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by peatmoss 9y ago
Were you a Linux user in the dark days of hardware fiddling? My perception is that there are getting to be two kinds of Linux users these days: 1. People who relished in the technical challenge of maintaining a Linux machine in the olden da
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Would be cool for someone to reproduce these results over at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. They have heaps of old systems that you can play with. How about the input latency of Parc Alto? PDP-7? :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I wonder how Gopher might be extended to offer micropayments. If someone wanted to create a web-alternative for high singal to noise content in 2017, I wonder if public libraries wouldn’t be the ideal test case.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Do you remember Gopher? Oh my yes. I even recently (as something of a joke) created a Gopher gateway to a web service. I miss Gopher in a lot of ways. It was my first real experience with the Internet (via the public library). The sign
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> If you have been on both buses and trains it should be obvious. It's not that obvious if you've been on a well-done BRT line. The design characteristics of busses that you mention don't hold true universally—in particula
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by peatmoss 9y ago
But you have the monorail from Seattle Center to Westlake :-) Skytrain is a big bet transit system. Enormously expensive from a capital perspective, but offers a qualitatively great experience, and with pretty fixed operating costs. Busses
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Man, I’m not sure BeOS was ever on the same technical footing as NeXT, but those BeBox machines were magical. I remember getting to play with one a little—an Internet acquaintance I met through IRC had one, was home on college break, and my
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Or maybe not including some sort of fat to prevent foaming...
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Adding to this, I've had brilliant minority friends pass up opportunity because it even contained the faint smell of “you got this because you’re X.” I think there are categories other than gender where people have sensitivity to the a
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> at least $2 trillion to fix our infrastructure over the next 10 years. I can only hope that some of this translates into some kind of New Deal work. Being just older than the millennials, I have felt for some time that I grabbed the la
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> steel wool My favorite tool for scraping stuck food particles is a one of those stainless steel ring chain mail things. They wash nicely in a dishwasher and do a good job of homogeneously scraping the surface of the pan.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wow, you unlocked some painful memories of buying an expansion card and spending a frustratingly long time wondering whether I’d ever get it working. There are many things I get nostalgic for about old computers, but this isn’t one of them.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
You can mostly combine 3 & 4 on that list. Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) has moved beyond Scheme in many ways (language features, batteries), but is still exceptionally similar.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’d work for an Aussie, but my auxiliary national affiliation in New Zealand would mandate I give them some good natured grief :-) I’d say it takes all kinds. I work with one Aussie who is a great manager, and she enjoys good rapport with e
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> freedom within the confines of what the state allows is not true freedom. I guess most nations have regulations of what is or is not allowed. I can't, for example, buy my neighbor and press him into forced labor, or buy a meth lab
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’m upvoting this comment because it would be a shame for the excellent responses to lose their context.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
The United States is a mixed economy with aspects of socialism and aspects of capitalism. We are far more capitalist than socialist. You can have a mixed economy with a lot more socialism than the US and still have a great society (see Euro
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music). Does Deezer support gapless (not cross-faded) playback? Because as far as I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I watch the PBS NewsHour on Youtube on the FireTV because it tends to be available sooner than on the PBS app. After the last round of updates, I've gotten a lot of video stuttering in YouTube, such that restarting the FireTV is the on
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by peatmoss 9y ago
And yet I meet social workers and other bureaucrats in this space that are clearly not making the kind of money I would require to work such a hard job. I feel like societal investments in combatting poverty are so low that the inefficienci
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yes, but there’s only so fast that so many plows can clear so much snow. Horrendous road conditions are still very much a reality.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Oof. That bit about teachers pulling kids aside to see if they had a winter coat is 100% truth. When I was a kid, there were basically never any school cancellations due to snow. The reason? The calculus in Montana was that it was safer to
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I wonder if Minix 3 will run on the PocketBeagle? It runs on the Black and White BeagleBones: http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:download:start Also, OpenBSD is another potential option (assuming the BBB and the Pocket
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> We don’t have government-run grocery stores like we have government-run schools. And yet most people in the country seem pretty happy with their grocery stores. They can get whatever they want there, and if they can’t afford it, we sub
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by peatmoss 9y ago
We've never had ceaseless steady state growth as per the grandparent's question before either :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Economy is tied to real consumption of finite resources. As we mine, fish, over harvest, burn, etc. our way out of some resources, we tend to find substitutes or other efficiencies to begin again. But... there is the question of whether our
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I suppose the level of influence depends on the institution and the degree of corporate support. I’ve been involved in research where PIs were fiercely emphatic about their unwillingness to share findings to funders prior to publication. Th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I feel like this game missed a naming opportunity to call it something like “Ektoglorpp” :-) Brilliant concept.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Flipping this around, I find it remarkable that, in the realm of Free Software, we can be having a serious conversation about the applicability and appropriateness of capitalism. This is part of what I love about ideas like UBI. If I could

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