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by jquast 6y ago
I discovered it by accident from a source file header many years ago, “that can’t be THE John Carmack?!” I said to myself, it is! there are many web citations, too. https://github.com/timon37/xwayland/blob/mas
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by jquast 6y ago
My favorite developer contributing to my favorite operating system! This is like Christmas. I’ve been contributing $ to OpenBSD since 3.x release days, and reading John carmack’s “.plan” file since Doom 2, when they ran digital Unix! Did yo
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by jquast 6y ago
It's worse than that with Amazon. The AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI imports my package, but, when prompted to interview with AWS, they absolutely insisted that I perform their clowny online technical screening. They trust to use my code in
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by jquast 6y ago
Why is Nitrogen fixation not mentioned? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation Anyone who worked at a farm or golf course or landscaping knows this elementary fact of science, having a hard time understanding
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by jquast 6y ago
please also consider blessed, an API-compatible fork of blessings that adds Windows 10 support, 24-bit color, keyboard input, and more. https://blessed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#brief-ov...
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by jquast 6y ago
Ok. I don't think a picture of laundry is worth a single god damned word.
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by jquast 6y ago
This web article could cost a satellite or mobile internet customer several dollars to view. Quality in megabytes, not quantity, please. Take a byte out of I/O crime.
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by jquast 6y ago
> On-demand decompression like this has made very little sense on desktops since the mid 90s Ok, maybe not desktops? But ZFS on-disk compression is a sysadmin's frickin dream -- just one example that you can access logfiles with pla
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by jquast 6y ago
I actually learned a lot of interesting factoids from a debunking movie, https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/ So yes, I would definitely watch "rebuttle" documentaries! Are there any others out there?
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by jquast 6y ago
buy peppermint oil, soak cotton balls in oil, stuff cotton balls all over engine bay, compartments, trunks, underbody. repeat once per month or so, whenever you can't smell it anymore. https://www.theexterminators.ca/bl
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by jquast 6y ago
hot tip: in case of a water crisis, extract the remaining water from your hot water tank (it has a drain port). That's about two weeks (drinking) for most families (30-80 gallons).
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by jquast 6y ago
I shared a free JSON API with parse.com with a bunch of friends to develop a set of FOSS CLI apps we communicated over. It was all open and fun and funny. Then parse.com shutdown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_(pl
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by jquast 6y ago
you lost me at GNU
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by jquast 6y ago
openbsd. a coherent, complete, simple, pretty secure, and very readable unix. It's my desert island OS. Most especially because of such great offline documentation and build infrastructure, I won't need to consult google for rando
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by jquast 6y ago
Not that it matters, but I traded lots of BASIC code on local bbs’s for free, and on floppies and cassettes for free. I didn’t really mind pedaling my bicycle to share my next release of “Pong” or whatever I was up to, kids love sneakernets
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by jquast 6y ago
> In order to upload your works to the server or unlimited downloading of the published works, you need to purchase Server Tickets in the game. ok.. so it costs money, but if I want to share a game I write, or look at others, I'd ha
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by jquast 6y ago
And just like writing software, when specifications of the agile process are not clear, almost founded on a “chose your own implementation” scheme, the result is a big-ridden over-designed and terribly unclear (and endlessly debated) proces
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by jquast 6y ago
Thank you for all the memories !!
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by jquast 6y ago
I can type up to 180wpm and I have to intentionally slow myself down to half speed, to use microsoft's start menu, wow. Typing "cmd.exe" or "notepad" in windows start menu, seeing those applications briefly appear a
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by jquast 6y ago
I've been learning to use this just recently, as part of considering purchasing this pen plotter from the Evil Mad Scientist, https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846 I had no idea it is also actively ma
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by jquast 7y ago
Since python 3.7, dataclass is probably preferred over namedtuple, which is typed, https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/
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by jquast 7y ago
I would like to think the very first strategy home computer game was about Hammurabi, Hamurabi.bas, https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-vi...
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by jquast 7y ago
This anti-vibration pad reduced my refrigerator's noise by 1.5dB, though https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B7ZH2LG
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by jquast 7y ago
Not sure if it is a parody.
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by jquast 7y ago
coronavirus videos are demonetized, i suspect the recommendation engine only wishes to recommend videos that provide profitable advertising https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21164553/youtube-coronavir...
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by jquast 7y ago
I seem to remember being pretty upset when I found out Terry Davis of Temple OS was being shadowbanned. Maybe it was just temporary for a short period or a single comment, but I didn't like it. I found this (related?) poll https:&#x2F
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by jquast 7y ago
cool, here's mine in python https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/worms.py looks like https://asciinema.org/a/8682
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by jquast 7y ago
Location: Santa Cruz, CA Remote: Sure! Willing to relocate: For good offer Technologies: Python & Linux (19 & 23 yrs) Resume: https://jeffquast.com/resume-jquast.pdf Email: contact@jeffquast.com I developed the flig
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by jquast 7y ago
Markus Kuhn did a great deal of work for unicode for unix, see the rest of the same folder, https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/ such as examples/UTF-8-demo.txt a beautiful demo file for testing terminal emu
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by jquast 7y ago
try open -n /System/Applications/Calculator.app works for me

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