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91.
by torh 5y ago
Would be interesting, but my old ThinkPad X31 has a dead battery and a broken charger. As many already has mentioned, browsing the web would probably be the biggest issue.
92.
by torh 5y ago
> Putting your filesystem on a ramdisk is a good idea but it's hardly innovative. I am way late to the party, but here goes: In 2007 I started working for a company in Norway that had developed their own database, from hardware and
93.
by torh 5y ago
I'm annoyed by the fact that I have to visit "new" reddit to be able to accept cookies, and then go back to the old design. This is on desktop btw.
94.
by torh 5y ago
Spot on. Yet, people love "one trick" wonder -- just go on YouTube and search for "golf swing" or "lose fat", it's so easy you don't even have to leave the house.
95.
by torh 5y ago
Maybe I should start doing this before work as well. The pressure at work can be overwhelming, and I don't always feel refreshed in the morning, so the pressure just keeps piling up...
96.
by torh 5y ago
Yeah, I was thinking static html pages generated once per day or once per week from a database, depending on how often the backend is updated.
97.
by torh 5y ago
Yeah, that would be the hard part. But in the spirit of the old internet, make it first and then, if it becomes popular, deal with it. Just have to read up on the history of Yahoo and watch that last season of Halt & Catch Fire. ;-)
98.
by torh 5y ago
I have been playing with the idea of making good old internet portal. A curated list of links to the good stuff. No FB, medium, Instagram or anything like that.
99.
by torh 5y ago
If you are a backend developer, never trust client-side. Never.
100.
by torh 5y ago
I might. But for now, I found that I prefer to read biographies. They just seems to give me more joy.
101.
by torh 5y ago
it's amazing what people will do to avoid reading a novel
102.
by torh 5y ago
That 1x1 pixel space.gif was sure used a lot back in the days.
103.
by torh 5y ago
> All those table tags just felt… wrong. Icky. And yet, I could readily see how not using tables hampered my layout options. I used the Wayback Machine (Thank you, Internet Archive!) to dig up some of my old designs, and boy, I used ta
104.
by torh 5y ago
I'm looking at the graph, and in 2019 the text editor popularity combined was a whooping 117%!
105.
by torh 5y ago
Question: Is anyone really surprised about this? It's not the first time. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g... (2015) and Sweden also knows how to play this game http:&#x
106.
by torh 5y ago
This blog is a gold mine, or a deep well. A deep well of gold. I would love to just download them onto my Kindle and enjoy them out in the sun with a [insert beverage].
107.
by torh 5y ago
Fabien https://fabiensanglard.net/ is a must on this list, IMO. I really enjoy his code reviews. I can also recommend the books he have made so far on Wolfenstien 3D and Doom.
108.
by torh 5y ago
Aside from the actual content: before being able to read a single word, two different pop-up boxes appear telling me there is more content to read and that I should subscribe for more. Does this really work? Do they get increast readership
109.
by torh 5y ago
Impressive. Very artsy.
110.
by torh 5y ago
I've made the same mistake as the author, but unlike him, I have yet to realize my mistake ... until now. I need to get rid of Le Fancy Notebook and actually start taking notes as they appear and not wait until they are structured. The
111.
by torh 5y ago
Author here. You are right. My intention was not to come of as a jerk, nor did I expect anyone to read my blog post, to be honest. My point, which kind of got lost in the end, was to show of the big difference between my generation and the
112.
by torh 5y ago
Hi, author here. First; I must say I was surprised that my little rant made it to HN, but obviously some found it interesting, and it did spark a discussion. Secondly: Yes, I do come of as a jerk. English is not my native language, and my N
113.
by torh 5y ago
In my case I was able to get activation codes for product I hadn't purchased, but yeah, once personal information is involved, its a whole different game. There was a lawsuit in Norway a while back were the question essentially was: ar
114.
by torh 5y ago
> Sick Codes said he could iterate and brute force all VIN numbers in the database, as they were "sequential," according to him Seems like they didn't think that people would enter someone else's VIN. A few years back
115.
by torh 6y ago
A few years ago the company I work for installed suppressors on the Inergen system. It did trigger from time to time, which was tracked to the humidifiers. And yes -- it did destroy harddrives because of the pressure/sound waves before
116.
by torh 6y ago
Same on a Mac (not the M1 though)
117.
by torh 6y ago
> I can bear the pain of writing in high school, but I almost gave up in university And this should be "could"?
118.
by torh 6y ago
My first thought went to win3emu -- but based on what I can read, it's a big difference between them. ( https://www.toptensoftware.com/win3mu/ )
119.
by torh 6y ago
In this regard, I think there are some similarities between Woz and Paul Allan, the co-founder of Microsoft. Although Bill Gates have certainly changed over the years.
120.
by torh 6y ago
Well, I liked the part about (* vague gesturing towards outside *)

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