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If everyone using Gmail permanently lost access to their gmail there’d be massive problems

Quake had it’s own vm also

Yes, I saw. By giving up I meant I skimmed to the end. The images improve the article

I came in indifferent but it doesn’t take much to make me give up on an article linked on hacker news. I use it as bubblegum while waiting for a compile/prompt, intent ally for stu…

I was a couple of images in before I sussed it. Bullshit images, but pleasing enough to look at. Without the images, it would have either been a big wall of text, which would have …

Arrow keys are giving swastika vibes, which I guess fits given IBM’s history

There’s a big difference between using AI well and using it badly. Judgement is what needs to be learnt

Not at all. It’s a tool. It can be used well and it can be used badly, the difference often being others things thought in a CS curriculum. But a well trained engineer using the to…

Given the way things are going, not knowing how to use AI will be like coming out not knowing about revision control

There’s queries and there’s queries. Many queries are effectively undefined bookmarks. You know this exists but haven’t saved it but your know a few key words to get to it. “Rustdo…

He's right man ^X^S WTF, why isn't my terminal responding

I recall CodeWarrior being the official ide for SymbianOS when I started there. And it sucked, but likely more due to the integration. I think sucky custom rarely working IDEs is w…

They’re blue because pmarca was a democrat back then

> At the time of Jurassic Park’s release, the meteor as the cause for the dino-extinction was still a nascent theory and more than a decade out from being cemented as fact. This as…

From the wording, it sounds like it applies to contracting non-US resident software development as well.

For a headline “what x looks like today”, I expected more pictures

The bees in a swarm have filled themselves with food before swarming, so they’re stuffed, so it’s hard to flex the abdomen to make a sting

Keep him away from cigarettes, vapes.

A interesting difference is the ability to have exclusive access to writes on the log (the fencing token). This allows you to use the logs as write ahead logs.

The gripe water that parents in Ireland and the UK used to give to babies used to be a mixture of sugar and alcohol. 3.6%. They took that formulation off the market in the 90s thou…

100% agree. I haven't read the raft paper in years, but I remember thinking there's just too much stuff in there. That stuff in important, but if you want people to understand what…

The farmer is from Westmeath. The find was in banagher in co Offaly

The oats in clonakilty puddings are all flahavans too

> nobody is making anyone do anything. Not now. Now there’s plenty of ways to collaborate on a document. But 20 years ago, you couldn’t edit a word file on Linux and send it back i…

> Note that in Portugal garbage is usually collected from nearby (unsaturated green colored) lidded trash cans and dumpsters owned by the city government or entities contracted to …