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by mrbill 9y ago
I wonder how they define "classics" - two of my cherished titles from MIT Press are "IBM's Early Computers" (1985) and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" (1991). They're examples of what I conside
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by mrbill 9y ago
I live in Houston. My commute home (from up on North Loop West, to near Gessner/Westheimer) takes a minimum of 30 minutes even if I leave at 6-6:30pm. Total distance? ~11 miles. Here's the data from my Automatic Pro GPS OBD2 don
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by mrbill 9y ago
As a sort of counterpoint, I really wish that Amazon UK was integrated with the Amazon US customer database. I'd like to be able to log into Amazon UK with my normal credentials and order something from there, with the option of inter
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by mrbill 9y ago
I beg to differ, I've seen nothing of the sort.
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by mrbill 9y ago
Thanks from yet another MeFite.
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by mrbill 9y ago
When you do/say/write something that has the potential to cause problems for your employer, you should be aware of and prepared for the possible consequences. I certainly would not write a multi-page screed criticizing the policie
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by mrbill 9y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to build starlisp-simulator on a modern platform and thereby "emulate" / simulate a CM... The Wikipedia page says it was ported to CL in '01, but the links are old/dead. EDIT: aha.
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by mrbill 9y ago
When Mom was stuck with using a modem, I bought her a (literal) stack of USR Courier v.Everything modems (cheap, since a lot of ISPs in Austin were ditching dialup service around that time). She had lightning hits and storms so often that I
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by mrbill 9y ago
My mother lives in rural Oklahoma, and her Internet connection (2-3Mbps/1Mbps for $60 a month) is a WiMax antenna on the roof of her house, pointed at another antenna on the water tower of the next town over. It's not great, but i
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by mrbill 9y ago
When I worked for a large multinational energy services firm, one of the bosses I had (they changed every 2-3 years) was a huge bully. One of those "great coworker, bad manager" types. My wife had passed away, and as a result, my
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by mrbill 9y ago
After Hurricane Ike (and 8 days without power) I built almost this exact setup to power my CPAP machine in case of another long-term power outage.
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by mrbill 9y ago
I wonder how much performance hit font antialiasing in iterm2 causes, or if it was turned on during these tests.
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by mrbill 9y ago
Amazon pays the USPS to do deliveries solely for them on Sundays.
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by mrbill 9y ago
Too many products with conflicting names. I thought this was about the email client at first. http://www.instinct.org/elm/
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by mrbill 9y ago
Which is explicitly mentioned in the article along with a link to someone's YouTube video of theirs, in high-contrast white on red text.
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by mrbill 9y ago
Should say (2014), as that's when this was first published; the restaurant talked about closed in January 2016.
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by mrbill 9y ago
My employer doesn't care, as long as I'm (a) getting my job done and (b) not competing with what they do as a business. I have a 3d printer on my desk at the office. Boss actually gave me kudos during my last review for doing stu
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by mrbill 10y ago
How does SDF keep itself funded? What kind of bandwidth do they have to the outside world? I can see hardware not being an issue - with the right contacts you can be swimming in older x86 and Alpha gear, storage and networking, etc, with e
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by mrbill 10y ago
I was an EFnet server admin at Texas.Net up until '98 or so when the smurf attacks became too much and we pulled the plug on that server. Not too long after that a few friends and I started a tiny network of our own that still runs to
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by mrbill 10y ago
Wow, downvoted and I didn't even give specifics of which offshoot site it was.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Sparkler Filters [1] in Conroe, TX is still using an IBM 402 for daily operations and bookkeeping. [1] http://ibm-1401.info/402.html#SparkleFilters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCZ35y3O04
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by mrbill 10y ago
I read this about a week ago and it is very well done. I've not logged into SA (I only used the forums) in a couple of years at least, glad to see they're still existing. I still use a torrent site that was a SA spinoff.
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by mrbill 10y ago
It's quite easy to install a plugin that will auto-update all of your plugins for you, and WordPress itself auto-updates by default now.
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by mrbill 10y ago
The last time I flew was in 2009 when I had to go to Chattanooga for my wife's funeral (we buried her next to her mom). Before that was 2001 when we got married in the same city and then honeymooned in Baltimore & DC. I don't
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by mrbill 10y ago
Horrible choice for product name, too close / collision with the widely-used Mailman mailing list software.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100989
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by mrbill 10y ago
Google has already disabled this from responding on the server side.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I did a smaller, simpler build with 8 x hotswap-bay SATA drives running off two 4-port PCIe SATA controllers. Not counting drives, it came to about $550. http://www.mrbill.net/nasbuild/ I originally started building
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by mrbill 10y ago
Look into adrafinil; it's completely non-regulated/OTC in the US and metabolizes into modafinil in your gut. From Wikipedia: "Adrafinil is a prodrug; it is primarily metabolized in vivo to modafinil, resulting in very similar
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by mrbill 10y ago
My high school senior English class research paper was on VR ... in 1993 . Lanier featured heavily as he was one of the "public faces" of the technology back then, with all of the high-dollar stuff coming out of JPL. I remember

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