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by zenethian 9mo ago
A DevOps crew? Mainframes aren’t something that are just part of some random web app project in a company. A System Administration team would be the likely maintainer. But a lot of mainframes are designed to be run with very little manual
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by zenethian 9mo ago
I had to think about what a “slimming jab” would be. Interesting terminology for weight-loss injections.
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by zenethian 9mo ago
We definitely had syntax highlighting in the 90s. I distinctly remember Turbo Pascal supporting it as early as 1992.
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by zenethian 9mo ago
This kinda sounds like hell for low memory machines. RIP shared memory optimizations.
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by zenethian 9mo ago
Keyservers already “solved” this problem without needing federation because we only needed one keyserver anyway. Federating them isn’t going to do anything. Web of trust is a broken system that sounds super cool until you try to really us
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by zenethian 9mo ago
This is a false equivalence. The iPad would have to be 45 years old and, after the artist had sold the art many times before to others, had the iPad rediscovered by someone after it had been lost in their mom’s attic.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
You didn’t click into it, did you? The top level post did not have that restriction, but instead the post it replies to does. Go look. The actual message in the bsky widget could be improved to state that the label is masking the original p
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by zenethian 10mo ago
What a weird bunch of hacks just to stick it to Python.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
Okay but has this process actually improved anything, or just substituted one process for another? Do you have fewer defects, quicker ticket turnaround, or some other metric you’re judging success?
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by zenethian 10mo ago
If a question like these are a red flag to a company, that’s a big red flag itself and I personally don’t want to work there.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
This website is a mess on mobile. Cool concept though!
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by zenethian 10mo ago
Neither company were like they are now back then. Intel needed a second supplier for their chips because nobody trusted manufacturing from a single source provider.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
Is anyone else really bothered by the title of this? Super Mario Bros is a specific game, but what are “Yoshi” games? Feels like the none of the researchers had ever played video games before.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
Too little too late. I’ve already ditched Amazon for ebooks in favor of Kobo’s ecosystem. It’s not flawless but it’s not soul sucking either.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
This seems kind of childish to be honest. Why not just fire the person?
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by zenethian 10mo ago
Another big long AI-generated article. Sheesh. Bonus points for replacing the emdashes with regular hyphens to try to cover it up.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
I hate this with every fabric of my being.
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by zenethian 10mo ago
That’s nonsense. Firefox has telemetry built in, it’s just that you can opt out of it. Your answer doesn’t explain why at all but instead just takes a wild guess at what might have happened. You don’t know if this was discovered in Chrome o
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by zenethian 11mo ago
Nix seems like a cool tool but nix users are becoming increasingly irritating.
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by zenethian 11mo ago
Ok but what if the owner wants to be different? Why do you care?
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by zenethian 11mo ago
That’s right, excluding potentially bothersome or predatory people to provide others safety is indeed “excluding” them.
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by zenethian 11mo ago
Your behavior feels wildly more intolerable than theirs. They want to provide a measure of safety to the place. You don’t have to go. There are plenty of places that will take a lonely person like you. But some people will prefer to freq
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by zenethian 11mo ago
> When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager Is the author saying that until 2019 they used Linux on the desktop without using X?
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by zenethian 11mo ago
I was very excited when ortholinear keyboards started to catch on, but then something happened and this ultra-minimalist stuff started pouring out with column staggering and now once again long for someone to make a good ortholinear split k
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by zenethian 11mo ago
A neat story, but it can be a bad trait too. Someone who can’t take no for an answer can be incredibly toxic and forcing a change by incessant badgering until everyone gives in is not the right way to go about this. I’m not saying that was
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by zenethian 1y ago
It feels like so much work has been done to just end up going full circle back to Django-style website applications. All of these frameworks have continually re-solved problems that were already solved in something other than Javascript, a
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by zenethian 1y ago
As an aside, what happened to the rumors about TP-Link stuff being compromised and used for botnetting by China? Was it true or unfounded?
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by zenethian 1y ago
This whole article is just AI slop itself. I couldn’t read past the first paragraph before the emdashes and the stench of GPT crept in.
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by zenethian 1y ago
This site is obviously just an ad, but it does remind me that I do want to learn about how modern mainframe systems work. I understand the basics of COBOL but I understand nothing about how mainframes execute it in such a way that it can p
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by zenethian 1y ago
Yeah I've used TIDAL for 8 years now and I've loved it. The fact that they pay artists better and even have a system for paying the artist you listened to the most each month is pretty neat.

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