trollian

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by trollian 2y ago
I wonder how bad the yields are and how long it'll take to get them up to being commercially viable.
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by trollian 2y ago
Have you even met Americans? We're terrible at this kind of thing.
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by trollian 2y ago
I moved across the world (from Perth, WA) to work on open source software with some of my heroes (Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare) at Eazel. It was only a short time run, but I'm still in the Bay Area, still friends with many o
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by trollian 2y ago
How is this not called "Byron"?
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by trollian 2y ago
I thought it might have been Square Kilometer Array interference but that's to the north of those spots.
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by trollian 3y ago
Lawyercats are the worst cats.
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by trollian 3y ago
Other people posting your stuff gets a lot of love though.
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by trollian 3y ago
Maybe the board members are worried about going to jail for running a 501(c)3 that's behaving like a for profit company?
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by trollian 3y ago
I think Eich intentionallyed a scheme.
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by trollian 3y ago
This is something I've dreamed about doing in one form or another since I was a teenager almost 30 years ago. But the best thing about this story is the video "Without the Xylophone" - a terrifying robotic bed of nails.
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by trollian 3y ago
These exploits are weapons. Look at what governments pay for weapons. That's hard to compete with.
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by trollian 3y ago
We were just talking about Kurt Cobain's death from suicide with my daughter with CF. We'll take the meds thanks.
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by trollian 3y ago
There's a theory that having a single CF mutation can help combat the effects of cholera.
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by trollian 3y ago
Not having to deal with insurance & copay shenanigans for my daughter's CF meds is one of the things that keeps me at the large tech company I work at...
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by trollian 3y ago
No.
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by trollian 3y ago
My 8yr old daughter has been on Kalydeco (one of the active compounds in Trikafta) since it was approved and it means she'll live a fairly similar life to her twin sister, health wise. We only have to do airway clearance treatment when
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by trollian 3y ago
Hey that's my wife's project.
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by trollian 3y ago
Standard PC executables end in .com, so we should probably get rid of that one too. Maybe Poland should change its name so Perl programmers don't get confused.
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by trollian 4y ago
Who decided to call it Ugly Gerry and not Sans Democracy?
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by trollian 4y ago
This should be called "Docker for Mac".
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by trollian 4y ago
Mink can carry SARS CoV2 making them a great wild reservoir for mutation.
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by trollian 4y ago
The situation is similar trying to visit the US from most places. If your passport isn't from Western Europe, US, Canada, Australia, NZ there's quite a visa process. Citizens of 5 southern & eastern EU countries don't qua
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by trollian 4y ago
Microsoft did this with NT too, IIRC...
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by trollian 4y ago
If Ultralight is based on WebKit (the site says "Based on WebKit") how is it not LGPL? Isn't this basic software licensing?
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by trollian 4y ago
It's a pity they never ported VMS to it...
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by trollian 4y ago
Getting LLVM to SEGV is depressingly easy.
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by trollian 4y ago
The contracts that the record labels offer to streaming platforms are (or were a decade ago when I was in the business) set up to strictly control the prices seen by end users but I'm sure their lawyers believe they can do this without
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by trollian 5y ago
I think it's great that users have a choice of mobile platforms. Many people would rather not have any adult content on their phones and they choose iOS. Who are we to force it upon them? If they wanted a an uncensored experience they
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by trollian 5y ago
If you install chrome on iOS you can use it as a password manager while you're using other apps, including Safari.
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by trollian 5y ago
I worked at a company that was interfacing with the AOL Instant Messenger network in the early 2000s. Finally the business people got a deal and AOL made us sign NDAs to get access to the official API docs. We were excited because we were u

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