jtotheh

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by jtotheh 5mo ago
I got into Linux because it gave me things I couldn't get with Windows/Mac (in 1994). There are less things that is true for now, by far. I am drawn to the ideals of Free Software (maybe BSD style, maybe GNU style) like a moth to
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by jtotheh 9mo ago
One of many creative people whose work I love and who have some questionable aspects. I'm sorry he's suffering and dying young (IMO). The Dilbert strip was genius.
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by jtotheh 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160503170006/http://www.paters... this may be a later-in-life snapshot of Tim Paterson's work as of 2016 which is very impressive. He has/had a blog you can see
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by jtotheh 1y ago
It's interesting...M$ is very sleazy in this, especially the way it turned out. Tim Paterson was clearly a great programmer. The really interesting person to me is Gary Kildall though, who I think invented a lot of the underpinnings of
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by jtotheh 1y ago
There is a clear view of the sky, no obstructions. The phone app showed that the satellite receiver had a good connection, ping percentages, etc. It was just "restricted" because the software had decided this was not a valid loca
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Starlink "Support"?
1 points by jtotheh 1y ago|4 comments
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by jtotheh 1y ago
I do this (use a mini for hosting time machine backups). I have them on external drives, I have two and switch between them weekly, keeping the other one at a friend's house.
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by jtotheh 1y ago
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bill-gates-problem-reckonin...
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by jtotheh 2y ago
14 years of age seems like a pretty low cutoff, also......
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by jtotheh 2y ago
IANAL. I am very concerned about this matter. from the document you so helpfully provided: "the President proclaimed that “all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are n
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by jtotheh 2y ago
re uber and taxis: I don't use uber, but I just had occasion to price a ride to the airport (Dulles) from home (Bethesda MD) for Lyft and a taxi, and the taxi was a lot cheaper. We got there just fine.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
use the reader mode of your browser.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org https://www.unrwa.org https://wck.org https://www.wearebgc.org
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I did, a little while ago. It's sort of an exercise in Luddism. Been posting things that are personal, political, etc. It's just very simple HMTL, not even any dynamic HTML, so no comments, etc. I just started doing it and have ke
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by jtotheh 2y ago
remember, before there was recorded music all music that could be heard was performed live. The technology has evolved over time. Once people were buying and using recorded music, there was a tendency for less creative participation. Some t
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by jtotheh 2y ago
This may be a really dumb question, but is that much of the behavior of an x86_64 CPU variable and undefined? Until recently I thought the chipmakers provided full information (recently I found an article about people investigating the undo
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I've used DB2, Sybase, Postgres, mysql, Oracle, and a little SQL Server. Long ago I worked in a Sybase shop and management said we must move to Oracle. Sybase had a nice programming language that made things easier and clearer than Ora
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I worked for a while as a contractor for the US Dept. of Education Student Loan system. It was z/OS with DB2 and most new business logic was done in this weird language "Gen" https://www.broadcom.com/products&
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I think APL on System/360 was implemented in assembly. That's pretty wild.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to give Arq a try. EASEUS was unable to open a Bitlocker-encrypted external drive from its restore media(USB). I guess I shouldn't have expected it to be able to. I have not lost any data, I w
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Ask HN: Windows Backup Solution?
10 points by jtotheh 2y ago|15 comments
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I've done it twice. I dreamed up the line, "I wanted to be able to concentrate on my job search rather than doing it on the down low while working". Maybe that'll be useful. I got jobs both times after quitting. But yes,
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I have a 2014 MBP Retina running Arch and it's now pretty good. It took some tweaking. It does overheat when I try and run HDMI 4K full screen video though. It's not equal to that. It got so hot it turned off.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
Am I a Luddite? I just feel like I don't trust AI because of the hallucinations. It also sort of offends my sensibilities to ask an AI to rewrite something I wrote, and more so the idea that I am receiving things that have gone through
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I've been thinking about this myself. It'd be great if some of the essential crates could be somehow sponsored or certified. Go does provide a lot more capability in the standard lib.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
If you like Fela's music, you will like this Brazilian orchestra including jams with one of Fela's sons. https://www.funmilayoafrobeat.com/ I didn't realize until reading the above article they are named
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by jtotheh 2y ago
I have emails going back > 20 years in IMAP folders. They've survived numerous email server migrations and personal email address changes. For a while I was running my own email server. I find Apple's iCloud has hung on to thin
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Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here(theatlantic.com)
102 points by jtotheh 2y ago|61 comments
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by jtotheh 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240810153028/https://www.theat... Algorithms may be allowed to facilitate price-fixing among landlords in ways that would not be allowed if done by humans.
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by jtotheh 2y ago
The course is free BTW.

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