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by xenophonf 11mo ago
Regarding that VT220, I misremembered. My dad's workplace loaned him a 1200-baud modem and a C. Itoh terminal, maybe a CIT-101 because [this picture]( https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/File:C._Itoh_CIT
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by xenophonf 11mo ago
Stories like these make me want to give modernizing vtrek another try. I'd originally played it on my cousin's 3B2 in the late 1980s after being introduced to the CP/M port of classic trek, which I played on my family's
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by xenophonf 11mo ago
Firefox profiles suck. Their UX is so bad. Containers are better but still have their issues. I use Containerise plus Cookie AutoDelete plus Temporary Containers to give me what is effectively per-tab private browsing. The major downsid
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by xenophonf 1y ago
You can reproduce the release just fine using the lock file published alongside the release. Checking it in creates unnecessary work for devs, who should only be specifying version constraints when absolutely necessary.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
The lock file shouldn't be in the repository. That forces the developers into maintenance that's more properly the responsibility of the CI/CD pipeline. Instead, the lock file should be published with the other build artifa
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by xenophonf 1y ago
> While internal modules and libraries should be kept as generic as possible, external-facing components, on the other hand, are a good place to put business-specific domain logic. External-facing components here refer not only to views
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I haven't been able to get useful prototypes out of LLMs, for that matter.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
> Great for prototyping I must be Doing It Wrong(TM), because my experience has been pretty negative overall. Is there like a FAQ or a HOWTO or hell even a MAKE.MONEY.FAST floating around that might clue me in?
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by xenophonf 1y ago
In the cases of the adults stuck inside the cars, aren't there mechanical unlocking handles inside Teslas?
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation videos(youtube.com)
1 points by xenophonf 1y ago|1 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
Republicans have made deep cuts to---or have even completely eliminated---federal safety investigators and regulators, including the CSB. From the channel description: With fewer than 50 employees and an annual budget of just $14.4 million,
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Image of two black holes circling each other captured(phys.org)
3 points by xenophonf 1y ago|0 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
> getting several thousand emails per day can only mean they are victim of a spam attack I think of calling my representative as being like proof of work. It takes a modicum of effort to look up their phone number, compose some spiel,
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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem(thewalrus.ca)
4 points by xenophonf 1y ago|1 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
From the article: > Sales track—or simply track, in industry parlance—is an invisible force shaping contemporary literature. Much depends on that number. On the basis of track, published authors struggle to keep going; those just star
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by xenophonf 1y ago
NixOS looks super cool, but it also looks too much like actual work. As a FreeBSD main for two decades, I've played that game already and have the (sadly, now long dead) tinderbox and poudriere installations to prove it.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I'm not sure and don't have the patience to check. I might go back to Debian. I'm only really using Ubuntu since that and RHEL are what we use at work.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
It's bad everywhere. Every time I've upgraded Ubuntu on my old laptop, performance gets worse and worse because more and more junk keeps getting added. Absolutely maddening.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
Gygax was an awful misogynist. https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-historian-benn-riggs-on-...
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Lee Gold, the Most Important Gamer in Roleplaying After Gary Gygax(dmdavid.com)
3 points by xenophonf 1y ago|2 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I've long been a ZFS stan, but I am slowing coming around to the idea that I probably won't be able to continue using it at even the small scales I have planned. It's a damned shame.
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Linux 6.18 Will Further Complicate Non-GPL Out-of-Tree File-Systems(phoronix.com)
9 points by xenophonf 1y ago|3 comments
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I'm really mad at Half Brick for killing classic Fruit Ninja. I actually spent money on that game and on Jetpack Joyride, only to lose both sets of purchases. They suck.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I hereby declare August 28 as Leech Day. Everybody save up your favorite weird HN posts for the year, and we'll compile them in an annual celebration of all the nerdsniping that goes on here.
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by xenophonf 1y ago
It doesn't prevent altering the data before it gets published, though. Garbage in, garbage out. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5432523-trump-fi...
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by xenophonf 1y ago
> I have recently jumped onto the "write python tooling in rust" bandwagon I know Go and Rust are the belles du jour, but this kind of thing really hampers integrators' ability to support platforms other than x86-64 and
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by xenophonf 1y ago
It's a classic Usenet post that deserves linking at every opportunity! https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/csh
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by xenophonf 1y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. You're correct, and as the other commenter mentioned, csh programming is evil in the eyes of the LORD. Starting last year, I've been maintaining a bash profile that implements (
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by xenophonf 1y ago
That's exactly how I justified our 88-character code line length limit to a colleague. I split my screen into quarters and showed them how that let me keep useful context visible without having to break my focus by switching tabs&#x2F
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by xenophonf 1y ago
The "no possibility of bikeshedding" thing is critical. I like things formatted the way I format them, but the thought of having to specify and then justify and worse enforce each and every little decision just completely saps an

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