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by jquast 3y ago
I stand by my metaphor. It’s a command-line interface, a picture of text is only reducing its accessibility. To complain about the visually impaired not doing enough to make the content more accessible for the visually gifted. I’m just too
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by jquast 3y ago
The author of edbrowse is visually impaired, and so is the target audience. This is like saying braille books could use more illustrations. Please read the very first hyperlink to learn more, http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy
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by jquast 3y ago
Hard disagree. Please everyone name it what it is, and don’t try to be coy or clever. Call it the metrics database, the example.com web service, the marketing tool, the data acquisition service, etc. I really hate that most private code bas
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by jquast 3y ago
https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/a... I’m very certain that even in the crazy case you have outlined, SIPC insurance would cover up to a half million. Some brokers provide additional insurance
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by jquast 3y ago
All of the content is provided by the community, if not directly submitted, ripped from message boards, Usenet, and other websites. Please don’t think that UG is paying anybody to transcribe (or repair/moderate, desperately needed) the
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by jquast 3y ago
I don't chose to be spied on by any government! But if I could chose only one, it would be an opposing country like China or Russia. American businesses are forced to share our private data witn three letter agencies. Conversely, I c
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by jquast 3y ago
Agreed, I would rather a foreign agency with no power or authority over me to have my personal data than a government that has the authority to wrongfully tax, investigate, jail, prosecute, and imprison me for that same data.
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by jquast 3y ago
This will certainly be used by corporations to whitewash their bad histories. IBM’s relationship with the Nazi Holocaust was difficult to find last week. the Wikipedia article, the book, and articles were all pushed further down to the bott
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by jquast 3y ago
Which of you are doctors? Why do you talk like this if you are not?
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by jquast 3y ago
You are correct about the mortgage payments, I had a 1-2 cent error every few months, after a days struggle, I simply added a “Penny” column to add or subtract as necessary so that they would match!
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by jquast 3y ago
It is easier to locate keys when given hints like an empty space on the board, it’s much easier to find “f4” next to a gap rather than counting four keys from the left
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by jquast 3y ago
I’d also like to add that IBM had no issues doing business with the Nazi party. They did it for the money, and stopped doing it for the money. They advertised on X for the money, and they stopped advertising X for the money. Is a white nati
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by jquast 3y ago
This is IBM letting us know that they are still breathing, they got more brand awareness from this article than a years worth of spend with X, big brain move from big brain execs
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by jquast 3y ago
I would have disagreed about supporting 80286 PC-DOS and Apple ][ computers all the way to the year 2000 but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and android phones in particular need to be prosecuted criminally
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by jquast 3y ago
Some kinds of mushrooms take up lead And other toxic materials. I only found this out because edible mushrooms grew in my yard, but they are warned in literature that they may contain heavy metals, as my well water contains 3ppb lead I wasn
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by jquast 3y ago
One of the first things I saw Linux do was utilize two mouses with two separate mouse pointers (serial and ps2 at the time), I was a young teenager and it blew my mind and I was installing Linux at home by the end of the month.
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by jquast 3y ago
You should especially consider the role of a historian or the person who wishes to set out to correct facts and figures that are in error in Wikipedia, this is precisely what they need to correct it, to be able to trace the lineage of the e
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by jquast 3y ago
> We'd still be locked out of the account if I didn't have a friend's husband working at Google with access to their internal support. Working exactly as designed, requiring you to be rich and powerful enough to have the i
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by jquast 3y ago
it would be like saying, “I’ll show those email scammers, by reading and replying to every spam email, surely they will be overburdened”, when you’re fighting automatic programs with human time, you’ve already lost
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by jquast 3y ago
I don’t drink, I guess I score pretty poorly on your relationship scale. If you need to have a drink to get through the workday and get along with I’d rather work with anyone else.
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by jquast 3y ago
I received an email that my credit limit would be reduced on an Apple Card unless I called customer support. I haven’t seen that since 2008, I called, and said to the support person that GS must be in a lot of trouble to resort to this, she
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by jquast 3y ago
Why is nobody mentioning using a tenths decimal, like 1.1 days ago, 1.9 years ago, 2.5 weeks ago. That’s how I like to implement it!
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by jquast 3y ago
Also that git timestamps are localized to each individual developer and are not validated, it can make global development more difficult. https://alesnosek.com/blog/2017/01/02/git-getting-the-timing...
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by jquast 3y ago
20 year old browsers don’t work at all, though. You can’t browse any of the top 100 sites, and you won’t be able to download an old release of firefox with your old version of internet explorer, because SSL.
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by jquast 3y ago
I do like to call the large amount of TODO items i find in business codebases as “TO DIDNT”, always some comments about what we know should have be done, but some alternative or smaller solution was done instead. Sometimes TODO comments des
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by jquast 3y ago
It seems to be specific integration with a few specific Microsoft applications so far.. LLM might be the end of complex GUIs. CLI and symbolic languages are so much easier for an LLM to work with so far, stdout and stdin, main and argv, the
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by jquast 3y ago
They did have nutrition labels, but they were voluntary, so you maybe did see "nutrition facts" of some kind, but they could have had any appearance or title and could make any claim deemed "truthful". https:/&#x2F
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by jquast 3y ago
I think it’s because git provides atomicy, requires it, requires you to make decisions on merge conflicts, etc while cloud sync makes invisible arbitrary decision of which file is newer, if there is a “conflict” like the same filename but d
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by jquast 3y ago
I was frustrated with a memory leak in someone else’s code of a dozen or more if-if-if-if-else-else-else statements like the second example, it was probably 400 or more columns wide. It was my first real job and I began to doubt my abilitie
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by jquast 3y ago
If Microsoft isn’t winning they quit and give up. they hardly make an effort. If it isn’t easy to win, they don’t want to play at all.

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