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by snozolli 2y ago
The most ambitious people I've ever known were all Google employees and most of them enjoyed marijuana after work.
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That box design is giving me huge nostalgia waves. A program most nerds (including me) used to run on every computer we came across in department stores back in the 80’s. The salesmen must have been sick to death of kids doing this all day
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by snozolli 2y ago
I was plodding through the steps to set up a mail servicer on my Hetzner instance when I realized I was about to sink a ton of time into a subject I know nothing about that would earn me no money. So I did the reasonable thing and signed up
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by snozolli 2y ago
This is the worst explanation of a new product that I've seen since Google Buzz.
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by snozolli 2y ago
I wrote code for PalmOS back around '99. One thing that stands out in my memory is the way that applications were tested. I think it was a feature of the emulator, which would fire events at your software. I forget the details, but
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by snozolli 2y ago
Not GP, but Cryptonomicon stands out as predicting a lot about markets around cryptography, and the relationship between nations and technology. Stephenson didn't predict Blockchain and Bitcoin specifically, but he got closer than a
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by snozolli 2y ago
Yes, Asimov's Foundation has people smoking, reading physical newspapers and using physical money, lining up for customs when arriving to Trantor. No women until later on in the series (in his defense, he may have not talked to many w
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by snozolli 2y ago
That brought back memories of playing off a backup and having to switch to the original for validation, and of some Amiga program that claimed to copy copy-protected disks. It thrashed the floppy drive like crazy and looked very, uh, sophi
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by snozolli 2y ago
Does anyone have any insight as to how much modern simulation software helps the process? From what little I remember of reading about the first attempts at supersonic flight, there were a lot of unknowns and somewhat counter-intuitive fact
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by snozolli 2y ago
and the car was suspected to be recording That's the fishing expedition part. Again, from what the article said, there was no particular reason to believe it was in Sentry mode. I don't know why you're bringing up privacy.
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by snozolli 2y ago
Unless they're parking in an area with a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as a locker room, it's perfectly legal to record in the United States.
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by snozolli 2y ago
I don't see how towing a car is any different Before modern FISA courts, we generally had faith that a search warrant was warranted , based upon other investigation. From what the article said, this sounds more like a "fishing
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by snozolli 2y ago
I distinctly remember a PC magazine article about a later release of GeoWorks. It gushed about how it could play full motion video (probably only 256 pixels wide, if that) while running other applications. The screenshot showed a clip fro
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by snozolli 2y ago
DOS has similarly been stripped from Windows but 3rd party DOS shells exist on many platforms Huh? DOS != Command line interpreter or shell. DOS per se hasn't existed for decades, but the command line (Command Prompt) lives on, usi
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by snozolli 2y ago
You can write a Linux program that pulls from an INI file What's the API for that look like? In Win32 it's GetPrivateProfileString. the question is how this stuff is relevant to being a power Windows user. I gave you an examp
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by snozolli 2y ago
if you were serious about coding, you knew C. I think this is fundamentally the same toxic thinking that is still with us today. C offered no actual advantages over Turbo Pascal for DOS/Windows programming. I'm sure one can c
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by snozolli 2y ago
A licensed copy of the most feature-packed Windows Server Datacenter edition will run you ~$6k (16 core license). Kind of a weird basis for comparison when everyone seems to be talking about the desktop experience. I love Linux for server
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by snozolli 2y ago
Remember .ini files? Yea how relevant is that today? AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from writing software that pulls config info from an ini file. Has something changed? Edit: I think I've edited ini files to configure vid
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by snozolli 2y ago
I was just thinking a couple of weeks ago how the new settings app is basically a bunch of text. Personally, I find it hard to navigate compared to colorful, differentiated icons. The whole point of icons - to encapsulate meaning efficient
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by snozolli 2y ago
Turns out the new generation only understands flat icons. If you make a row of the machine like win 95 buttons they don't see it. "you can click on that? I thought those were just decoration!" I don't understand how Wi
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by snozolli 2y ago
I'm not the other guy, and I don't have data, but the risk might be far higher outside the US. These days, Americans mostly treat their dog like a family member. If you travel to developing nations, you're far more likely
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by snozolli 2y ago
In February 2021, in the Willamette valley of Oregon, we had a weather event unprecedented in my lifetime. Winters here are usually overcast and rainy, with little to no snow and a handful of mild freezes. In 2021 we had a significant rai
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by snozolli 2y ago
For what it's worth, old lock grease tends to move away from where it's needed and turn into a hard, waxy substance. It's arguably better to have a lock cleaned and slightly lubricated with WD-40 than one gummed up with anci
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by snozolli 2y ago
I stopped watching the show Ozark because of the episode where the saboteur takes an AC line and drops it into the water by a dock in order to electrocute someone. I'm no expert in electricity, but I know that your body has to becom
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by snozolli 2y ago
A soldier died in Iraq in 2008 because a water pump wasn't grounded. https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/military.electrocutions/
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by snozolli 2y ago
I always want to ask what is it that you love? - Public lands. Most states have National Parks in them. Every state has state parks. These generally give enormous freedom of enjoyment to vast areas of land and are accessible to most. -
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by snozolli 2y ago
Not at a public location that's too far or unsafe to walk to. We should have much higher density, high quality housing with plenty of public, walkable green spaces. They calling it "15-Minute Cities" now, but I always called
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by snozolli 2y ago
The Bluetooth experience varies wildly . The Bluetooth stack is pretty enormous and complicated these days, so there's a lot of space for software and hardware vendors to screw things up. Apple-to-Apple seems to be dead reliable from
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by snozolli 2y ago
I immediately thought of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLs1_8yohb8 The trench collapses right after the OSHA inspector tells them they can't be in there without shoring. Nobody was hurt, but it was a gre
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by snozolli 2y ago
Maybe you’d know about subcontractors who don’t gaf or workers who are told to do something and they don’t listen. As GP said: a safety supervisor on site overseeing the operation is also required You don't want to listen? No more

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