robennals

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   by robennals 3y ago

   Because it wouldn’t be economic to repair it to “good as new” status. The people who buy salvage titled cars are usually happy to drive a car that doesn’t work quite right if they get a killer deal for it.
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   by robennals 4y ago

   Internally, SCO used to joke that they were “the most popular operating system you haven’t heard of”. It was (at that time) the best Unix on cheap x86 hardware, so it was deployed everywhere. In gas station pumps, in cash registers, in ATMs
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   by robennals 4y ago

   I can’t speak to what it was like to work with them from the outside, but (at least when I was there) they definitely had a fun internal culture. Small enough to not have a “big company” feel, yet profitable enough (at that time) to not hav
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   by robennals 4y ago

   Getting stolen is only a problem if you leave your scooter somewhere public. One of the big advantages of an electric scooter over an e-bike is that some of them fold down small enough that you can just carry them wherever you are going. No
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   Chatbots make search interesting again(messyprogress.substack.com)

   3 points by robennals 4y ago|0 comments
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   by robennals 4y ago

   This is a great quick reference. Not enough to actually teach you what all these models do (that would be impossible), but I expect this will be great for times when I see a reference to a model I used to sort of understand and want a quick