rgacote

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by rgacote 3mo ago
Sometimes you simply ignore asking why and sit in awe of the what of it all. Impressive and nostalgic.
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by rgacote 7mo ago
Robert's cover art set the tone for each issue. His covers danced a fine line between whimsical and informative.
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by rgacote 3y ago
Interesting that accessibility was not a theme (watched the online video, not the presentation). I'm interested to see what some low-sight folk might use this. Go shopping and have all the product labels magnified 20-30x?
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by rgacote 4y ago
And some positions allow you to vote for "up to" some number of candidates. Town selectman is a typical example.
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by rgacote 4y ago
First thing that came to my mind was something doing garbarge collection (obviously not RTOS).
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by rgacote 4y ago
GitHub / GitLab pages? No RSS feed, but a popular way to share lists.
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by rgacote 4y ago
I'm also curious as to what is tiresome running as a regular user. I'm a developer and run two users (standard/admin) without any issue. Only issue I run into is having to switch to the admin user to run brew.
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by rgacote 4y ago
Still my "go to" day-to-day text editor. My favorite editor when I used a Mac Quadra and my favorite editor today. Thanks Rich!
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by rgacote 4y ago
Have two copies, one for each ScanSnap S510M connected to a Mac. It simply keeps working.
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by rgacote 5y ago
Been doing a lot of internal documentation with Gilab pages, Sphinx, and Myst (markdown for Sphinx). There are pre-built templates for the Continuous Integration for rebuilding the pages.
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by rgacote 5y ago
Worked at an OEM and Microsoft charged a license fee for every processor out the door regardless of whether the system had DOS, Novell, or nothing at all installed.
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by rgacote 5y ago
Python 1.4: Desktop payment applications. Simple cgi-based dynamic website. System management scripts. Early Plone websites. Asynchronous desktop applications using Twisted.
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by rgacote 5y ago
And given how tall Jim was, you could see his face floating over the Faire floor from across the entire hall.
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by rgacote 5y ago
It's not like there's not 42 different flavors of Linux...
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by rgacote 5y ago
And wild carrots (Queen Anne's lace) look remarkably like poison-hemlock. Some people also have a dermal reaction to wild carrot as well.
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by rgacote 5y ago
I've been using the SecretLabs Titan chair for a few months and am very happy with it. May be larger than you're looking for. https://secretlab.co/collections/titan-series
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by rgacote 5y ago
Happy to see another satisfied BBEdit user. Been my go-to Mac editor since Mac Plus.
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by rgacote 5y ago
Some of my tests have dozens of parameter sets with a half-dozen parameters. Getting those all aligned with individual 'each' statements would be interesting.
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by rgacote 5y ago
EVs run on the same roads and bridges that non-EV cars use.
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by rgacote 5y ago
Tornado has retrofitted async/await into the framework so you can use standard async modules. The advantage I find to using frameworks like Tornado is the number of protocol edge cases they've addressed over the years. I also appr
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by rgacote 6y ago
Possibly the first step towards the ability to rename a column?
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by rgacote 6y ago
I've been using Scribo (scriboco.com). In addition to sending files, I can request files from a third party. Includes document signing and payments (which I've not used).
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by rgacote 6y ago
And DynDNS was definitely down.
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by rgacote 6y ago
A mistake I still occasionally make today is: a = 123, # expecting a to be 123, not (123, )
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by rgacote 6y ago
As a long-time Python user, Homebrew jumping versions from 2.7.0 to 3.0 is a little disorienting. :}
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by rgacote 6y ago
"...the beginnings of macOS M1/Apple Silicon/ARM support..."
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by rgacote 6y ago
And all sheep are not.
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by rgacote 6y ago
Nobody, apparently. Article states the gnome will stay attached to the Kick Stage until it burns up on reentry. RocketLabs has an interesting approach of leaving only the payloads in space, deorbiting the transport, and leaving as little de
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by rgacote 6y ago
And Micro-Soft (yes, two words at the time) bought the core of what would become MS-DOS from a third party. Is there something else going on here besides noise about who invented something or who purchased an idea?
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by rgacote 6y ago
My favorite is the Peace Prize awarded to India and Pakistan for having their diplomats ring each other's door bells in the middle of the night and then run away.

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