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Lavender is what we see swarms and swarms of bees come grab in the Pacific Northwest.

Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks. To be fair, I had stretches of 2K, XP, 7 and 10 working acceptably.

Nothing by Adam Warren? He took the Dirty Pair comics somewhere very cyberpunk in the last three volumes.

Reading my skin notes thirty plus years later is a very strange experience.

"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds it…

He indirectly called the Pope a simpleton, and the Pope took offense.

Paypal paid people to open an account or to refer new accounts early on. Inspired Dropbox to do the same thing with free storage.

I’ve tried custom launchers but never found anything as good as the Nvidia Shield interface before Google fucked it over with ads.

Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings. They revive a knight who attacks them and gets k…

Kids really need to spend time outside. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148707

I used Gandi for a long time and switched after they were bought out and registration prices started rising. HN article from 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777 Af…

If you’re willing to pay for proprietary software, I’ve been incredibly happy with Roon for music organization. Handles 99% of albums I add without an issue, great multi-room suppo…

Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.

Unfortunately the number input is lacking and inconsistent. We’ve always fallen back to JavaScript validation.

Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives. Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, ute…

“What’s in the box?” “Perl.”

YMMV. I prefer hybrid with two days a week in the office. You can dedicate those days to meetings and conversations and keep the remote days for more heads down work. And if you ca…

> I've resorted to making an "actual_requirements.txt" file manually listing only direct dependencies and whatever version constraints make sense. Pip-tools has an elegant solution…

Python Foundation support ended that long ago, but vendors maintained it for longer. Red Hat support for it through RHEL 7 ends 30 June 2024, however, and my guess is they’re the l…

Blizzard used BitTorrent for distributing full games, patches and trailers for years. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

Plex is aiming for this with their emphasis on universal cross-service search. If you look at the main page personal media is 6 paragraphs down.

The sun won't give out until much longer, but life as we know it has far less than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Ear... Look at 500–600 million yea…

returning a null array to represent no items To be honest, that's what I'd expect. What do you dislike about that result, and what would you prefer to see returned? Jump straight t…

They already reintroduced AOL keywords in 2011 with their Direct Connect "feature" for Google+, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect... , so one could go st…