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by whartung 2y ago
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has the last 707 model. Just as an exhibit, and the hoops they had to jump through to install the plane, are remarkable all in themselves.
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by whartung 2y ago
> You missed a costly part of grabbing a chunk of land: utilities. There is a 15 acre lot down the street. A good spot for another small housing development. But one issue with it is that it has legacy utility and power poles on the peri
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by whartung 2y ago
You should write a language for the same reason you should write a game. It's not hard for a game to touch all sorts of corners of the computer world that routine work will never come near. Games are great because they're easy to
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by whartung 2y ago
For many simple languages, the most complex construct is the expression. Lots of things come to light there. Lots of recursion/fun with stacks, operator precedence, the type system, parameter passing. Pretty much a good solid chunk of
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by whartung 2y ago
So, this is about taking a blind sample of an area to see if anyone is suspicious. This is in contrast to having a named suspect, and then analyzing their phone data to see if they were in the area? That's still legit discovery?
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by whartung 2y ago
Do what is the recovery/restart process for a partially created index? And how do you clean up after an aborted index build?
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by whartung 2y ago
Quite. I’ve lost several Fisher Bullet Pens. They’re tiny, and smooth. They fall out of pockets very well. You’d think I’d learn and stop buying black ones as well. Talk about stealth pens.
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by whartung 2y ago
Thankfully, JavaFX does all of that (fonts, SSL, scene graph), but it's an unpopular option. Yea, it's not native, but its more the native dev experience, and its actually quite portable.
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by whartung 2y ago
> why do you think shipping Electron will save you? All of the videos will be pink, not just the macOS ones on an older Safari. At worst someone could dig into the Webkit (Chome?) distro and fix it and they can release a custom build for
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm late to the game, so my post will be buried. But I'll toss in my 2 cents. I think, for a company of appropriate size (and I think yours is at least that), that you should have internal development. The IT department is a servi
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by whartung 2y ago
Is the hardware run on solar charged batteries, or does it recharge through plugging into coffee shop outlets. Is the network leeched from Starbucks, through a cell modem?
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by whartung 2y ago
How did you fix it? What happened?
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by whartung 2y ago
My understanding is that some photographers are archiving their digital pictures by basically printing them using the 4 color process, which gives them the 4 "negatives" ("postives?" or whatever they're called) for
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by whartung 2y ago
It’s also notable that the core algorithm is not a function, but a macro. That means that you end up with an exact representation of the algorithm to the constraints as defined, instead of a general purpose algorithm with parameters. I imag
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by whartung 2y ago
The other would be Larry Nivens Puppeteer tasp. It was a remote device that could be used to directly stimulate the brain pleasure center. The dark side of it was that it could be so intense, “perfect pleasure”, as to ruin someone’s life as
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by whartung 2y ago
These articles are useful for grognards like me who have these patterns etched into muscle memory from 20 years ago.
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by whartung 2y ago
JDK 9 was the impetus, but the real nail was, I think, 17 when a lot of the constraints imposed by the module system became required. Before that folks could pretty much continue as usual with little regard to the module system. After 17,
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by whartung 2y ago
Could this have been done with Folder Actions and AppleScript?
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm not sure what it is about Safari, but it does not get along with StackExchange. It's been like this for ages. Whenever I visit one of their sites, I am constantly having to click through the cookie banner. I don't know if
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by whartung 2y ago
I can only wish you good luck. I mean it, best of luck to you all. We wrote our own IdP back in the day. It was a cool project, Single Sign On, Single Sign OUT, User provisioning, just all sorts of stuff. And it worked! It's amazing wh
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by whartung 2y ago
On the command line, the context is obvious Hardly. If you’re lucky, you might know what your current directory is. More often than not, at any particular point, your command line is paused in the middle of some likely ad hoc multi-
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by whartung 2y ago
Need to create an account to see the prices of the stuff they're selling. I guess if you "have to ask"...
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by whartung 2y ago
And then, there was an anecdote! I bought my friends daughter a watch for her birthday. She was, like, 12 or something. I got it at Target. And it had a moon phase dial! How about that?! So I was determined to set it accurately for her. To
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by whartung 2y ago
Similarly, Lisp has lost. It's clear to me that S-expr are not popular. Other languages and environments have captured much of what Lisp has offered forever, but not S-expr, and, less so, not macros. Any argument one has against Lisp i
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by whartung 2y ago
On the Cyber running NOS, we had XEDIT. And similar to your story, I routinely dumped 10 lines of context after each change. Whatever that command was, was hard coded into muscle memory to the point it was mostly automatic. The other nice f
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by whartung 2y ago
My Pooh brain, especially today, goes into cognitive overload trying to keep track of an invisible point in a character based text editor. Line editors are much less of a problem. In these I typically did not insert text in the middle of a
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by whartung 2y ago
More accurate warheads also means smaller warheads. The goal of the warhead is to take out the intended target. If you can't do that with precision, you brute force it raw power. As they say: "There's only 'close' w
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by whartung 2y ago
Now, I have no idea. How much capability would $3.2bn in terms of AI computing power provide, including the operational and power costs of the cluster? Certainly, you could build a "$3.2bn GPU cluster", but it would be dark. So, h
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by whartung 2y ago
To this end I made a simple script, `latest`, which is, essentially, `ls -lt $@ | head`. So, `latest *.log`, etc. Other than that, simple autocomplete does a lot of my ls work for me.
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by whartung 2y ago
Do Apollos and Domain have any real presence in the vintage community? Casually, I have never seen it mentioned. My very brief Domain experience was that it had a very similar shell style UX, with cryptic, Unix style commands (i.e. ld vs ls

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