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> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK

What does this mean?

I think one of the troubles is deliviring the therapy, because generally the brain is protected from virii reaching him.

With SD cards relatively cheap I long thought about, why delete them at all. Just put them into a box after importing the images/when full. So you still have a physical backup.

Modwiggler changed name around the same time.

In the beginning I had my Obsidian folder in my iCloud, but had not so happy experiences regarding the conflict resolution.

moricons.dll is also still around. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=11...

A few years ago, before the great System Settings revamp, I saw a post of system settings dialogs that had a 1:1 lineage back to NeXTStep.

I tried to copy some files once. I was unsure about the syntax of "cp" and my sleep deprived brain did neither remember to just try "man cp", nor when I searched via Bing to add "syntax" to the search term "cp". This lead to a very stern warning, that let me wonder if I'm on a list now...

> Most people will never need a Quinolone

At least in Germany eye doctors are very happy to prescribe them. It's "only" eye drops, but it is (for laymen) almost impossible to find information if they are also dangerous in this form.

Ok, but how do you call what we are doing:

We have an interpreted language in which you can call "subroutines" by name. But you can build the name in you program "on the fly", for example out of data.

I'm sure this is a naive take, but why is it not possible to enter a new key into the BIOS (dating myself, I know it's EFI) by hand?

Just a few days ago, when those sprite pictures and videos first made their rounds, I thought about ball lightnings. Back in the 90ies I had a physics teacher that was obsessed with them because he saw one as a child.

I figured, with the advent of cameras everywhere we would have much more evidence of them by now, but I found almost nothing.

I always use the following analogy:

I f your customer orders a feature, you implement all the code, just the button to call the feature is missing, then you delivered nothing.

If you just add the button to the program, but implement nothing else, you delivered the feature. It's just still buggy.

Those fill me with so much nostalgia. I think I read in a magazine about moricons.dll, this lead me to opening every dll and exe on our computer to look for icons.

Oh, I haven't heard the name "Dr. Dobb's" for quite a few years now.

I remember when they finally shut it down, they promised to freeze the website and preserve it in a read-only format, for all the computing history it contains. https://drdobbs.com/ certainly looks the part, but I'm afraid something seems to be fundamentally broken, because every article links just leads to an error message.

My favourite example is a famous pop song: Desert Rose by Sting. There isn’t much else like it, I could find.

For development (and experimenting & learning) I run my own Nominatim instance.

My customers who use the geocoding and mapping feature in production are very into data privacy and sovereignity, so they had Geofabrik build them their own infrastructure on premises.

I think back in the day, when I ranted about Positionstack on Twitter, we may have chatted for a bit.

Positionstack is missing from the comparison, so I spare you the story how they had a weeks long outage right after I implemented it in our software...

The trouble with most of the geo and map stuff is, that pricing is one dimension, but most of them have very different rules regarding usage. For example some prohibit you from persisting the geocoded locations. Others want you to pay more if you do something they consider "asset tracking".

> Cosmos 1999

Space: 1999. Do you happen to be french or polish?

In Germany they called it "Mondbasis Alpha". As I child I really liked this series and it's predecessor UFO made by the same team (Gerry and Sylvia Anderson of Thunderbirds fame).

Buying a dishwasher with a third rack right at the top for cutlery fixes that.

Funny seeing Kerala here. Just a few days ago I got a post into my timeline where someone wrote about taking a forest road out of Kerala in the evening and what a bad idea that was, because of Google Maps not working right and wild animals in the woods. That lead me to looking it up on google maps and I noticed something curious: It looks like Kerala has border checkpoints to the surrounding states. Complete with turnpikes. Is this normal in India? Or just Kerala? Are these even border checkpoints? (They are labeled as such on Google Maps, but that could be wrong)

Or when they renamed Lync to Skype for Business, which had nothing to do with Skype.

I can pinpoint the burst (at least for me) to a very specific date. March 21st 2000. When Lycos Europe IPOed and closed the day below its issue price.

Could have been part of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_anthology_television_se...

There must be tons of stuff locked in the Disney vaults to never surface again.

This is a true piece of art!

Back in the 90ies, in "middle school", we did the layout in our school newspaper with that. It made me even considering a DTP career.

> If you have any important posts that you would like to keep, now is the time to copy and save them for yourself.

Have you considered putting the site into "readonly-mode"? Or are you afraid of skeletons in then closet?

My personal head canon is that Steve Jobs personally cancelled ZFS in OSX because Jonathan Schwartz prematurely announced it.

In my mind it's the most beautiful building in Germany. Change my mind. ;)

I knew for years that this building exists, at least by name, but nothing prepared me when I visited and event at the neighboring fairground in 2018 turning a corner and suddenly see this spaceship hulking in the fog.

Well, SAP initially stood for "Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung".