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by wayne 4y ago
I remember at the time that Mac IE had a standards-compliant layout engine Tasmin that was better than the one on Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(browser_engine) Too bad the whole thing was a casualty af
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by wayne 4y ago
I was wondering what #3, this "OTLC" patent settlement was. I found this PDF, describing the development of a "write once run anywhere" OO C++ system, called Taligent, by an IBM/Apple joint-venture trying to compete
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by wayne 4y ago
I've worked at large tech companies where very capable software engineers struggled to install or upgrade their OS, let alone be familiar with the intricacies of Linux. I was surprised at first too, but I do think there's a large
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by wayne 4y ago
They went pretty over the top with the lights to look artsy and the overall reviews have been mixed, but it's really nice to see experimentation in smartphone hardware like the notification-triggered ambient indicator lights. Most phon
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by wayne 4y ago
I learned from the book "How to Hide an Empire" that an initial motivation for US imperialism in the Caribbean was to harvest bird droppings for fertilizer, even to the point of conflicts with Britain and Venezuela: https:/&
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by wayne 4y ago
Too bad there’s no 11” Apple laptop anymore.
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by wayne 4y ago
I watch the Berkshire annual meetings, and after watching Warren and Charlie eating peanut brittle for 6 hours, I couldn't help but buy/try some, and then you're hooked.
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by wayne 4y ago
I coincidentally watched this video yesterday for the first time because it showed up in a YouTube recommendation. It got me thinking about how old videos like this go viral on YouTube. Maybe a lot of people started commenting on it, which
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by wayne 4y ago
Had a really fun trailer/video when it launched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
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by wayne 5y ago
Or you have a Mac from 6+ years ago that doesn't support it. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212551 Apple doesn't support old hardware as long as Microsoft/Linux.
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by wayne 5y ago
Even as someone who formerly worked at Microsoft, it was never easy to really understand the full Microsoft enterprise product suite without spending years of my life becoming an IT expert. I always thought this Small Business Suite product
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by wayne 5y ago
I had the same joy after installing it from a stack of floppy disks in the late '90s. It took so long but it was so satisfying when it worked!
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by wayne 5y ago
Even a few months ago, I was recommending the same to friends. But late in 2021, Vanguard unexpectedly hit all their Target Date funds with large tax bills: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=366
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by wayne 5y ago
Despite its impact on the company, I always found the lawsuit interesting because as a Nintendo child of the 90s, I knew Donkey Kong very well and my only encounter with King Kong is the Universal Studio Tour ride. Most of what I learned ab
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by wayne 5y ago
"According to the lawsuit, the defendant studios, including Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Blue Sky, schemed to avoid high wages for artists by discussing and agreeing to compensation ranges for employees – that is, pay for employees would not
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by wayne 5y ago
Scandal where United ran money-losing flights to an airport near the Port Authority of NY/NJ's chairman's weekend home to curry favor, resulting in the resignation of United's CEO: https://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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by wayne 5y ago
Here's an example of United running way more flights than needed because LGA and DCA are slot-controlled and relatively close to each other so running a flight between the two keeps the slots in-use: https://viewfromthewing.
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by wayne 5y ago
I still see several Manhattan and non-Manhattan stores on their store list, but it does look like they're not in the Bay Area anymore, which is a bummer: https://www.muji.us/pages/store-information
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Why the Global Chip Shortage Is Making It So Hard to Buy a PS5(theverge.com)
1 points by wayne 5y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 5y ago
I remember the Biosphere 2 project from the early 90s which was everywhere in the news but didn't work out. "Biosphere 2 was only used twice for its original intended purposes as a closed-system experiment: once from 1991 to 1993,
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by wayne 5y ago
They're even in Silicon Valley. Not every company can raise money. And even if they do, being able to raise money doesn't necessarily mean having the competence to run a software company well.
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by wayne 5y ago
I was incredibly confused this year by Russia being "ROC" and Taiwan being "Chinese Taipei", given I'd always mentally associated "ROC" with Republic of China aka Taiwan.
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by wayne 5y ago
Looks perfect, thanks for the recommendation! It reminds me a lot of NearlyFreeSpeech, only for email instead of web hosting.
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by wayne 5y ago
I was tempted but had an AWS runaway 5-figure bill at work once - I think someone forgot to shut down an EC2 instance - which has scared me from using them for personal projects. I heard they're usually understanding in those situatio
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by wayne 5y ago
How was the paid STMP service you were using? Been trying to find one and most seem to be used for email marketing/spam, so it's hard to know what would work reliably for small scale personal email.
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Title “Miss” Causes TUI 737 to Take Off Overweight(onemileatatime.com)
1 points by wayne 5y ago|2 comments
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by wayne 5y ago
Related, - I think 20-somethings gain more from in-person interactions given they have less experience so are regularly bumping into people with more experience. For the more experienced these interactions feel more like a tax/interru
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by wayne 6y ago
Getting a 500 error, sad. I wonder if this HN link overloaded it.
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by wayne 6y ago
My views similarly changed on email. It would have been inconceivable for me to pay for email 10 years ago. Now I'm happy to pay for a service that does the basics well, is primarily considering my interests, and will have competent c
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by wayne 6y ago
With its own commercial! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

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