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Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:39PM (#50319972)
unfortunately the list is incomplete: quite some of the watches i had aren't listed (i mean, how could they _not_ list the GD-9?).

nevertheless nice to see these golden oldies again and read about all the stuff they were adding to them.

Re:Telnet BBS Guide on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:41PM (#50008102)
speaking of bbs (and reading the sentiments in this thread) i just wanted to make you aware of "BBS the documentary" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460402/

it's been a long time since i've seen it, but from my recollection it was a pretty descent watch

Re:The senior engineer death spiral on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:43PM (#49778076)
Re:Dark Castle on Sunday April 12, 2026 @09:15AM (#47739264)
i still remember the christmas easter egg in there
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:58PM (#45172354)
> I can only access the apps and websites I want to use

not really a dumb phone is it?

the u.s. is not the only country other countries trade with so firing people should not have to be the result as long as you divert?
because the u.s. is the only country the rest of the world can trade with?
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @03:11PM (#43636346)
i wonder why the rest of the world doesn't just come together for a while and stop trading / providing raw materials to the u.s. for let's say a year or so.

isn't this all just a huge pile of bluff poker?

keeps surprising me that, in a time where everybody seems to be concerned about privacy, people willingly "give away" their dna profile...
Re:M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS on Saturday November 16, 2024 @03:27PM (#42159026)
i guess there will be always a previous processor supporting something which the most recent doesn't.

but when the bug report is regarding supporting a software version which they don't support themselves anymore, personally i don't think they will give it any priority

Re:M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS on Saturday November 16, 2024 @12:03PM (#42157436)
official support for any macos version < ventura has been dropped (monterey support ended 2024-09-16)

so i wonder whether apple will consider this a bug...

Re:Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @05:55AM (#42050462)
nicely done!

would be even better if modifications to the actual select part would somehow persist when building the query

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:26PM (#28867234)
escape life, or the point of life (if there's one)?

i don't think there's a point of life. from a nature perspective it should be reproduce and assure balance in the ecosystem, but as there's way too many humans that ship has sailed.

from the economic perspective you're a pawn to contribute to a "healthy" economy so we all can enjoy our luxuries.

and then there's the individual perspective, where the point probably is what you want it to be.

after realising there's no point at all, for me the point pretty much is "do what you want and what you're comfortable with and try not to worry too much"

Re:What comes after Git? on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:43AM (#25536422)
though i agree that there isn't a proper vcs out there for large files (adobe bridge was a nice attempt) git wasn't designed for that and one might wonder whether you want git to be _that_ multi purpose.
Re:What comes after Git? on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:38AM (#25536400)
git has a steep learning curve for sure, but eventually scenarios described at oshitgit should be common knowledge for anyone using it.

personally i think putting out sites like that is more helpfull than dumbing down git

Re:What comes after Git? on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:28AM (#25536337)
what would be a typical large file you want to have in your codebase? usually this shouldn't be a consideration
Re:What comes after Git? on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:26AM (#25536326)
don't fix what ain't broken?

i think as long as git keeps evolving and there are no major pitfalls for any programming language: why should it be replaced?

Re:What comes after Git? on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:22AM (#25536310)
been using submodules for years without any issues other than the routine before "deinit" was introduced was somewhat tricky.

could you elaborate?

Re:Yml Coding on Sunday August 30, 2020 @05:15PM (#24325986)
despite the readability of the yaml syntax, for me the big disadvantage is the inability to use meta / type info.

for a straightforward collection of strings: probably good enough, for anything else xml is more likely to cover the usecase better

love it!
Re:The Psychopath in Chief on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:34PM (#23372481)
does this belong here? a ghost writer, not a psychologist...
you say you started doing programming as a hobby which means it used to be fun, right?

you might want to isolate the aspects of what made it fun back in the days when it was a hobby and what makes it dreadful at the moment and find yourself something which include the first, but lacks the later.

personally i think the attractive side of being a developer is creating something. reading you're not interested in business side of tech (analyst, salesman, management) you might want to explore other crafts which maintain the creative part.

that could be anything really. i myself started out as a graphic designer before i got involved in programming which might be something you want to explore...

Re:Do not log on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:39AM (#22575192)
this is ridiculous advice.

sure, use third party services / applications to ease insights and additional steps like notifications, but not logging at all does not make any sense.

"And eliminate all possible exceptions that can happen here" that's including runtime exceptions?

"There are a lot of cases when we don’t care. Because of the retries, queues, or it might be an optional step that can be skipped" using different log levels perfectly indicates the importance of the exception.

"it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging" afaik sentry is logging which makes me wonder whether the author is advocating a principle or a product...

puppet is pretty good in my experience
Re:How is search so bad? A case study on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:27AM (#22092220)
searching for

  best cell phone to buy site:reddit.com
and setting it to results from last month works fine...

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