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by litoE 1y ago
"What's $1,000? Mere chicken-feed. A poultry matter." (Groucho Marx)
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by litoE 1y ago
I've created a couple of production web sites that way. I used htp, which allows me to create multiple pages with the same layout by using a mechanism similar to C's #include. This is used at development time, so the Web pages ge
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by litoE 1y ago
Personal computer, using SCCS for version control and daily backups.
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by litoE 1y ago
I was wondering about that. Even if they keep their hardware from 1988, it needs maintenance: disk drives wear out, power supplies burn out, CRT monitors die, keyboards suffer coffee spills, etc.
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How the Bauhaus Kept the Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn't(getpocket.com)
3 points by litoE 1y ago|0 comments
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Chile's Queen Bees Take Flight as Global Guardians of Pollination(latinamericanpost.com)
4 points by litoE 1y ago|0 comments
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by litoE 1y ago
Procrastination is a good thing. Never put it off until tomorrow.
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by litoE 1y ago
Of course the correct term is procrastination, and not procastination. But we'll fix it tomorrow.
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by litoE 1y ago
In my Linux install (Debian 12/Bookworm) /usr/bin/open is a symlink to /usr/bin/xdg-open so I was always using xdg-open without even knowing it.
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by litoE 1y ago
Plus, the battery now doesn't make it through the day without recharging.
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by litoE 1y ago
Marriott Web site works fine for me. Firefox on Debian Linux. Fresh install, so there were no prior cookies or other data from Marriott on this computer that could have hinted I was a repeat visitor.
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Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance(quillette.com)
10 points by litoE 1y ago|4 comments
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by litoE 1y ago
Also at https://archive.ph/JOqMc
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by litoE 1y ago
Tariffs motivate smuggling. Smugglers corrupt the government's tax authorities so they will look the other way. Consumers who buy the cheaper product know full well it's smuggled goods. Conclusion: tariffs corrupt all of society.
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by litoE 1y ago
Up to now I have been using elvis exclusively, rather than vim, both on Windows and Linux - I never saw the need to switch, since elvis does everything I need. I just retired it last month, when I upgraded some systems to the latest release
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by litoE 1y ago
I'm impressed, but with my declining eyesight I don't think I could read most of the dials, even with glasses - I can't even read the date on my Timex. I would love to see a copy of the User's Guide for this watch though
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by litoE 1y ago
How petty. Marco Rubio was right. Trump does have small hands.
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by litoE 1y ago
> Median real wages have remained relatively flat over the past 15 years, increasing only about 0.3% annually when adjusted for inflation, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. In contrast, the cost of living — particular
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by litoE 2y ago
Citigroup used to have a world class software and hardware development Center in Los Angeles called Transaction Technology (TTI). They designed and built two generations of ATM machines that were head and shoulders above what other banks ha
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by litoE 2y ago
Use parental controls at the router to prevent the printer from accessing anything outside our in-house network. If it acts like a child, treat it like one.
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by litoE 2y ago
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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by litoE 2y ago
There's a scene in the movie "The Right Stuff" that shows this. Pretty funny ...
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by litoE 2y ago
Old joke: A man walks into an auto parts shop and asks "Can I get a rear view mirror for my Yugo?" The sales clerk thinks for a few seconds and replies "Seems like a fair trade to me."
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by litoE 2y ago
I was in the San Francisco Bay Area on July 4th, 1976. To celebrate the 200th Independence Day, the City of San Francisco set up an elaborate fireworks display on Alcatraz Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, which made it visible fro
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by litoE 2y ago
One way to test lots of patients where a) there's a low probability that an individual patient will have the disease and b) the test is expensive is to first mix some of the blood of each of N patients and do one test on the mix. If th
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by litoE 2y ago
My wife and I have now started both receiving similar messages, but this time purportedly from '<notifications@zellepay.com>'. Same M.O.
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by litoE 2y ago
I receive them too. They indeed come "From: <service@paypal.com>", but the dead giveaway is that the recipient is "To: fred smith <order_status10@jwa.onmicrosoft.com>". I'm NOT "fred smith" or
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by litoE 2y ago
I would either renegotiate the loan or, almost equivalent, get a second loan to pay off the first one.
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by litoE 2y ago
So you are saying it's the equivalent of a blank piece of paper with my signature on it. I sell it to you for $100 and you buy it because you expect to sell it to someone else for $200. Unless of course I sign a second piece of paper a
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Ask HN: Can someone explain a meme coin like I'm a 3-year old?
5 points by litoE 2y ago|16 comments

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