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by epc 1mo ago
Or a certain cohort of Gen X who were old enough to watch The Day After or Threads and comprehend the possibilities.
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by epc 3mo ago
There was quite a kick when the engines spooled up. I flew mainly SFO/LAX to SYD and the few minutes of full thrust you just kind of sat back in your seat and didn't try to do anything.
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by epc 3mo ago
Was going to make a similar comment…most systems programming was in PL/S or PL/X on 370/390 architecture (regardless of the O/S). AIX and OS/2 were mostly in C. AS/400 in RPG. There were some oddball progra
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by epc 4mo ago
GML dates to 1969, SGML from the 1970s. Internally we used something called BookMaster which kind of? looks like a precursor to HTML (you had :p. instead of <p>, :li. instead of <li>). There was an effort circa 1990-1991 (as TB
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by epc 5mo ago
Ah, yes, the Zapata Petroleum -> zap.com phase of the bubble.
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by epc 7mo ago
Just seconding this…people have a starry eyed view of the dotcom boom but there was a lot of waste and outright fraud. A lot of theoretical improvements to business processes were lost because…the businesses didn't want to change thei
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by epc 8mo ago
Is it just the classic (1996-1997 era?) SYN-ACK attack?
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by epc 9mo ago
Most of my domains are at PairDomains (no nonsense UI, but also limited TLDs). Have become a recent convert to Porkbun after Godaddy blew a renewal (on a TLD Pair doesn’t support).
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by epc 11mo ago
No. I don’t know that “the public” worried about anything with respect to the Internet. There was a lot of hand wringing by various thought leaders about porn, adult content, porn, more porn, inappropriate communications, porn, and findin
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by epc 11mo ago
No, IIRC the Port Authority owned the land but leased development out to a developer, Larry Silverstein. Coincidentally Silverstein leased the rest of the WTC complex from the PANYNJ in July? 2001.
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by epc 1y ago
One million buildings…that's residential, commercial office or retail, and other (factories, storage, etc).
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by epc 1y ago
There was still an antitrust case in process against IBM in 1981 when the PC was launched, it would only be dropped by the US in 1982. I started in 1990 and the fear of another antitrust case pervaded everything through the ten years I was
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by epc 1y ago
Problem one is they do not honor the conventions of the web and abuse the sites. Problem two is they are taking content for free, distilling it into a product, and limiting access to that product.
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by epc 1y ago
Do the AI training bots provide free access to the distillation of the content they drain from my site repeatedly? Don't they want a free and open web? I don’t feel a particular need to subsidize multi–billion even trillion dollar cor
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by epc 1y ago
I think the reasoning would be much simpler: more and more services and personnel working in those services are becoming mandatory reporters through legislation and regulation.
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by epc 1y ago
Personally, it became too much of a hassle to maintain. Comment spammers would whale on your comment systems, so you either shut them off or offloaded to some third party. If you ran Google ads it always seemed to take more effort to stay
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by epc 1y ago
It’s 1997. The executives in the boardroom have heard about this AI thing and have tasked the managerial class to make sure they have an AI plan to execute for FY2025 and FY2026. Shareholder Rights Activists are demanding that companies h
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by epc 1y ago
The only way I succeeded was to argue with real numbers and costs. The business side liked to frequently claim that we did $XXX in business every minute using the web site, so I started using that (if the web site is down for an hour, we l
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by epc 1y ago
1. SSL 2. 57
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by epc 1y ago
I'm not in the city at the moment to check but they seem to take it down or shift it when there's going to be construction in an area. With the Gansevoort Pier rebuild and Little Island it wouldn't surprise me if they shifte
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by epc 1y ago
I don't think that's a current map, the eruv web site shows much more of the island covered (including much of Hell's Kitchen): http://eruv.nyc/#map
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by epc 1y ago
See http://eruv.nyc/#map for a more current map (circa 2023).
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by epc 1y ago
Correct link is: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-06/miami-s-d...
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by epc 1y ago
Netscape tried dynamic email with Communicator in the 90s…somehow I still have the sample "Airius Airway's 401k Contributions Worksheet" with JavaScript embedded (Gmail obviously ignores it). IIRC no one, and I mean no one,
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by epc 1y ago
My better half uses various AI services (paid, mostly) to either stub out documents or presentations or to distill and summarize gobs of information. They're fully aware of the shortcomings and we've seen some absolutely hilariou
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by epc 1y ago
No. I found it frustrating that so many BASIC programs had odd quirks or dependencies on one platform that I couldn't figure out how to mimic on whatever I was programming on (first a MicroVideo Interact, then an Apple 2 with Integer
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by epc 1y ago
I was a Notes user inside IBM in the months before the acquisition. It was so, so much better than anything IBM had on the desktop, either as a product or the many internal hacks. At the time IBM had OfficeVision/2 perennially under
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by epc 1y ago
Is the PDF of this available anywhere, pub.usgs.gov appears to have been DOGEd.
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by epc 1y ago
I’ve been doing web sites for thirty years, robots.txt is at best a request to polite user agents to respect the server’s desires. None of the malicious crawlers respect it. None of the AI crawlers respect it. I’ve resorted to returning xml
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by epc 2y ago
I know, but outside the US the role is considered head of government.

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