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by rietta 1y ago
Seems like very short notice!
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by rietta 1y ago
I have had a touch of it for a few years. I have been very careful to protect my hearing. Always listening to headphones on the lowest setting. Always wearing hearing protection while operating lawn equipment. I have been an amateur competi
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by rietta 1y ago
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is the extraordinary ability does not have to germane to your employment. I am aware of the the story of Gabby Franco - who appeared on a season of Top Shot years ago. She was on the Venezuela Olympic
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by rietta 1y ago
I have been a big fan of delayed_job for a while. For a time went with sidekiq + Redis but found the juice not worth the squeeze. The biggest issue was complex logic that got run before the current sql transaction finalized. Weird timing bu
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by rietta 1y ago
I remember thinking that the Visual Basic runtime was unacceptable bloat overhead and now this. Cool work though. Also reminds me of self extracting WinZip files.
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by rietta 1y ago
My lay scientist feel is still that Pluto is a planet, or at the very least have been grandfathered in. The New Horizons reporting 10 years ago just solidified this in my mind. The geological processes are more telling than having cleared t
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by rietta 1y ago
I love it! "Computer...Ah, hello computer!" immediately comes to mind.
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by rietta 1y ago
I didn't make these rules. Just pointing out why this stuff is flowing down hill from government regulations and the overreaction of the private companies who have in the business model no allowance for nuance or human intervention at
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by rietta 1y ago
It’s for serving legal notice!
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by rietta 1y ago
It seems to me that this is not a fair test. There is sentiment and there is budget. A product that costs a little more is one thing but double the price hits budget barriers. Most people do not have 80%+ discretionary budget.
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by rietta 1y ago
I am impressed that the FSF has kept up the same office / mailing address for 32 years at the time the article was written!
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by rietta 1y ago
It's the standard here in the USA. The other standard is the US Legal at 8.5 inches by 14 inches (216 mm by 356 mm). This is what is used in court settings (hence the name) but also things like paper mortgage statements will typically
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by rietta 1y ago
By the way, for those unaware of the general set up, QEMU provides a complete software emulation of a CPU from that era as well as a Sound Blaster 16 card. The software just runs like it did back then - maybe a little faster without tuning
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by rietta 1y ago
Yeah, I personally will not subscribe to this. I am a grown man and I strongly dislike watching depictions of violence and want nothing personally to do with porn. My wife works in mental health and is well aware of suicide and counseling p
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by rietta 1y ago
I appreciate you sharing your perspective here. Please do not read too much into this as me trying to control our kids beyond normal parenting and making sure they learn to grow up to be strong, confident, and caring for others. They do hav
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by rietta 1y ago
I originally posted this over the weekend and it didn't catch on. I didn't realize HN auto reposts under some conditions! Let me know if you have any questions about the emulation set up.
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by rietta 1y ago
Wine has been very useful for a few decades now. I got to admit though, I seldom find myself running serious software with it. I end up with Windows itself running in a virtual machine. I remember that it actually ran my VB6 applications li
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by rietta 1y ago
Does anyone here know Elmer Larsen personally? A little digging online found that he later became a city council member and a mayor. I always love learning about some of the earlier independent developers and what they went on to become.
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Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety(rietta.com)
85 points by rietta 1y ago|39 comments
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by rietta 1y ago
Published this last year after introducing my daughter to some old DOS educational games. She is going to be starting Kindergarten soon and my plan is to set her up with her own computer with older educational titles to encourage learning c
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by rietta 1y ago
With a single member LLC it is just an extra form on your personal return at least!
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by rietta 1y ago
You have to satisfy the business requirement, which may be pretty easy to do. I am not sure. Just indicate it's for your side hustle business.
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by rietta 1y ago
How does a home-based business demonstrate their business bona fides here? Having a business account with DHL? Having a business name?
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by rietta 1y ago
Congratulations on getting into competition! I started competing and intentionally practicing to get better about 4 years ago after a long time of being a safe but casual shooter. In the last year I have won some major Glock-sponsored GSSF
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by rietta 1y ago
Don't be hard on yourself. None of us are born with this knowledge :-) If you ever shoot, just remember it is a really good idea to wash your hands afterwards (using the dlead soap if possible). It is not a bad idea to have a change of
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by rietta 1y ago
It’s not obvious, but practice enough at indoor ranges or reload your own competition ammo long enough. I have heard firsthand accounts from shooters who at some point weren’t feeling well, got tested, and found out they needed to be a lot
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by rietta 1y ago
You can request blood lead labs done through your doctor. People who work in industry and competition shooters and such will get that done to track.
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by rietta 1y ago
Your latest post about Google results inspired me to write on this too with a link back to your article! Google Search Results are Increasingly Disappointing as AI Results Are Pushed at https://rietta.com/blog/google-se
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by rietta 1y ago
Just visited!
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by rietta 2y ago
Impossible in the United States under the constitution. To put plainly, this would be a colossal first amendment violation, abridging the freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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