akurtzhs

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by akurtzhs 2mo ago
Lavender is what we see swarms and swarms of bees come grab in the Pacific Northwest.
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by akurtzhs 2mo ago
Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks. To be fair, I had stretches of 2K, XP, 7 and 10 working acceptably.
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by akurtzhs 2mo ago
Nothing by Adam Warren? He took the Dirty Pair comics somewhere very cyberpunk in the last three volumes.
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by akurtzhs 3mo ago
Reading my skin notes thirty plus years later is a very strange experience.
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by akurtzhs 3mo ago
"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop
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by akurtzhs 1y ago
He indirectly called the Pope a simpleton, and the Pope took offense.
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by akurtzhs 1y ago
Paypal paid people to open an account or to refer new accounts early on. Inspired Dropbox to do the same thing with free storage.
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
I’ve tried custom launchers but never found anything as good as the Nvidia Shield interface before Google fucked it over with ads.
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings. They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and fin
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Kids really need to spend time outside. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148707
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
I used Gandi for a long time and switched after they were bought out and registration prices started rising. HN article from 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777 After that I've used spaceship.com, Name
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
If you’re willing to pay for proprietary software, I’ve been incredibly happy with Roon for music organization. Handles 99% of albums I add without an issue, great multi-room support, best suggestions of any existing service (Rest in peace
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Unfortunately the number input is lacking and inconsistent. We’ve always fallen back to JavaScript validation.
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives. Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, utensils, the cap on the Washington Monument. Pineapples before
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
“What’s in the box?” “Perl.”
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
YMMV. I prefer hybrid with two days a week in the office. You can dedicate those days to meetings and conversations and keep the remote days for more heads down work. And if you can’t make it to the office due to snow or travel, you’re prep
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
> I've resorted to making an "actual_requirements.txt" file manually listing only direct dependencies and whatever version constraints make sense. Pip-tools has an elegant solution for this. You write an requirements.in wh
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by akurtzhs 2y ago
Python Foundation support ended that long ago, but vendors maintained it for longer. Red Hat support for it through RHEL 7 ends 30 June 2024, however, and my guess is they’re the last ones.
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by akurtzhs 3y ago
Blizzard used BitTorrent for distributing full games, patches and trailers for years. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
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by akurtzhs 4y ago
Plex is aiming for this with their emphasis on universal cross-service search. If you look at the main page personal media is 6 paragraphs down.
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by akurtzhs 5y ago
The sun won't give out until much longer, but life as we know it has far less than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Ear... Look at 500–600 million years. The sun's increasing lum
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by akurtzhs 7y ago
returning a null array to represent no items To be honest, that's what I'd expect. What do you dislike about that result, and what would you prefer to see returned? Jump straight to 404? returning a single object without an arr
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by akurtzhs 8y ago
They already reintroduced AOL keywords in 2011 with their Direct Connect "feature" for Google+, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect... , so one could go straight to Pepsi's G
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by akurtzhs 8y ago
WSL is an attempt at getting developers to use Windows rather than OS X or Linux. That's a very different situation than coming up with the fundamentals for a new operating system.
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by akurtzhs 9y ago
I'm still frustrated that Google took away using pluses in searches so they could try to recreate AOL keywords for Google Plus.
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by akurtzhs 10y ago
His Wikipedia article disagrees with this, saying "Upset that Nasser would not enforce a government based on Islamic ideology, Qutb and other Brotherhood members orchestrated a plot to assassinate the Egyptian president in 1954. The at
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The Problem with Mechanical Switch Reviews(deskthority.net)
23 points by akurtzhs 10y ago|5 comments
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by akurtzhs 10y ago
At least in the US, this is incorrect. There is a gift tax, but it's paid by the donor, and they can give up to the annual exclusion amount a year without hitting it. This year, the limit's $14,000. Once a gift goes past that for
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by akurtzhs 11y ago
I've used https://opbeat.com/ for a small side project and been fairly happy - they track exceptions, releases and performance.

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