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Re:Museum of Obsolete Media on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:28PM (#25086367)
I remember seeing the Exatron stringy floppy at a show around 1981 and being blown away by how high tech and relatively affordable it was !
Re:New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:15PM (#24549716)
Theres a nice one of him on stage at the 1988 "Monsters of Rock" singing "Bomber"
In 1927 col walter snetterton disappeared while trying to cross the Andes by frog. Maybe someone tried with mice?
Re:Announce bad news without lying to your team on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:31AM (#23552607)
>> Why do leaders think lying, or obfuscating works so well? <<

because it got them where they are today ?

Re:Announce bad news without lying to your team on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:30AM (#23552596)
"The bad news is we are merging with Swindon and some of you are going to be laid off.... The good news is, I've got a promotion!..... You're all still thinking about the bad news aren't you?"
I've been using Whereby.com. It's clean, simple and 'just works'. No permissions popups or anything like that.
Re:Cloudflare TV on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:39AM (#23453605)
McAfee? It has to be a joke. Worthless bloated crapware
I've wondered about how churchill and roosevelt got to Yalta in wartime. Also the number of trips churchill made to the US risking U boats
Re:Where Do Eels Come From? on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:49PM (#23279093)
I have often eaten eels but I have never considered how they work
Re:The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:51PM (#23230861)
at the end of that they give Kelly Johnson a flypast and he is too far gone to realize what is going on. Ben Rich says "Kelly, they are saluting you !". That part made me tear up.
Re:The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:56PM (#23230559)
At the time they built this the motor industry could not even build a car with a clutch that lasted! How on earth did they build this out of Titanium? Is feels like progress has stopped or even reversed
Re:Norsk Data on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:49AM (#23102910)
They had their own Unix port, called NDIX!
Re:Norsk Data on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:49AM (#23102905)
My old college had an ND-570 and an ND-560. I learned ADA on those.
Re:How to Detect Business Fraud on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#23082568)
Modern Business 101!
Re:Awk in 20 Minutes (2015) on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:03PM (#23048454)
it's amazingly useful. I have used it since 1987, most recently today.
I am getting severely screwed by this
Just imagine if this had caught on. You'd pop down to Kwik-fit to get your control rods looked at.
Re:Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:50PM (#22814644)
I hate Hcaptcha. It keeps presenting the same challenge over and over again. Everytime I need to access a site it protects it wastes so much time.
Re:Notes on the M4 Macro Language (2008) on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:15PM (#22770773)
not today but I used m4 in the late 80s to generate appropriate makefiles from a single source to allow me to compile my programs on HP-ux, Apollo Aegis, SunOS, AIX, etc. Happy days.
Re:Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:55PM (#22763022)
awk is great. Started using it in 1987, still using it in production today!
Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:38PM (#22742902)
Making fun of people in AA. Beneath contempt.
Re:1% rule on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:13PM (#22622916)
I thought it was the basis of consulting companies as was told to me by an old boss: "if you know 1% more than the other guy you are the expert!"
Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:19PM (#22571714)
VBA is never going anywhere. As long as Excel exists, VBA will exist
Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:15PM (#22571691)
loads of people still claim to write new apps in VB6! and good luck to them !
All the US cops want is enough to arrest you. He went past her house 3 times. That's enough for most prosecutors. If you can't make bail you'll be jailed until trial - possibly as much as 3 years out. They drag the process out so you will take a plea deal just to see an end to jail time. Never, ever, talk to the cops in the US. They do not care if you are guilty or innocent. To them a good day is everyone they met that day is in jail.
This is just how they roll in the UK. Nobody has a clue what they are doing, or even cares
Re:The Era of the Trident Engine on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:47PM (#22147460)
Yes he's not talking about Trident missiles.
Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:25PM (#22078833)
I'm rooting for them too. I have a bunch of servers running various workloads. They have been great and I love their product. I really hope they are around for the long term
in other news "Drunk man wakes up with hangover"

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