pimlottc

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1. 151.▲
   by pimlottc 5mo ago

   Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.
2. 152.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   In about a hundred or so separate microservices, of course…
3. 153.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   Government websites are often particular bad this way. Nobody cares who the head of the agency is or wants to read their newest blog post. Most people don’t need to know that the new records department opened in Des Moines. They need to kno
4. 154.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   Prices are going up. People are looking for bargains.
5. 155.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   Oops, I meant the fiber was laid starting in 1988
6. 156.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   What is specific about this for using with agents? As opposed to offering it as a general automation library for any use?
7. 157.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   Yep. This was in the mid-nineties. The fiber was already present from the initial effort to wire the campus starting in 1998 [0]. The move to ATM happened later and was in used for 6-7 years before they went to gigabit ethernet [1] (chec
8. 158.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   My college went all-in on ATM-over-fiber and wired all the dorm rooms with it. It was a PITA. Of course no computers came with ATM support and the cards cost $400+ each so the school had hundreds of cards that they would “lease” them out to
9. 159.▲
   by pimlottc 6mo ago

   I had to read this for quite a while to be sure they weren’t actually talking about boxes
10. 160.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Yeah, I don't know the specific trade-offs here, but taking on some tech debt for two years of successful growth is not necessary a bad deal.
11. 161.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    That's part of what makes it impressive. "Our country is so advanced and powerful that we can make a giant tower like this just for a glorified art show"
12. 162.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    What is the data that NIST is adding for enriched entries?
13. 163.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Publicity from the gimmick is the whole point
14. 164.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    > Accursèd For those who don’t know, the accent indicates that the -ed ending is pronounced as a separate syllable, I.e. “a-curse-ed”. For that extra mysterious, old-timey feel!
15. 165.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    The TL;DR doesn’t really say what this new pager offers compared to less; it seems to mostly be a learning project: > lore supports only a subset of what less does, but in a more intuitive and useful manner for my daily activity. I also
16. 166.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    I would imagine this is to make them look less machine-perfect and more "home-made"
17. 167.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Clickable link: https://justgetflux.com/
18. 168.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Got a link for some of those open source CPAP hackers?
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    There is also the legitimate view that a concert is a physical, ephemeral experience shared by the people in the room on the night. That is it fleeting is part of its beauty, in the same manner as live theater. Which is not to say no concer
20. 170.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    You probably meant to reply to a different post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764164
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Trent also famously mourned the closing of Oink.fm, at one time the world largest largest music torrent tracker https://www.wired.com/2007/10/trent-reznor-on/
22. 172.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    And honestly what’s wrong with the ads? Sure, they’re a bit cheesy, but not really that much out of the ordinary for magazine ads back then. There were certainly much worse (sensational, sexiest) ones… Let’s not forget, IBM themselves used
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Really interesting to see how far this story has spread, I saw it in my Chicago groups first and now it’s popped up in outlets all over the world. I guess it shows how nostalgic we are for an earlier time, both in music and internet culture
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    I was half-afraid this would start with a form prompting you to upload your tax return :P
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    These are all almost 10 years old, many are 20 or 30 or even 40 years old. Time makes a big difference. There's a 2004 article about the taper [0] posted elsewhere in the thread, he definitely did get into a bit of trouble at the time
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    https://www.nintourhistory.com is great too, you can make an account and see personalized stats
27. 177.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    You (probably) mean “heroin”
28. 178.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Disabled in the sense that you can no longer receive email (which for many is the primary purpose for a Google account), not that you can’t login.
29. 179.▲
    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    This is cool but the characters are awful small on my iPhone 14 Pro. Decent bit of wasted space too. Why are the characters in the previous history list (on the “rim” so much bigger than the characters I’m actively exploring?
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    by pimlottc 6mo ago

    Way back in the day there was a fantastic piece of software from Brøderbund (of Lode Runner fame, among others) called The Toy Shop [0] that let you print customized papercraft designs that you would then assemble into working toys. Some o