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by ghewgill 1mo ago
Yes, let's look beyond centralized services for source control (also known as "developer social media"). For example, Forgejo is working on federation ( https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation&#x2F
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by ghewgill 2mo ago
Midnight at the bottom! I really like this one: https://sunclock.net
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by ghewgill 2mo ago
In the "number field" clock, the hours are always along the top row only. 12:10 and 10:12 look different.
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by ghewgill 4mo ago
HP calculators were an important part of my formative years. I have a 12C, 15C, and 16C (all original models). I also have an HP-35 (red LED digits) within reach right now. That was the calculator I used for high school exams, because we we
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SilverBullet introduces desktop app in beta(silverbullet.plus)
3 points by ghewgill 5mo ago|1 comments
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by ghewgill 6mo ago
Maybe I should have complained more loudly about them using the same name as that thing I wrote that I called Copilot. https://hewgill.com/pilot/copilot/index-old.html
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by ghewgill 6mo ago
I had that "a-ha" moment not at first by learning that "fenêtre" means "window", but later when I learned the German word is "Fenster".
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by ghewgill 6mo ago
The story didn't mention what had happened to inflation in the meantime. A dozen eggs costs $32.
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by ghewgill 6mo ago
Electricity costs money too? I don't know how the cost of power compared to the cost of a candle in the beginning of the 20th century though.
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by ghewgill 6mo ago
MajorBBS could handle multiple lines on its own, but you had to handle ALL of the lines with one box. That meant a serial port interface like DigiBoard which provided some number (8 or 16 or more) of serial ports that you would connect to m
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by ghewgill 7mo ago
Sheesh, trigger warning please! I remember the how.
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by ghewgill 10mo ago
I've done AoC on what I call "hard mode", where I do the solutions in a language I designed and implemented myself. It's not because the language is particularly suited to AoC in any particular way, but it gives me confi
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by ghewgill 1y ago
The walrus operator allows you to use `elif` there to avoid cascading indentation. if m := re.match(pattern1, line): do_stuff(m.group(1)) elif m := re.match(pattern2, line): do_other_stuff(m.group(2)) elif m :=
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by ghewgill 1y ago
Raymond Chen happens to have worked for Microsoft for a long time, but he is an institution unto himself.
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by ghewgill 1y ago
If text files are your world, then http://todotxt.org/ might be for you. I'm currently using "pter".
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by ghewgill 1y ago
The colons there don't represent C++. That's just a way of referring to a windows API function that exists in a specific DLL (in this case "user32"). Because the functions used here do not exist in older versions of Wind
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by ghewgill 1y ago
I think the hard limit of 100 todos is the best feature of this. Why don't other todo apps have this feature?
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by ghewgill 1y ago
SLMR and OLX were by the same author, but OLX was a complete rewrite and didn't look anything like SLMR.
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by ghewgill 1y ago
OLX (and SLMR) author here. It gives me warm fuzzies to hear about your positive experiences with OLX, after all these years. To this day I maintain that Turbo Vision was peak computer UI, it's been downhill since. :)
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by ghewgill 1y ago
You're thinking of the Thawte Web of Trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte which was run by Mark Shuttleworth (now of Canonical). The certificates were used for email, not for SSL. I lost track of what happe
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First confirmed footage of a colossal squid captured(rnz.co.nz)
37 points by ghewgill 1y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 2y ago
Increase the iterations on the sidebar. You will then see more detail until you zoom in even further.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
Do you believe that the Library of Congress is immune from the current administration's information purge?
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by ghewgill 2y ago
> Mission owners and operators often lack adequate capabilities for software understanding because technology manufacturers build software that greatly outstrips the ability to understand it. I wonder if this is because software engineer
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by ghewgill 2y ago
That also seems like a reasonable explanation. I never got any of the background story from our guides.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
There's a pass on the Inca Trail in Peru called "Dead Woman's Pass" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmi_Wa%C3%B1usqa ). I have to assume this is a similar warning.
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by ghewgill 2y ago
Yes. This warning in the documentation (and the same warning for "git restore") is doing nothing to help the situation. I've had to put a stake in the ground on this SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a&#x2F
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by ghewgill 2y ago
I worked with John for a few years in the 1990s. This was during the heyday of BBSes, when he joined our small team at Mustang Software after Mustang bought Qmodem. John moved to Bakersfield California (with his family, including OP!) to be
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Session messenger moves to a Swiss foundation(getsession.org)
4 points by ghewgill 2y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 2y ago
I agree that the title is ambiguous - it's what piqued my interest to read the article in the first place. Personally I lean toward fewer comments overall - perhaps to a fault - but explanatory comments as shown in the article are abso

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