials, so any new hardware you buy will have components made of mate
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by floren 4y ago
I visited IBM Austin a few times circa 2009-2011 to collaborate with an IBM employee on a project. Huge campus, absolutely completely dead at all times. I would come in through the main entrance, go past the security guard, and see nobody a
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by floren 4y ago
Dr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there... Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.
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by floren 4y ago
> the CDC estimates that 1 in 5 will result in long COVID. This scolding "I'm not sure exactly how, yet, but you'll be sorry!" any time anyone admits that they're no longer hiding inside & wiping down every b
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by floren 4y ago
Expedia is really bad about calling all their promotions "transactional emails". You see, once upon a time in the distant past, I used Expedia, so based on that transaction surely I care deeply about how "A more rewarding t

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