EvanAnderson

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by EvanAnderson 4d ago
Process migration seems like something that should be commonplace today. It would be an amazingly handy feature.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
Yeah-- no kidding. When I was anosmic with COVID I couldn't eat much of anything. Food was just terrible. I still remember the soulless paste that was peanut butter. (Ugh. It was so bad...)
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Neat. We throw away a butt-ton of watermelon rind in the summer. I never thought to see if they could be used for something.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
The US tendency toward gerontocracy is frustrating to me. Besides being out-of-touch, our federal officeholders being so old, as a group, feeds a self-fulfilling stereotype.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
I don't know if my father-in-law spit out the seeds or not. I'd heard the cyanide thing as a kid and always avoided eating them.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
Thanks for the commentary. I'll check out some of those.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
I still cut out the core when I slice an apple. I don't know the anatomical terminology well, but the "plastic-ey" texture of, I believe, the endocarp is what I don't like. It reminds me a bit of the plastic-ey tooth-clo
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
Point taken. I don't eat mushrooms-- can't stand the texture. I heard a podcast episode re: death cap mushrooms and it was chilling. A guy in the podcast talked about tasting a death cap then spitting it out and rinsing his mouth.
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
I am reminded of the saying in my family: Anything is edible if you're willing to eat it. My late father-in-law ate entire apples-- core and all. I've tried but I can't stomach the texture or how much more the fibrous parts o
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A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System(github.com)
24 points by EvanAnderson 5d ago|13 comments
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
I totally agree. I was there helping fix it, too. The occasion of Y2K was used by merchants of hype and fear to make a quick buck with people who had "prepper" tendencies. I can't believe I didn't expect them to glom-on
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
I'm an American turning 50 in the next year. Today made me aware of the fact me that I've now lived in a "post-9/11" world longer than before. (Time gets away from us, doesn't it... >sigh<) In the years i
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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
It's a nice article and the animations are functional and aesthetically pleasing. I used to teach this on a whiteboard at my local community college. This is much slicker (and involves a lot less scribbling and erasing). Spanning tree
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by EvanAnderson 6d ago
Anecdote: During the pandemic I added washing my hands every time I get back to my office building (and specifically after interacting with surfaces the public interacts with) to my usual hand washing (after bathrooms and before eating, jus
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by EvanAnderson 6d ago
For me it's not the cost that bugs me when I don't have a part, but rather the disruption to my flow. If I can't get a project done all at once I'm much less likely to ever get it done.
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by EvanAnderson 6d ago
I wish the old cables, gear, etc. I have squirreled-away stopped saving Customers' and friends' asses because I could feel good about getting rid of it. We've been unspooling the stash of wood off-cuts, bits of copper pipe, a
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by EvanAnderson 7d ago
The quickest way to get dragnet surveillance banned would be for citizens to collaborate and create a massive publicly-available surveillance network.
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by EvanAnderson 9d ago
I have a soft spot for the V20. The laptop I carried in high school was V20-based (a NEC Ultralite PC1701). I remember a CGA 3D billiards game I played on both the laptop and an XT clone desktop. The V20 was definitely faster for that game.
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by EvanAnderson 11d ago
Thanks for writing about that. I appreciate you taking the time to call out a bad actor like that.
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by EvanAnderson 13d ago
It's really neat that many of the comments in the 6502 version[0] match this 8080 version. I've only done a quick review but there's a lot of duplication. It's interesting to see how the 6502 version reflects its direct
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by EvanAnderson 13d ago
I've been doing grayscale for about a year now. Sadly, I've discovered most of my wasted time is spent reading, which works fine in grayscale.
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by EvanAnderson 14d ago
The company I work for requiring device-bound passkeys is the least of my concern. Once the idea of device-bound passkeys being "more secure" gets into the public consciousness as being "more secure" it'll be like t
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
When I was about 12 or 13 I recovered an old reel-to-reel recorder from the trash that had a magic eye tube on it (acting as a recording level meter). The mechanism was broken so it couldn't play or record tapes, but the magic eye work
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by EvanAnderson 16d ago
I haven't thought of Number Nine in years, but the mention reminded me that the BIOS on some of their cards displayed a Beatles lyric quote during boot.
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by EvanAnderson 17d ago
I did work for a small community college back in the 90s that had expanded their building multiple times since the 70s. The electrical potential between different parts of the building was significant enough to make wired Ethernet unreliabl
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by EvanAnderson 18d ago
Nice to see somebody else has made the comparison too.
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by EvanAnderson 19d ago
An install of Windows 11 from MSFT-provided media on an HP desktop PC earlier this year resulted in a ton of HP driver-related crapware on the PC. Windows Update will happily download drivers and user-mode software the driver manufacturer f
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by EvanAnderson 19d ago
Discussion from a few days ago that had links to more visualization tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423878
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by EvanAnderson 20d ago
> I have no interest in a relationship with a robot. I think I could, if it meant I could keep the experience of having a pet. I've had cats going back to my twenties. I dearly love my fifteen y/o cat. She's my last cat, t
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by EvanAnderson 20d ago
I always assumed the "enslaved animal-free" future would be something that came on gradually, likely motivated by economics (i.e. lab-grown meat becoming cheaper and higher quality than farmed, robotic pets being cheaper and more

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