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by spauldo 1y ago
In English, there is no continent named "America." It's unambiguously used to refer to the United States.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Who is "we?" I certainly don't need those things. If you need to add a bunch of complexity for your use case then feel free, but for most of us it's unnecessary.
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's a neat idea. But I'm curious how many people actually use native REPLs for anything beyond trivial evaluation. I'll use a Guile or SBCL REPL for some quick math (assuming it's something that's not trivial in
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by spauldo 1y ago
I hate when people tell me I can't piss in the street. "Go to a bathroom," they say. "That's not appropriate here." Screw that, my junk is rated E for Everybody. /s
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by spauldo 1y ago
That doesn't jive with my experience. When I look at the people I've worked with over the years, all having a blank profile says to me is that they don't care about their LinkedIn profile. I know the quality of their work and
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by spauldo 1y ago
Wonderware has an automatic I/O assignment feature that - if you follow some basic rules on naming things - sets up all your data sources for you automatically. It cuts out maybe a quarter of your development time. I don't use it
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by spauldo 1y ago
I've never cut off a relative for their politics, but I've cut off relatives because they wouldn't shut up about their politics. Talk to me about all the gardening you're doing after retirement, about your new motorcycle
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by spauldo 1y ago
You lose math quickly if you don't use it. I took college algebra three times - not because I failed, but because I had a couple multi-year breaks in my college career and didn't do much math during them. It was definitely worth i
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by spauldo 1y ago
Excellent movie. I haven't seen it in a couple decades, I should watch it again.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Sun donated a bunch of UI guidelines to the GNOME project back in the really early days. Those guidelines basically boiled down to "You users are idiots, and power users don't matter, so get rid of as many options and force a sing
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by spauldo 1y ago
X has had two clipboards for longer than I've been using it, which is nearly three decades. If your mental model of clipboard interaction only involves a single clipboard, and you use X, your mental model is simply wrong. Sure, you cou
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by spauldo 1y ago
Anyone run this on top of KVM? I tried a while back but I don't know KVM or Qemu well and all the examples were ancient and didn't work for me. I'd love to play around with Solaris again (last I used it was Solaris 8 on an Ul
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by spauldo 1y ago
Solaris is an actual System V, not a clone like Linux distros often are or a BSD. It's got excellent support for compiling software written for different UNIX systems. It does a lot of things with commands that other systems do with co
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by spauldo 1y ago
If only Broadcom would buy Oracle...
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's not hard to find Linux users shit-talking Solaris - or "Slowaris" as it was known at the time. Just browse the Slashdot archives. Reaching feature parity and taking Solaris' market share was an often cited goal by p
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by spauldo 1y ago
And DTrace. And NFS/NIS. And SunRPC. And OpenOffice (sort of - they bought the company that made it and then open sourced it). And... you get the idea. That's what I loved about Sun, really. They strive for a leadership role in th
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by spauldo 1y ago
Sun had excellent documentation. But of course Oracle crapped all over it... If you can find documentation for Solaris 9 I imagine a lot of it would be the same. And there's the Solaris 8 Administration book from O'Reilly - I&#x27
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by spauldo 1y ago
You missed the branch there for Solaris 1.x (aka SunOS) which was a BSD derivative. One of the nifty things about Solaris was all the compatibility code they had. You could set environment variables and compile against BSD, SysV, and a vari
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by spauldo 1y ago
I don't have much beyond what I said. It happened to me after repeated exposure to dangerously loud sounds in a small room. I can hear faint sounds, but I have trouble with strong accents and I can't understand words if there&#x27
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's not so great when I'm standing right next to my technician in a pumphouse and I can't understand what he's trying to say to me.
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by spauldo 1y ago
If sanding took even 10% of my time I'd give up the hobby. Fortunately my girlfriend loves that kind of mindless work and does all the finishing that's more than "slap some BLO on it and call it good."
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by spauldo 1y ago
We've got a couple at the engineering/automation company I work for. They're huge, probably 8 feet long at least. No idea what they were used for - they belonged to the engineering group. Unfortunately I can't ask becaus
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's true. I'm sure Twain and Banks were aware of this, though. Apparently they considered the immersion to be worth a little extra work on the part of the reader. Whether the reader agrees is a different story. I try to limit m
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by spauldo 1y ago
Writing in the vernacular, I believe it's called. I do something like that if I'm texting. The book "Feersum Endjinn" by Iain M. Banks uses something like this for one of its characters to quite good effect.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I have that issue as well - I can hear faint noises OK but if there's background noise I can't understand what people say. But I'm pretty sure there's a physical issue at the root of it in my case. The problem showed up
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by spauldo 1y ago
Touch-tone service charge was still a thing in the 90s at Southwestern Bell. My grandpa told 'em he didn't want it because all his phones were still rotary, so they removed the charge. Turned out that they didn't actually hav
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by spauldo 1y ago
Yep. And nothing on the packaging to tell you this. Later on, there were modems that required a CPU with MMX instructions. Dealt with that a lot when I ran my short-lived computer shop. I made it a policy in '97 to only buy external mo
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by spauldo 1y ago
A buddy of mine was the reason quotas were set on our shell accounts at our ISP. You could dial in as PPP or just as a regular serial connection to get a login on their BSDI server. He downloaded the Win98 beta to the ISP's server and
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by spauldo 1y ago
I was a Slackware guy but I heard good things about Debian. So I tied up our 33.6K modem for three days downloading an ISO. My roommates were pissed but I owned the line. Then I went to install it and the ISO was corrupted. I never got to t
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by spauldo 1y ago
Has anyone let Ranger Gord know?

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