mwexler

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by mwexler 10mo ago
It's been a few years since the "Expert Mouse" was released, and there's still no "Magic Trackpad" equivalent on the Windows side. Still, the earlier Expert Mouse trackball have been pretty good for folks want
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by mwexler 10mo ago
It's fascinating to see the mergers of 2 dead tech. This isn't emulation or archiving; it's something that only a few hundred people can even experience. Yet it's a fascinating journey. I'm not quite sure why I lik
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by mwexler 11mo ago
Early strips are very different. Dark, sarcastic, double meaning, lots of depth. They changed as Schulz got older and lighter, and that's what most folks know. But worth reading the earliest entries, and then see how those themes play
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by mwexler 11mo ago
The JFK one can be seen in the lobby of the TWA hotel ( https://www.twahotel.com/photos ). If you have a layover, or can come early, this whole lobby is worth a good 25 minute walkthrough. https://www.youtube.com&
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by mwexler 11mo ago
I am actually quite frustrated with the state of "Open Banking" access in the US. No matter which tool I use across open source or just something I hack myself (or a spreadsheet), I still have no easy way to get to my banking and
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by mwexler 1y ago
It blocks the most egregious and give a bot score that you can use to get more aggressive at the next layer. That score seems to miss a lot of bad traffic, making it not very useful in it's current state.
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by mwexler 1y ago
Or an even cheaper android tablet.
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by mwexler 1y ago
Fivetran has 2 pieces: data movement and integration/access (via linking to APIs, etc.) Sure, there's Airbyte and others, but no one has as complete a catalog of integration plugs as Fivetran. Yes, OpenFlow may be able to replace
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by mwexler 1y ago
Wow, that was well hidden. Thanks for the link!
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by mwexler 1y ago
I am continually surprised that Apple doesn't offer an "older" user set of options, as part of accessibility. My mother in law is confused between contacts, contacts in messages, contacts in phone (we should have one place t
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by mwexler 1y ago
82-83 was the peak of hobbyist computing where articles and ads were in-between components and software. As the tech improved, it moved into "appliance" mode of being a box you plug in, not a heathkit you assemble. By 86, Gatewa
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by mwexler 1y ago
This one wasn't the one that converted me (Gibson ftw) but Mirrorshades expanded what I thought the genre could be. Not every story is a winner, but enough try to stretch a bit that it's worth the read. Helps to put your mind in t
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by mwexler 1y ago
I appreciated the link to this helpful comparison site: https://text-to-diagram.com/
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by mwexler 2y ago
Emerald Time ( https://emeraldsequoia.com/et/index.html ) was my favorite clock-setting app. Always fun to see the variation among sources. I was sad to see the company shut down.
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Political poll news site 538 to close(theguardian.com)
2 points by mwexler 2y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 2y ago
I think the folks who lost access to funds due to an implementation choice of Synapse would disagree with this statement. They don't care about most implementation details, but choice of 3rd parties to manage functionality and data doe
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Common Mobile Game Economy Problems Solved(adriancrook.com)
1 points by mwexler 2y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 2y ago
Though not a pipe syntax, the Malloy language has some similar analytic sugar in its syntax. Malloy is from Lloyd Tabb, a co-founder of Looker. https://www.malloydata.dev/
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by mwexler 2y ago
Pulled from above: Coding Style The q gods have no need for explanatory error messages or comments since their q code is perfect and self-documenting. Even experienced mortals spend hours poring over cryptic q error messages such as the
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by mwexler 2y ago
That is an astonishing list of games. I was surprised to have memories of so many of those rush back, even just from the picture.
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by mwexler 2y ago
Tangentially related, I am reminded of this quote from the fun-yet-silly film "Broken Arrow" (1996): Giles Prentice: A Broken what? Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we
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by mwexler 2y ago
I guess we'll be able to live in the iconic Flatiron building, as one of the buildings mentioned in the piece. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_Building
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Microsoft's Outage Response Is the 1 Thing No Company Should Ever Do(inc.com)
4 points by mwexler 2y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 2y ago
ValForth from Valpar was one of the first cross platform FORTH implementations in the Atari ST ecosystem, and it had some clever extensions for games. https://www.atarimagazines.com/rom/issue1/jumping_forth.php Bu
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by mwexler 2y ago
While the other authors are from Tsinghua University, two more recognizable names include Wes McKinney of Pandas and Apache Arrow fame and Andy Pavlo at CMU, who has done some fun work on columnar stores and database optimization. Always fu
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by mwexler 2y ago
It's interesting that the ARF post completely skips mentioning Eastern Front ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(1941) ) which both revolutionized sim/war games on computers, and the interfaces suc
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AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mwexler 2y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 2y ago
I know, they aren't the first to use it, but I still appreciate the pun.
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by mwexler 2y ago
Both of these reflect a security approach from early 2010s when keyboard sniffing was the worry-of-the-week. The idea was that even with all keystrokes intercepted, the full pw was never sent via keypresses. One of my pals around that tim
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by mwexler 2y ago
Remember, this was not too far removed from the era of https://youtu.be/2MXqb1a3Apg?si=J7Q_9hBYin2KWKwN In our world of limited source credibility and disdain for expertise, this video and the script do seem like throwbacks

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