rbobby

> A modern beer bottle looks paper thin compared to one a century old.

I wonder if that is due to how much smoother transportation is now.

I wish there was a higher contrast ratio between text and the tan background.

Usually isn't addiction also defined in terms of some harm to the person? Damaging relationships, getting fired, going broke, and so forth.

And having some guidance that Bob spending too much time on the internet is something serious and should follow an addiction recovery treatment plan is a net good thing (by a lot).

> £700 set

That's a shocking price.

There can be only one: The Elements of Programming Style

> heard on a ~weekly

Could be a function of media. US media loves to scare its audiences.

For my 1 man shop... Crash, High, Low, Cosmetic.

Crash means fix right away. High means top of the list, if there are no crash bugs. Low and cosmetic are whenever (as interest or opportunity affords).

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Guilty (habitual offender)

> it will probably double in size in a week and reach 1×1 cm in a month

TIL it takes a long time to grow a perfect salt crystal of any size.

There should be an SMS option on phones that does an automatic reply "Your message to rbobby could not be delivered because rbobby is not working right now. If you'd like your message delivered anyway a charge of $9.95 will apply. Reply to send your message and be charged $9.95"

I did my "corporate" picture and it came out looking like I had been badly beaten and with really bad teeth (100 years of coffee and cigarettes). Bit of a blow to the self-esteem.

Just not anime material I guess.

Bill Gates comes out looking a bit like Ellen DeGeneres.

The naming for .NET got tough when it was decided that open source and cross platform was the way forward. If that had not happened it would all be called .NET framework to this day.

HODL Umbrella?

If the pandemic has taught me anything, it's that the strangest thing about a zombie outbreak will be the zombie supporters.

And it appears to be FREE!

Wait... electron isn't cross-platform?

PDP11's were pretty great machines. Using RSTS/E (resource sharing time sharing... Eeeee!) you could really stretch things out.

The process memory was limited to 32kb (maybe 64kb... can't recall) and the OS's executable system supported seamless overlays. Basically as needed the OS would swap in different code segments (min 4k?). With careful planning you could build some pretty big applications... so long as you could get descent separation. You *could* swap overlays over and over and over... but this would kill any sort of performance... best to swap in a "AR" overlay, and when the user switches to "GL" swap that overlay in.

The machine language was also pretty nice. Several addressing modes were program counter relative which was amazing (eg. JMP to 1500 words from current PC) . When I first learned that that windows loads an executable and then goes through and fixes up memory addresses so JMP instructions (et al) would work I could hardly believe it. If only the x86's had decent support for a PC relative addressing mode :)

And the Digital Equipment Corp documentation! Glorious. A wall of shelves, 10 feet long, 7 feet tall, filled with 3 inch binders explaining everything in detail! Shivers!!

Microsoft's online documentation is the closest thing in quality to the old DEC stuff.

> So it was still my job to sit on the floor and in the middle of the room to be the “wireless” portion of the remote

Those were the days

(the archie bunker theme)

:)

... and more channels.

In the dawn of time, also known as my childhood, there were 2 channels. Then 3. TV's had dials and it was my job, like so many other youngest children, to turn them. Then cable came and there were a lot of channels. So many channels you needed the newspaper's TV schedule to figure out what to watch. No more flipping between 2 or 3 channels hoping for something better. Planned viewing had arrived. No more sitting by the TV, spinning through channels, and getting clouted for spinning to fast because you'll break it! And finally, freeing children everywhere from the tyranny of the dial, remote control! No longer chained to the TV, children could return to lounging on the comfy family room chesterfields.

Never forget that cable, and the TV remotes it spawned, freed millions of children from spinning TV dials!

My fax line, which I need because my bank can't email me a wire payment notification, still gets spam.

> spare coiled sex bed.

Not what I'm used to reading on HN.

> the mattress weighs about 300 lbs

That's ridiculous.

and now it's mine

And thinking on this... a timeout is the right answer if facebook's dns servers are missing in action.

If I do:

    nslookup
    > server 8.8.8.8
    Default Server:  dns.google
    Address:  8.8.8.8
    > facebook.com
    Server:  dns.google
    Address:  8.8.8.8

    DNS request timed out.
        timeout was 2 seconds.
    DNS request timed out.
        timeout was 2 seconds.
    *** Request to dns.google timed-out    

Weird.

No body/bury = good

> safe for the another month

Not so fast there buddy. Best check what autocompletes for "how to dispose of a b..." and "best place to b...".

It wants me to download some app to change my desktop background?!? What is MS teaching people about safe internet browsing.

I quite like that the omni box will do math and unit conversions. So handy, so simple.