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by whartung 2y ago
Some jurisdictions have a "none of the above" option. I think Nevada has one. An early report there show 1+% voted "none of the above", or something similar to that. It was just a glance on one of the shows during the re
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by whartung 2y ago
Deadline for mail in ballot delivery is Nov 12. Have to be postmarked on the 5th, but they have a week to get to where they're going.
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by whartung 2y ago
If anyone is looking to get in on the ground floor of a welding career, the Navy and their contractors have stood up buildsubmarines.com. Apparently it's a large effort to recruit 100,000(!!) trades people, of all sorts, for a very lar
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by whartung 2y ago
What do you think distinguishes the HP-50 from the 48, 49? I had a 48 and 49. There were form factor and interface changes, the 50 is an ARM running a simulator vs the original Saturn architecture, there's the SD card. What are the key
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by whartung 2y ago
I read the conclusion, not the entire article. The 300TB a day at the modern news provider is staggering, and it's a shame it's 99+% piracy and porn. "My" USENET was all newsgroups. rec.motorycles, comp.lang.lisp, etc. W
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by whartung 2y ago
> Does it? Another powerful calculating engine trapped behind a skeuomorph interface? Yes, it does. This is not a calculator app. It's calculator firmware that happens to also be runnable in an app. They're trying to cram a HP4
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by whartung 2y ago
Seems like a really nice effort. Nice they crammed it into the DM42 machines. But for me, the learning curve is steeper than the utility. I have no real need for an actual calculator, I rely on my phone. On there I have iHP48, and I've
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm on an Intel iMac, and llama can't leverage its GPU. So, it's 1990s slow. It's literally like talking to a machine in the 90s, from the slow response time to the 1200-2400 baud output. It's easy to give tasks to,
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by whartung 2y ago
I guess the hot tip is to dig out the O'Reilly UUCP and Netnews book, and see if any of the phone modems still work. MacOS still ships with uucico and uucp. Mind, it probably wouldn't work for me, I have fiber to my house, no POTS
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by whartung 2y ago
My favorite anecdote of this is talking with railroad people. Talking about rolling stock, and locomotives. And talking with someone (at a museum, or something, I don't recall) they mentioned something like "Yea, we think we all o
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by whartung 2y ago
At the same time, they don't really have anything like this in their portfolio in terms of Keynote/Pages/Numbers. They have some photo touch up ability in the Photo App, and maybe in preview. But nothing as first class as wha
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm guessing you've never actually been in "the jungle". It's not hospitable at all. The other thing is that that area of Mexico is just teeming with this stuff. There's just an untold boatload of "lost ci
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by whartung 2y ago
So, do you think that when the Mac Studio gets upgraded, it will also come with less max RAM, but be unified? Is the whole "unified" RAM a reason that the iMac and Mini are capped at 32G?
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by whartung 2y ago
The big thing is that many Java builds are not just blobs of binaries crammed together, but also have structure and metadata, sometimes generated on the fly. Not all Java builds are simply compiles. There are several projects that rely on p
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by whartung 2y ago
I’m in the Matt Damon camp. Always pronounced it that way, never really gave it much thought. Just seems “right” to me.
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm sorry, not to quibble about the quality of the TDS protocol, but what does it have to do with the upgradability of SqlServer?
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by whartung 2y ago
In my day, we had roughly 3 classes. Tootsie Toy, which, originally, were either rough die cast or stamped metal. They were literally just hollow shells of cars with axles, in solid color. They were sold loose in a box next to the penny can
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by whartung 2y ago
Back in the day, Lisps and Schemes has had all sorts of excuses for not being used. To slow, GC is slow, too big, no libraries, too old, etc. etc. etc. All reasons that had some merit at one time. But today, all of those excuses have been l
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by whartung 2y ago
No. Dylan has macros. They’re much like Schemes syntax-case macros vs just ad hoc list building like Common Lisp.
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by whartung 2y ago
Considering that 9GB free is all you have after you back up your phone once, that's no surprise.
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by whartung 2y ago
Ditto. Company of a friend of a friend had an intractable problem with an impossible deadline, like, literally, less than a day. Don’t remember the details, but I fixed it. Deadline next morning, problem solved, saved the day. It’s midnight
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by whartung 2y ago
> Those that think deeply before responding are discouraged when a well-thought out comment is buried beneath a sea of first impressions. A specific capability oh HN, that I take advantage of often, is being able to skip thread branches.
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by whartung 2y ago
Couple things come to mind. One, is that HTTP took over the role of a lot of simple servers, thus something like Apache and CGI-BIN was used in place of inetd. Second, with the rise of interpreted languages (i.e. Perl et al), forking became
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by whartung 2y ago
One of my favorite hacks of yore was somehow some folks managed to compromise the iPod to that point that they could run some of their code, and make a beep. They compressed the ROM, and "beeped" it out, wrapping the iPod in an ac
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by whartung 2y ago
Well, I don’t reread books. But I’ve read this one science fiction book five times. That book is “The Long Run” by Daniel Keys Moran. As for non-fiction I just bring out the classics that taught me Lisp and Lispy things: Simply Scheme, SICP
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by whartung 2y ago
I have a saying for this: An "adventure" is a bad trip, remembered fondly.
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by whartung 2y ago
So, then 275? With the both the top and bottom card face down? That's going in my next spy novel. Spy 1 gets together with Spy 2, for cracking game of Cribbage, and at the end, Spy 2 walks out with a deck of cards, but it's actual
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by whartung 2y ago
So, curiosity today. One of the things that this person does is simply echo to /dev/lp0. Which is all you did back in the day. Shove text down the interface, and the printer printed. Now, while we have very fancy modern printers,
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm on board with this. Unix is my favorite OS. I like that it's fundamental unit of work is the process, and that, as users, we have ready access to those. Processes are cheap and easy. I can stack them together with a | characte
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by whartung 2y ago
I used to get their electronic kits. They came in a plastic box, which was also the perfboard, and it was point to point soldering. Those were great fun for the curious. I also remember being quite excited when I got one of their "Flav

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