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Why Not Comments(buttondown.com)
261 points by ghewgill 2y ago|277 comments
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by ghewgill 2y ago
> I've been running IRC markov chain bots for ~20 years. You are my hero. Mine have never lasted that long. One fun thing I did once was scrape user's livejournals and generate random text from them ( https://hewgill.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
I still don't understand what that means. I've never sat down to watch a soap opera, so I have no idea what they look like.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
Closer to mid-80s then. I started using Modula-2 in earnest around 1986 give or take a year.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
Back in the late 80s, the first "real" compiler I had was Logitech Modula-2 (yes, they used to sell stuff other than mice). Even then, Turbo Pascal 3 felt like a toy. Modula-2 was the real thing. And it was slow! Granted that was
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Browse archived web pages with old browsers(oldweb.today)
1 points by ghewgill 3y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 3y ago
Then what are the ads for? How do they benefit users?
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by ghewgill 3y ago
On the other end of the scale, the code base I worked on today has seen at least 7 separate leap days in production. Last week a manager asked if we expected any issues with the leap day, and we all just kind of laughed (and politely said n
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by ghewgill 3y ago
Nice implementation! I did one of these many years ago here: https://hewgill.com/othello/ The playing engine is based on a tiny C engine which I de-obfuscated and translated to Javascript.
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by ghewgill 3y ago
There are various similar communities, which don't have to compete with one another because the internet is a big place. Two that jump to mind are https://tildeverse.org and https://disroot.org .
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by ghewgill 3y ago
At least two of them are marked as "DISPUTED", so presumably yes, Tesla does respond to them.
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by ghewgill 3y ago
I've done that! It was on what I think was my first commercial flight, a 767 from probably YVR to LAX sometime in the early 80s. My grandfather was the king of getting kids into fun places, he would go talk up the crew (of the plane, f
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by ghewgill 3y ago
They were vector displays. But possibly not quite in the way you're thinking. The original radar displays would scan from the center outward along a radial. The timing of the scan was predefined to scale for distance. The beam intensit
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by ghewgill 3y ago
What he has done is awesome. Yes, I misunderstood the title at first too, but that was more than made up by the care and attention put into building this app. Building things for your own kids just for the fun of it is what parents do. Stop
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by ghewgill 3y ago
It's worth remembering that accounting was developed before negative numbers.
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by ghewgill 3y ago
Are you perhaps thinking of https://geminiprotocol.net ?
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by ghewgill 3y ago
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got annoyed by "man ascii" on some Linux system showing me a dash instead of an apostrophe for character 39. Of course it wasn't actually a dash, but it was an apostrophe converted som
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by ghewgill 3y ago
Apple II emulators are so much fun. I've written or significantly worked on at least four that I can think of (one of them in Python is at https://github.com/jtauber/applepy ). They're great because the 6502 i
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by ghewgill 3y ago
And further to the above, what to you sign in to Tailscale with? (Yes this applies only to a subset of people who care about Tailscale.) They don't want to be an identity provider so they don't offer an email account type. You can
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The Day Elon Musk Decided to Rip Servers Out of a Data Center(techdirt.com)
32 points by ghewgill 3y ago|23 comments
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by ghewgill 4y ago
It's a thing. You can check your score for free at https://www.creditsimple.co.nz/
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Comment or no comment: When to comment that code(drewdevault.com)
1 points by ghewgill 4y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 4y ago
The roads in the red zone are no longer maintained. It's surprising how quickly road condition deteriorates.
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by ghewgill 4y ago
For old school fans, the HP-16C [1] calculator provided these kinds of functions in a handheld calculator, in 1982. This was the only "programmer" calculator that HP has ever made. There is a simulator (for Windows) available [2].
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by ghewgill 4y ago
Yes, this. I actually discovered ncdu through first seeing it in rclone. I thought "that is awesome, why isn't this tool a thing?" And it was. I type `du -sk *|sort -n` a lot less frequently now.
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by ghewgill 4y ago
That's fine, ActivityPub[0] has nothing to do with the "Web3". [0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
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by ghewgill 4y ago
Have a look at https://teuxdeux.com . It's similarly laconic as Tweek, and the default view is "now and the next few days".
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by ghewgill 4y ago
If you have an Enter button on the screen, then you are in RPN mode [1]. See the View menu to turn off RPN mode. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
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by ghewgill 4y ago
My dad was a math professor (he was really a computer nerd, but there was no "computer nerd" course of study back then). Down the hall from his office there was a room with a variety of toys in it, including an IBM 029 [1] which w
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by ghewgill 4y ago
Great execution, I like the "always-on" dictionary definition panel. I built an offline mobile dictionary app about 10 years ago for a language where there was no existing app - New Zealand Sign Language. Fortunately, the dictiona

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