johnplatte

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   by johnplatte 14d ago

   I don't know the history of when the offerings were available, but I initially bought my-first-name.my-rare-last-name.name, and fortunately nobody else bought another-name.my-rare-last-name.name, and I was able to let mine lapse then b
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   by johnplatte 14d ago

   Wow! Years ago I initially bought my firstname.lastname.name, then I let it expire and then bought lastname.name. So glad I did! Never dreamed that such a supposedly durable thing would just disappear. How hard is it really to preserve a gl
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   by johnplatte 4mo ago

   I enjoy that the new CEO's GitHub handle is "dontcallmedom" and the W3C hyperlinks refer prominently to Dom.
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   by johnplatte 4mo ago

   I like the idea of "it's not about LLMs" better as a starting point. For example, someone could peel off from a shared coding session, ask an LLM to try a concept, then bring that LLM chat to the group to explore (and then ye
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   by johnplatte 6mo ago

   Comedically, this doesn't load from my IP address in the Russian Federation. (HN does.)
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   by johnplatte 8mo ago

   This happened in March 2020. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267
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   by johnplatte 10mo ago

   .su is available for registration, I'm not sure what the "in a limited way" is about. In Russia it's used to communicate old-schoolness, approximately.
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   by johnplatte 1y ago

   Came here to say this. I've been with Fastmail a similar length of time and it just keeps getting better.
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   by johnplatte 1y ago

   And why NeXT's Cocoa had Interface Builder?
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    by johnplatte 1y ago

    I remember reading the compendium of human-interface writings Apple put together in the 1990s. There was an exploration of ways to show age in software. They were changing the color and adding other aging effects to old files in the Finder.