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by kej 7y ago
Idle curiosity: what are some of the "films that are public domain in Australia, that won't reach public domain in America for another fifty-seventy years, and vice versa"?
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by kej 7y ago
And it's more than just a book, it includes playable versions of the web games, which was the last thing I still had Flash installed for.
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by kej 7y ago
My dad worked Saturdays at a store related to his hobby, mostly for the employee discount. They did a holiday bonus as a percentage of yearly pay, and with his limited hours it came to something like $15. It became a running joke until a ye
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by kej 7y ago
This is one of my favorite Wikipedia page, and I don't get to bring it up very often: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_fo...
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by kej 7y ago
Searches for "Mr. Obama" bring up plenty of results, but more to the point it's a fairly common journalistic practice to use President Foo for the first mention and Mr. Foo for subsequent mentions. (Non-presidents usually get
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by kej 7y ago
The Little ASP.NET Core Book [0] is a pretty good introduction that covers all the pieces you need to know for a basic ASP.NET Core application. It's available for free in all the usual ebook formats. [0] https://recaffeinat
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by kej 7y ago
I really like Lambda Explorer [0]. It's an in-browser interactive tutorial that does a good job of nudging you towards the next idea so you can discover it yourself, but it's there with a solution if you get stuck. [0] https:&#x2
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by kej 7y ago
>> What’s to stop someone else from backporting security fixes as needed ad infinitum? >Who? I haven’t heard anyone express a willingness to take up that mantle. Tauthon [0] kind of fits the bill here. It's a fork of 2.7 with
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by kej 7y ago
This would also be good when you inevitably find letters or photographs tucked between pages.
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On a 386 with AT hard drives.
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by kej 8y ago
It gets lost in his other excellent books, but I really liked Pirate Freedom . A guy from the near future finds himself sent back in time to the golden age of piracy, and Wolfe does a masterful job of tying the plot threads together at the
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by kej 8y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing Mozilla should be working on, in my opinion. It's enabling something new to work in a browser, and if Mozilla didn't do this Google would have, only it would be locked into Google Sheets or some
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by kej 8y ago
It's mentioned early in the article, but easy to miss if you jump straight to the technical details: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe
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by kej 8y ago
We used to have a telefile option where you spent ten minutes on the phone punching in numbers off your W-2 forms and then you wrote down a confirmation number. It only worked if you had a really simple tax situation, but it was so easy. I
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by kej 8y ago
This reminds me of picnic.css [0], which uses the same technique of styling everything nicely by default, but adds some options for changing things when you want. [0] https://picnicss.com/
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by kej 8y ago
Tangential curiosity: what was different about them that made them incompatible?
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by kej 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who ar
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by kej 8y ago
This is cool, it's kind of like Blazor [0] in the .Net world although I bet the resulting code is a lot smaller. If I can make a suggestion, though, the "root.vugu" code snippet from step 3 on the Getting Started page should
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by kej 8y ago
A Dark Room is free on the web, fwiw: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
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by kej 8y ago
One possible curl/bash attack is to serve a safe file to browsers but a malicious one to curl. In that case a step where you verify the integrity of the file curl downloads would be useful. (I seem to recall there being a way for the s
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by kej 8y ago
Raspberry Pi running IchigoJam BASIC? Or the IchigoJam board itself? https://ichigojam.github.io/RPi/
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by kej 8y ago
I think part of the unpopularity of the generic brands was that, at least in the stores I remember, they were all segregated on an aisle full of generic products. So you had to specifically go down that aisle to see if there was a generic v
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by kej 8y ago
She did the same thing with Earthsea: >The fantasy tradition I was writing in came from Northern Europe, which is why it was about white people. I’m white, but not European. My people could be any color I liked, and I like red and brown
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by kej 8y ago
I try to mention this whenever Earthsea comes up, but she revisited it after a long gap, so anyone who enjoyed the Earthsea trilogy should go back and read the rest of it.
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by kej 8y ago
This isn't something that got passed down like a children's game of "telephone"; the outlandish details are present in the original contemporaneous accounts and we have copies of them (digitized even! [1]). So, if it was
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by kej 8y ago
Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world; it would be a mess whether it's Super Bowl weekend or not.
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by kej 8y ago
You can perform multiplication by repeated addition, but that is a very inefficient way to multiply. It's the same thing here, where you can replace other instructions with MOV, but the replacement is much slower than the original.
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by kej 8y ago
This is one of the targets of the CoreRT project, and a very limited version of it works today.
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by kej 8y ago
I have Forbidden Island but haven't tried Desert yet. What is it about Desert that keeps one player from dominating it?
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by kej 8y ago
Historians are usually pretty good at what they do, and aren't just taking ancient calendars at their word. On top of that, we also have astronomical records to serve as anchors for other dates. We can figure out when eclipses happened

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