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There's a decent community of BBSs connected over telnet as well. The ESP2866 makes it easy to "dial in" from an 8-bit machine.

Is the domain name a play on GoMembers?

For us, it's about developing on the same node version used in production. That's necessary if you're not deploying to a containerized environment or you're using something completely out of your control like AWS Lambda.

Jerry Bishop (the original Svengoolie) started the BERWYN gag.

I realize the author learned from the situation and I hope they're a better person now, but I would certainly consider their behavior abusive.

It's fortunate the kid was just dealing with dry skin. Imagine if it was something like OCD where they were dealing with an irresistible compulsion and had no way to express what they were experiencing. Is spanking an acceptable response? How about one or both parents telling them to just stop? Rubbing spices all over their hands so an already terrible experience becomes worse?

Perhaps I'm too invested in this because I grew up with an undiagnosed neurological disorder and was punished similarly. The punishment and derision from my parents took a serious mental toll on me that I'm still unpacking.

COBOL was the butt of so many jokes in the hacker culture back then. Hell, COBOL by itself was a punchline.

Lots of C++ & Java in those days. Mostly C++.

I'm genuinely curious: do you wear glasses? How do you keep them from getting fogged up/iced over when riding in the winter?

Same. Shoot, I've been pulled into the boss's office before and told not to use terms like "big O" on the job because they confuse the junior devs. And I've never needed to balance a tree or reverse a linked list or any of those things since college. It hasn't stopped me from getting projects done.

I used to live on IRC, but it's been years since I was a regular user. Are channel takeovers still a thing? That was one of the things that turned me off on it after getting locked out of the channel I called home for most of a decade.

Definitely a cultural difference, and I'm intrigued about this approach. I used to work the shoe department at K-Mart and spent most of my time cleaning up after people who tried shoes on and just left them in the middle of the aisle, or trashed the boxes getting them open (how???), or tossed their old shoes in the box and walked out wearing a brand new pair.

Maybe not as consumer-friendly as what I'm used to, but it sounds heavenly from the employee standpoint.

It's removable wallpaper for apartments but you might like the designs at wallsneedlove.com

Not shilling but seriously considering it for my next place.

It's how I keep in touch with distant family, because a lot of them are on it. Mostly I just post pictures & videos of my kid so they can watch him growing up.

It's where the powers that be decided our local cat shelter's volunteers should share notes, pictures, videos, etc.

And vintage computer collectors largely moved off forums long ago and a lot of the activity is in Facebook groups now.

There are plenty of older college students. There were lots of grey hairs in my night classes.

When I started looking into Functional Programming, Professor Frisby's book was instrumental in my learning the concepts and applying them to a language I already know & code in.

I took "keyboarding" in high school on PS/2 computers with sweet, sweet Model M keyboards. That would have been late 1994/early 1995. We were taught to use two spaces.

Would you settle for a Commodore 65 clone with a 50MHz processor, 800x600 video @ 8.3 million colors, Ethernet, etc.? http://mega65.org/

> they only allow people under the age of 30

People under 30 who have nothing (known) wrong with them. I was rejected for a condition which barely affects my life, at a time when I was a poorly-paid contractor with no insurance through work.

That's coming http://www.breadbox64.com/blog/c64-keyboard-prototype/

If Phase 5 would deliver the replacement keycaps from their crowdfunded campaign three years ago we'd be able to do these conversions without touching a real 64. I haven't given up hope -- the machinery and molds are being moved to a company that specializes in this kind of low-volume production.

You're working in a Pick database? If you're ever in Boston, I owe you a drink.

That said, I've found the performance to be pretty good. Getting < .01sec response times on a node.js API server that caches data in RAM. I'd expect to see worse if Caddy were a bottleneck.

And since @dave was taken I snagged @daveross :P

Join multiple.

Part of the fun of Mastodon is opening up the Local feed and seeing what everyone on the instance is talking about even if you don't follow them.

Pick one to be your "primary" where you do your following but don't forget to check up on the exciting things going on with the other instances too.

Used to be able to do it on Amazon and Microsoft Groove too. It's getting harder to find a service that integrates my music with the stuff in their streaming catalog. After iTunes Match trashed my music library a couple years ago I don't trust them anymore, so that just leaves Google at this point. How long until they stop offering this option?

I'm one of those people. Most people know what a vegetarian is. A few know what a pescatarian is. Hardly anybody understands what an ovo-lacto vegetarian is.

It's just way easier for me to say I'm vegetarian "but I eat fish sometimes". People get that.

They're raster lines. At some point in the code, or multiple points, the program increments the register holding the border color so the video chip starts drawing a different color. This can happen in the middle of a line, which is why you get multiple "columns".

Edit: vardump is right, the screen would be "turned off" in this case so just the border color is used. This gives a slight performance boost.

Only in NYC so far, last I checked.

My wife knows a taxi service here in Boston that we use when we're travelling with the little guy. Last time we flew, we were picked up in a black car with tinted windows and leather seats. There was a stylish black carseat in the back for him ready to go. Sadly, he's still too young to feel like a rock star.

We've built tools to get new team members spun up quickly on projects. Maybe an hour, if that?

First, a lot of our developers use our wp-local-docker [1] setup, which includes a lot of the tools we use daily for WordPress development, including Elasticsearch.

Then, we use WP Snapshots [2] to pull a "snapshot" of the project from a private S3 bucket. It's up to the lead developer on the project to keep it up to date by pushing a fresh snapshot up to S3.

[1] https://github.com/10up/wp-local-docker

[2] https://github.com/10up/wpsnapshots

There's a similar issue going on with the square DIN plug used for power connectors on the Commodore 128 and TED series (C16, Plus/4) computers. Someone found a place in China with old stock and has been buying them. One person is building new power supplies and machining their own connectors.

This is a project I've been working on in my spare time. My goal is to use it to provide the data for a little app I'm building, but I'm having too much fun just adding facts to the API.

Congrats on the two year old. Mine turns two next month. Some nights, after he goes to bed and I'm done with chores, I'll open up my laptop, fire up VS Code, and wake up on the couch four hours later.