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2 years agoHey, I’ve been doing this 30 years and just learned it today, you have NOTHING to feel bad about. :)
Jordan Lund
Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?
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Or cheese.
3·2 years agoI was part of the hardcore build it yourself crew for years and years, but I find now that for the last 10 years or so now, and especially with the death of places like Fry’s and all the bullshit Newegg pulled, it’s way easier and cheaper to buy a pre-built box that’s maybe 90-95% there, then tweak what you need to tweak.
Get that manufacturers warranty and forget trying to part it out yourself.
$3,500 here.
Sounds like someone wasn’t able to ship product and had their licensing pulled…
Hilarious that it even embedded the tweet so you can see it’s not an accurate quote.
Bad enough when humans do it, adding nothing.
1·2 years agoI would love to teach again, but aside from the fact that, physically, standing and talking for 8 hours a day is outside my reach now, I would also take probably a 66% to 75% paycut to do it. :(
8·2 years agoI would not describe any movement in the US as “leftist”. :(
101·2 years ago“Gaming”
“Sub $1,000”
My gut reaction is “choose one”.
You might be able to get a gaming laptop under $1K but get ready to replace it in 2 years.
Text encoding is SUPER basic and anyone looking to get involved in Linux or scripting absolutely should know that stuff FIRST.
Source: I was teaching Linux 23 years ago before it was cool.
Here’s a good primer:
URL encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASPEntity encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.aspReally, ALL of the W3Schools stuff is just fantastic. Anyone remotely interested in this stuff should start at the beginning there and work up.
Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.
Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.
Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.
OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”
If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.
& is how & is represented in HTML.
If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like “\”.
Aha! Makes sense!
26th? I thought it was the 21st?
24·2 years agoI don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear.
Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.
https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_box_198x
My work software kept seeing weird bugs in Chrome, so I switched permanently.
If you’re doing this in a business environment, I wouldn’t fool around with a home rolled option and would just go straight with a Websense subscription:
https://www.websense.com/content/support/library/deployctr/v76/dic_wcg.aspx
People won’t pay for something that used to be free… OTOH, neither will bot farms.
Either case will end Twitter, so I say go for it!
Possible to take the hardware, wipe it, install Linux and not worry about expiration?
+1 for the Dark Tower books.
But I’d note, there’s a dramatic tonal shift between the first half and the last half.
After book 4, you lose the flashbacks to Roland’s youth and it’s a straight through narrative for books 5, 6 and 7.
I think the accident that almost killed him put the fear of god in him.