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by don-code 2y ago
My understanding is that the PC is actually the odd one out there. Many pre-UEFI devices (PowerPC Macs, Sun SPARC boxen, etc) ran Open Firmware, which used device-independent bytecode in their boot ROMs. You could swap the graphics card out
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by don-code 2y ago
I once ended up being the beneficiary of Crucial making a gambit on "Mac memory", which was standard DDR memory with a different label on it. The SPD literally showed it as a different, non-Mac-specific SKU. Luckily, few people fe
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by don-code 2y ago
I lived down the street from the old Zildjian plant in Quincy. It's amazing how much product they were able to produce in such a small space. Sometime within the last ten years, it was knocked down and replaced with an apartment buildi
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by don-code 2y ago
It's telling that - as the family IT person who buys the computers - any time I buy someone a new computer, I need to spend _at least_ a few hours hammering out the rough edges. There's software that needs to be installed, softwar
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by don-code 2y ago
I DVR the nightly news with NextPVR, more as a convenience in case I'm doing something when it's on, want to pause/rewind, want to watch it the next morning instead, etc. Come 2020, I was convinced that the world was going to
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by don-code 2y ago
Architecturally, the city of Boston has changed many times. You can more or less pinpoint when a building was built by its appearance. City Hall's architecture is mirrored in most of the transit stops from the 1970s-era expansion. Some
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by don-code 2y ago
Indeed, I've been having this conversation with the junior engineers on my team. UNIX was designed for the days when computers - and the operating system - were shared resources, and each individual's permissions to it had to be s
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by don-code 2y ago
87 BMW here. I believe my servo is controlling the throttle cable itself. When the cruise control commands the vehicle to accelerate, the pedal physically moves. It's not my daily driver, but I would absolutely love to one day get anot
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by don-code 2y ago
Sometimes this just isn't feasible for cost reasons. A company I used to work for ran a few Super Bowl ads. The level of traffic you get during a Super Bowl ad is immense, and it all comes at you in 30 seconds, before going back to a s
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by don-code 2y ago
The original announcement from Casio said they'd be making a ring version of the venerable DBC-611 calculator watch as well: https://www.g-central.com/casio-to-release-casio-watch-ring-... It looks like they've in
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by don-code 2y ago
I have a handful of Realistic Chronomatic clock radios scattered about the house, including one at my bedside. The LED digits are large, and the alarms are loud - basically, exactly what I want in an alarm clock.
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by don-code 2y ago
I got to have this kind of fun a few years ago, when a company in our building threw away a Sun Ultra 45, which I believe was the last of the SPARC boxes packaged into a desktop form factor. These things were the stuff of legend - we had th
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by don-code 2y ago
I do self-host my mail, and I've done so since about 2005! It gets harder and harder to with every passing year. Some notable things that have changed since then: Many ISPs now block inbound port 25, required to receive mail via SMTP.
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by don-code 2y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that, after the SpaceX / Boring Company "rescue submarine" offer a few years ago, Elon Musk hasn't personally suggested (over X, of course) that SpaceX send up another Dragon inside of some co
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by don-code 2y ago
I've noticed there's a behavior of newer React apps, to load the static text "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app" (or similar). It'd be nice if they could instead use this feature to gate rendering the pa
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by don-code 2y ago
That's very much a double-edged sword. Jira is probably the product I use which has the worst UX around this - fields jump around the page for 5-10 seconds when I load a ticket. That said, while the likelihood that I personally (team&#
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by don-code 2y ago
I don't think that's irreconcilable with the author's point. Indeed, I find myself the "adult in the room" amount many of my friends and, frankly, most of my family. If something happens to me, it's usually my
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by don-code 2y ago
Sad to say, I filed a bug in an internal tool just two weeks ago relating to how it processes Windows linebreaks. The tool is written using modern languages (Python 3.11) and frameworks (FastAPI).
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by don-code 2y ago
I've also found that the AWS and Azure consoles behave this way. While not listed in the blog post, they load JavaScript bundles in the tens of megabytes, and must have a hard-coded timeout that fails the entire load if that JavaScript
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by don-code 2y ago
Slack additionally decides to hard-reload itself, seemingly without reason. I work on the road (from a train / parking lot / etc) for five or six hours per week. My T-Mobile plan is grandfathered in, so I can't "upgrade&
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by don-code 2y ago
While it's not a SCSI model, I suspect that the scanner on my LaserJet 1100a, circa 1997 - which I still use at least weekly - has more staying power than many scanners made available in the last 10 or 20 years. I still use it with SAN
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by don-code 2y ago
I was a Palm holdout into close to 2013. They weren't capable of the same range of things that a modern Android smartphone is, but it genuinely felt that someone had put time and effort into making the absolute best experience out of w
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by don-code 2y ago
I agree that k3s is a great way to get started. You can easily bring new nodes online and upgrade them. If you want your Services to behave a little bit more like physical boxes or VMs, where each service gets its own IP address (instead of
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by don-code 2y ago
Kubernetes. No, seriously. It's an orchestration tool that's common in the real world, and also notoriously hard to learn and "get right". Downtime due to obvious, important mistakes is common, and it leaves both enginee
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by don-code 2y ago
Much as I also have never understood universities teaching to "teaching" architectures (DLX), or "teaching" languages (Eiffel - luckily removed from our curriculum before I started), at the same time I did not land a job
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by don-code 2y ago
Thanks, Jia!
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by don-code 2y ago
KDE2 on Mandrake 8 for me. The look and feel of that desktop was a big part of what made me want to start using it over Windows. Whereas XP had just launched the Bozo the Clown-inspired theme, KDE offered something that somehow looked more
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by don-code 2y ago
I feel like manufacturers still haven't cracked the 3+ monitor code. My ThinkPad T500 could output to three monitors, way back in 2009 - but you needed to disable Windows' driver signing, and run a custom, patched video driver. Li
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by don-code 3y ago
While not necessarily "messing with my roommate": I lived with a very foul-mouthed roommate during my undergrad. The .NET Framework 3.5 (I think?) released during this time, and it had an API for speech recognition. I wrote a smal
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by don-code 3y ago
A phone, like my other digital devices, is a tool - I try to upgrade my tools only when I can't feasibly fix them anymore, or they by nature can't do what I need them to do. I don't really use my phone much, and go out of my

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