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by ksherlock 6mo ago
Browsing through the library DVD shelves is somewhat reminiscent of browsing through a 80s/90s mom & pop type video rental place [1]. I think it's better for randomly finding something interesting than the algorithm (tm). [1
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
W'all have got y'all for plural you.
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
If you don't need binaries, eternal-september.org isn't too shabby.
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
archive.org has usenet archives (in gzipped mbox format). Not exactly an "easy way" if you want threads, of course.
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
if nothing else, it's much more usable than the google news archives.
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
Have you tried shotgunning a couple beers?
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
I don't know how it worked for anyone else, but I remember the selective service PSA ads when I was growing up -- (that's a manual emdash) If you don't sign up for selective service when you turn 18, you'll be celebratin
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
Bourbon popularity exploded a few years ago but the market is over saturated -- too much inventory and people have moved on to other things. Also anti-American sentiment due to Tariff Man is reducing exports. At my local liquor store, a y
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
If "years" means decades, it would have been classic MacOS which played by a very different set of rules.
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
Some BBS vendors maintained a list of public sites running their BBS software. For the price of a self-addressed stamped envelope, they would send it to you. You would know to do this because you read it in a magazine. Another good place
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
Unless you find a fast station that sells ethanol free gasoline (and you'll know because it costs more), gasoline is cut with up to 10% ethanol. 1 gallon of ethanol is equivalent to 2/3 a gallon of good old gasoline. So to keep
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by ksherlock 6mo ago
8 years ago, when Microsoft bought GitHub, there was much digital ink spilled and some people/projects did leave for GitLab or elsewhere. So one explanation would be that anybody cares already has left.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
The history is a bit backwards but the point is good. OpenBSD atheros wireless code was imported into linux, the BSD attributions were removed, and it was re-declared as GPL. That was later changed back.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when TurboTax overwrote your boot sector. Point being, I'm old and tax software has been doing scummy things for decades.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
"The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching." -- John Wooden You're anonymously asking a bunch of randos on the internet instead of asking your PhD advisor. That should tell you something.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
The Martha Stewart and Mark Cuban cases were more or less the same -- a non-insider investor was given information from an insider, sold their stock to avoid a loss, and were then investigated for it. The thing is - insider trading is illeg
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
Once upon a time (2007!), QNX made their source code available under a read-only type license. When Blackberry bought them (2010), source code access was shut off. That was 16 years ago so maybe their opinion on the matter has changed. But
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
brew used to say, more or less, "This OS is old and unsupported. Don't submit bug reports. If you have problems, too bad. If you submit a PR to fix something, we might merge it". Fair enough, right? Now it just says, &quo
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
Some of this AI brings to mind the old Despair "Incompetence" poster ( https://despair.com/products/incompetence ) When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, th
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
With some coordination, perhaps enough people could opt out and start a new class action lawsuit.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
If/when you get a postcard/spam email that you're included in a potential class action lawsuit settlement, you can opt out of the class (in which case you preserve your legal rights to sue separately) or file comments with th
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
100% correct. The GitHub repo linked elsewhere include this documentation in (dit)roff (-ms) form.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
A buffer underflow that overwrote a pointer that overwrote 1 byte of code in the multiplication library (no hardware multiplication or memory protection, by the way) that caused unsigned multiplication to be handled as signed multiplication
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
Perl has DBI. PHP has PDO.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
If Tesla optimus robots were breaking into my house at night, logging into my computer, and using my web browser, this would be one solution. You didn't mention anything about how the web server knows if the other end of the connection
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
Use the source Luke! It's an "ASCII plasma background" rendered into a canvas element.
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
I think of GNU emacs as a 1980s-era lisp machine emulator, oh and there's also a weird text editor. Most people focus on the text editor. Anyhow, as a terminal application, emacs is brilliant. As a GUI application, it's dog shit
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
I'm guessing nobody at Apple wears their WWSJD bracelet anymore, but for everyone else: Back when I [Steve Jurvetson] was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB [Stanford Graduate School of Busin
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
That's the reference but I've always heard it as 3 envelopes: 1. blame your predecessor 2. blame your staff 3. write 3 letters...
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by ksherlock 7mo ago
I had the same question about dropping HN earlier this week, and it's entirely from the the AI overflow (most of it low quality, IMO). For now, I've decided to be the change so instead I flag and hide. Banning new/green acco

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