flomo

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by flomo 5d ago
Just for the record, I did see him posting on HN, and he seemed highly motivated by $$$ (and pride). He certainly seemed rational, other than the fact he shouldn't have been posting here. Businessman makes bad business decision and dou
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by flomo 7d ago
> He is surely very evidently mentally ill. I agree and upvoted your post. But can I just say that it is super-reddit to diagnose someone based on your B- undergrad psych classes. We should go back to the classics like "he went off
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by flomo 13d ago
> city.state.us In reality, it wasn't that simple, and a lot of those .us domains looked like line noise. Government sites are used to distribute public information. They need something they can print on a poster/sign. Not some
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by flomo 18d ago
> This is very common for archive files. Maybe. But Unix types have always been all-in on tar. They love tar. They continue to use some form of tar to this day. This was actually a 'cultural issue' back in the day, because Sun
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by flomo 18d ago
It's a much older term, eg. Lotus Notes was described as a document database.
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by flomo 21d ago
Yeah, a huge chunk of IBM's service revenue has always been effectively mainframe services , with wall street accounting spin. I suspect that almost zero companies adopted mainframes after 1980 or so, so it's ALL legacy market. H
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by flomo 1mo ago
> I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good. Agreed. And you would think most paranoid HN types would too. > It's just that uBlock Origin is so ins
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by flomo 1mo ago
IIRC, that "w3c validator" was overly strict, and would error on attributes it didn't recognize, even though they were technically 'valid' (and supported in ~every browser). So there were always a couple things like
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by flomo 1mo ago
> MS-DOS became obsolete only at the launch of Windows 95. Not even. The genius of Windows 95 was you could still run most of your DOS crap. (Maybe not games, but business apps.) Novell shops for example had a huge pile of DOS drivers an
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by flomo 2mo ago
Just as some off-the-top history, MS-DOS was clearly obsolete, but it hung around for like 10 years too long because people couldn't quit it. It was a DOSSY DOS world. "Protected Mode DOS" went through the IBM/MS gristmi
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by flomo 2mo ago
Just one little thing: East of Buena Vista Park, you have a lake, it is actually the road which goes around the park. Also, I would love to zoom in more. (pls give me the pixels)
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by flomo 2mo ago
Those sets were marketed as 'Expert Builder' in the USA, so maybe the challenge was part of the point?
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by flomo 2mo ago
It's fine not to be an AI user, just some people there seem to be holding their breath and stomping their feet until it goes away. Which leads to a really repetitive and boring discussion. (I'm not a member there, but they often h
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by flomo 2mo ago
I don't think that was it. Slashdot would only run stories from their 'content partners' like ZDNet and the Register, so they were always 2 days behind Reddit/HN/Twitter/etc. (When RMS was 'cancelled'
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by flomo 3mo ago
Hey, your response improves my opinion of 'car guys'. Because the analogy is thin and they are looking directly at what is coming out of the 'sausage machine'. And if the result is good, they could sell the machine for p
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by flomo 3mo ago
To be honest, it took me way too long to figure the Arch etc crowd are hobbyists who enjoy having something which always 'needs maintenance' over the weekend. (And maybe they don't want to admit they are hobbyists because wha
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by flomo 3mo ago
Certainly not a Musk fan, but IMO the real point of hyperloop was more that it's on a route that could be constructed within our lifetimes. (Unlike CAHSR, check their website.) Of course, California knows this because that's where
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by flomo 4mo ago
It's just another tool in the belt. Someone will say that's cheaper than rewriting in safe rust or whatever. (Apple must have a bunch of 1980s code written to 1980s standards. But that is their moneymaker.)
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by flomo 4mo ago
Ok, lets start planning its 10th birthday party.
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by flomo 4mo ago
Cool, a super technical dude like you can just spin a secure Win11 VM to run TurboTax then. You probably have a bash script or something. What are you complaining about.
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by flomo 4mo ago
Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.
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by flomo 4mo ago
Bumbershoot is a great blog if you are a 1980s home computer/console enjoyer, but were never quite sure how it all worked. He is trying to figure this out himself, so he goes step-by-step through getting his games working on a particul
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by flomo 4mo ago
You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy. It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time. edit, also the
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by flomo 4mo ago
TT was/is old-style "slick", like at the time it put my bank to shame in terms of UI. It probably wasn't using a 'popular framework' and if it was, it wasn't a naive implementation. It also was/is opt
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by flomo 4mo ago
Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.
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by flomo 4mo ago
A big feature for Microsoft is you have to pay them lots of money to still run supported Windows 10. Are you paying Intuit too? Probably not. I say again this is really a filter against "high support" customers because most of the
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by flomo 4mo ago
Some of those layoffs were certainly people supporting dead versions of Windows, and high-touch low-sophistication users with old broken-down computers. At some point, they/you were getting dropped as a customer and, checking the news,
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by flomo 4mo ago
Disclaimer that years ago, I was impressed at how slick the TurboTax website was. So I'm surprised they even still have a desktop version (...presumably not just some electron wrapper). And given how it works, I'd guess most of yo
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by flomo 4mo ago
Sure, but the Air Force bills all this kinda stuff to Recruiting (having worked in an adjacent area. I support a voluntary military.)
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by flomo 4mo ago
I concede you like to talk to yourself.

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