ogdoad | 8 years ago
Knees are jerking like leaves in a gust, it seems?
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ogdoad | 8 years ago
It demonstrates poor exercise of judgment, which would render them partially unreliable. Then there's the question of whether they're your "peers".
ogdoad | 8 years ago
In C, everything rhymes in ';'.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
"Therefore, we now have these absurd hordes of delivery slaves everywhere."
One way to diss the Post, certainly.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
reminds me of the Bastard Excuse From Hell, BTC version
ogdoad | 8 years ago
The "article" is pointless, the guy just vents a bit, missing any opportunity to give any technical insight on what that legacy project is about, or offer anything substantial other than positive affirmations directed to himself.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Apparently so does the ZX80, being almost equally obsolete.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Why is there a crossbar in the ƛ? Shouldn't it rather be λ?
ogdoad | 8 years ago
+++ATH0
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Very nice historical overview, but the abrupt closing with "Last month, in fact, Logitech released its first new trackball in seven years, ..." makes me wonder if this is just grey advertising of the new product.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Wasn't a dismissal, rather a comment, and technical language aside it stands as true: being happy "solves" problems collaterally, by rendering us oblivious to them.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
It was intentionally reductive :)
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Second Google result for "alexa control standing desk" should help you, or Reddit.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
That this thread was flagged demonstrates our knee-jerk bias on such subjects.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Because putting a man on the moon would be putting a man on the moon!
ogdoad | 8 years ago
I'll get to it, eventually.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
"You can only solve it by doing the crime yourself." They would call this "warning signs" after the fact.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
OTOH, censoring what info you let through is, well, censoring.
ogdoad | 8 years ago
What about it?
ogdoad | 8 years ago
Actually thrice: lines -> ones.