deltarholamda

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by deltarholamda 14d ago
It was extremely informative; I didn't even know these things existed. It opens up several interesting alternatives for teaching kids.
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by deltarholamda 20d ago
The value-add for a meatbag CEO is the physical networking they do. They have to do executive functions as well, which could quite possibly be replaced with a well-trained LLM and even possibly exceed in overall quality. But an LLM can&#x27
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by deltarholamda 1mo ago
Old Web was extremely self-selecting. If you were in that group or adjacent to that group, it was for you. The sort of person that would read about that crazy guy making Unix from scratch and then download a bunch of floppy disk images. The
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by deltarholamda 1mo ago
Single-handed sailing definitely limits your boat size. You have to be able to set and retrieve sails, anchors, etc., and you can't always depend on mechanical assist. Things break at the worst times. Even couples and small families ha
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by deltarholamda 1mo ago
I read this many years ago, it is fantastic. The tale is very matter-of-fact, but interspersed with hard-hitting extremely personal bits. It's a great read. The boat itself is an odd duck, a Pacific Seacraft double-ender, which was onl
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by deltarholamda 1mo ago
It's partially about how complicated modern Web services can be, and why so many people just give up and ship a Docker container. It's also about how agonizing over the details is sometimes just wasted because all of your users ar
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by deltarholamda 2mo ago
In 2005, right after Katrina hit, a lot of people in the Gulf lost power for a long time. All cell towers were overloaded constantly. What kept working was radio. A bog standard Sony radio would run for a long, long time on a few AA batteri
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by deltarholamda 2mo ago
>Branded fleece vests, size: only Medium I laughed at a lot of this, but this was a gem. This definitely happened to whoever wrote it. I also like how the TITLE changes when the tab is backgrounded. Great work folks!
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
On some level the Neo is just a new chapter in the story of the original iBook. The difference between 1999 and now is the much stronger Apple brand, so people on the fence were quite ready to throw down with a $600 Mac.
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
Back in the day you had to go dig up an Adaptec 1542 or something similar if you wanted a CD-ROM on your Linux box. IDE CD-ROMs were essentially unsupported. Best part of SCSI was the required sorcery. "No no, young padawan, you must p
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
US healthcare is extremely productive. It is also quite expensive.
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
I'm not even sure how you'd define a great programmer. Like Justice Potter Stewart I sort of "know it when I see it". For example, I don't think anybody is going to put Rasmus Lerdorf on the Mount Rushmore of Great
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
>Email supports text. Yes it does. However, I have sent messages to more than a few people who tell me that my message is completely empty. I have my client set to send text-only, no HTML, and apparently the system on the other side drop
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
You missed the point. The guy thought she was playing a game, but she was actually using the built-in web browser on the PSP. Whether it was Candy Crush or Tony Hawk Pro Skater or Super Mario Bros. (also not on PSP) doesn't matter. She
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by deltarholamda 3mo ago
After the blowout success of the Macbook Neo, I'd think the bet would be on a cheap iPhone. Maybe not, as so many people finance their expensive phone through their carrier, but I suspect a $300 iPhone would eat the mid-range Android m
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by deltarholamda 4mo ago
Back in the day it was useful to know RPN. Because somebody will ask to borrow your calculator, and if you hand them an HP they'll say "oh... thanks, but no thanks". You get to be nice and you don't have to worry about s
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by deltarholamda 4mo ago
I'm old enough to remember Atari when it was new. Playing a video game at home was quite something, no quarters required! But it also had somewhat limited replayability. Doesn't matter how good you are, eventually Defender is goin
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by deltarholamda 4mo ago
>But “education” as a public, taxpayer supported activity is about the economy It sounds harsh and maybe a bit gauche, but it's true. A literate and numerate citizenry helps the nation advance. That's the selling point for wide
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by deltarholamda 5mo ago
It also blocks IPs from states with age verification laws. I mean, okay, I respect the principle, but since there's very little I can do about the laws, and since there are exactly zero politicians who are going to fret because they ca
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by deltarholamda 5mo ago
>Nobody wants the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds You fool! The WF-1000XM5 is the worst model of the line! You should buy the WF-1010XN5, it is far superior! Apple tends to name things in an odd way, e.g. sometimes you need to remember whether y
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by deltarholamda 5mo ago
Somewhat related, in 1943 German POWs built a scale model of the Mississippi River basin to use for modeling of flood control methods. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model ) It's not in grea
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by deltarholamda 6mo ago
I do this as well. I have a decent number of domains in my control, but not hundreds, so editing a text file and updating a hidden master is a perfectly reasonable workflow.
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by deltarholamda 6mo ago
>We could have an AI Dang "We trained the dang-AI on thousands of dang posts, and now it's a Zen master and wants to sit under a tree and contemplate bees."
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by deltarholamda 6mo ago
>I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I used nothing but emacs for several years (well, xemacs, but close enough), because I was using an old Thinkpad, and long-term use of the trackpoint gave me RSI i
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by deltarholamda 7mo ago
>They've totally lost the plot with iPads IMO. It's a fantastic device to consume media, gaming, and some niche areas like drawing... but other than that Every construction admin, supervisor, field inspection guy, etc. has a to
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by deltarholamda 7mo ago
Can't speak to ditching a preferred text editor for this one, as text editors are one of the most highly personal preferences in computing. But as a guy that teaches kids about computing and system administration, having another option
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by deltarholamda 7mo ago
>The old Macs really were the perfect form factor for a compact desktop computer For certain types of work, they are excellent. I used an SE/30 as a dedicated writing and light programming machine for several years. It presents a fr
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by deltarholamda 7mo ago
The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a serious security flaw. If a company like G
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by deltarholamda 8mo ago
Agree with this strongly. It's nice to have thousands of photos, but if what you're trying to do is preserve memories, you do that best by interacting with the photos. Choosing the photos to include, plus doing the scrapbooking bi
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by deltarholamda 8mo ago
For a small island nation, Britain has had an outsized influence. Culturally, politically, technologically, etc. There are many reasons for it, some accidental (like geography) and some purposeful, but it remains that Britain has punched ab

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