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by jtotheh 2y ago
I've been thinking about this myself. It'd be great if some of the essential crates could be somehow sponsored or certified. Go does provide a lot more capability in the standard lib.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
If you like Fela's music, you will like this Brazilian orchestra including jams with one of Fela's sons. https://www.funmilayoafrobeat.com/ I didn't realize until reading the above article they are named
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I have emails going back > 20 years in IMAP folders. They've survived numerous email server migrations and personal email address changes. For a while I was running my own email server. I find Apple's iCloud has hung on to thin
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Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here(theatlantic.com)
102 points by jtotheh 2y ago|61 comments
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by jtotheh 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240810153028/https://www.theat... Algorithms may be allowed to facilitate price-fixing among landlords in ways that would not be allowed if done by humans.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
The course is free BTW.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I went through this course, the Yale Course on Happiness, a couple years ago. I think it is really valuable for understanding what will bring us happiness and/or inner peace. I was told I was very smart when I was young and as it has
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I worked on an app that was using Java Web Start still, as of January 2023. It was a problem, because JWS was not included in the parts of Java that were open-sourced, and was not available as part of recent OpenJDK versions of Java. Some o
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by jtotheh 2y ago
Miles Davis "Jazz at the Plaza" is pretty much the band from Kind of Blue, live. It's a good record. There's another Miles record that is very meditative, "In a Silent Way" but it's quite different. Electr
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Bruce Schneier on the Risks of Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities(cacm.acm.org)
6 points by jtotheh 2y ago|1 comments
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by jtotheh 2y ago
UNIX etc has all file access start from /. DOS/Windows has separate trees starting with different letters. I think having it all in one tree structure has some advantages. All paths can be expressed as relative paths, for instance
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by jtotheh 2y ago
MS-DOS didn't exist prior to PC-DOS, initially. "IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS)" was the gold standard. all of it came from QDOS, a CP/M-like OS M$ bought based on hiding their plans, and that IBM made PC-D
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I know, but when did you last see a floppy disk?
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I've seen some discussion of this, I believe that DOS got some ideas from a DEC OS (not VMS) that they were familiar with from using PDP-10s. Or something like that. Also, they had started using forward slashes to signify options to co
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by jtotheh 2y ago
My local library gives access to O'Reilly Safari. You have to click around a bit more than if you had a full price account but I think it's a great resource.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I tried this (or something like it) and there were a few oddities. I found I've gotten used to Cmd-Tab for switching apps and Cmd-` for switching windows within an app. Now I don't feel the need to modify the stock behavior.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Well, that would be beyond me. Thanks for the info!
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I wish rust supported openbsd. Not sure if I am blaming the right entity, but rust on openbsd is lame.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
A big part of what makes a phone platform competitive is the apps for it. In the Netscape/ie days, Netscape ran on many platforms and made the underlying OS less important.this led to Microsoft going to great lengths to make windows&#x
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I did a lot of Pascal programming on I think a CDC6300 (?) at the university. If you could get to a terminal you could submit a compile job and wait for the operator to hand out your printed output. The system was case-insensitive and some
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Good report on the various hazards of "AI".
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I had a CSF leak caused by a bone spur on my spine poking a hole in my dura.long story short, spinal surgery to remove the spur and seal the dura , which involved fusing three thoracic vertebrae. The “positional headaches” were horrible(whe
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I have heard that : if you avoid exposure to equal temperament (western compromise tuning that allows 12 keys with equal deviation from the Pythagorean (integer) ratios) , and only listen to "just intonation" - various tunings tha
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Your information is much more detailed and specific. I was just giving an example of the loss of support for old software/formats. I didn’t mean that postscript support was involved in this particular case.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Tragically, Postscript support has been largely removed from MacOS now. Apparently the language was weird enough that supporting it made some (in)security hacks possible. I guess I'm old ! I remember first finding out about it in 1986
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I have an M1 MacBook Pro 16" I've had for almost two years and it's great. I recently got a minimal M1 Mini to replace an ancient iMac that died. the mini is really good as well. For my money these are the best computers I&#x
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I wandered around New Guinea for a month in 1984. It was fascinating. This article, though brief, makes good points about the human tendency to put stock in rituals. It makes me wonder about some of my own rituals.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Abort/Retry/Fail
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I've been using UTM, it seems to work OK. I use arm64 images, I haven't tried x86_64 images. Works for Windows and Debian.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I first had this kind of experience with a BBS in about 1987. Email has been around for a lot longer than that, for some people. I think smartphones really transformed things though, and now I think half the world's population has one.

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