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by forinti 8mo ago
How can you be so confrontational and still want people to give you business and data? I really don't envy the diplomats' job at the moment.
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by forinti 8mo ago
Very interesting documentary. It really highlights the clash of cultures.
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by forinti 8mo ago
RAM was very expensive then and 16 bit CPUs weren't that much faster to justify the cost if you were aiming for the home market. Then again, what was this machine's target market?
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by forinti 8mo ago
> On another occasion much later, I learned by chance that putting certain provocative information on a security clearance form can greatly speed up the clearance process. But that is another story. I have to know this now...
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by forinti 8mo ago
Many moons ago I bought a TP-Link Neffos precisely because you could swap out the battery. The problem is that TP-Link never sold replacement batteries in my country. When I tried buying a couple from China, I got used ones that barely last
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by forinti 8mo ago
Linkedin says she obtained a Master's between 2020 and 2022 at Santa Clara University.
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A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data(github.com)
266 points by forinti 8mo ago|48 comments
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by forinti 8mo ago
It's definitely missing a website hits counter.
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by forinti 8mo ago
For all the technology we develop, we rarely invest in processes. Once in a blue moon some country decides to revamp its bureaucracy, when it should really be a continuous effort (in the private sector too). OTOH, what happens continuously
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by forinti 8mo ago
Magazine and game covers had such cool art then. It's still a joy to look at them after so many years. RIP Mr Tinney.
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by forinti 8mo ago
I know that all investments have risk, but this is one risky gamble. US$700 billion could build a lot of infrastructure, housing, or manufacturing capacity.
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by forinti 8mo ago
In the 1980's TV ads in Uruguay were really simple. Some were just a static bi-colour image of a shoe or a coat, some text, and a voice would say "buy shoes at such shop at such address". I guess that was at the same time the
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by forinti 8mo ago
I have a P166 under my desk and once in a blue moon I try to run something on it. My biggest obstacles are that it doesn't have an ethernet port and that it doesn't have BIOS USB support (although it does have a card with two USB
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by forinti 9mo ago
EVs have breaks, suspensions, and tires like all cars. A responsible owner should have his car checked out once a year.
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by forinti 9mo ago
That's just magical thinking. And Ethiopia couldn't get US$5 billion loan for a dam to service 60 million people. The world is sick.
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by forinti 9mo ago
Just last week I was tasked with configuring an automated happy birthday email. It feels worse to know that it's just an automatic message and that the person who supposedly signed it doesn't even know who you are. Work is just wo
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by forinti 9mo ago
This wouldn't be legal in my country unless all the apartments had one owner, because the telcos have a monopoly on communications. The law says one person can't stretch a cable over to his neighbour, because they would need a lic
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by forinti 9mo ago
It's funny how close an early PC was to the 8-bit machines: you had BASIC in ROM and a cassette interface. You could even use a TV!
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by forinti 9mo ago
Cool. I remember getting one such disc in a music magazine in the 80s. It occured to me then that you could maybe put software on it, but I never saw this implemented.
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by forinti 9mo ago
At this point, if I magically became filthy rich, I would invest in tools that facilitate migrating from Oracle to Postgresql, including Apex.
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by forinti 9mo ago
In college we had a network of Sun workstations and some of the machines had only 8MB of RAM, IIRC. This was in the 90s. Then again, the X desktop was really minimal and I would use them mostly to code in C using a terminal.
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by forinti 9mo ago
My logs tell me that Google ignores my robots.txt.
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by forinti 9mo ago
> While in our interpretation the RFCs do not require CNAMEs to appear in any particular order, it’s clear that at least some widely-deployed DNS clients rely on it. As some systems using these clients might be updated infrequently, or n
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by forinti 9mo ago
I think many devs learn the trade with Windows and don't get exposure to these tools. Plus, they require a bit of reading because they operate on a higher level of abstraction than loops and ifs. You get implicit loops, your fields get
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by forinti 9mo ago
ES and Postgresql integrate nicely with FDW, so you can have the best of both worlds.
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by forinti 9mo ago
Uruguay is on the list. I remember when Uruguayans didn't even need a visa to visit the US.
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by forinti 9mo ago
It's not that surprising that a company that sells these awful gadgets to people who don't really care about their own health would behave in such a manner.
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by forinti 9mo ago
What really makes me mad is how bumpers were made to protect the car and now they are these expressions of design that you have to protect at all costs from scratches even.
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by forinti 9mo ago
These F-91W projects inspired me to buy one, but I found it to be so small (and I don't have a particulary big wrist). So I gave it to my 12 year old and bought a W-217H, which is almost identical but larger.
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by forinti 9mo ago
I don't think the US has any interest in a democratic and stable middle east. It's much easier and cheaper to extract resources from a balkanized region.

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