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by whartung 2y ago
Just went through a local water treatment plant tour. Fundamentally, it’s pretty simple. This processing drinking water. The water comes in and the particulates within it carry a negative ion charge. The water passes over an agitator, and a
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by whartung 2y ago
To what end? What are you looking for to distinguish from a unix like system? At what level of the stack are you looking for things to stand apart? Consider that for many folks today, the Operating System interface is not much more than an
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by whartung 2y ago
I remember the first of the London Series games. Yankee v Red Sox, and what a perfect, iconic baseball matchup it was. The first game was 17-13, which is quite high. Bugs Bunny baseball slugfest. I was hoping after the London visitors got a
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by whartung 2y ago
Looking forward to this. First thing I ever ponied up on KS for. I don't even run a mailserver, I'm just hoping it will take a bunch of the guides that have been floating about on the web, consolidate the sharp edges, and make sur
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by whartung 2y ago
In my experience, the aspect that delineates an expert is that experts can fix things. Gaining knowledge isn’t particularly difficult. But expertise comes from actually applying that knowledge in the real world. The real world is messy and
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by whartung 2y ago
I want to know how when you see a stack of pager, each one knows its position in the stack so that when the stack decides to go into "attract" mode, it animates them one by one, like an elevator going up. Somehow when they stack,
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by whartung 2y ago
> you know, what if a user missed an ad and wants to go back and see what they missed. Unrelated, and maybe this actually exists, but with the rise of LED billboards, there have been more than one occasion where a billboard was displayin
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by whartung 2y ago
That’s the thing. For a desktop app, they can pop up a chromeless web view with the Oauth login page. You can’t vet the authenticity at all.
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by whartung 2y ago
The original display at the California Science Center, the one they are currently replacing, had the shuttle in a large room, and about 9-10 feet off the ground. You might have been able to touch it if you jumped up. It was a very intimate
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by whartung 2y ago
Coding is fun. When you have Stuff to Do, and momentum and a clear path to do it. You have a ditch to dig and you just get into it. Stack of simple web pages to knock out. Bunch of business rules to code up. Couple of routine CRUD screens.
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by whartung 2y ago
My wife didn’t realize it at the time, but she got to see the Space Shuttles SRBs on the freeway as they were coming into LA for the Shuttle exhibit there. Searching for when they moved Endeavor from LAX to the museum years ago is worthwhil
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by whartung 2y ago
When I bought a new iPhone, and restored it from my old phones backup, my TOTP data from the Google Authenticator apparently didn’t make the trip. If I didn’t have my GitHub recovery codes, I would have been in trouble. Arguably, that’s wha
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm just writing little stuff in Java, and use that as my x-platform environment, but even it has its challenges. So, I was considering a PWA. I don't need tight local integration per se. I do have a conceptual problem not being a
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by whartung 2y ago
> My guess is these are the same users who would have done analysis with data scraped from terminals and printed reports 40 years ago. Back in the early computing days, most of the work was done on the large, shared, mainframe computers.
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by whartung 2y ago
What has been your experience writing the "off line first" style PWA? There's an appeal to it, basically using the web purely as distribution, and the browser as the runtime. But I'm concerned with the fiddly-ness of loc
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by whartung 2y ago
That's just a shame. We love our vet. Utmost respect for him and his folks. He's been with us through some of the worst times. We've had him for 20 years. We're 50 miles away, and still take the cats to him (unless it&#x
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by whartung 2y ago
This will sound silly, but doesn't that hurt your neck? You mention you use a ultra wide screen. I have one of the "drive in theater" iMacs, and I prefer the windows in the center. It's big enough that if things were on
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by whartung 2y ago
"Specialization is for insects." -- RAH
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by whartung 2y ago
For folks that use the tiling window managers, what applications are you running? And what does a typical desktop look like? In terms of desktop layout, mind I don't use one, the Oberon vision comes to mind. A single, large pane, with
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by whartung 2y ago
The one that interests me is inspired by the Blackhat movie. The premise here is that the donor has an app on their phone. They load their data into the app. Then they go to a mall, down town shopping district, someplace busy and they walk
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by whartung 2y ago
I have not used Clojure, but it’s the singular s-expr language that addresses all of the critics. Whatever X Clojure can not directly answer, the ever expanding universe of solutions based on the JVM can. If the OP wants to stop painting th
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by whartung 2y ago
Funny I always considered the impetus of Encryption at Rest to be the "left my laptop in the airport scenario". Or, maybe, "Where'd that CD with all of the medical records go?" Originally, I never felt that the EAR
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by whartung 2y ago
I've put a whole 5 minutes of thought into this over the years, but it's something I've always thought I would like in some kind of DB tool. Notably, being able to follow relationships easily. Trivial use case, selecting a bu
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by whartung 2y ago
This could well be a good opportunity to dig into jlink and jpackage and use that to build native installs for the different platforms, bundling the JDK. In my experiments, I was able to pull it off for Mac and Windows, but Linux was still
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by whartung 2y ago
How does this contrast to htmx?
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by whartung 2y ago
We're from the same era, but I have decent respect for BASIC. Pounding the square peg of my applications into the round hole that is BASIC. BASIC has everything assembly does. At a high level, Assembly offers GOTO and GOSUB. Obviously,
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by whartung 2y ago
8086 doesn't support longer pointers either. You always had to load a segment and then an offset as two operations, no different from loading the DB (data bank register) in the '816. The DB was not as flexible as segment registers
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by whartung 2y ago
Sometimes, I just have some view of a city, or whatever, look out, quietly scan the horizon and just muse "every tree I see was planted by someone". Someone said "here, there will be a tree" and it was so. Small ones, bi
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by whartung 2y ago
The other big question regarding Rete is, today, at what point is the complexity of the algorithm worth the performance. A primary goal of Rete is to narrow the rule set to be applied based on changes in the working memory. Quite important
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by whartung 2y ago
One of the coolest applications of Rete out there in the wild right now is that they have a Rete engine built in to Apache Jena, which operates on RDF. (I do not believe its unique to Jena, inference seems to be part of the whole RDF ontolo

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