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by whartung 3y ago
> Younger people on here may not realize what a mindbending experience it was to see a GUI for the first time. Indeed. When the Mac came out, my friend and I went to a local computer store to look at one. My friend sat there for
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by whartung 3y ago
It’s useful in a world of several processes sharing things. This is much less common today in a world of “single process” containers and VMs as well as monolithic processes using threads or async techniques. However, Java can build a specia
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by whartung 3y ago
“One word: Dentistry” — P. J. O'Rourke (I think)
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by whartung 3y ago
> I love hotel bars, and not just for the quiet. I was out of town once with my wife, and we were in a hotel. We went down to the lounge, and it was a nice, serene space, with quiet little seating spaces. It had a great atmosphere and sn
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by whartung 3y ago
I’ll have to try that. More than once I’ve been logged in to a remote host and got “pbcopy not found” “What!?… oh, right.“
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by whartung 3y ago
Semi-related anecdote regarding this. This won’t happen with UPS delivery vans, as they have them custom made and scrap them at end of life. I assume for trademark purposes, among other things.
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by whartung 3y ago
I’ve had this happen enough to just expect it “someday” and learned not to fight it. When Time Machine goes stupid, just wipe it and start over. Any efforts to try and recover or repair are just folly. Just watch your life tick away for day
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by whartung 3y ago
That’s just a reality. I tend to not binge shows. Rather I try to slot them into one of my weekly slots. Since I limit my weekly intake, I also start shows late. A typical conversation for even a new show is as along the lines of “Oh yeah,
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by whartung 3y ago
Consider this example: You download a FOPL version of something like cron. You make some changes to this code and run it on your internal servers to schedule some business process. Even though this software, not even the server, even catche
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by whartung 3y ago
Windows has been indexing files for over 20 years. Back then I would turn it off as I didn't find the search function that usable, and more than once I've had a "clean and build" process fail because some file was open a
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by whartung 3y ago
Long ago, as the silicon on the planet was still cooling, a friend of mine did exactly this. And single handedly. What he essentially did was he cracked open “Inside Mac” and ported it to a C library that ran on the PC. He did the bulk of i
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by whartung 3y ago
There's that scene from a TV show where the fire fighters are at a fire, and a car is in front of the fire hydrant. One of the characters calls out "Car!" and they then proceed to smash the windows, and route the fire hose th
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by whartung 3y ago
This is very nice, thanks!
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by whartung 3y ago
Has anyone found a more elegant treatment of calculating with units than the HP calculators? I'd love to have an HP48 CLI to do unit calcs with. .5 * 10_m/s^2 * (15_s)^2 = 1125_m Admittedly, the HPs interim results are a bi
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by whartung 3y ago
I do Java desktop, using JavaFX. But I’m nobody. I will say that my dev cycle builds (full clean and rebuild) take about 20s, which is nice. That nets me a “runnable fat jar”. Running the packager for the platform installers takes longer o
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by whartung 3y ago
Some people consider a flicking of headlights as a "go ahead" signal.
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by whartung 3y ago
Honestly, I have a desktop app that I have grand designs to release, but even though it's a desktop app, I'm thinking of using AGPL for it. Simply, there are services and facilities that are wrapped in a GUI that could readily be
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by whartung 3y ago
Watch them and see. Its some of the best content on the internet. Mind, you have to appreciate his humor and delivery, but it's got outstanding production values, it's not the same thing over and over, and he has deep knowledge of
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by whartung 3y ago
> but in reality there isn't much you can do, as a rider, to become visible. But there's one distinct thing you can do that will help you in one of the most dangerous circumstances motorcyclists are likely to encounter.
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by whartung 3y ago
You probably don’t need a list of passwords for most of these. It certainly helps to have a list of institutions you have accounts with, but you don’t necessarily even have to list actual account numbers. The simple truth is that people die
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by whartung 3y ago
A friend of mine had done this. A back end fellow who has picked up front end development. I can’t speak much to his toolkit beyond “React”. But he’s also found some components that he’s content with. Similarly I’ve been doing a lot of GUI
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by whartung 3y ago
The corollary of which is "It's not just good, it's good enough" (which I think is a Simpsons reference). I actually have a project on the shelf that's ][ far from being releasable. It's waiting on two things.
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by whartung 3y ago
Not talked about in the article, is that this report is actually trying to move progress forward to addressing the issues surrounding the new, abundant, and detailed information and how the current framework of 4A legislation isn't rea
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by whartung 3y ago
Used to buy this on CDs at computer shows along with latest Linux distros and whatever other wonders InfoMagic and their ilk published.
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by whartung 3y ago
This is actually a core concept of the Java runtime. The compilers and what not “know” about idiomatic Java. The trivial example is things like the getter/setter pattern so prevalent in Java. But the compiler doesn’t treat them as anyt
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by whartung 3y ago
It must be my grognard roots. The bulk of my on line participation is in long running, old school, private (i.e. hosted by a very small concern hosting ads for hosting money, vs some large entity, most anyone can join these should they so w
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by whartung 3y ago
Yes, I remember this video. At the time I commented on another forum that I was disappointed when they didn’t cross thread it into the block.
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by whartung 3y ago
My cat used to bring home Jack Rabbits. No small feat. That cat was an amazing cat in so many ways.
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by whartung 3y ago
Worse, imagine going through all that, with no typos, and it still not working. Friend and I paired up doing that once. Boy, I tell ya, you don’t have to tell us 4 times the code won’t work. Oh, and “3rd times a charm” is a lie.
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by whartung 3y ago
There’s that Tauri project that is pretty close to exactly this. It’s Rust code using a browser UI layer, but unlike Electron, it uses the native Web control for the platform. That way you don’t ship the browser portion, just your business

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