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by rwmj 2mo ago
I'm confused. Your physical notebook management is awful, ie. I guess you have live in a house without shelves or something. But spending time troubleshooting an electronic device from only 2022 is easier?
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by rwmj 2mo ago
Next up, "reviving my paper notes from 40 years ago". Oh wait, there's nothing that I need to do, they still all work fine.
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by rwmj 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/uoKTe
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by rwmj 2mo ago
One is that Sun/Oracle made an honest mistake with the license (self-inflicted). The other is that they regretted that Java was ever open source and so made the license and other processes around Java as annoying as possible while sti
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by rwmj 2mo ago
If the CTO was right about the premise it'd be fine, but much more likely he pulled the "everyone is happy with 1s" out of his arse and then used his position/authority to bully the team.
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by rwmj 2mo ago
Intentional rather than self-inflicted.
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by rwmj 2mo ago
Retirement age is usually tied to various benefits. In the UK it's the age at which you can collect the state pension (currently around £12K per year, if you worked for 30-35 years). Changing the retirement age therefore affects the
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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot(fastcompany.com)
175 points by rwmj 3mo ago|104 comments
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by rwmj 3mo ago
What have luxury jets and superyachts got to do with the chattering classes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattering_classes
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by rwmj 3mo ago
HN truncated the link which is actually supposed to be: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy0d0wgy4xt?post=asset%3Ac7...
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90 second power loss causing second day of train disruption(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by rwmj 3mo ago|1 comments
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Their model at the time was a heavyweight desktop-only website where you could look at the menus, then call their call centre (visible through a large glass window right next to the kitchens) where a human would pick up and take the order.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
I consulted for Deliverance a bit later than Y2K (probably in 2004/5). They were a very strange company internally at the time. First I want to say they weren't really like Deliveroo because they had their own kitchens. Or to be
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by rwmj 3mo ago
The internet was a bit different more homely in those days. Back in 1996 we hired a guy as network administrator. On his first day at work, we got an email from a network admin who was reading Usenet. He'd seen our new guy had poste
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Hard disks used to come with a paper label listing their bad sectors. (They still come with a list, it's just now it is hidden in the firmware like you describe.)
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by rwmj 3mo ago
"I wouldn't even try it because I don't want to be deported from Japan."
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by rwmj 3mo ago
I remember back in the day Kermit was pretty heavyweight. We used sz/rz for file transfer [z-modem: good to see the man pages are still up! https://linux.die.net/man/1/sz ]. Is there a reason to prefer Kermi
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by rwmj 3mo ago
> German car industry is trailing with EVs, because they can not manufacture the heart of EV - the battery. "We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!" ... The German car industry could have seen the EV revolution com
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by rwmj 3mo ago
They're also making cars that people want to buy for a price they can afford. Toyota aren't making any cars I want to buy (at any price).
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Not a scientific study, but here in the UK where we don't have tariffs against Chinese car manufacturers, there are loads of electric BYDs and Jaecoos (the "Temu Range Rover") driving around recently.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
The article was kind of terrible. If it had more emojis I would have said it was an AI generated summary. To really understand how strange AS/400 if you need to read Frank Soltis's book (he was the original architect of it at IB
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by rwmj 3mo ago
I'd recommend people read "Inside the AS400" by Frank G. Soltis, as the concepts behind the OS are quite strange and unlike anything else I've ever seen. Unfortunately paper copies are pretty expensive, but there's
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by rwmj 3mo ago
At an early start up I worked for, we had a bunch of PowerPC Mac pizza boxes running System 7. The experience was terrible, they crashed or locked up constantly. I eventually took a few of them and installed MkLinux and they were rock-soli
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Interesting article but left me wondering why they don't use ¹H₂¹⁶O as the "standard water"? Surely you can make that (relatively) easily in a centrifuge by spinning out the lightest fraction of water.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Because both the implementation and DSL of udev are terrible, probably.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
> "At the time of publication, no robust mitigation for the broader vulnerability class is available" Isn't it obvious by now that it's never going to be possible to fix this kind of thing, at least until we stop mi
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by rwmj 3mo ago
It was pretty mad in the 90s, but I don't recall anyone ever being forced into it at companies I worked for. A company mandated "alcohol bus" sounds ridiculous then and now.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Yes I'm pretty sure that I cannot put up shutters or awnings here (in the UK) on the front of my house. These may become necessary in the years ahead.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Are there physical turtles available? Good for kids to take home an actual plot from their classes.
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by rwmj 3mo ago
Wouldn't something like Python be better for interactivity?

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