dcminter

Oxide, at least for an outsider, looks like a company that channels some of the spirit of early Sun Microsystems (I'm aware of the connections of course). I'm quite envious of those who work…

Ha, I wrote this the other day: > I think it’s part of the procrastination cycle; buying a domain name feels like progress towards the goal, but is incredibly low effort, and thus feeling like I’m …

Yeah, I'm considering a pi500 as a similar alternative. I need to check the weight, but if it's low enough and they release a version with m2 I'll surely try it.

The use case for me is mostly hotel stays. When travelling for fun I don't particularly want the weight (and risk) of packing my laptop, but I would like to be able to play movies and music on th…

If they've ever done that then I've never noticed it - and mine doesn't claim to be unlimited.

Because it's inexpensive and I'd rather pay marginally over the odds than ever have to think about it (I'm not even sure there was a cheaper plan).

One does find it occasionally. My mobile phone plan (in Sweden) currently says that I have 774G left of my 25G/month quota for example :)

Alas the ntkmart domain is being squatted by someone and I presume the shop was inactive long before that. I loved the Elite-style shirt but mine left this mortal plane long ago.

Off topic, but... > to cuss and discuss ...is a turn of phrase that's new to me and I love it. Totally stealing that.

What kinds of breakage do you have in mind though? The number of times I've segfaulted the JVM is tiny.

Eh, that's also kind of the East London aesthetic for you. It used to be (maybe 30 years ago) very dodgy and is now (mostly) very hipster. The Bar Americain which he mentions but doesn't sho…

I had an MRI scan today, and while (as I expected) it was all very noisy, some of the noises were much more melodic in nature than I expected. I did a bit of googling when I got home to see why and fo…

> why I invested in Kagi Do you mean in the sense of investing in your tools, or do you mean that you're one of Kagi's investors?

This is the only issue preventing me from buying a subscription. Kagi looks great but this is a major stroke against it for most Europeans. Choosing to ignore the provenance of your suppliers is absol…

On a related note and a slightly larger scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_anode …

I wonder if Oh my Zsh and its equivalents for other shells might be what you're really after? https://ohmyz.sh/

Huh, I know about Bob Dobson et al, but MOO-ism somehow escaped my notice back in the day. http://textfiles.com/occult/MOOISM/ I have some retro-reading to do.…

> I don't care about those people's opinions, so I don't care. This was stronger before you edited in the longer paragraphs telling us that you look through their comment histories. …

I do get where you're coming from; for me I think it interrupts the way I scan text - a date would be unconsciously absorbed but these stand out as abnormal artefacts requiring full attention.

Eh, I also think it's harmless, and lends a certain "brand" to their posts - which are usually quite good otherwise. Better to be weird than dull, right?

...and if he does, why does he then consider the year 99999 to be out of reach? As I understand it the idea is to promote "long term thinking" but I really don't see how this affectatio…

That. Personally I think it's performative nonsense, but you have to admire the commitment to it.

Ah, how lucky we were to have such benevolant benefactors as William Randolph Hearst and Robert Maxwell running those organs of old ;)

In the victorian era the attitude would have been that it was "just a cat" and if it got killed they'd just get another one. We're a little more humane nowadays. Towards animals (c…

Pratchett, characterising cats, said: "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this."

I suppose Larry's something of a mascot⁰, but I think the roles differ a little. ⁰ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_mascot …

A similar example I've seen is a photo of a British railway carriage full of commuters staring glumly at their phones. It makes me laugh because we all just used to stare glumly at our newspapers…