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by jonhohle 1y ago
My grocery bill has doubled over roughly the same time period.
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Back in the early 2000s, I was taught in C, C++, Motorola 68HC11, and MIPs assembly. I can clearly understand how Java works, even if I don’t know its GC is implemented. I can understand how programs were written from the 80s to currently.
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I’m slightly surprised there isn’t more KVM/Virtualized bare metal JVM environments. While I haven’t used it in a while, the decade+ I spent running Javan’s in production basically have the entire system over to the JVM (with some over
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by jonhohle 1y ago
For anything more than just a one off script, look into venv. I’ve not written any python until this past year and can’t imagine maintaining an ongoing project without it. Prior to that I would frequently have issues (and still have issues
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by jonhohle 1y ago
While it’s hard to imagine someone using Word Perfect in grammar school born during or after 1984, I hold out hope that her middle initial was “Z”. That said, I believe I learned spreadsheets in high school using Lotus for DOS in 1996, but
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Gold is considered to have relatively consistent value over time. Median home price in 1940 Boston area was $3,600 or 180oz gold. Today the median home price is 215oz of gold in the same area (or $670,000). In terms of gold, house prices ar
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I’ve thought about this recently as well and I don’t know if I have a fully developed view. What is the moral responsibility of all people to pay for medical research or operations that would affect a small number of people. Is it ethical t
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by jonhohle 1y ago
His has been my experience as well. The changes from System Preferences to Settings have been an abomination. Previously we had uniquely designed layouts for each setting. Now everything is a list. Now menus scroll without any indication th
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I haven’t looked at the merits, and I don’t like what the EU is doing to US companies with 20% market share, but I remember feeling the same way about Microsoft over 20 years ago. Fortunately, groklaw provided a constant stream of easily re
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by jonhohle 1y ago
BeOS got it right with BeFS. An Email client was just a folder. MP3s could be sorted and filtered in the file system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309686
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by jonhohle 1y ago
https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I always think the same thing. 486s could run real-time spell check and do wisiwig layouts and came on floppy disks. Now we have screen recording apps that require 256MB downloads every 5 minutes (yesterday’s story). I have a small utility
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by jonhohle 2y ago
HFS compression, AFAICT, is all done in user space with metadata and extended attributes.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Apple has been shipping systems with various weights of Helvetica Neue forever. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/system-fonts/
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I don’t particularly like the analogy, but love cherry tomatoes. Grape tomatoes are such a blight on this world. Kind of like Arial is to Helvetica. I would never steal a cherry tomato, but will reject a grape tomato at any chance I get.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Docker wouldn’t be affected by this, the network stack is lower. WSL would, however.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
> Conservative opponents categorize it as an undesirable “immigration bill” and demand that adopted people with criminal records and the many dozen adoptees who have already been deported be excluded from the bill. I’d also like to see a
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by jonhohle 2y ago
> the beneficent embrace of the American family was always conditional My heart breaks for anyone brought to the US who weren’t given citizenship. I’m well aware of families who didn’t know there were additional steps to perform and ofte
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by jonhohle 2y ago
That’s the first thing I thought of as well. I had to integrate one into our custom CMS early in my career. I vaguely remember explaining to management that I was not responsible for the order or quality of search results and tweaking queri
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Build tools supporting duplicate class detection have existed for… well a long time. Ignore them at your own peril.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Rust, Go, and Swift were all coming up around the same time. Rust looked ugly, Go underwhelmed me, and Swift aeemed like the best “language” at the time, with many opinions that aligned with my own. Having now spent time in all three, swift
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I’ve been decompiling a PS1 era game for the past year or so, and it was so nice to find Sony used GCC as their compiler. There’s a significant number of MIPS tools in GCC that still work, the source and patches from that version still exis
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I know it doesn’t affect a lot of people, but pasting in hex mode in Calculator broke in Sequoia. Previously, any number pasted in hex mode was treated as hex (as expected) even if the number consisted only of decimal characters (say 20, wh
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by jonhohle 2y ago
As the article says, this is true for just about any cabling, copper, power, etc. I’ve done cabling in two houses and I’ve never had too much. I’m always finding reasons to run more to new places.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I find this very true of minor burns (e.g. touching a hot or dish). I can tell myself it doesn’t hurt and mostly it doesn’t from that point forward. I can’t do that for any other type of pain, though.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Steam was not appreciated when it launched. It made a foothold as a requirement for HL2. Valve has done a good job making relatively painless over the last 20 years, but it was originally reviled.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Having grown up through ad-bars, Windows malware, email worms and everything else that could go wrong for most people during the late 90s on and not wanting to do IT for my entire extended family, I don’t mind having a popular platform with
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I personally don’t care about alternative app stores, but I know many do, especially here. I really want two things: * companies cannot engage in any activity a common person would consider “spying”, cannot take the data collected by users
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by jonhohle 2y ago
This reminds me of terrains Bryce (with its wonderful Kai Krause interface) would generate. I had no idea Ken Musgrave, who created the algorithms, was a student of Mandelbrot. I had always assumed Bryce used Perlin noise, but it turns out
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Tell me you are not a parent without telling me you are not a parent.

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