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by daveslash 4mo ago
Low quality comment here, but this line in the article " Back in the day, a computer was something so special and expensive that you only had one, and it was set up in a way that everyone had access to it. " reminded me of that li
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by daveslash 4mo ago
Our track coach would do the same thing! And he got really frustrated with me because the foot that I led with seemed to vary by day. I'd be fairly consistent on any given day, but another day I'd be consistently the other foot.
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by daveslash 4mo ago
Came here to make the same comment. I have a copy of The Red Atlas. Fantastic. Here's a link to the comment thread about it here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378422
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by daveslash 4mo ago
Re >> Can you check this is correct for me? That's the part that really gets to me. It's one thing to say Hey friend, you could have quickly gotten the right answer yourself . It's another thing to say Hey buddy, yo
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by daveslash 4mo ago
I'm similar. I do very little with both hands, but I'm split between left and right on individual things. Throw is right, write is left. Where I especially get hung up is learning something to do with feet - surfing, skateboarding
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by daveslash 4mo ago
I think I heard somewhere (can't find reliable source right now) that he created Captain Planet as a revenge. He had some renewable energy initiative/deal that he was trying to get pushed through that got clobbered by big oil lobb
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by daveslash 1y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Folks have been saying for a while "it's a tell tale sign of AI!" and I've been thinking - have people forgotten about Microsoft Word (and other word processors) automatically changing
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by daveslash 1y ago
Agreed. Although alternative to a chunk of Earth as a result of a natural impact, I wonder if it could have been a poorly sanitized space probe from the 60s or 70s?
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by daveslash 1y ago
The Author also missed the fact that in the 2001 Movie they went to Jupiter, whereas in the book they went to Saturn. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177/why-is-the-des...
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by daveslash 1y ago
I learned a long time ago to be very careful with mock, dummy, or test data.... because some people will just push anything to prod, take screenshots during your demo and paste it into the official documentation... you name it. I was giving
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by daveslash 1y ago
It might be appropriate if you're a children's cartoonist/artist and you're sending out proofs? But yeah, I get your point and agree.
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by daveslash 1y ago
Agree. It's social, but also semi-anonymous. It's a nice balance. It's not anonymous like 4chan, because on Reddit you still have a username and post/comment history, so you have a reputation . But it's largely ano
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by daveslash 1y ago
Regarding "work out of the box".... I started using Ubuntu with Breezy Badger (5.10). In those days, I had been goofing around with Mandrake (RIP, now Mandriva), Fedora Core 4, Knoppix 3.4, and Suse 10. Back then, it was so frustr
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by daveslash 1y ago
Regarding Reddit, I completely agree. I recognize that it is technically "social media", but I consider it to be a different animal from the majority of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Insta, etc...). Glad you're largely enj
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by daveslash 1y ago
Just speaking for myself. Facebook was fun when it was the underdog to MySpace. But I closed me account just a few years later and haven't looked back. Was never engaged on twitter, but have an account just so I can verify "yes,
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by daveslash 1y ago
And then they have OneDrive, SharePoint, Office365, and Teams as ways to share files... which are all the same thing/infrastructure under the hood .
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by daveslash 1y ago
But what are electrolytes!? Da ya even know ?
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by daveslash 2y ago
I went there as a kid. One visit was actually a school field trip. I have not been to one in nearly 30 years. And I should have more clearly said that I've only actually been to one, but have seen others while traveling. That was my mi
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by daveslash 2y ago
I remember paying $200 (in adjusted 2025 dollars) for a 32GB USB thumb drive.
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by daveslash 2y ago
Speaking of nature parks instead of zoos, the San Diego Wild Safari Park is just that. Very large enclosed pastures with multiple species living alongside each other.
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by daveslash 2y ago
Big Zoos, yes. And they do some great research, as well as preservation and rehabilitation. But I've also been to a few small zoos in rural America that are essentially someone's private animal collection that they charge you a fe
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by daveslash 2y ago
I was commenting to my wife the other day... it seems to me that there are very few wild animals that just die from being too old. Not an expert, but it seems to me that most animals in the wild live until they are brutally ripped apart and
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by daveslash 2y ago
Same. The only thing that sticks is converting from format X to .mp4. Everything else I need to look up every single time. Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1168/
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by daveslash 2y ago
I'm not a KSP pro, but I have tried and tried to fly into the sun and have yet to succeed. Even if I do my best to lose as much of the planet's orbital velocity as I can until I'm out of fuel, and I begin to fall towards the
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by daveslash 2y ago
I hear you. And thank you for posting the archive link. It's like buying gas in California. Before you can start pumping, you've gotta answer 20 questions. 1. Are you using grocery store rewards points? 2. Would you like to
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by daveslash 2y ago
Ha, that's a good point. We were broke kids in a rural town without drivers licenses a hundred miles from anywhere that sold physical VHS or DVDs. We didn't have money, and if we did we didn't have the means to get to a store
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by daveslash 2y ago
Downloading The Matrix over a 28k dial-up modem (on a shared house/family line) was an exercise in patience! I didn't, but a friend did... and we all waited weeks for it to finish.
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by daveslash 2y ago
Agreed. The same with Music - with the rise of services like the iPod and more modern streaming services like Spotify, the effort just wasn't worth it. It turns out that people will happily pay for that content if its in an easy and co
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by daveslash 2y ago
Agreed. It's very important to maximize cross-functional coherence to capitalize on strategic imperatives for maximal growth opportunities.
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by daveslash 2y ago
I think it was Joel Spolsky who said that a manager is someone who moves the chairs out of the way so that the individual contributors can do their work well. I'm not a manager by title, but when I'm managing something, my objecti

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