notbeuller

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by notbeuller 2y ago
The youtube video linked has the toasters going north west to south east - they canonically travel from north east to south west. Did they flip the video to avoid a copyright claim?
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by notbeuller 2y ago
Bill Stewart was by no means the author of after dark or the flying toasters[1] He did do the windows port of the screen saver engine and some modules, but that was years after they'd first shipped as part of the Mac version of After D
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I used to have a registered port (in the 3000s) - didn’t get a lot of spam, but once I got a very angry phone call (!!!) from someone that tracked me down because their firewall blocked an incoming request in that port. They did their own r
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Years ago I got a job through a recruiter, left company A for B. She called me after a few months and asked me for the Compsny A internal directory - which I declined to provide and she got kind of nasty about it. Maybe ten years later I wa
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by notbeuller 3y ago
This reminds me of the trump lawyer who’s defense was “no reasonable person could’ve believed what I was saying”. Was it only an insurrection if they succeeded?
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Just because they were incompetent doesn’t mean they weren’t criminal.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
One possible result of this that sounds dystopian cool - script kiddy kids < 16 spinning up mastodon server instances and creating their own very leaky insecure rolling social networks. Unless it suddenly becomes illegal to run a server
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by notbeuller 3y ago
There was a rather silly 1976 thriller “Raise the Titanic!” predating it’s actual discovery by about 10 years. They made a movie from it too in 1980. Based on a premise that there was something valuable the government wanted on board)
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by notbeuller 3y ago
In various Discworld books, Pratchett sort of unified Golumns with Asimov’s three laws robots.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I want to say it was at Sun in the mid 80s, most code lacked comments but there was one idiosyncratic data structure with field names having specific prefixes - with the comment “She’s Hungarian!” (Hungarian notation, presumably - and who
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I’d been going since the mid 80s when it was “the foothill flea market” colloquially. I can’t say I’ve ever found any “wow, this is unique” things - honestly, most of the time it’s “neat” things that come home with me, get played with for a
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Watching alt.religion.scientology in 1993 was very much like ogling a road accident. It was so weird how the adherents would attack the people that were leaking their church secrets - they literally had a playbook to follow - I guess there
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by notbeuller 3y ago
This is the best. Offices with doors, as a semaphore for availability, and a close by common area for collaboration. If collaboration occurs spontaneously and your door isn’t closed, it’s easy to join in. If it turns out that someone is ess
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I will often slap a dumb 3 line http server into my long running tools / applications for debugging - provide ReSTful channel to toggle debug flags. I “learned” html in the 90s and don’t use it otherwise, so <table> figures promi
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C++ Rvalue References (2020)(blog.vero.site)
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by notbeuller 3y ago
They don’t specify which god - perhaps one of the Eldritch horror type gods is being invoked and awoken!
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I had the same thought - sweep it under the rug? Hide this until it starts to smell?
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by notbeuller 3y ago
So many, many rants could come from this and my blood is boiling in fervent agreement. But two thoughts: as hard as it is to use the contrast-less, contextless obscure icons and "is it checked or toggled or active", try working w
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Connections Returns with Original Host(arstechnica.com)
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by notbeuller 3y ago
There’s a character in “the truth” by Terry pratchett that ostensibly swears a lot in the book - “I don’t have any -ing friends”, etc. but it turns out he’s literally saying -ing (that being the joke). And I will never not think about if I
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I got a little “looks like a key but is a foldable pocket knife” as a gift a few years ago - and was amazed at how often I ended up using it.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Another series along these lines I’ve been meaning to finish watching: “Moonbase 3”[1] from the bbc. James Burke (Connections, The Day the Universe Changed) was science advisor, although I don’t quite see how it helped overcome the inheren
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Watching my 10 year old manipulate the mindcraft ui is mindblowing - she was anticipating the UI before it appeared. On the other hand, watching my officemate try to edit command lines by pressing left arrow 65 times fills me with rage. I
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by notbeuller 3y ago
And “Toms” - The Little Garden on El Camino in Mountain View with the wall of Sun Microsystems business cards. Some folks (no doubt still around on HN) started an ISP in the Bay Area named after it.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
And now that I’m hungry and fantasizing, Flints BBQ on Shattuck in Oakland. Ribs in peace.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Cho’s Mandarin Dim Sum, California ave, Palo Alto (briefly moved to Los Altos before Cho retired). Open to suggestions for a replacement within 50 miles.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
My company makes us use slack - started during lockdown - as an electron app. I don't know it's history or its user culture, but for me it has been a wretched experience all around and I wish we'd have just stuck with email,
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I would like to once again ask people to consider the abundant possibilities inherent in just not going anywhere.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I was talking to someone at a vintage computer meetup this weekend and we ended up talking about "fear" in exactly this context - fear of asking, or fear that we couldn't know something or that it was too hard. From my persp
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I know now that it’s a dog (the fetch icon), but I thought it was a koala for more than 20 years!

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