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Posts by Nick Matthews

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7 months ago 3364 1505 25 63

SGML, now there's a term I haven't seen in quite some time.

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I'm your huckleberry.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Oh. Oh no. Best of luck!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Indeed, we live in unprecedented times. Are today's historians doing ok? What with being ignored like Cassandra, to seeing so much new history being made, we should check on the welfare of scholars of history and political science.

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This is a wonderful visualization. Really neat to see how much effort was put into building this chart.

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Whether they are actually trying to process an old file format or not, that's the size of an unsigned 16 bit integer. So they're running into some kind of really old limit in their workflow.

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It's also kind of frustrating that streets are designed to be fast (straight, wide, open sight lines) and then limited by things like speed bumps, instead of designing streets that encourage people to slow down naturally.

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Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

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August even! Fascinating! The business model maybe leads to system builders having earlier access than what is normally reported? Hard to find concrete information about earlier versions of TurboDOS.

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No earlier than 1982. Tech had a longer shelf life back then, so I can't be sure how much later than that would be applicable, but TurboDOS was released in 1982, and the last release of it was 1983. So I would guess likely no later than 1984, and even that would be pushing it. Likely 82 or 83.

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

👍🏻

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Both of these have happened to me in the last week. Just not in the same morning.

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Granular lists of people, and specific settings to share only to them... This sounds familiar, as if there was a social network that supported sharing to a specific circle of friends...

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They may have existing infrastructure to support the system that will no longer be available to use (North American data centers, CDNs, etc) which would be cost prohibitive to reimplement in another region without the ability to recoup those significant costs.

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Welcome!

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Was this a productive use of time? Who knows! Was I entertained by the results? Yes. Did I feel personally called out at multiple times in this thread? Let's just say that at least I don't use Papyrus.

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Brilliant.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

These facts are fine individually, but I don't like what these combined facts imply.

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I've always been a little suspicious of 418 responses. Are they really a teapot? Or maybe it's actually a honeypot.

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Some of the greatest joys in my career have been seeing the growth in those I've mentored.

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Really depends on how you define a planet. Also, there are four lights!

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But like, it can *also* be for us nerds. We can share it with others.

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I'm happy that your statement was vague enough that I don't know specifically what you're talking about, but quite concerned that there are multiple possibilities that could fit!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Safe travels!

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Those same crackpots will just say it's the border with Canada. But then you should see a few fuzzy blurs north of the frame. Not *all* of our population is next to the US border. Some people have chosen to live further north.

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That does not help at all. I don't think that I like this fact at all.

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Try searching for something like "recursive artist"

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that is a 1994-1998 Daihatsu Hijet and its bed has 3,740 square inches of cargo space. The Cybertruck has 3,672 square inches of bed space

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