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New comment by meffie in "Warp is now open-source"

meffie — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:52:30 +0000

Yeah, apparently this is a different Warp.

New comment by meffie in "How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop"

meffie — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:28:11 +0000

Should we tell them about fidonet too?

New comment by meffie in "(Red Hat's) 5 useless Linux commands"

meffie — Mon, 10 May 2021 23:13:36 +0000

as well as, yum install "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"

New comment by meffie in "Cool Tool of the Day (1997)"

meffie — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:48:06 +0000

Diebold rebranded their ATM models from MDS to i-Series in 1991, the year I joined Interbold, the Diebold/IBM joint partnership. Prefixing everything with an "i" was a thing.

New comment by meffie in "Slack is down"

meffie — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:02:29 +0000

As someone who has to use Zoom Chat every day, this a thousand times. (We still run an XMPP server on the side just to avoid the horror that is Zoom chat.)

New comment by meffie in "C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly"

meffie — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:29:30 +0000

Looks to be bytecode for a vm;

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/vm_instr...

New comment by meffie in "Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]"

meffie — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:06:56 +0000

Yes, Pinter's little book is very accessible. It's a wonderful little book. I was just reading it again this morning.

New comment by meffie in "Lost Cause: Seeing America Through the Losing Candidates’ Map"

meffie — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:12:14 +0000

Living in Ohio, the conversations I have with his supporters here always started with the phrase "he is a businessman", a comment that always baffled me. But that is the perception.

Something to consider; large gold letters on his buildings, golden toilets, gaudy furniture, jets, and trophy wives. These are all cliche elements of the "new rich", the common guy that made to the big time. Unfortunately, this is appealing to a large segment of the population.

New comment by meffie in "George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)"

meffie — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:53:49 +0000

I have the sudden urge to run a game of Paranoia.

New comment by meffie in "A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home"

meffie — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:52:29 +0000

Language is the basis of thought.

New comment by meffie in "Ask HN: Why aren't we using SSH passphrase keys for website logins?"

meffie — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:39:27 +0000

see WebAuth, CoSign