johnea

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by johnea 10mo ago
Hope does spring eternal, doesn't it 8-/ If no one manufactures such a product, how does the "market" express this desire? Buying one toaster, that would last your lifetime, is easily manufactured today, and yet no compa
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by johnea 10mo ago
Hepburn also allows the use of the double vowel, in this case: kooen
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by johnea 10mo ago
SSH is my "personal cloud"...
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by johnea 10mo ago
Denial of confirmation bias
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by johnea 10mo ago
A) I'm not going to watch the video because it's hosted by goggle, and I'm not interested in being goggled. B) However, even without watching the video, it must be describing corporate product UI, because in the free software
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by johnea 11mo ago
Just in my lifetime, the world population, an simultaneously the US population, has tripled. The world's economic output and productivity are at all time highs. Natural resources are at tipping points of extreme exploitation, and toxic
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by johnea 11mo ago
So, given your high technical acumen, why would expose yourself to goggle's previously demonstrated willingness to delete your career's and your life's archive of communications? Stop using goggle! It's as simple, and as
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by johnea 11mo ago
> RiscPC... it's an ARM desktop Putting this info in the title would have prevented a lot of misinterpretation...
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by johnea 11mo ago
Yea, if they could keep ALL of the poor people out, image how great that would be!
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by johnea 11mo ago
To try to dispel the myth of a "coop" being defined as four old hippies sorting groceries in the back room of their run down victorian house in Portland: The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperat
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by johnea 11mo ago
Nice article! Any talk of tide prediction should always mention xtide: https://flaterco.com/xtide/ I've used it with great accuracy in a number of locations around the world. Another one of those free software pac
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by johnea 11mo ago
You mean how people want to start walking around and doing things after sitting on their ass in front of a computer for 40 years? Yea, I'm there with your dad...
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by johnea 11mo ago
After just a short search to try to come up with some numbers, I find that between 60% and 90% of internet DNS servers are running bind. And yet somehow, the internet has much bigger problems...
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by johnea 11mo ago
This is all bullshit...
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by johnea 11mo ago
If my browser is blocking cookies, you don't need my consent, because you're not going to set any cookies. GDPR preempted...
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by johnea 11mo ago
I guess wikipedia doesn't agree with you: "BIND is the de facto standard DNS server" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_softw... 9 just being the currently deployed version. A non-wik
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by johnea 11mo ago
Yea, I often wonder when I see this type of article, why don't they just use bind9? No other DNS resolver is going to come close to it's number of deployment*years in operation. I didn't read the article though, since I'
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by johnea 11mo ago
They could have just left the last three words off of that title 8-/ Python is not a great language First, the white space requirements are a bad flashback to 1970s fortran. Second, it is the language that is least compatible with itse
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by johnea 11mo ago
As usual, HN comments go immediately off the rails into the right-wing nut weeds 8-/ Loss of the SRO model in residential real estate was a major setback to low income residents, and is undoubtedly a significant contributor to modern h
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by johnea 11mo ago
Via the link in the article to: Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/17/2025-19... It would be nice to have some confir
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by johnea 11mo ago
Thanks for the summary, since I avoid LinkedIn like the plague...
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by johnea 11mo ago
I'm sure it would be embarrassing, if the public discovered just how much the state of texas, and governor abbot, were kissing elon's ass...
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by johnea 11mo ago
I would have just used the letter 'M' or 'W'...
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by johnea 11mo ago
The whole article seemed a little tautological to me. You could say: Scientific advances have massively accelerated with the use of the new tool of electricity, but there are serious concerns about the "black-box" nature of electr
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by johnea 11mo ago
Denominated in the unpronounceable character, previously known as "up arrow"...
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by johnea 11mo ago
I really agree with the overall gist of the article. Too bad it's racist and sexist, when the main point is about massive financial inequality...
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by johnea 11mo ago
tl;dr Universities should really only accept wealthy white students who attended Bishop's High School. It's without doubt that lower income high schools have lower academic outcomes. This leads to the conclusion that only students
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by johnea 11mo ago
I just find this whole thing so frikin' hilarious! "virtual children"? WTF is that even? Is it sort of like playing with barbie? except you don't even have the barbie doll? Any people able to participate in this delusion
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by johnea 1y ago
Just another click bait title. The game doesn't affect reality, it affects the user's _perception_ of reality. Understanding the difference means a major change for some people: accepting that what's inside your head is not &
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by johnea 1y ago
I think this is a great development! It does illustrate that the EU has started to understand something that S/W devs seem to have totally forgotten: dependencies are bad, use as few as possible. The rest of the world has not yet caugh

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