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"Separating the Art from the Artist: The Challenges Inherent in Watching Reruns of 'House of Cards' and 'The Cosby Show'"

#odddissertationtopics #hashtaggames


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The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
jwz.org/b/ykPi

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What would a Gen X captcha look like? Go play outside. Take public transit unsupervised. Climb over a fence with barbed wire on top without ripping your jacket.
in reply to jwz

climb to the top of the tree and hang head down on your legs🤭
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Run down to the store and get a pack of cigarettes for your parents.
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dude, most of us Xers are too old to climb a tree or a fence anymore.
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the trouble is I don’t know who people are so I immediately fail. Also old.


Guatemalan prosecutors raid offices of Save the Children charity


Advertencia de contenido: #ChildTrafficking


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Just had to share this, because it really made me laugh from our comments following NVIDIA contributing to open source, and then Microsoft doing open source 🤣

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Not overly surprised about MS-DOS. It's an ancient product, only interesting for historical reasons.

The NVIDIA part is interesting, though. Wonder what the big scheme is there.



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We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci…
in reply to Ponder Stibbons 🇧🇷🇩🇪

@blackcoffeerider @starraven well, I never figured out what is wrong with my quick'n'dirty HTTPS-DOS webserver. But the HTTP-Server I wrote for DOjS is working OK 😂

github.com/SuperIlu/httpDOS



#Microsoft went and open-sourced #MSDOS, what a world do we live in: github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
in reply to Carlos Solís

they had already opensourced ms-dos 1.25 & 2.0 back in 2018, they opensourced v4.0 this time.
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@ϻค𝔬ᑭ They had made them source-available, but this time they relicensed it to a proper open-source license, the MIT one


A ver si entiendo: La automotriz #XPeng se llama así en honor a su fundador, Xiǎopéng Hé. Xiǎopéng proviene del chino Xiǎo que significa "pequeño", y Péng que es un ave legendaria gigante como un cóndor...

...o sea que literal son Carros Condorito

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If IBM decides to merge Terraform and Ansible, would that be Terrible?
in reply to Jeff Geerling

If they only used Stackoverflow for documentation, would that be SO Terrible?


Wondering what is necessary to have #MySQL exclusive applications, such as #Friendica , be able to use this #PostgreSQL shim:


🧙 This is massive
The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL:
Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-… (edited)


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I hope this email finds you well and happy-ish (Happy-ish, because we can't have too much well-being among my clients, now can we?)

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"While more of the #web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections."

@danluu on web bloat: danluu.com/slow-device/

mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202…

in reply to Molly White

as a professional web dev and maintainer of a niche video game wiki, I pride my site on being very lightweight, but after a brief loading test it turns out I have some work to do 😅 Gotta shout out lazy loading images, deferring scripts, and the details HTML element
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@Molly White @Dan Luu And that goes for the entire computing panorama. Most of the thousand-fold increase in computing power that we've had since the times of the Commodore 64 and the DOS computers has gone into developing bloat - either to make things marginally easier for developers at the expense of RAM and storage, or (more recently) to appease shareholders by adding new sources of revenue to any given app. About the only places where performance is considered relevant anymore are video game consoles and supercomputers - and even there I've seen bloat creeping in throughout the years! Not to be a boomer, but there's a reason why limitations breed creativity



Serious question: what are the chances that the current criminal case against #Trump ends up in execution for treason?

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Es de sobra sabido que la #UCCAEP tiene a los poderes de la República por los cuernos, pero esto ya es una falta de disimulo grandísima

Declaración del Día Nacional de la Empresa Privada y del Empresario delfino.cr/asamblea/votacion/p…


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NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.
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@Kalshann Yeah! If it's returning engineering data then science work should go off without a hitch. It'll just take time to do it carefully.

I'm impressed they worked around a dead memory chip at all.

in reply to Nowhere Girl

[gesticulates wildly]
It's a 47 year old planetary probe that's been "updated" purely by imagination and ingenuity to do newer and newer tasks - and it's been outside the solar system for 12 years now! That it's working at all is a fucking miracle of human badassery.
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@Kalshann They were meticulous! Like, obviously mistakes happen even at NASA, but it is one of the few places that still tries to get it right the first time because there is no margin for error once a probe is launched.
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@Kalshann
That's also why they built a spare and kept it on the ground. That way they can test everything in an environment where they get a second chance if the fix doesn't work.
in reply to Nowhere Girl

Well, just add a mili meter of surface per each level of abstraction in modern web. You'll see that we are as much away from nands as Voyager is from earth.

That is the price of endless naivism when any company tries to shove their less than sub par technology in the name of "increased developer productivity".