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by jsrcout 13d ago
Nice! That's a new one for me.
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by jsrcout 18d ago
I was always soooo tempted to say "pretend I can't see whatever you're looking at right now..."
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by jsrcout 24d ago
In theory, sure. For me personally... not so much.
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by jsrcout 24d ago
Seconded. It's almost encyclopedic in scope. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that the hilarious chapter on English slang of the time was my favorite.
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by jsrcout 28d ago
That's really going above and beyond. Hope it helped them.
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by jsrcout 1mo ago
My friend calls it the lump under the carpet. You can move it around, but you can never get rid of it.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
Yikes, must have missed that one. Horrifying thought.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
This one of my favorite speeches for being both educational and entertaining. It's especially gratifying to learn the background story for the mysterious Alice and Bob.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
You can still ride a Shay-powered train at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Scenic_Railroad_State_Par... . It's an old-time logging railroad that goes up into the mountains from a former https://en.wik
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
Nice! That Windows 95/98 GUI design wasn't the most beautiful ever made, but it was quite usable. You never had trouble telling what was what.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
Ooh, nice! This very much appeals to the historian and former GUI developer in me. Update: The Pixel Perfect checkbox makes a noticeable difference in appearance. I presume this is because older systems were developed before the advent of a
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
Interesting site. As a non-Web developer, I've vaguely wondered about the various frameworks and where the "look and feel" that I see on different sites' user controls come from. This be will fun to explore.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
For tools that don't support -0, you can add the NULs yourself without much fuss. It's a one-liner in awk/perl/sed. Very handy.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
That's a new one for me. Do you happen to have any pointers to more info? I found a few mentions, but nothing substantial.
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by jsrcout 2mo ago
In fact, he loves us!
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
> time is now part of the io interface [...] Nice, didn't know that! Sounds like this could be extremely useful for some of the simulators we work on (though we mostly work in C/C++).
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
> Why? Because I can. Always the best reason.
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.
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by jsrcout 3mo ago
> 1948 was an interesting time for computing. Not a commonly seen statement :-)
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by jsrcout 4mo ago
Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.
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by jsrcout 4mo ago
Oh, absolutely. For instance I never thought Lysenkoism would happen again, but the conditions are ripe for it.
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by jsrcout 4mo ago
Same here. The Teams meeting page layout pisses me off on a regular basis, with way too much useless space around everything, tons of unhideable icons and crap filling half the screen, and all the actual content crammed into a little box. I
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by jsrcout 5mo ago
Ratarmount is so cool. Recently I wanted to look at a couple random files in a > 300G compressed tarball. It just wouldn't have been worth doing without it.
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by jsrcout 5mo ago
- Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus? - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia - Rescue Chip Sent In To Save Broken Tostit
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by jsrcout 5mo ago
Correct.
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by jsrcout 6mo ago
Docs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.
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by jsrcout 6mo ago
Very sad to hear. As an already-addicted computer nerd when The Soul of a New Machine came out, his book put me inside an utterly fascinating alternate world, a world where brilliant people fought incomprehensible difficulties to create the
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by jsrcout 6mo ago
Same, this is something I would use often. Sort of like #pragma once, but for initialization.

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