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by whartung 3y ago
Back in the day I worked at a company that if you came up with some long term cost saving measure, they gave you a bonus of 10% net savings for the first year.
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by whartung 3y ago
All that said, IMHO, having Peanuts characters on MetLife ads, or visiting Camp Snoopy doesn’t cheapen or weaken the original strips. “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” and “Great Pumpkin” are both pure, done by Schulz rather than handed off.
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by whartung 3y ago
It's going to be an interesting conundrum for Apple, with their drive to keep everything on phone. Both the computing requirements and the data requirement on modern AI make it a challenging fit. So it will be a curiosity about how App
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by whartung 3y ago
Apparently a singular need for my office chair is that the cat can sit on it and my shoulder. All other considerations are secondary.
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by whartung 3y ago
My father was like that. He simply slept on the floor (which, to be fair, was carpeted, so "some" springy, bouncy, squishiness -- but not much).
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by whartung 3y ago
Heat is always high on these lists, but if you’re looking for something a bit more down to earth I highly recommend “Hell or High Water”.
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by whartung 3y ago
Blizzards downloaded is top tier. The startup time from initial, bare bones install to playable is very fast. It starts with placeholder content to get you running, and anything immediately necessary for your area. For example, if you’re in
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by whartung 3y ago
Well, that was a stupid amount of fun. Longest "Pi" sequence found: 31415926 For the digits 0-9, there are stretches 8 (i.e. 11111111) long for all the digits, but 6, 7, and 8 have 9 digit stretches (which given the property that
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by whartung 3y ago
This is greatly improved. It’s a beautiful, functional page. Back when I was playing with hex grids, the orientation he was using (pointy top) wasn’t what I wanted to use, so I really wasn’t able to apply any of it to my work. So I ended up
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by whartung 3y ago
iOS 17 does not run on the X.
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by whartung 3y ago
My X (bought new phone in December when it was released) was at 85+% on the battery. I replace it with a 15 because it was dropping off the OS bandwagon, needed more storage, battery life, lightning port getting fiddly. The OS support was t
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by whartung 3y ago
I’ve done lots of “useless” software. * Lexers, Parsers, Compilers * Shortest path, traveling salesman * Physics sims, numerical methods * Discrete event simulation * Document formatter * Tried to add a GUI Tab pane context
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by whartung 3y ago
The “viral” part of AGPL comes from the GPL itself. If I write, say, a Java servlet that relies on an AGPL library, then by the same mechanics as effect GPL software, my servlet must now also be AGPL. Now I host my service and the servlet r
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by whartung 3y ago
Actually I think what killed inetd is, partially, http. At the time, http was connectionless. Open socket, send packet, read response, close. Out of the box inetd would support that, for sure, but it would be constantly forking new http pro
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by whartung 3y ago
No need for AI, simply clean it up and cut and paste him into a movie like they did when they spliced in some B&W footage of Humphrey Bogart in the movie Last Action Hero. The line was something like the Desk Sargent telling someone to
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by whartung 3y ago
Scroll wheels and gestures are paging mechanisms, a scrollbar does that as well but it’s also a “take me to the middle of the document” control. Assuming a properly responsive document (not something you can take for granted today, especial
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by whartung 3y ago
It’s always been a fond memory from high school watching one of my teachers with a TEAC TASCAM 4 track Cassette Portastudio. He was just there doing a rhythm track using a pair of those things you shake that rattle (pretty sure that’s the t
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by whartung 3y ago
I remember when a friend of mine had to let go of his dog. Paraphrasing, he said something like "I've been there since almost birth, commanded and controlled every aspect of his life, but who am I to choose this." It's a
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by whartung 3y ago
Operation Mincemeat is a film on Netflix that’s worth watching.
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by whartung 3y ago
As I understand it (which mean I can be completely wrong), in order to utilize Passkeys, at least at the browser level, you need support within the browser. Firefox has a build that supports passkeys, and I believe 1Password has an extensio
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by whartung 3y ago
I disagree with that comment about BASIC, for a few reasons. First, you can say that about any language when trying to learn another. The classic “writing Fortran in Lisp” concept. Learning to write idiomatic BASIC doesn’t prevent you from
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by whartung 3y ago
I can’t spell out specifics, but as I understand it, in California if a solar install isn’t working efficiently or bringing in the savings that it’s supposed to, it’s on the installer to make it right. And there’s some kind of third party i
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by whartung 3y ago
https://github.com/willhartung/planet/releases/tag/v1.0.0 It's a "simple" GUI wrapper around a fractal planet generator (that I did not create). I'm not very good at GUIs. I don'
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by whartung 3y ago
You don't have to save the world or feed the hungry to help other people. Just sharing your knowledge can be a hand up to someone in a bind, even a complete stranger on the internet who doesn't even give out an upvote. Everyone&#x
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by whartung 3y ago
First, I'm easily distracted. But, the real issue in working on something, for myself, that is engaging, and pushing back the "WTH are you wasting time on this for?". It's all very fleeting. It's not like I have som
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by whartung 3y ago
I don't have a laser simply because I haven't seen an "all in one" full color laser that's as compact as the Epson inkjet I'm using. I can't speak to the color quality of lasers really vs inkjet, but I&#x2
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by whartung 3y ago
I remember being quite excited to get the little bit of software (they were called INITs, little code resources loaded at boot) that was floating around to add this typewriter “experience” to the original Macintosh. For whatever reason, it
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by whartung 3y ago
One of the beauties of USENET was it’s store and forward model. As such I had no real issues using USENET and email back in the day with a 2400 baud Hayes SmartModem. Also helped it was all lightweight text messages and, naturally, I didn’t
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by whartung 3y ago
Sad day honestly. Been a long time subscriber, almost sure since the beginning. The variety is just larger than the streaming platforms. And to be honest while they tracked the DVDs you rented you never felt you had this bird on your back w
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by whartung 3y ago
Speaking about WoW specifically, since I'm not familiar with the others, I've always been curious about their quest system. Specifically keeping track of what are available for the character efficiently along with the event system

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