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by jen729w 3y ago
John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing is an incredible story about buffalo hunters. If half of it is true it’s tragic. The sheer numbers; the depth of destruction for the profit of a hide. It boggles the mind that we did this. https:/&#
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by jen729w 3y ago
Haha sorry typo. Indeed, one whistles and the other beeps.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Back in the mid-90s my dad lost his car keys. Turns out they were in his dressing gown (we’re British) pocket, in the wardrobe. So he bought one of those keyrings where you whistle and it beeps. This was a Saturday and we were visiting my g
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by jen729w 3y ago
Old mobile phones aren’t transmitting priceless scientific data. Long-term updates to old devices are a drain on the people updating them. You start a hardware company and let’s see how long you and your little team of really expensive en
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by jen729w 3y ago
Tiny nitpick: the progress bar on loading is black on a bit less black. It's basically impossible to see, so for a while I thought that nothing was happening.
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by jen729w 3y ago
After seeing Krebs' post the other day, we now have a call scheduled with my partner's parents who still own a Windows laptop. I'm going to tell them that they should no longer use it for any sort of financial work. No banks,
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by jen729w 3y ago
I've been through your journey, and CSS was by far the hardest to wrap my head around. Once JS clicks the journey is smooth, but CSS always feels like it'll be hard. And then one day ... there it is. It all just makes sense. Not a
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by jen729w 3y ago
Well if we’re on the front page of HN discussing sandwiches, bring it on. 1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread. 2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out. 3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana a
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by jen729w 3y ago
And I'll jump in here rather than at the top and say, wow, this thing loads fast. I haven't clicked anything yet but the first load is _startlingly_ quick. What's the trick, and is that intentional?
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by jen729w 3y ago
> 2. Don't kill your social network Where do you think that is these days? Politics aside, X/Twitter just isn’t what it was. Less people, less quality, and I’m reticent to trust a platform that changes on a whim. Which is a tra
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by jen729w 3y ago
A very popular joke in kids' joke books in the 80s. Q: Where does a policeman live? A: 999 Letsby Avenue. 999, of course, being the UK's emergency number.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Do I remember the dotat.at domain for having some funny naming thing way back in the day? Was it the email dot@dotat.at? Yeah that’ll be it. It might have inspired me to register `signaslongasitendswith.com` so that I could tell people that
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by jen729w 3y ago
Agreed. Remember that Azure outage in SE Australia the other week? One of Microsoft’s DCs went down because of a power surge. Flights were cancelled and you couldn’t get cash from an ATM. We’ve all been in a DC. Pods with big red buttons at
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by jen729w 3y ago
If you’re picking stocks by order of the alphabet you deserve what you get. Which, incidentally, was a tremendous return.
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by jen729w 3y ago
The two are entirely unrelated.
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by jen729w 3y ago
I'm updating the workbook this morning and I just typed out this little anecdote. The topic is 'whether to put the JD number in the filename or not'. --- Last year the boss mailed me a five-year-old file. "Is this the la
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by jen729w 3y ago
But don't people at your place just put numbers in front of things anyway? I've seen this literally everywhere I've worked. Not universally, but common enough that it no longer strikes me as unusual. They start at `01` and in
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by jen729w 3y ago
Johnny here. This website has existed in some form or other for over a decade. I've poured thousands of hours of my spare time in to it, and to helping people on the forum or by email. For a decade. The workbook went up literally six
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by jen729w 3y ago
Johnny here. This isn't how I feel. I wonder which part of the website gives you the idea that I believe that it is 'the one' and only system? I mean I could surround every statement on there with "please only do this if
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by jen729w 3y ago
> Search really isn't as bad as the article suggests, especially with something like broot Johnny here. The problem is "especially with something like x " because x never exists in any enterprise. Go ask your BigCorp Sh
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by jen729w 3y ago
Not sure why this is tagged (2015), I redeveloped this site earlier this year. The last-updated date is right there in my sidebar. @dang you might want to remove. No biggie like. Hey all, Johnny here. This pops up here every few months, alw
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by jen729w 3y ago
> other than farming people for money Which is a beautiful way to live life. Until you quit your job and build some indie thing and try to make money and fuck, that’s difficult. And you’re broke. And you worked really hard on this thing.
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by jen729w 3y ago
At this point I don't understand why anybody would even bother trying to visit any of the popular spots. For example we were in Madrid in 2019. The queue to the Prado was round the block. It was hundreds of metres long. I don't ca
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by jen729w 3y ago
I’m only taking my phone, no iPad or laptop, and it’s an iPhone Mini, so it’s not that comfortable to read on. So that’s a statement of intent up front: I will not be ‘reading the internet’ on this holiday. Also we’ll be taking trains throu
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by jen729w 3y ago
If the news presented me the “events with geopolitical consequences” it might be a different story. Let’s visit my reputable local paper’s home page. I live in the capital of Australia so this should be fairly geopolitical. - New economic p
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by jen729w 3y ago
On a run as in an unbroken streak. Of not visiting news sites. I am not jogging, no. That would be weird.
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by jen729w 3y ago
After doom-scrolling Covid through all of 2020, I decided to quit the news. As of 1 Jan 2021 I haven’t visited a news website. I never watched TV news anyway (I don’t have broadcast/cable). Sometimes the news drifts through from the ra
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by jen729w 3y ago
I’m nit-picky with lighting. We only got a smart bulb because we moved in to a (rental) house with a ridiculously-placed light switch in the kitchen. It’s behind the door when the door is open, and the door is always open. Turns out the bes
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by jen729w 3y ago
Elements. Choose your own IP scheme and the last octet is the element's number. Palladium? 10.0.0.46. As a side-effect I now know a lot more about the periodic table.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Vaguely related, in 2015 we were building a new platform based on Cisco UCS and NetApp filers. Cisco had a virtual router. N1000 perhaps, the hardware was a C220 and it had some sort of appliance running on it. Which depended on some sort o

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