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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
You didn't miss anything. Find an old iPAQ on eBay if you want to play with Pocket PC (CE).
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Pocket PC was a variant of Windows CE. HP iPAQ PDAs ran it along with many other Palm PDA-alikes. It was used in an industrial GPS system controller I worked on because it presented a convenient, stable UI. The Motorola MPx200 ran Windows M
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Don't outsource something as critical as SSO to internal systems. The end. Also, don't use 1Password or LastPass. KeePassXC, PasswordSafe, Dashlane, or properly-configured Bitwarden.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
This is so much simpler than APPLE //e LOGO. Or Etch A Sketch with color, undo, composition, and perfect alignment. Okay, who's going to write the first interpreter in bf that's also a quine? ;D
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
New command: ;D
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
CRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRRCCCC[[[FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFR]]]
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
The story is some "waste disposal company" is a random country guy who sprays toxic waste all over the road to "control dust". He succeeded in turning Times Beach into a non-irradiated Chernobyl after toxic substances we
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
I take it that's 3½" HD and the adapter is 5¼" DS-HD ;-]
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Times Beach, MO becomes ghost town after improper dioxin waste disposal (1985)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by oldbbsnickname 3y ago|1 comments
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
archive.{ph,is,today} domain records are missing right now, again. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/archive.ph As a hack, fill /etc/hosts from parts of `dig archive.today ANY @carl.archive.is` 178.17.174.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Was it cheaper than living in a storage unit or someone's rented closet? I kid you not that people in SF both live in storage units (with power, cooking, fridge, and TV) and rent walk-in closets to live in.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Zoning issues, time, and money. An airbnb for hotdesk coworking is one possibility for space monetization, but I would probably want to limit it to people with Fortune 1000 email addresses and certain designated floors/areas for securi
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Radio silence is generally ambiguous: either you're doing really well or really badly. xD Meta is obsessed with "impact", a illusion of precisely-quantifiable innovation and productivity setting up perverse KPIs to never refa
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Which makes sense. Cool, wise managers would mention the pre-PIP possibility to otherwise good employees informally because surprises are Generally Bad™ for indicating a lack of transparency and mutual understanding between manager-employee
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Featured on New Rule: Don't Go to College | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) [0] 20 Oct 2023 An excoriation of elite universities as expensive and professing liberalism without openness and freedom of speech. FIRE is a non-ideological
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2024 College Free Speech Rankings(rankings.thefire.org)
15 points by oldbbsnickname 3y ago|14 comments
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699396
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
There ought to be (separately): - A talent-owned, co-op live music ticket and venue platform - A talent-owned, co-op music streaming service on all the devices (Spotify as the benchmark, Tidal is better quality but less convenient) - A tale
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
In a world free from the corruption of billionaires and corporations outright buying influence in DC, https://economicliberties.us , a nonpartisan, nonprofit think-tank and lobbies for improving and enforcing antitrust regulatio
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
If this isn't it, the way this has been done before: the SnapVolumes/AppVolumes & Softricity method. 0. Write a custom storage driver that presents an read-only overlay volume where the app should be. 1. If the OS doesn't
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
I'm against placing employee-to-employee conversations that aren't work related on work resources: No one can be honest because there's always a risk the company will use it against them. Meta has/had a secret "ADHD
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Wait a minute: does Amazon even tell white-collar employees they're being PIP'd? I though they just fired people without giving them any reason.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Biking for 40+ years from around the neighborhood to centuries, and do maintenance except cost-prohibitive procedures. I have road and mountain bikes with rim brakes (grew up with them), disc brakes, and a 4kW scooter with disc brakes and r
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Censored and cancelled by fucking spineless Apple to appease censors in various countries. He should take his show (or another one not legally too close to it) to HBO Max.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
They're still trying to do things at global scale when it's sadly limited to YC batch potentials to find a room in the Bay Area c. 2011 because there is a huge difference between mostly college-educated, investable individuals wit
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
CAF is Kafkaesque bullshit everyone knows is wrong but scurries forward through time like a cockroach because SCOTUS failed to invalidate it forcefully and it benefits the over-militarized police-bureaucracy complex. Also don't forge
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
C. 1990, I volunteered in the library at the middle school I was attending. The checkout machine was a then antiquated green phosphor monochrome Apple IIe with a fixed laser scanner wand shape like a large pen that had to be dragged across
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
You're mischaracterizing what I was talking about: I was talking about the general case of a hard-reset default password that is user-configurable. I don't care about Cisco, so they can continue footgunning themselves in obviously
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
Maybe. Or nAChRs or smokers exhibit sufficient narcissistic and hedonistic tendencies as to not off themselves directly.
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by oldbbsnickname 3y ago
No thanks to Intuit who had been stymieing it for profit for 20+ years. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

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