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This wouldn't work in a situation where not everyone agrees to abide by the arbitrary rule of using toothpaste (or whatever) in as specific order. In a computer's memory, or storag…

First experienced in 1989 on Xenix grep, later more on SunOS (5 I think) in the early 90's, then Linux in the mid 90's.

Boy is crowdstrike's software going to get seriously fuzz tested now. All their vulns will be on public display in the next week or so.

Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Prett…

There's a lot of responsibility there resting on your superiors because they weren't following "best practises". Sure you fucked up, but if they had backups, it wouldn't have been …

I left a decently paid managed service 3rd line linux/foss admin position in 2019 to do projects with a friend. The pandemic happened, and things changed and got weird. I did a sti…

Any reason why "Pp" is missing from the typeface sampler?

I actually used that a bit at the time, but it the web was too young and browsers and HTML were too immature to support it well.

Looks like he's done some interesting stuff, but: Some of his views I can't stand: No gun control; No freedom from religion; Contradictory views like "Government must not adopt pol…

Welcome to the fold... though I bring my own nuances. Backstory: I'm a late-diagnosed Aspie, 56 in a couple of weeks, only diagnosed in my mid 40's. Had a small number of long-term…

I was wondering when someone would cite this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... But since nobody else seems to have done so, I will. Globally, names d…

"... to 750 KB for the largest capacity Zip disk." I think they meant "750 MB".

Sorry dude, it says exactly the opposite of what you wrote.

Pity it's only available as a tarball or .flatpak. I've never got flatpak to work before, and it doesn't work this time either. :-(

This little eggcorn in the article made me chuckle "little to know" (should be "little to no").

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Please, denizens of HackerNews, I hate to beg, but we really need all the help we can get to bring this amazing resource to the people of Telford (in the UK). If you can help - eve…

I do - it makes me read at about 1/10th the speed I normally do. Hate it.

Me too, I find it absolutely terrible. I read it at about 10% of the speed I usually read. In the sample I saw, I could read the plain version in a few seconds, but I just couldn't…

No, you're not. I can't even read it. I can read colour-coded (i.e. syntax highlighted) text perfectly well though. This just completely shorts out my reading - might as well be hi…

This simply doesn't work for me. Maybe it's because I'm Autistic, but I can't even read text highlighted in this way. A friend posted up a side-by side example, and I couldn't read…

That's so unethical - and Alan Sugar is held up as an example of a business genius?

There's a lot of good advice in that, but some of it would be too regimented for me, and I've never been able to handle too many social activities in a short period of time.

What I have found works, is joining a group (club, volunteers group, sports team or whatever sparks your interest), and going as regularly as your schedule allows. In particular, h…