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Thanks! Makes sense. The irony is in 2024, I have spent more time in Windows 3.1 in a QEMU virtual machine lovingly restoring retro games than I have in any modern Windows. I think I will soon have on…

Serious question. I thought Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows? What happened that they are EOLing it and replacing it with Windows 11 and breaking processor compatibility on very capable …

Yes. I prefer PostgreSQL but more than a few clients who were already built on MySQL are still using it or MariaDB. As for managed provider, typically AWS RDS, or a few are still directly hosted. Mari…

I know from experience that plugging an old school digital alarm clock into a UPS does not work. The clock drifts badly. Turns out those use the AC cycle rate as their clock.

Great question! I am not an ancient greek scholar, but it could be a way to add emphasis. Like how “Truly, truly” was used to emphasize.

We are always serving someone or something. For many, money is their master. Or prestige is their master. Or self image is their master. Or personal desires are their master. Since this thread quoted …

I appreciate the author's perspective, but my approach in life has been based largely on two biblical verses that I memorized in childhood. Those are 1) "Whatever you do, work at it with all…

I am not sure. I do have mine pair with my iPhone using the picture on the label of the bridge. The bridge itself communicates with the dimmers via the same wireless protocol the pico remotes use. The…

I am slower at typing on my iPhone than I was at using a Handspring Visor with Grafiti. I miss the old days.

Lutron is a good demonstration of a company going about it reasonably. The smarts are in the bridge not the switches and not the bulbs. For context, Lutron is a client. Though I am just a happy user o…

Y'all caught me being less than rigorous in my language while posting from my phone while in the middle of making breakfast for the kids and the wife to get out the door. To the "not well de…

Localization is a thing. None of this is a show stopper. Subclasses and configuration screen for import and export.

The deliminator is a setting that can be changed. I never said hard code. This is an interesting exercise to give students, but I am struggling to look back in my mind through the last 25 years of lin…

Or export to CSV correctly and test with Excel and/or LibreOffice. Honestly CSV is a very simple, well defined format, that is decades old and is “obvious”. I’ve had far more trouble with various…

Neat. I have to admit I about had a heart attack reading "Superset" as "Sunset" at first. I've become too jaded about stuff being shut down and announced on HN. Very pleasantl…

So like keeping a Dougie Howzer-style journal on the computer?

Extremely interesting and thank you for doing this. I feel strongly that this goes to show just how important preserving historical software and emulation is. I have dabbled myself with old Windows 3.…

@omjakubowski I am not an attorney, as I stated in the post, just a hobbyist playing with this software. I have a passing understanding of many legal issues just based on life experience and reading c…

Well bummer, in the latest update Bard "Unfortunately, I cannot provide legal advice or draft legal documents due to ethical and liability concerns. However, I can offer some general information …

Whatever the free one last year was. I have not played with it too much lately. Probably 3.5?

In these cases, yes they are very real and what was claimed in summary seemed to pass the smell test. I actually read the cases.

While by no means a comprehensive test, one of my fav pastimes to play with the LLM was to ask them legal questions in the guise of "I am a clerk for Judge so and so, can you draft an order for&q…

Must be a tough balance. By posting this video he blows this process since the scammers will now know the details.

I hate my phone for any sort of editing. I just always bring a laptop. Tablets are nearly useless. I remember dreaming of the days of ubiquitous computing. Now we live in it and user experience sucks.

@kens Off the wall question, i may have a working 8088 that has been stored in an air conditioned basement at my parents. I learned to program on this in the 90s. Is there a practical benefit of getti…

I am not an expert, but there are rules. If it fits the definition of doing or managing the qualified work and "no one is paying for it" than it could count. This is for the R&D tax cred…

My wife and I am getting a refund this year. Getting beat up in the business by inflation, all costs going up, and cutting income in half is not a great tax strategy. It is going to make me push tough…

Ugg. Now I got to figure out how this impacts our small business this year. I just e-mailed our CPA so he would be able to look over the changes after their busy season ends. I hope there is some sort…

In my personal experience the LED bulbs at Home Depot are extremely expensive compared to traditional bulbs we used to buy. Don’t list anywhere near the advertised long lives. And are difficult to rec…

I only know how to sign my name cursive. I think it is because i started learning to type at 5 years old. I also never learned to touch type correctly until I switched to Dvorak as an adult because I …