rollthehard6

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by rollthehard6 3y ago
What you've said is pretty much what I always say about Notes, it was much more than Outlook and when Outlook took over I often wondered what folks did for all the things that Notes did that weren't just email and calendar. I wond
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by rollthehard6 3y ago
Before Outlook there were many, many options, which is kind of the point. You might be intrigued by something like All-In-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1 My own first email client was VMS Mail at uni in 1988,
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by rollthehard6 4y ago
That reminds me of the latter stages of Sun Microsystems, where it seemed like multiple teams were developing competing solutions for system management and patching. Seems a wasteful model and not one that is servicing customers.
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by rollthehard6 4y ago
So much this, I don't understand why cloud providers don't offer an easy way to view this sort of thing as really it should all be in the logging anyway.
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by rollthehard6 4y ago
Rick Beato musing on a Billy Corgan comment on how AI is going to replace musicians. Will we be just be left with a front person to present the music, whose vocals are auto tuned?
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Rick Beato on AI in Music(youtube.com)
5 points by rollthehard6 4y ago|1 comments
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by rollthehard6 5y ago
I sometimes have 3 - 1 at the normal time, interrupted by needing a pee (Age/male/kidney disease), then a second interrupted by the elder of my two dogs needing a pee and a third short one until work time. Not ideal!
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by rollthehard6 5y ago
Interesting in particular in the conclusion talking about jobs and automation, a familiar concern now as then.
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BBC QED 1984 looks back at 1948, as far away then as 1984 is now(youtube.com)
2 points by rollthehard6 5y ago|2 comments
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Oh yeah, the Swiss French way is a lot less confusing.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Apart from the US, where else has middle schools? Here in Scotland there is (Optionally) nursery, primary school (5-12) and then secondary school (12-16/18), no middle.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Recommended https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_a...
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Very much so, the build quality is amazing. I sold my late dad's 1983/4 DX7 MK1 in 2014 to someone who is now a pal - it was gigged for something like 20 year, more than once a week and all it needed was a new battery.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Oh yes, so much agree - almost completely pointless to search for something in a chat and only see the one line that contains the search terms, none of the context chat around it - dumb dumb dumb.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Reminds of all those times we are told that 'customers demanded X', as if we all stood outside supermarkets with placards saying, "We demand huge strawberries that don't taste of anything". The market does what help
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Biggest stand out in this article is the stats about declining free time for play - as has been said quite a few times on HN, humans need to be bored and to play in order to be creative. Stagnation awaits otherwise I fear.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
I got asked a similar question from a devops/sysadmin point of view in an interview - If you enter 'ssh somehostnamethatisupandyoucansshto' what happens? I like this sort of question since it has no right or wrong answer, is
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George Felton Obituary(theguardian.com)
4 points by rollthehard6 7y ago|0 comments
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
After my initial computing forays with BigTrak, a ZX Spectrum and some time on a BBC Micro and Apple Mac, my first multi user computer use was on the VAX Cluster at uni. I hated UNIX when I tried that on a Sun workstation as it seemed so mu
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
"during the early eighties every school child in the United Kingdom was exposed to it, spawning a whole generation of bedroom programmers." Erm no. When I was at secondary school, only those deemed to be good at Maths were allowed
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Correction, England (Outside London) and Wales has gone mad.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
My partner is into knitting and what has struck me about it is the highly variable semantics and syntax of knitting patterns. Seems to be few standards as to how to describe how something should be knitted.
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Agree. One series I've enjoyed, "You're the Worst", is not even legally available in the UK in any medium as far as I can find other than S1 and S2 - Both shown on one UK TV channel and available on DVD, the rest, forget
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
I'd never done anything much with pam before but found it relatively easy to get PrivacyIDEA working on CentOS, it's even easier if you're using Ubuntu. https://www.privacyidea.org/ and Cornelius is really he
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Q - how do you multiply something like 25x63 example in your head? Personally, I'd break that down also, by doing - 5 x 63 = 315 x 5 = 1575 reminds me a little of the Feynman story about his duel with the abacus master. https:/&#
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
I always forget that this was my first programming experience :)
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by rollthehard6 7y ago
Slightly older but there were BBCs at my school and a pal had one, but I was never allowed to use them at school as this was a privilege reserved for those that were better at maths than I :) Probably also the reason I ended up studying Che
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by rollthehard6 8y ago
This is very much the premise of the Judge Dredd story 'Sob Story' about such a game show, in which the character Otto Sump first appears - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Sump http://dreddalert
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by rollthehard6 8y ago
I think Mark (Sherlock, League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) Gatiss put it quite well - http://thebarofgold.tumblr.com/post/100646665073/gatissed-i-... The problem with this stuff is it's all very amusing and cut
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by rollthehard6 8y ago
Whilst I sympathise with this view, it does ignore AWS and the value it provides to the businesses that use it, many of whom are SMEs/startups that might have struggled to get going otherwise.

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