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by PTOB 1mo ago
Eventually, none of us do.
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by PTOB 2mo ago
I approve of Latin jokes. Well done.
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by PTOB 6mo ago
I'll bet someone's trying to run the New Outlook and classic Outlook at the same time.
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by PTOB 6mo ago
No indication that the licking was consentual.
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by PTOB 6mo ago
I am from a town that gets national news coverage only for Shenanigans like this.
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by PTOB 6mo ago
Many of us — perhaps even the best of us — can sometimes be mistaken for AI bots.
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by PTOB 6mo ago
Two of the things I love intersect here: good punctuation and engineering documents. AI stole the em-dash from my toolkit. I have memorized a group of useful Alt-codes for engineering documents. They include symbols for diameter, delta, deg
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by PTOB 7mo ago
... slowly losing all functionality until, suddenly, death.
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by PTOB 8mo ago
As someone who has done architectural renderings for fun and profit, I highly approve of this. The greatest downfall of our contemporary "built environment," as folks call it, is how poorly modern materials age and weather.
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by PTOB 8mo ago
Thanks for that link. Great starting point for me.
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by PTOB 8mo ago
Things like this have had me scratching my head for decades. Why would local governments annex property, upgrade utilities, and build new roads without moving that burden to the entities driving those things? They routinely do this for new
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by PTOB 8mo ago
^ This right here.
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by PTOB 8mo ago
Apple only gets a free pass from folks who are invested in that particular kind of ... relationship.
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by PTOB 9mo ago
I see my comment was downvoted, and I apologize. I meant to agree entirely with the parent comment by showing one specific way in which Win2K SP4 is far superior to Windows 11. In Win2K, Task Manager takes less than a second to start on a
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by PTOB 9mo ago
Interesting. I don't find the TC to be ugly; I find it to be dissonant. It hurts my brain like missed harmonics in a musical performance do. Here are my reasons: First thing I noticed on reveal day: it looks like a star ship from the t
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by PTOB 9mo ago
> It's my strong opinion that Windows 2000 Server, SP4 was the best desktop OS ever. Meanwhile, in 2025, with 64GB RAM and solid state drives, we hear, "Windows 11 Task Manager really, really shouldn't be eating up 15% of
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by PTOB 9mo ago
> Nearly nobody cares about ... That's an accurate and sad truth about humanity in general, isn't it? We all feel safer and saner if we avoid thinking about how things really are. It's doubly true if our hands are dirty to
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by PTOB 9mo ago
My favorite reading of _Frog and Toad Together_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHh29UfAco
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by PTOB 9mo ago
Why is it ugly?
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by PTOB 9mo ago
As someone who works on the design and construction of datacenters, I cannot stress enough how apropos this comment is. Even before the first conversation in your IDE starts, the load on national and local government resources, local utilit
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by PTOB 9mo ago
1958 Chevy Corvette. Looks way more futuristic.
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by PTOB 9mo ago
As a utility designer in my day job who frequents HN for real fun, this comment hits hard.
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by PTOB 9mo ago
In so far as it makes me feel the relief, awe, and pleasure of picking up a good tool, then by all means. The mouse trail made me feel something else.
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by PTOB 11mo ago
Let's test that: 1. Nothing stored in /dev/null is durable. 2. Nothing is stored in /dev/null. 3. Ergo, /dev/null exhibits durability. Thank you, I'll take my check at the door.
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by PTOB 1y ago
Here's the rest of it: > ... well-constructed sentence.
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by PTOB 1y ago
This is a great question. One of the hardest lessons I've learned is that some people don't know that the choices they're making are going to hurt them. There are children who are actively taught by the people they should be
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by PTOB 1y ago
Precisely. "Luck" shouldn't be equivocated with "chance." We have two words for a reason. Show up + embrace awkwardness + be kind and courteous and luck will follow. My son's Scout troop was lucky this year. Th
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by PTOB 1y ago
Has he considered exactly how much concrete is needed to build a datacenter campus?
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by PTOB 1y ago
Man, I had to use Word Perfect in school in 1997 . It seemed dumb at the time, but I learned some valuable lessons about markup and the importance of seeing hidden control characters to troubleshoot formatting issues.
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by PTOB 1y ago
I support this. "Windows XI" looks so much more professional and enigmatic.

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