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by space_ghost 4y ago
Oh man, .NET needed this. Did some PDF work for a .NET project last year and found the ecosystem to be somewhat light on PDF support. There's a few commercial options, but they're pricey.
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by space_ghost 4y ago
System76 offers woodgrain sides in multiple colors on their Thelio desktop line [0]. I've been running one for six months as my employer-provided machine and it's been fantastic. [0] https://system76.com/desktops
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by space_ghost 4y ago
And I would happily jump in your vacant seat and enjoy hours of pedantic discussions on the vagaries of silly English words.
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by space_ghost 4y ago
I also have fond memories of the G4 case for this reason - it was a breath of fresh air after so many years of dealing with cumbersome Whiteboxen.
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by space_ghost 4y ago
Calling those two machines the same would be like calling a Curtiss JN-4 and a Messerschmitt ME 232 "the same." Sure, they both fly and use fixed wings to attain lift, but that's where the similarities end. That's some s
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by space_ghost 4y ago
There's a great analysis of that scene on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKc54z5SsEs
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by space_ghost 4y ago
It's literally on repeat in a separate tab right now. Excellent choice.
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by space_ghost 4y ago
My printer memories of the late 90's were of cheap Canon bubblejet printers. The ones that were cheaper to buy than replacement ink cartridges, to the point that it was cheaper to buy a new printer than it was to replace the ink. Good
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by space_ghost 4y ago
In an episode that also involved linguistic investigation by Mr. Data, if memory serves. :D
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by space_ghost 4y ago
I strongly remember using Firebug in Firefox (mind-blowing tools, for the time) in ~2008 and having to debug issues in IE, which had the equivalent of a Check Engine Light for debugging.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
There's a subplot in The Newsroom where a producer edits an interviewee out of context, leading to the network broadcasting false accusations of serious war crimes. The producer wasn't careful enough, and a clock visible in the ba
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Flavor? "#" starts a comment, so the "/+" characters are ignored by the interpreter.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed watching it. I had a Treo 650 in the 2000s and loved it, despite its flaws.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Dropbox's mobile app includes a document scanning feature that seems to work well.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
How much of that time and money was R&D and prototyping, and how much of that was the bespoke production of this single unit?
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by space_ghost 5y ago
It's the Fellow Ode, as ezarowny correctly guessed. :)
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by space_ghost 5y ago
My wife bought me a $300 coffee grinder for Christmas. As a coffee ...enthusiast?... I'm quite fond of it. Perfectly consistent grid, very quiet electric operation, small footprint. I could argue that $300 was too much for it, but I&#x
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by space_ghost 5y ago
When I think "internet sacred texts" I only think of RFC1925. Maybe that's just me. ;)
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Why is that "the way it's supposed to be," and how is it going to improve my user experience? It just seems like unnecessary complexity to me.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
That concept would make for excellent espionage comedy story bait.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
My best friend spent the '90s running a BBS with two modems on an OS/2 machine, running two instances of the BBS package (Wildcat?) via MSDOS emulation. Good times.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Fully agree. The best HN posts are the ones where a few experts in an esoteric field can totally geek out about their art. I may not understand half of what they say but it's always fully interesting.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Honestly, it could be either one, and that's what makes this meme so interesting/fantastic/depressing.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Does anyone feel it is a little strange to have a government entity mandating interoperability details on every level of the tech stack? See POSIX for an example. I don't think it's strange at all.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Wouldn't that require us to already have a casino there?
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Sublime Text's SQLTools [0] plugin is great for this. [0] https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SQLTools
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Oh man, I actually used KXML Editor back in the day. Those screenshots give me The Feels. :)
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by space_ghost 5y ago
Personal anecdote: I've only gotten food poisoning from a restaurant once in my life, and it was an A&W in the early 2000's.
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by space_ghost 5y ago
The only screenshot [0] I can find of TaligentOS looks remarkably like The BeOS. Did some TaligentOS guys move on to produce the BeOS? [0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7Gi8GgW0AAoguu.png
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by space_ghost 5y ago
About 15 years ago my boss got promoted from VP of Engineering to CEO. It was a weird move for him, and one of the ways he handled it was to move out of his private office and onto a desk right in the middle of the R&D lab floor. He did

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