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>i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, Some users were exposed to the early versions of Windows 1.0 and 2.0 because they were "bundled as runtimes" for some applications. Aldus Pagemaker was an example: https:&#x2
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>default color scheme It wasn't so much a "default" but rather the only colors because graphics hardware of that time period was 4-bit which is limited to 16 colors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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>Does git win because of the decentralized, everyone-has-a-local-repo aspect? Or the staging area, which I understand other VCSes don't have? Or just speed or reliability? Or just being in the right place at the right time? Your q
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>But I'm still not convinced that it would result in more jobs. If you saved money by automating away labor, why spend the savings on labor? The proponents argue the savings would be spent on laborers doing other (possibly new) j
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>It’s not meant to be insulting, it’s a joke in good spirit Oh ok. It's hard to tell you're joking because you've made condescending comments about generalized groups of people in the past. But I've never downvote
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>Then a third group are people who build a whole data centre at home AND run serious applications on it. These guys need to buy themselves a motorbike or something. I don't think the insult to a generalized group of people is nece
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>The invalid certificate [...] is illustrative of the Haskell programmer's inability Why would one assume the invalid certificate is caused by that particular professor instead of the IT department's staff at the University
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>We didn't "Surf the Internet", we surfed the Information Superhighway. The meme "surf the internet" gained wide currency pretty much immediately. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c
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>But why did forums die? Was it bad UX? [...] , and what we've learned not to do from the last 20 years of forums and social networks. I'm old enough to have experienced various UI paradigms of computer communications over th
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>So you set up an email account specifically for those, Sorry I wasn't clear. I wasn't looking for a "solution". I was trying to explain how one can be blind to future failure scenarios (e.g. 2FA behavior is just
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>The main thing I'm hoping to recover is the webmail (I think) service most of my family used. That went down in September, and we've lost access to a number of other accounts because of that. At first, I self-hosted email o
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>There is no such thing “truly serverless”. Your code will be executed by a server. Period. >Your application will run on one or multiple CPUs, will use the memory, the disk, the network. But the term "serverless" has n
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>It's not clear to me what the benefit of this over just running Linux is though. The benefit is running Windows itself because the user also wants to use other software that runs better on Windows . E.g. DHH mentions one exampl
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>The fact that AWS does not consider the ID a secret means that your company never should either. You and gp are talking past each other. Your focus is on Account ID being public should not be a security vulnerability . Instead, the g
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> iPhones haven been completely waterproof for generations now. Maybe so but when I went into Apple store to get a free battery replacement under warranty because they had a recall, the Apple employees specifically check for water expo
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>, Spotify you have been as streaming service and an MP3 shop where you actually pay the music like 0.5€ Assuming you meant to write, "Spotify could have been as streaming service _and_ an MP3 shop" ... No, Spotify didn&#x
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Fyi... The Youtube upload date is Dec 2011 but it was actually recorded circa July 2007 and originally posted on Microsoft's Channel9. A previous discussion from 2007: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2356
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>Please, Linux. If you skim through the comments on the github ticket about Zed being ported to Linux, the TLDR is... they're currently working on it. : https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues&#x2
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>That said, you should really use UTC. No, that "store UTC everywhere" is often repeated but it's incorrect advice when applied to future human-constructed datetimes such as appointments or social events. Future &quot
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> Guess I need to migrate my entire blog to Substack so that I can have a concept of "subscribers" and the necessary analytics to give me a dopamine rush any time the number gets bigger. I get what your sarcasm is about but a
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Not an article but this oft-linked HN comment from Slava Akhmechet is very accurate about how subordinates' motives can sabotage your intended goals and objectives : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253
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by jasode 3y ago
>I wonder why one needs to use as much as 296 bytes per empty file. File systems like ext4/NTFS/APFS/etc require extra disk space for "housekeeping" of data blocks and allocations and metadata (lastwritetime, p
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>Apps also sold iPhones. [...] And yet they're trying to squeeze app developers for all they're worth. It's because Apple was emboldened by the fact that the original June 2007 iPhone exceeded sales expectations of 10 m
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>My understanding is that the author is saying you could build google docs to go from one state to another by submitting a form and doing server side rendering [...] This is obviously much worse user experience and way less efficient,
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>I'd like to go the other way, and have a filesystem that leverages a proper database for its metadata. Microsoft made an attempt back in 2003 at creating a "smarter" file system with rich metadata based on a real databa
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>I've long wondered why databases need to be on filesystems, other than simply convenience. [...]So it seems like you could improve performance a lot by eliminating the filesystem layer and going straight to direct disk access. Bo
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>; are there any obvious examples of freed cognitive surplus changing the world in the interim? I think Wikipedia is an obvious example. The vast majority of its content and edits comes from enthusiastic amateurs who have other fullti
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>0.3% vs. 3-4% No, the total costs of handling cash currency & coins for large businesses will still add up to 3% or more which is in the range of the fees of credit-cards processing. Costs of accepting cash also includes: - p
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>, but when did it become acceptable to base an argument on slight inconveniences? It's not about avoiding any and all inconveniences. My comment was based on gp's framing of the situation as "being required to do <X
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>I can barely enjoy a full day without being required to bring my phone / debit card with me because the register does not accept cash. But how do you get a regular re-supply of your cash to pay the places that take cash? For me,

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