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Trump is orders of magnitude more financially motivated and self-interested than any other US president in history.

To piggyback on what PaulDavisThe1st said. Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories va…

You are not alone. I'm also just shy of 2 decades of experience, and have had extreme difficulty. My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. T…

While playing with this, I landed inside a tardis [1] in England. Pure awesome. [1] https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N

Wow, I haven't seen anything regarding Forth since the last time I was using an old PowerMac as a daily driver. The openboot firmware for those old macs was a forth interpreter.

“Lancre woman gives birth to snake” - C.M.O.T Dibbler

For me, by far the most impactful is: The logistics planning software used by a major sports league in the US. The package I worked on allowed management to comb through a full sea…

[Layman, but I've read up quite a bit on thorium and molten salt reactor designs] The 1959 Sodium Reactor experiment was to demonstrate the feasibility of a sodium-cooled reactor a…

The only framework alternatives I’m aware of are PouchDB and BreezeJS. Most everything else I’ve seen seems to tack on offline support.

One I’ve used before is BreezeJS[0], and it’s been around for over 8 years, maybe longer. It’s a data framework which takes care of managing dynamic object graphs, providing ways t…

I’ve had similar backend projects where I setup a reverse-proxy to a backend, along with the frontend dev server, to allow the full site and api to run in the browser from local ho…

I shortened its own url and it yielded “ https://poop.is/remorseful” . A+

ClearCase was expensive, unless you pirated it. As far as other opensource go to solutions, CVS and SVN, branching in them was nontrivial. Many folks preferred zipped folders to us…

I do exactly this - I budget for 2 simultaneous streaming subs and then just cancel one and resub another when I get bored or want to watch something on a diff service. Tangentiall…

Rich created rollup :)

One of my favorite techniques you don't see at all today but looked amazing from that era is color cycling (or palette shifting). Its more of an artistic technique, but it shows ho…

I felt the opposite when I read the books. I thought it was rather clever that Frank Herbert invented a physical force [1] which accounts for much of the interesting tech that isn'…

Suspensors aren't really used for thrust, but as a way to augment or nullify the effect of gravity on an object. In the books, the kernel of fictional science used for multiple eff…

I wonder why the rewrite doesn't have music. The original js13k game implemented a small sonant-x player for the audio, both sound fx and music.

> Mobile devices needed a new kind of UI, something suitable for small touch screens. People tried things... Exactly this. The flat "Metro" UI style was initially modeled and devel…

I used to use Figlet and TheDraw, waaay back when, to draw things like this (though nowhere near as good as these examples). Fun times. These days it looks like PabloDraw might be …