osswid

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by osswid 2y ago
Yes
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by osswid 3y ago
Go to telehack.com and type 'notes'. It's not comprehensive, but will give you a taste of the flavor of what Usenet was like.
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by osswid 4y ago
Minsky and Sussman slaving away in front of that apocryphal PDP-10 in 1970. And 50 years later…last November..suddenly BOOM. Everything they yearned for comes into view.
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by osswid 4y ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is t
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by osswid 5y ago
ls -f
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by osswid 5y ago
But why is this bad? Let people choose how to spend their money how they want. On geo, on food, on trips, on saving..on whatever. Pay them for their work, let them allocate their spending as they wish for their own priorities. Why does it m
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by osswid 6y ago
Well done! This must have been a massive project. 1000 hours? Don't miss the project photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7yxiuzpsFReUh5Yy5
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by osswid 7y ago
“The pennies you save will be the dollars your widow’s husband spends.”
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by osswid 7y ago
Why is it important to leave something behind?
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by osswid 7y ago
https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big...
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by osswid 7y ago
We had shadow banning in the Topix forums in 2005.
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by osswid 7y ago
We've been using logging like this but with jsonl lines. Still easy to grep as straight text, but very handy to be able to parse with jq or other tools and be able to have rich values (or even substructures) as part of the log lines.
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by osswid 7y ago
IBM's 3 year vest schedule on cash retention packages was 10% at 6 months, 10% at 12 months, 30% at 24 months, and 50% at 36 months. So half of your retention pay happens on the 3rd year anniversary.
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by osswid 9y ago
A previous genius industrialist - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - built an "atmospheric railway" in 1844. https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/apr/04/b...
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by osswid 11y ago
Did something change recently with the HN ranking algorithm?
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by osswid 11y ago
'eq' does the test you are asking for.
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by osswid 14y ago
Agreed. The IRS doesn't take stuff like this lying down; see http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0328/092.html
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by osswid 15y ago
I've got most of those games up in http://telehack.com/ Just type basic and then dir to list them.
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by osswid 15y ago
Salesforce is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $16B, with $2B in annual revenue. The gap between the reality of their place and power in the market they enjoy, and the commentary here is ... surprising.
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by osswid 15y ago
http://telehack.com/ has a 'talk' command and a web interface, although you'll have to make an account to use it and CLI your way to the command. The simple web interface at typeto.me is pretty slick.
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by osswid 15y ago
Wow...this is seriously cool. I like how the old threads are preserved in the newsreader interface. There is also something about having the clock advance in "realtime" that makes it more fun to run that just skimming through the old archi
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by osswid 15y ago
There are about 25,000 hosts, mostly mined from old uucp maps. You can login to the hosts or finger @them and see users logged in who posted from them at the time. Try e.g. finger @sgi.
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by osswid 15y ago
From http://telehack.com/telehack.html "Telehack is a simulation of a sylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's the early net, thousands of files from the ero, a collect
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Telehack retro command line museum(telehack.com)
16 points by osswid 15y ago|4 comments
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by osswid 17y ago
Nobody "invents" lifeforms. They hack a few strands of dna cobbled together from other sources and wait until a batch actually grows. Which is what the plants do all by themselves. Copyright, maybe. But not patent.
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by osswid 17y ago
One of the nice things about Basic was that you didn't need to know how to use a text editor to program in it. Line numbers and the LIST command got you started. vi and emacs are a bit much for the wee ones. You can use a simple text edi
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by osswid 17y ago
I used to revere books, but after buying one too many that would have been better at article length (and often started out as such), I've become more guarded with the time I'm willing to invest in a book. Some books are worth a re-read, but