louky

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by louky 4d ago
Same! Although I still have muscle-memory replacing spaces with _ or - when creating/saving files on any OS. Hasn't done me wrong lo these past 40 years. As for the others tailing the ASCII, no thanks.
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by louky 19d ago
I got a Big Trak in ~1983 and came back to programming and using it and hacking it over years until it got lost in a fire in my mid-twenties. I'm sure most of those weren't used much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by louky 2mo ago
The major proponent was also known as Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived[0] Leaded gas, CFCs, and accidentally created a machine that ended his own existence.[1] [0] https://allthatsinteresting.
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by louky 5mo ago
Old trade beads can sometimes be found, old stashes and caches. Pony beads, seed beads, and others. They were traded/used as "money". The Hudson's Bay Company brought millions of them to this continent. https:/&#x2
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by louky 7mo ago
My Grandfather was around in the early days, had a ham call sign from the early 1930s and was involved in the Manhattan Project as a senior non-scientific engineer. He was also involved in the development of radar/microwave comms after
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by louky 9mo ago
I don't mind music-on-hold as much except when they break with a human voice at intervals saying inane things such as "your call is important to us. Thank you for holding" Which makes me think the call has been answered. If
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Pomodoro Flow(indarktrees.com)
2 points by louky 1y ago|1 comments
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by louky 1y ago
An interesting alternative "reverse" take on the Pomodoro technique.
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by louky 1y ago
the buttons jumping up and down when correct or incorrect is jarring on my smaller screen, forcing a constant space there or moving the message would be a smoother UX, in my opinion.
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by louky 1y ago
So does Time Team, and they're back making new episodes. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpbubYLW2fdf9ySyCS0f...
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by louky 1y ago
>> As of 2025, he also teaches mathematics at Rudgers University. In the second sentence. Not even run through an AI grammar-checker?
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by louky 1y ago
I personally have been using "Auto Tab Discard" for years. It works perfectly for me, and you can set a group of tabs to not unload. It has a ton of options. I have ~320 tabs open right now, for multiple projects and only ~5 are
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by louky 2y ago
Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.
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by louky 2y ago
I ended up on Debian/XFCE. Lightweight enough and I've worked out how everything works and have it customized 100% to my workflow.
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by louky 2y ago
I remember seeing women on the sides of the highway in one part of town gathering plants to eat, there's plenty of edible stuff out there, and my parents telling me they were refugees. Must have been in '74/'75 and I was
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by louky 2y ago
I think I saw some of your work at a few Dead shows in ~1992
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by louky 2y ago
The hate for the GDPR I read of is actually about the "allow cookie" popups that aren't needed at all are are just a form of protest by those individual sites because they are storing and selling personal information includin
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by louky 2y ago
Absolutely! It was a game changer for me. No more OOM with 16GB RAM
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by louky 2y ago
I worked in a place where the waitresses tipped out to the kitchen, and everyone got some of the money - including the dishdogs. It was a union (UFCW) restaurant. Cheap health insurance and 2 weeks paid vacation after 2 years, 4 weeks paid
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by louky 2y ago
Glad I saw this - I thought it was some local issue. Amazingly laggy for me with firefox/Debian 12. I restarted firefox thinking it was the problem, apparently not. Very high CPU usage as well.
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by louky 2y ago
In this particular case they seem to pull from https://www.maxmind.com/en/home There's a bunch of IP/GPS and physical address lookup sites, services, and databases out there.
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by louky 2y ago
Thanks for those book recommendations. I'm always interested in discussion or reactions to Heinlein. >particularly the ones where he sets out to kill a Heinlein book Interesting statement, I'm grabbing those books now.
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by louky 2y ago
Presenter Tony Robinson, from Time Team, Blackadder, and others has a whole series on hiking ancient Britain. Here's a playlist, it's got the ridgeway and many other interesting places. https://www.youtube.com/play
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by louky 2y ago
Ah, presented by Waldemar Januszczak. He's produced quite a few great videos and series.
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by louky 2y ago
We ran through the Andrew S Tanenbaum OS book and implemented most of MINIX in two semesters in the late 90s at evergreen state, the basketweaving prototype
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by louky 2y ago
I have a system running Debian LTS for ~2 years, with Firefox ESR. No complaints, no nightmares. So far it's just working!
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by louky 2y ago
I'm updating to bookworm on my daily driver laptop today - testing the full system backup now. I've had minimal issues recently with debian but decades of debacles (not just debian, everything from RSX-11 to windows server) have
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by louky 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time Is a great read, Star based plasma intelligence and the travel to the heat death of the universe.
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by louky 2y ago
101 In Oregon used to have at least one in every tiny town, haven't been out that way in a while but I found some amazing deals on some old and rare books.
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by louky 2y ago
Same here, it was a great day discovering that back in the early 90s

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