ubermonkey

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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
>My music discovery then was different friend groups incrementally amassing large collections of albums in whatever sub-culture that friend groups had doubled down on. My iPod would be the culmination of my friendships. I would then fall
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
I mean, if this isn't the place to share this video, I'm not sure where IS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJETZyfb7I
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
I have made my peace with the fact that, unless I'm willing to replace otherwise perfectly functional items just to change the port, USB-C nirvana is a long way away at our house. The Lightning holdouts: * My wife and I both still have
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Interesting idea, but honest to god I don't really have that big of a spam problem anymore. O365 is handling 90% of it on our corporate mail; my personal address (which is far older) is hosted at Fastmail and it traps nearly all the sp
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by ubermonkey 2mo ago
Yeah, this. In terms of consumer benefit in tech we've been at stasis for a long time. My computing experience isn't that much different now than it was 15 or 20 years ago. Sure, my computer and connectivity are far faster now, an
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
>What pushed me over the edge is the realization that I'm in grief. The Internet which once shaped my identity today, in no defensible way, resembles the silly place which once gave me solace. ooof. I'm 56. I got an Internet em
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
>I always underline ш and write a line over т (which looks like m) to distinguish them Having studied Russian in college, I assumed that all Cyrillic script included a line over the т, because otherwise readability goes to hell. Is my im
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
That's what "high end" means.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
>You know you need to service mechanical watches regularly, right? Mostly, yeah, but I have some nicer pieces that have been in my rotation for decades with only the barest minimum of services. Like, I think my Omega (ca. 1998) has been
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
This dude only now thinks Google has lost its moral compass? In 2026? Bruh.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I loved the Model M, but my first real THIS IS MY FAVORITE I WILL CUT YOU keyboard was a Northgate. Dang, I loved that one. For most of the last 20 years I've been on Kinesis boards. First a regular Ergo, and then starting about 6 mont
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I read a mess of books about Mitnick's escapades including Hafer's and Shimomura's, and definitely came away with the impression that while Mitnick was a criminal, Shimomura was a bit of an asshole.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Depends on where you are, obvs.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
I haven't lived in an apartment in nearly 30 years, but the last one I moved into, in 1996, was brand new and relatively fancy. I'd been renting a house with friends, but it was Houston and I wanted access to a pool and onsite fit
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Weird. I found Accelerando to be both.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
There's a concept in history whose name escapes me, but which was evoked often when Harrison Tyler died in 2025. Tyler was a private citizen, but he was of note because he was the grandson of the US's 10th president John Tyler --
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
The more obvious lack of understanding is yours w/r/t the scope of what they wrote.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Cursor's stockholders better cash out quick.
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by ubermonkey 3mo ago
Try to understand that the person you're replying to clearly has different needs than you do.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
It's one of my favorites. But I prefer to reread with two bookmarks, just as I did when I first encountered it (and just as I did with Infinite Jest years later).
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Ah, my mistake.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
I mean, you can buy a copy in any reasonable bookshop, so I'm not sure how "lost" it is.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Fun fact for me personally: because I am lucky enough to know a zookeeper who was in charge of the ambassador animal program at a major zoo, I have direct personal experience that cheetahs purr when you pet them. You're right. They&#x2
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
It seems like a bit of a miss not to note that the web site there is the personal site of paleo-Internet figure Jessamyn West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian) West is plenty notable on her own,
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Enormously! There are lots of data manipulation tasks I've run into at client or customer sites where, if I had my druthers, I'd use perl or python -- but there's no way to get those in the environment. But Excel is there, an
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Bad results keep you on their site longer, increasing ad revenue.
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Years ago I interviewed at a company that later became infamous owing to a series of posts on TheDailyWTF ( https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Virtudyne_0x3a__The_Foundin... ). It was... weird. I had a friend who was worki
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by ubermonkey 4mo ago
Or barbers.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
Paralleling Linux and MacOS is pretty simple, but the last time I tried to make the same config work properly in Windows it was a nightmare b/c of the path issues.
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by ubermonkey 5mo ago
I do not know how to solder. I've gotten to 56 without knowing how. It's unclear if that will change now.

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