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by wink 1y ago
NB: This was added "later" that is why tons of projects were grandfathered in, because they were already called phpMyAdmin, phpMyFAQ, etc. (IIRC at least)
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by wink 1y ago
The house my parents bought in the early 90s (after local inflation) would cost between 1/3 and 1/4 of what such a house goes for right now. Big surprise I didn't buy one, but I suppose with 2 incomes we would have bought one
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by wink 1y ago
For a guy I know it was his hand moisturizer. Swab on the laptop every single business flight.
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by wink 1y ago
And yet we still have forms in 2025 that were coded to not strip spaces or dashes in phone numbers or grasp theconcept of +XX country prefixes.
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by wink 1y ago
Never been in that professional area but around 2000 InDesign (on Windows) was probably the 2nd name you had heard after QuarkXPress. I mean I can't really speak with authority how much that (first IIRC) version of InDesign differed fr
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by wink 1y ago
Sometimes it's also just the individuals. We have a small playground here and for a number of years there were exactly 3 people being loud and obnoxious. One mom and her two sons. None of the other kids ever bothered me. :P
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by wink 1y ago
You can also have a (maybe wrong) sense of familiarity that feels like it makes sense. I'm ESL but after so many years of daily contact I find writing stuff in English easier than in my native German. Never lived anywhere else. I'
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by wink 1y ago
Not exactly sure what you mean (in German) but just learning about them and using them correctly are 2 completely different things. I mean, you could maybe ignore the use of going a -> ä for plural forms, I would argue that learning all
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by wink 1y ago
Some of us had found many uses for our computers while they were offline, so I don't really get why you're implying they are useless without using the internet. And I'm saying that as someone who only had access to a computer
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by wink 1y ago
Comparing this mac that can be found on ebay at any given time with a 1401 feels a bit like comparing it with getting one of the first steam trains. I am surprised they made 12000 (according to wikipedia).
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by wink 1y ago
Man that's mean for old Shadowrun. Base rulebook is huge, and then you have like 4 additional ones - because it's so old that stuff was not incorporated yet. But I guess first of all the whole party uses the same 5 books and if we
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by wink 1y ago
Even after 30 years of playing Shadowrun we still occasionally debate whether a fire ball with radius X will ignite the fuel in the driving vehicle. At least in this case it's a minor detail because iirc the rules actually state the fi
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by wink 1y ago
No, this is older than the xkcd. I think it goes back to 1999-2003, when we had hoped we'd ever get a fourth Star Wars movie.
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by wink 1y ago
How do you overcome a wrong observation of a local maximum though (e.g. in your club maybe)? I only experienced something like this once, late 90s. We thought of ourselves as pretty ok StarCraft players until we got some visitor to a lan pa
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by wink 1y ago
Ah, "spotted hog", as my English teacher (6th grade or so?, ESL) had said: for some reason this is one term most pupils will remember, no matter how unimportant. Guess he was right, or maybe a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by wink 1y ago
I think it also highly depends on where you're from. Traditionally in Bavaria you'd have used "Du/Ihr" in shops or on the streets colloquially even decades ago, and yet from time to time you'd ran into people (
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by wink 1y ago
I refrained from getting it - but it's been free for the last 25 years. Uncommon name + ending in a relatively uncommon TLD. I have <mylastname.>de and I'm happy enough with that.
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by wink 1y ago
That was a very good summary where some friends and I very much disagreed how much we enjoyed GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire where they praised the detailed descriptions and me being like "He wrote two paragraphs about how the cloa
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by wink 1y ago
I mean I know people value your uptime, but isn't that simply a case of getting the order in writing, a quick CC'd email to the CEO and then putting the site offline as advertised? Some people just don't learn any other way.
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by wink 1y ago
the only reason I've preferred foobar for many years is that I can have many playlists "loaded" at the same time. If Winamp's playlist panel had tabs (and a bigger font)...
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by wink 1y ago
Been a while, but yeah, we read shorter stuff in class, and had some books we had to read on our own to discuss and you also had to give at least one short talk on another book you read.
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by wink 1y ago
The problem with this approach is that (esp. for hobby projects) updating stuff is a bit tedious. Let's say you have a relatively bare bones project in Rails or a PHP framework you have a couple of dependencies that people usually use
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by wink 1y ago
I'm not saying it's a realistic view, but I had hoped without any inclusions from NPM there would exist a couple more clean-room (or at least decoupled) implementations of things in TS, leaving everything JS behind.
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by wink 1y ago
yes of course, more people probably wanted node compat than people explicitly didn't want it (like the person who you replied to, and me too). You have to decide where to go and apparently not being a niche product was one the reasons,
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by wink 1y ago
It's not like we didn't have to also write code on paper 20 years ago. Yes, it was terrible.
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by wink 1y ago
With these probably taking up even more space, where do people keep them? (Living in a German apartment complex without a garage I can stow away some normal bikes, but if just 10 families in this 40-unit house had one of those... oof)
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by wink 1y ago
When they introduced the weird fake phishing mails at my last work place I checked the email headers and just filed it into a separate folder. My coworkers were happy to get rid of the spam as well. Just shows how bad they are at faking it.
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by wink 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. People are different and not everyone has to enjoy so-called literature that is not pure entertainment. I have shelves full of books I had read before finishing school, and 90% of what we read in English
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by wink 1y ago
Try Joyce as a non-native speaker :P
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by wink 1y ago
Amount of laptops I had to throw away because the chassis broke in 20 years: 0 Amount of devices (laptops, phones, watched) where I had to switch out a battery that died: 5-10

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