bjnord

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by bjnord 6y ago
I started my history with computers on the PDP 11/40 at my Dad's university. Years later when my company was writing Unix software and we were porting to all the major vendors, DEC loaned us an Alpha workstation so we could port t
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by bjnord 6y ago
There was a wonderful project "choir.io" that did exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220740 I got early access and wired it into our software, which essentially processed streams of various events
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by bjnord 7y ago
Curiously, I saw another story today pointing to Verizon 5G maps which are now available: https://www.verizonwireless.com/5g/coverage-map/ Here in Minneapolis (one of the first two cities that got it), there are 6
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by bjnord 7y ago
oblig.: https://xkcd.com/435/
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by bjnord 7y ago
Now where did I put that Infinity Gauntlet...
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by bjnord 7y ago
Yes, and in the same way, once the AA execs realized how much it was costing them, they started looking for some way to get out from under the agreement they made. I had something similar happen with a national tire-and-brake chain, from wh
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by bjnord 7y ago
Usenet as it was 30 years ago: http://olduse.net/
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by bjnord 7y ago
...and the scratchy static introduced by whatever tool they used to add that voice watermark.
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by bjnord 7y ago
Can Airfox and Earthfox be far behind?
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by bjnord 7y ago
You're assuming it works. Where I work we have an intranet-based web app that pushes the new password to all the various corporate systems. We're forced to choose a new password every 90 days. I'd say 1 time out of 3 somethin
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by bjnord 7y ago
Interesting that this was just on HN a few days ago: "What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944382
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by bjnord 7y ago
Seriously! That was awful. My heart rate is slowly returning to normal. (Long-time very satisfied EasyDNS customer.)
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by bjnord 7y ago
I'm a happy Newsblur subscriber. The developer has continued to extend and improve it since the days when he was suddenly mobbed by Google Reader refugees like me. It's got great uptime, I've hardly ever had an issue with it.
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by bjnord 7y ago
This takes me back; I first read this (in pieces) via the Unix fortune(6) program.
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by bjnord 7y ago
Reminds me of "pacifist" conduct in Nethack.
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by bjnord 7y ago
I used to work in assessments (educational testing, employee satisfaction, etc.), and the MMPI and other psychological testing would sprinkle in items like "I have never had hair on any part of my body (agree/disagree)" and u
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by bjnord 8y ago
They are, although since the ADA dates from 1990, the web isn't mentioned explicitly. It's been up to the courts to decide how it applies. Nevertheless, web-related ADA lawsuits are on the rise: https://www.latimes.com&
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by bjnord 8y ago
I wonder if the "Required operating systems" (Windows / Mac OS X) is really true. Just checked again with my Chromebook (Chrome OS 72) and it worked fine, as it has been.
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by bjnord 8y ago
I use Pocket also, but: For most web sites, Pocket makes a text-only copy that you can read offline without hitting the website again. But Pocket doesn't do that for Medium articles; it will only take you to medium.com to see the origi
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by bjnord 8y ago
"I have never felt more conflicted with empathy for and gripped by fear of an electronic conscience since." There are several episodes of Black Mirror that explore that idea... what is ethical with respect to something ("just
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by bjnord 8y ago
I use Informed Delivery (pretty handy), so when I started reading the article, I thought -- I should be safe, because I already signed up for the account at my address. Not so! FTA: "Normally in these cases I’d urge readers to simply p
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by bjnord 8y ago
It turned out beautifully, do not hesitate.
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by bjnord 8y ago
What stands out to me is the supportive comments on the Kickstarter page for this announcement. I only speed-read the first page, but they're almost uniformly "that's OK, you gave it your all". One person said they found
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by bjnord 8y ago
I have it on High Sierra (10.13)
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by bjnord 8y ago
"Is SpaceX going for 2nd stage reuse at all? That's going to be a lot harder" Yes, they are (and yes, it will be): "SpaceX also continues to study the feasibility of returning and reusing the second stage of the Falcon 9
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by bjnord 12y ago
Searching for ":;" in my Apache logs, I'm definitely seeing some hits -- although the majority are security organizations doing wide scans to see how many systems are vulnerable.
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by bjnord 14y ago
I, for one, would be interested in seeing that nokogiri script that turns ugly HTML into markdown... although I'd totally understand if you want to keep it close as a competitive advantage. ;-) I regularly have to deal with the ugly HTML th