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by teddyh 1y ago
I suggest this: < https://lawrencehook.com/rys/ >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Or wartime intelligence: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Similarly, many people needlessly append a slash to every directory name.
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by teddyh 1y ago
With or without a cornucopia?
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by teddyh 1y ago
Wasn’t it T/TCP that had a large presence in the book?
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by teddyh 1y ago
I always thought that the cover image for Terrorpods was stupid – it’s obvious that the image was made as an illustration of one of the final scenes of The War of the Worlds , and that someone just saw the image and made a game based on
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by teddyh 1y ago
> The reasons it died are likely: The reason Plan 9 died a swift death was that, unlike Unix – which hardware manufacturers could license for a song and adapt to their own hardware (and be guaranteed compatibility with lots of Unix so
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by teddyh 1y ago
I remember being quite disappointed that PowerPC did not, contrary to expectations, dethrone the Intel hegemony.
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by teddyh 1y ago
An older, and IMHO slightly more authoritative, source: < https://wiki.c2.com/?TestIfDateRangesOverlap > See also: < https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/Range.html >
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by teddyh 1y ago
emacs M-x artist-mode
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by teddyh 1y ago
Company without a strategy: [Phone rings] Employee thinks: “Oh-oh… What should I do?” Company with a strategy: Employee says on the phone: “We don’t do that” — Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Bus
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by teddyh 1y ago
This seems to fill the same function as DNS, but adds a layer of abstraction on top of it, while also adding a dependency on a service provided by Bluesky. I fail to see how this improves things on the whole.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> Tribeless suits me just fine. Just because you’re not a part of the prominent tribes that you see around you does not make you tribeless. — […] and I have no culture of my own. — Yes you do. You’re a culture of one. Which is no
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by teddyh 1y ago
Morny stannit!
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by teddyh 1y ago
C.f. “JSON5”.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Interesting. You could do the same thing automatically on the mailing list server side, right?
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by teddyh 1y ago
If anything, this would be point in its favor. That is, if we are to care whatsoever about nazi rules from a century ago.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I was always partial to the Linux logo with the red triangle (from 1994): < https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/raytraced/linux-povl... >. (More old Linux logos here: < https://www.i
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by teddyh 1y ago
I’ve heard good things about < https://mailinabox.email >.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dep
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by teddyh 1y ago
This would be great and all, but all parties who are in a position to choose to implement this kind of system or to keep the status quo are already motivated to keep (and expand) the existing systems, for any number of reasons. Everybody (e
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by teddyh 1y ago
If someone cannot look at their phone to find out the time without becoming distracted and losing their focus, that’s not a phone problem.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> But very widespread. Yes. Does that invalidate the fact? > Do you never check your phone and realize you are now suddenly doing something completely unrelated? How is this relevant? But, no, as it happens, I don’t. > Phone
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by teddyh 1y ago
Addiction issue.
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by teddyh 1y ago
*Anachronox
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Investigating a Forged PDF(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by teddyh 1y ago
“Compose--.” produces an en dash , not an em dash. An em dash is produced by “Compose---”. Source: grep -e DASH /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose
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by teddyh 1y ago
Correction: They are very good at writing seemingly-good explanations. The explanations may or may not be correct.
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by teddyh 1y ago
— < https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Or modern languages, like Rust and Go, which have decided that runtime dependencies are too hard and instead build enormous static binaries for everything.

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