mega_dingus

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by mega_dingus 7mo ago
I've known Rick since 2001 and was around when he & Todd kicked this off. We've both since moved and it's been a pleasure watching this take off (inter)nationally. In parens b/c I can only verify the "national&q
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
It's leetspeak It spells "leet" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet You're too young to have used BBSes :)
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
"old-person tiktok" is what my kids call instagram
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
Oh to remember mid-90s humor How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
Didn't read the whole comment did you?
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
It's about TCO and time to market. Depending on what you're building, it's all YMMV. This article just quotes some individual costs As somebody who worked at a mid-tier company trying to run databases, I can attest that RDS w
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by mega_dingus 2y ago
This is not the way you're supposed to be using pyenv You're supposed to install a specific version of python in a specific place, with a specific name. Say, /usr/local/python-3.10.6 Use pyenv to use that python. Co
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
I was talking to somebody who worked HR at a multi-disciplinary shop, and she said you could always identify the emails coming from programmers It was a complaint, definitely not a compliment. She said programmers listed things out in bulle
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
Why is this downvoted? I consider it and its replies interesting and relevant If there's an HN policy violation in this post, I'm legit curious what it is
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
The linked article explains exactly this
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
You keep referring to that comic. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
Compiler was definitely somewhat to blame. I was on the C/C++ team at the time, and C++ was definitely an afterthought on the existing C frontend, of a big 3-stage compiler I was on Digital UNIX so I didn't deal with VMS or Window
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
DEC's relationship with MS was fascinating DEC sued MS due to Cutler's contribution to NT. DEC thought they could sue themselves into MS's good graces. They had embroidered polo shirts saying "Strategic Relationship&quot
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
Maybe
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by mega_dingus 3y ago
This isn't specific to Linux Raymond Chen has a tangentially amusing story that I just found while trying to google the win95 screen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160419-00/?p=93...
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
And in 92, EECS280 made you do your first program in Pascal and then it was C for the rest of the curriculum. Lots of people were pissed they learned Pascal for one program.
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
Putting the "15" in italics isn't doing yourself any favors when asking aita
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
OP said exactly "I've twice encrypted my file with password like `cd tmp`" Not sure how you get "irrevocably bricked your system" from "encrypted my file", but you do you, I guess You should also let the O
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
Key words being "I take to be..." You're outright admitting you can't understand the post, or the point of the post, as you want to steadfastly hold to the original premise If the reply post talked about the petroleum an
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
Fold a piece of paper in half perfectly. Easy Fold a piece of paper into 10 equal parts perfectly. Easy?
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
e.g. VMS would not echo back keystrokes until it was truly ready to accept input No typeahead while a previous command is running, like you can do in UNIX et al
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
+1 for proper use of "literally"
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
I don't know the pedantic answer to "is that fermented food" However, alcohol is quite an irritant and (along with caffeine) is the first thing a doc will tell you to cut out if you have intestinal problems Speaking (only) fr
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by mega_dingus 4y ago
The Eiffel Tower was built as a temporary display for the World's Fair. It was very much intentionally designed to impress other designers; that was kind of the point
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by mega_dingus 5y ago
| And, I'm sure people built roads that sank and eroded in the past too, they just aren't around any more. I believe that's called "survivorship bias"
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by mega_dingus 5y ago
See Mythical Man-Month published in 1975 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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by mega_dingus 6y ago
Or when using vi, just use :wq!
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by mega_dingus 6y ago
Reread the post, especially this sentence, and ask yourself if it was "respectful" > It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.
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by mega_dingus 6y ago
You're hosed if you're switching focus away from Zoom (i.e. presenting). The keyboard shortcuts (Alt-A or holding-space-to-unmute) only work when Zoom is in focus I have 2 monitors, and drag the zoom controls to the non-presenting
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by mega_dingus 6y ago
Such as, and how/why?

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