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I used Vuze for a bit back in the day, it was a resource hog on whatever I was running it on. I think I mostly stuck with uTorrent until switching to the open source alternatives. …

In 2003 or so, I was really amused by the ORLY owl memes, so I collected them and stuck them in a public directory on my webserver. I have no idea how it was found, but at some poi…

I booted this on my 486 back in the day. That machine had a combo soundcard/modem which gave me fits when I upgraded to a 33.6 later on (Plug and Play, haha. At least I learned how…

Yup, the infotainment system in 2016+ Fords runs QNX.

This one was one of those weird experiments I tried as a teen and was pretty surprised that it worked. A buddy was staying over and we both had our PCs setup on our dining room tab…

I got my own apartment while I was still in HS, my apartment become sort of a perpetual lan party. Friends would often just leave their machines setup at my place while they went t…

Absolutely. Before I was WFH full time, I tended to buy whatever chair seemed nice enough, but never spent over $200 USD. About a week after our companies WFH order I realized it w…

I let it write the boring stuff. Needed a python class to take an example dict, and generate a class that creates all the properties that map to the keys in said dict (I have a con…

First initial, last name. I was assigned this as a Unix username in 2000, and just kept using it.

I prefer it. I will go out of my way to go to a store with self checkout vs one without. Probably due to anxiety/autism, but being able to remove the human element makes things muc…

Thanks, that's fantastic. I'm also autistic, and yes, this just looked like a transcript of a normal conversation, so I wasn't sure what the draw was. Your explanation cleared that…

In the Squeak/Pharo world, a built in tool called Iceberg handles VCS integration and is pretty slick. You can also easily load packages from external sources. In practice most pac…

Where you are in your career also matters. For my last job, I took a pay cut to work at an interesting startup, and of course went into it knowing it might not last. I'm more inter…

My # was 522621, I registered in the spring of 1998. My password was hacked well over 10 years ago and I've never been able to recover the account. Not that I would ever need it, b…

Oh the memories. My first "lan" party was in my parents garage right after Quake 1 came out. We had two computers connected with a null modem adapter, since neither of us could aff…

I just got back from Europe where I used my mag stripe card quite a bit. In the UK I was asked for an ID almost 100% of the time and merchants seemed do a good job of actually matc…

I've been fighting with various modes trying to find a usable solution for php/html/js for some time. This is a godsend.

I've used various drugs for various reasons. I no longer use illegal drugs because of my job, but I've used quite a bit in the past. Cannabis is great for unwinding when you just c…

My guess is that the correlation is with poverty rather than voting preferences. As a former Mississippi resident (and one who did not have a passport until the age of 26) I can te…

Agreed. When I finally went to college after years of programming, I picked religion as my major. It's a great jack of all trades major in humanities. You get history, language, ph…

Vim or Emacs, it doesn't really matter. Users of both will tell you that their editor is best, but if one was really better, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion after so…

I also did this for a year. Not really by choice, but simply because I lived in a developing country (Curacao) and my house didn't have hot water. It really was not that big of a d…

The best client to use on a graphical system Firefox with the Overbite extension: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/d?ff3 For console use Lynx is what I prefer and seems to be po…

I moved to Curacao. Picked up papiamentu (local creole language), Spanish, and a little dutch (The official state langauge) pretty quick. That is hardly practical for most people t…

I live in Mississippi, and every time I leave the South I see a very noticeable difference in how people look. It has gotten much worse in the past 10 years. I recall growing up an…