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by jff 10y ago
Three batteries in a backpack pocket will take up about the same amount of space as a wall-wart plus cable.
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by jff 10y ago
I do this on my personal site and it seems to Just Work. I specify a max-width for my content, specify font sizes in em values, and it looks fine on every browser I've ever tried, even a shitty Chinese cellphone (not smartphone).
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by jff 10y ago
I was pretty shocked that they're asking $18k for a workstation and hoping to get $3.7 million total. I was rather excited for it but this project is stillborn in my opinion. I may end up having work order one of IBM's basic dual-
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by jff 10y ago
I can only assume that when the article was written in 2000, Plan 9 was getting some press in the venues he was following, so writing an article purporting to be about Plan 9 (but not really about Plan 9 at all) seemed sensible.
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by jff 10y ago
> Most of these seem possible (the tty structure already has stubs for window size), except maybe for the user-mode filesystems And thus Linus dug a hole out of which Linux has only recently begun to clamber.
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by jff 10y ago
It's just the stereotype of the guy who got a black belt from some bullshido trainer: "Oh, I can't fight you, I'm too dangerous, my killer instincts and ninja training means I'd just rip your throat out immediately.
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by jff 10y ago
Hahaha, "my hands are registered as deadly weapons"
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by jff 10y ago
Only tangentially related, while I don't like having to wake up at 4, being out and about in town at 4 a.m. is a pretty enjoyable experience, especially on say a Sunday morning. I love driving through foggy streets as dawn is just st
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by jff 10y ago
> One thinks of Homeowner Associations and the way they place fines and pseudo-legal orders on people, a concept which is utterly anathema to the english. The two cultures have very different ideas of privacy. Yes, the English idea of pr
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by jff 10y ago
> Like most engineers and other creatives Free yourself of culturally-assigned norms ("engineers and creative people work best at midnight, with lots of coffee") and consider a wider breadth of experience. The most productive a
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by jff 10y ago
Yep, same. I got a Discover card when I went off to my first internship at 19. I kept that card, and only that card, until I was about 27, when I finally added a Visa for Southwest points. Paying off every single bill on-time and in full (e
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by jff 10y ago
He didn't create it, he just more or less appointed himself maintainer after 1990-ish.
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by jff 10y ago
You may be right, maybe I've just only looked at Scheme lately and thought "?" had migrated to Common Lisp. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node188.html seems to indica
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by jff 10y ago
> When I knew him during the 80's, he would go on and on ad nauseum about his beloved "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle NetNews Reader" and how so much better than every other netnews reader. But he never collaborated with anyo
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by jff 10y ago
In my opinion, the Jargon File is a fun look back at historical hacker lifestyles, but it's also a microcosm of a very few schools in the 60s and 70s. Teenagers have a bad habit of reading the Jargon File and thinking that's how t
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by jff 10y ago
He mentions adding line detection for tables, which should be a good start for sheet music.
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by jff 10y ago
Yeah, I can see how a lot of people would want the email obfuscation but I don't--especially as I was polishing off a blog post about how ideologically pure my website is, with no javascript or external resources! I got rid of GA becau
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by jff 10y ago
Congratulations on not using any Javascript on the front page, except for what looks like the same email-obfuscating JS that Cloudflare injected on my site until I disabled that. In my mind, external JS is one of the worst things you can
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by jff 10y ago
The Kinesis Advantage has really helped me, along with a Kensington Expert Mouse (which is actually a trackball). I used to get pains all the way up my right arm and through both wrists, but now worst case is a slightly tired hand.
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by jff 10y ago
Specifically, the wrong politics.
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by jff 10y ago
Well, the post's been flagged--into the memory hole with it!
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by jff 10y ago
I thought you'd end up "dead" (hellbanned) if you get consistently voted down to negative scores. I don't know a lot about actual mechanisms of how karma and voting work on this site, though, so if I'm wrong about t
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by jff 10y ago
I think, rather, that HN has a dominant point of view which tolerates small differences but otherwise will downvote and [EDIT: hellban doesn't work like I thought] anyone who isn't circumspect enough in voicing their different opi
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by jff 10y ago
The shows with the constant sound effects also usually have what seems like a relatively new format: they try to make it sound like the hosts (it's always two hosts) are a couple of friends, interested laymen, having a talk at their ho
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by jff 10y ago
Then they move to another state, and drive up the housing markets, and vote for all the same stuff that made California untenable, and wonder why the natives are hostile.
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Multics can run in emulation on Linux, OS X, Windows(swenson.org)
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by jff 10y ago
> had to use vi with JKL; instead of the arrow keys. It made me want to stab something. I can see how this would be frustrating, given that the vi movement keys are in fact HJKL
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by jff 10y ago
Active Worlds?
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by jff 10y ago
High Fidelity is supposed to be that open replacement: https://highfidelity.io/ The problem I've run into is that it runs worse on my brand-new computer than Second Life ever did, and that's even on the mostly-emp
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by jff 10y ago
Yeah, I was also somewhere around 0.5-0.6 after a minute or so, then got the idea to try truly random numbers

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