wormius

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by wormius 3y ago
Not an app, but... it smacks of this: (has it been 9 years already? damn) https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/10/15/u2-says...
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by wormius 3y ago
Existence itself is un-freedom. You need to remember that, anything you do is bound by a complex network of rules and limitations from the fundamental constants of the universe to the historical precedents that lead to the systems we have
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by wormius 3y ago
I've thought about it only because I hate having to figure out someone's frameworks and way of doing things. I'm not a professional programmer and it feels like most of these are for people who already work with various frame
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by wormius 3y ago
TRS-80 CoCo BASIC and in high school formally educated with Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0 Everything after - mostly "self" taught... As long as you count copious books written by others as "self"-taught... PHP, Java, C&#x2F
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by wormius 3y ago
This is secondary to the main topic, but: The externalization of costs onto customers is something I've noticed hard with the pandemic. Going to get medication at the pharmacy while fewer and fewer people worked and hours were closed,
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by wormius 3y ago
Like buzz that google attempt at social network that relied on Gmail user base.
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by wormius 3y ago
I love omniglot. I'd love to see the the diff, to see what's new since then.
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by wormius 3y ago
Reminds me of this Simpsons meme: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fd...
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by wormius 3y ago
But that bass is so classic and tight!
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by wormius 3y ago
I can picture a PKD novel about God being a subscription based AI, perhaps "salvation" requires monthly "tithing" or else you get cut off from everlasting life (or the real grease under the hood : social connections&#x2F
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by wormius 3y ago
Rush Limbaugh? Or any of the right-wing radio hosts who mocked belittled and laughed at liberal/minority suffering, I'm sure.
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by wormius 3y ago
Huh - went to the main page to see who "Mr Elusive" was and found out that he was a Doom programmer and authored a lot of papers. https://mrelusive.com/publications/pubs_bytype.html His ACM contributions: ht
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by wormius 3y ago
I was gonna say Lexx has my vote (though I'm actually a Dwarf fan)
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by wormius 3y ago
OOOOOOOh I remember oulu.fi too now. Forgot that one! Great addition to the list.
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by wormius 3y ago
I have a spiel about "the old days" (pre-2000) internet, when the Web wasn't the only protocol. How we had FTP, Archie, Veronica, WAIS, Gopher, Telnet, Finger, etc... I'd bring up all the great FTP sites I remembered: