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by manithree 1y ago
Having lived through all this, I highly recommend "The Crazy Ones" blog from Gareth Edwards. https://every.to/the-crazy-ones The blog on Don Estridge covers IBM's place in PC history in fascinating and extens
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by manithree 1y ago
Not just non-technical people, but a lot of Windows developers I've worked with over the years can't seem to grasp the asymmetric key concept enough to use it for git (and then complain about git over over https). Being in charge
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by manithree 1y ago
Anybody find a license for their online catalogue? Searching for license found one "resultaten" that was a link that 404's, and no hits for "licentie." Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradek
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by manithree 1y ago
USPS, FedEx, UPS, and Amazon all do this, but USPS is by far the worst here. There's a new (well, it was several years ago) townhome in the town to the west that has exactly the same street address as mine, just a different city and ZI
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by manithree 1y ago
I must be way above the median age here if I'm the first to mention how much this looks like what when I was a teenager we called the "Man from Atlantis" stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_from_Atl
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by manithree 1y ago
With nice editor integration (especially emacs), hurl is a good postman replacement. Kinda niche, but I wrapped libhurl to make it really easy to make an AWS Lambda availability monitor out of a hurl file https://gitlab.com/
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by manithree 1y ago
This one is higher quality ( https://content.instructables.com/F84/WG7G/K2XU5LKV/F84WG7GK... ) and it's all kinda pointless without the "machine" https://www.instructables.com/CAR
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by manithree 2y ago
I thought CARDIAC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_... ) was pretty cool when I was in high school. I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.
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by manithree 2y ago
Not to be insensitive about your injury, but I'm more curious how you got your laser eye.
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by manithree 3y ago
I had the same question. Turns out, it's mostly a future possibility, and for most current use cases of branches in git, you would use a channel in pijul. At least that's how I understand these discussions in the pijul discourse.
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by manithree 3y ago
I've tried Lapce several times over the past year or 2, and have never gotten more than 5 minutes in without it hanging or crashing. I wish I was a rust programmer, but Lapce is not a good poster-child for the language, IMO. It's
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by manithree 3y ago
Of course they don't know it. They actually believe that the state is better at managing money than the people creating products and jobs.