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by mprovost 5y ago
The New Yorker writer James Thurber mentioned electric cars several times in his 1933 autobiography "My Life and Hard Times". (If you haven't read it, it's a real classic!) In the chapter "Draft Board Nights" h
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When I was in the VFX world we had fixed, hard deadlines. Once the release date is printed on a movie poster it's not changing. Some parts of the process were easy to estimate since they'd been done many times before, but on every
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by mprovost 5y ago
And another one: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-las...
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Yes, at OpenBSD hackathons they used lpd as a queue for mp3s so all the devs could submit music to be played for the room. https://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandm...
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Robert McNamara was secretary of defense for JFK and LBJ during the Vietnam War. Before that he was the president of Ford Motor Company. He's the one who introduced the charts that they used to show on TV with the number of enemy kille
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by mprovost 5y ago
The article has a photo of the Royal Agricultural Hall in London where they used to hold races. It's now called the Business Design Centre and this year has been converted into a mass vaccination centre - it's where I got my jab!
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I spent a few summers in the mid-90s card counting with a couple friends on summer vacation from college. Vegas was saturated so we focussed on Reno and Mississippi. I'm pretty sure we were about the only ones in Mississippi because th
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by mprovost 5y ago
There was that time a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers went and fixed the healthcare.gov (Obamacare) site for the US govt after the original contractors did a terrible job. But then the first team were already contractors, so maybe the les
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by mprovost 5y ago
Also https://www.reddit.com/r/NonZeroDay/
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by mprovost 5y ago
I mean we've managed to stretch v4 for 20 years longer than anyone thought possible. Adding one more bit to the address would have doubled the size of the v4 space, so another 8 bits would have been plenty.
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by mprovost 5y ago
An inflexion point can go either way, the question is have we already passed that point with v6 or is this the start of a decline that ends with it failing to replace v4? (Stealing this from Geoff Huston, see page 41 of his presentation [0]
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by mprovost 5y ago
Adoption is already slowing down, by half in 2020 vs 2019. https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/08/ipv6-in-2020/
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All good points but I think at the $5 level you're also competing with "free". There are a lot of comments here suggesting fonts like Iosevka which are open source/free. In any case my point was that we don't really
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by mprovost 5y ago
Is it less work to design and produce a good programming font? Or is there a larger target market at a lower price? In other words, what market forces would make the price go down for this one category of fonts? Personally I doubt that a pr
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Instagram was founded in 2010.
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I moved to California to work at a dot com on March 3, 2000. The NASDAQ peaked one week later on March 10. To me that era is captured in Douglas Coupland's novels Microserfs (pre-crash) and JPod (post-crash). JPod was also made into a
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That's why this is good training for the real world.
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"Shaq is rich. The white man that signs his check, is wealthy." - Chris Rock
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I felt quite old recently when someone at work recommended a Vax carpet cleaner and I mentioned that my first email account was on a Vax... and they had no idea what I was talking about. Had never heard of the platform, or of DEC.
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by mprovost 5y ago
I used to have a camping water purifier from MSR that they developed with a company called MIOX. It ran on batteries and had a little catalyst and you put salt solution in and it fizzed and produced chlorine that you poured into your water
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by mprovost 5y ago
Gap closed all the Banana Republic stores in the UK in 2016.
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His TED talk is amazing, his energy for learning is so infectious. I just meant to post the link here but had to watch the whole thing again! https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_the_call_to_learn?l...
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by mprovost 5y ago
The 402 HTTP status code is "Payment Required". At one time people envisioned micropayments etc but it never went anywhere.
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Eating whales. Or dolphins. Or dogs. Or chimps.
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While legally allowed it would be politically and culturally impossible at this point to build a nuclear power plant in NZ. The population has a strong Nuclear Free identity. For example, when you fly into Wellington, the sign on the way ou
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You can break the pipe and curl the file first, read it, and then run it. But I doubt that anyone ever reads through the thousands of lines of m4 that come with a typical program that uses autoconf either.
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Bob is one end of end-to-end.
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Yes this has always made me wonder about the pushback you see with the recent move towards curl | sh installers. In the past you'd download a random tarball and then run ./configure which could do anything.
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An option that Kim Stanley Robinson explored is his novels is a kind of draft/jury service model where voters are randomly selected to serve in government. Sometimes for a whole term, but you can also imagine something like jury servic
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Does anybody else see some names printed on the graphics card (sorry, framebuffer) PCB just above the TurboXGX chip? I can see Curtis and Chris crossed out, and Tony...

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