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ryonguy posted:Gonna need to hear this story. Or are you just asking why he dropped out twice? mystes has a new favorite as of 03:16 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Vanagoon posted:Edit: Anything that still exists on the "live internet" and doesn't have to be dug up at archive.org is always a good thing, I think. The front page was updated at some point to add privacy policy links and a cookie warning, but they left everything else untouched.
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Powered Descent posted:Remember that time someone deleted some obscure little function from npm and it broke half the sites on the internet? NPM seems to be what happens when a language that lacks a good standard library feels a need for one but don't quite know what they are missing - so they solve it by having thousands of uncoordinated users contribute whatever parts they needed that afternoon as independent packages.
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Computer viking posted:NPM seems to be what happens when a language that lacks a good standard library feels a need for one but don't quite know what they are missing - so they solve it by having thousands of uncoordinated users contribute whatever parts they needed that afternoon as independent packages. NPM bloat is nuts. I installed a package at work last week, one which should have been maybe 2,000 lines of code, and it installed > 180 additional packages.
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I feel like an old man shouting at clouds when I bring it up, but the NPM ecosystem really seems to be written entirely by people that have no experience with any other language.
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Computer viking posted:NPM seems to be what happens when a language that lacks a good standard library feels a need for one but don't quite know what they are missing - so they solve it by having thousands of uncoordinated users contribute whatever parts they needed that afternoon as independent packages. Because one of us can write as many bugs as all of us. nullfunction has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 16:35
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I never once used my university email, i had a perfectly good one at home. Why should I just have to use some clunky command path email system when i have outlook at home i can check my twistedmentat @ buttnet.com email? Though because of this i missed my chance to go to Japan and Germany, because they didn't send the into to the account they gave me, but my student one.
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Jun 3, 2019 17:30
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twistedmentat posted:I never once used my university email, i had a perfectly good one at home. Why should I just have to use some clunky command path email system when i have outlook at home i can check my twistedmentat @ buttnet.com email? I got a lovely Uni e-mail address because my dad had registered for some Java course for work earlier that year and we both have the same name.
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Jun 3, 2019 17:34
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Same, I got the last 4 digits of my social security number added to mine because my dad had a class there in the 60s.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:25
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Same, I got the last 4 digits of my social security number added to mine because my dad had a class there in the 60s. I'll see you and raise you: in my college 20 years ago, they just used your social security number as your student ID number. It was on your ID card and everything. I'm sure it was a very convenient primary key for their database. Guaranteed unique. Of course, back then my state also put your SSN on your driver's license by default unless you specifically asked for it not to be included. It was a simpler time.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:39
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Jeez, my Freshmen year I had to specifically request an email address, fill out a form, and go to someone's office and give a bullshit reason why I need an .edu when I just wanted to email my girlfriend. I could call her, but my cell phone only had 50 minutes per month and long distance was 35 cents a minute and OMG I'm old.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:54
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Humphreys posted:I bought things: The best thing about HD-DVD was how retailers and rental shops were practically giving away their HD-DVD stock. I remember the local Video Ezy sold their ex-rental discs for $1 each. I know a guy who has just about every HD-DVD that ever got a commercial release. and nothing to play them on lol
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Jun 3, 2019 18:54
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My wife's friend is cleaning up some of her mom's stuff and gave us the complete Breaking Bad DVD set. Which is nice, but man it's been a long time since I've watched a series on DVD.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:59
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In my college everyone's email address was firstinitial+lastinitial+last4ofSSN@college.edu
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Jun 3, 2019 18:59
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^ RIT alum spotted. Unless more than one school was dumb enough to do that.
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Jun 3, 2019 19:16
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I remember this HD-DVD addon that they sold for the xbox 360, a lot of people thought that would mean that future 360 games would be released on HD-DVD and that they would release a HD-DVD version of that console. The addon didn't work like that however and would only be able to play the movies anyway.
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twistedmentat posted:I never once used my university email, i had a perfectly good one at home. Our uni has a hospital attached so they made it impossible to forward anything from the uni email system to an external account, and also required all your course poo poo to go to the uni email Because HIPAA you see Tunicate has a new favorite as of 19:31 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 19:25
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Krispy Wafer posted:
I teach SAT classes, and my students’ minds are blown when I tell them you used to have to pay per text message.
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Jun 3, 2019 19:27
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Trabant posted:^ RIT alum spotted. By the time I started at RIT (2005), they had moved to firstinitial + middleinitial + lastinitial + (4 random numbers), so Homer J Simpson might end up hjs6969@rit.edu
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Jun 3, 2019 19:28
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I am old so there was no email for college students, only a lifetime of letters and calls from the alumni association asking for money.
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Jun 3, 2019 19:42
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Powered Descent posted:I'll see you and raise you: in my college 20 years ago, they just used your social security number as your student ID number. It was on your ID card and everything. I'm sure it was a very convenient primary key for their database. Guaranteed unique. falsehoods_programmers_believe_about_SSN.txt
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Jun 3, 2019 20:29
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Bobby Digital posted:I teach SAT classes, and my students’ minds are blown when I tell them you used to have to pay per text message. Once it got out that they just used the bandwidth they'd otherwise use for junk data (for some purpose I forget) they kinda had to stop charging to prevent the pitchforks from coming out.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:45
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Bobby Digital posted:I teach SAT classes, and my students’ minds are blown when I tell them you used to have to pay per text message. You had to pay per text message received even. rear end in a top hat friend sent you a picture message? There goes like a $1 you had no control over.
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Trabant posted:^ RIT alum spotted. Yup, I went to a tiny private college in the South.
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ryonguy posted:Once it got out that they just used the bandwidth they'd otherwise use for junk data (for some purpose I forget) they kinda had to stop charging to prevent the pitchforks from coming out. Nah. People whined about SMS costing the carriers nothing for ages. It was the iPhone and its competitors that ended paid SMS plans. Everyone would have switched to the data channel if carriers had kept SMS charges.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Yup, I went to a tiny private college in the South. You almost certainly made a better choice. Pham Nuwen posted:By the time I started at RIT (2005), they had moved to firstinitial + middleinitial + lastinitial + (4 random numbers), so Homer J Simpson might end up hjs6969@rit.edu Oh, I forgot about the middle initial! I don't have a middle name, so they gave me an "X" in its place. It's such an RIT thing to demand that a field be populated no matter what.
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Trabant posted:You almost certainly made a better choice. I actually really enjoyed my time at RIT although the administration, especially under Destler, seemed determined to eliminate all the poo poo students actually thought was cool. Thread-appropriate: if you didn't log into the VMS systems in TYOOL 2009 to register for classes, you hosed up.
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Jun 3, 2019 21:48
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The Dells in our computer lab were so old they had 'Made in the USA' stamped on the front.
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mystes posted:Presumably he was doing a show on the college radio station and kept doing it after dropping out? I don't think that is going to be much of a story. yeah that's p much it, it was a comedy hour my buddies and I did, and after I dropped out I just kept going to radio station meetings and the like. pretty large University, so nobody suspected (or prolly cared, outside of administration) (also not he lol :x) the obsolete tech I remember from there were decades worth of SFX tracks on tape and CD- the CDs were already obsolete ten years ago because we'd need to rip the audio to digital in order to edit the show together in Audition we did a lot of accidental digital preservation there; had some rad old degrading 8-track BBC foley tapes that are now preserved on a server SFX folder somewhere
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Peanut Butler posted:yeah that's p much it, it was a comedy hour my buddies and I did, and after I dropped out I just kept going to radio station meetings and the like. pretty large University, so nobody suspected (or prolly cared, outside of administration)
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Jun 3, 2019 22:07
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Kamrat posted:I remember this HD-DVD addon that they sold for the xbox 360, a lot of people thought that would mean that future 360 games would be released on HD-DVD and that they would release a HD-DVD version of that console. The addon didn't work like that however and would only be able to play the movies anyway. It was also extremely hard for them to fet it working right from what I remember because the console didn't have a dedicated decoder chip for HD so it was something like 4 million lines of code.
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SubG posted:I don't know about yours, but it's pretty common for university radio stations to be operated by the university but be officially open to the wider community. This was decades ago, but the place where I was an undergrad was required to accept applications from members of the community outside the university as part of getting the spectrum. we had one show that was grandfathered in- same show still runs, but it got handed off to students a while ago I remember having to show my college ID to the faculty member that was the station manager- which worked great because -no expiration date -the photo was from when I was 19, and I was 24 at the time, but nobody past sophomore year looked like their ID photos anymore we always said that if someone caught on and tried to get us in trouble, we'd just say that I was a special guest every week, but it never came up
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The alumni organisation at the informatics department at my university is free and lifetime, and lets you keep your student login and email. This includes the option of VPN or browser-based remote desktop, which is super convenient for reading research articles from home. I suspect this is a holdover from back when the informatics department ran the IT systems for the university - better to have a formal process than to just have them hand out accounts to their friends. (Not in the US, but I believe we were the first university in Europe to connect to ARPANET.)
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Kamrat posted:I remember this HD-DVD addon that they sold for the xbox 360, a lot of people thought that would mean that future 360 games would be released on HD-DVD and that they would release a HD-DVD version of that console. The addon didn't work like that however and would only be able to play the movies anyway. If I remember right, there was a also blu-ray drive that made it to the prototype stage and no further.
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HD-DVD was still a viable option until that one electronics convention when suddenly everyone dropped the format like it was hot. One day they’re talking about releasing dual format discs and the next day HD-DVD’s are in the $1 bin. I don’t recall what tipped it in favor of Sony and Blu-Ray. Was it the PS4 or porn?
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Krispy Wafer posted:HD-DVD was still a viable option until that one electronics convention when suddenly everyone dropped the format like it was hot. One day they’re talking about releasing dual format discs and the next day HD-DVD’s are in the $1 bin. Toshiba and Universal caved to bluray on the same day and it was over then e: And it was the PS3 that came with bluray
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I'm guessing both honestly. Porn made inroads into both formats but the PlayStation 3 was very popular.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the PS3. It was cheaper than a stand alone Blu-Ray player, so yeah...that probably sealed it. I recall a tech podcast testing a first gen HD-DVD player that cost $1000 and was essentially a Linux desktop. It was noisy and got really hot when in use. Two things everyone wants in their entertainment cabinet.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about the PS3. It was cheaper than a stand alone Blu-Ray player, so yeah...that probably sealed it. Not only was it cheaper than most blu-ray players at the time, but it was also a much more highly rated player than just the stand alone units. I had two for awhile, because I was shopping for a second blu-ray player when the PS3 Slim came out, and I remember doing research on the different units at the time, and the PS3 Slim beat out everything, including the original PS3 because it didn't support HD audio or DTX or something along those lines. empty baggie has a new favorite as of 02:58 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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