lholden

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by lholden 9y ago
"I googled it" I see what you did there :D
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by lholden 9y ago
Open page... start reading. Popup takes over page. Close page. I'm sure the content is interesting... but throwing intrusive popups in my face is a quick way to get me off ones site.
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by lholden 9y ago
There are several virtual machines capable of running various versions of CP/M and a couple emulators of CP/M itself. (For example, https://github.com/jhallen/cpm )
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by lholden 9y ago
Same!
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by lholden 9y ago
Some of my first professional web development work back in the late 90s was writing perl using emacs on a CDE desktop. (I don't remember exactly why we were using this setup, but locally I was running Linux, but was running a X sessi
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by lholden 9y ago
I don't think New Horizons received any protestors either.
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by lholden 9y ago
The 40+ years the Voyager probes have stuck around for is impressive... but the actual primary mission duration was about 12 years (for Voyager 2), and that was with two (planned but not guaranteed) extensions for Uranus and Neptune. The RT
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by lholden 9y ago
So much, this. I've also been imaging a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise encounters and picks up a Tesla from deep space. :D
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by lholden 9y ago
Saw title... was "Why silicon? I mean that's a hard substance... maybe they mean because it has electronics?" Read article... they mean silicone. Very different substance! Silicone is reasonable well tolerated... though appar
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by lholden 9y ago
Waste water, unless the plant is specifically setup to recycle it's water waste, tends to eventually end up in the ocean. Dumping fresh water in the ocean is reasonably close to shooting it out into space. (Of course nature will reclai
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by lholden 9y ago
Rust Stable is great, but not all of the macro (the Macro 2.0 stuff) support is on the stable release channel yet. There are still some things you can't do on stable (or can do, but inconveniently). (Rocket also depends on a few other
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by lholden 9y ago
Fantastic Sergio! I'm glad v0.3 has landed :D
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by lholden 9y ago
For whatever reason images of the old Workplace Shell (OS/2) popped through my mind when I read the title. Had me imaging a weird WPS for MacOS. (Much like the Workplace Shell for Windows from way back in the day ).
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by lholden 9y ago
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer recommending people periodically change their passwords as part of the organization’s new draft of its Digital Identity Guidelines." Untrue, misleading, and p
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by lholden 9y ago
MP3 has been "dead" to me ever since the non patent encumbered formats started becoming popular. Mind you, I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS since the mid 90s... So I have a vested interest in open formats. These
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by lholden 10y ago
I have been using Netflix on Firefox under Linux for a long while now. All that was required was changing my user agent... The only recent change here is that the user agents for Firefox on Linux are finally allowed.
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by lholden 10y ago
Very much this. The first thing you should be doing is making the password useless by changing it. Doing anything else is entirely irresponsible. Sure, remove the file in question after that... but you can't treat the old password as a
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by lholden 10y ago
Silicon != silicone :D. Silicon is a metalloid commonly used to produce silicon wafers for integrated circuits. (Hence, Silicon Valley :D). Silicone is a rubbery polymer which contains silicon. :D (Ex, window calking, breast implants, etc.)
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by lholden 10y ago
I totally get where you are coming from. When having to do work on Windows, I used to go out of my way to avoid PowerShell. I finally gave it a solid chance one day and I've found that it can be surprisingly nice and powerful to work w
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by lholden 10y ago
A lot of Microsofts recent work has been really interesting if not surprising. Linux support in Windows and Visual Studio (as a cross platform target with debugging!), VS Code, bringing on Xamarin... Etc. I'm Glad to see them pulling
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by lholden 10y ago
I love this comment :-D
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by lholden 10y ago
I use Linux for that. I have a pretty and modern UI, all of the unix commodities I want... all on a brand new and powerful laptop that has plenty of battery life. (My last laptop... a Samsung Series 9... would last 14+ hours on a charge. My
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by lholden 10y ago
I only use facebook over the browser when using my phone. The facebook applications request an appalling number of permissions... never mind the general intrusiveness and battery hogging. Screw you Facebook.
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by lholden 10y ago
And the news is that... people are apparently still using Myspace :-D
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by lholden 11y ago
I wonder how they intend for the probe to actually communicate back to earth. Flying by Jupiter... The data downlink feed from New Horizons was about 38 kilobits per second. After the Pluto flyby... it was down to 2 kilobits per second an
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by lholden 11y ago
"I'm going to have to pose an educated disagreement." A little awkward to read in response to my comment. An educated disagreement to what? I guess you are disagreeing with their argument? I agree with your comment. Or maybe
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by lholden 11y ago
>> I received email accusing me of “selling out to the OO crowd” and people whose experience and opinion I respect insisted that x.f(y) finding f(x,y) would seriously compromise their ability to design stable interfaces. I think the
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by lholden 11y ago
Without zmodem... I wouldn't have downloaded the huge number of floppies required to install SLS Linux back in the early 90s. The download took forever. I can't imagine how long/hard it would have been without it! Instrumenta
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by lholden 11y ago
In addition to what torgo said, there are a few countries that have only upheld UN directives and treaties when it suits them. The US is a example of this.
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by lholden 11y ago
But those are not the same thing. Encryption in this case would be like the location of the kid and bomb being kept secret. The bad guy may have told someone in person where the location is... or sent an encrypted email. But unless you were

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