Craig Maloney ☕ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

There is only one Star Wars TV show and unless it has a cabaret moment with Bea Arthur you aren't watching it.

@Felthry

260 AC
Air conditioning (or lack therof) in a car or truck by rolling down the windows and driving 60 mph.

Presumably 460 AC is four windows.

(from https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=260%20AC)

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@mwlucas Looked it up and now I feel like I should have known this.

How often should I run Norton Tools my RAMDISK?

@Jo @kemonine Honestly I was expecting much worse, but yeah, calling it a restoration is a real stretch.

@thomasfuchs Model M for typing

Model F XT for nostalgia (hate the layout)

Model F 123 key if I needed all the keys.

Model M tenkeyless if I don't have the space

And the 3270 keyboard if I needed to let someone in Hong Kong know I was typing (and if I needed to take someone out in a hurry).

@freakazoid I'm not sure if that's the case but sometimes the front-runner ages out and what once solved the issue no longer applies (I've seen this in Django in the transition from 1.9 and before and 2.x and later).

Don't let anyone tell you that searching for answers online in a technical field is wrong or somehow a sign of weakness. It just means you're not sure how to do something and are asking questions from the internet.

Weakness is part of programming. Not understanding is part of programming. Nobody understands all of this shit without someone helping them. It's just that some folks forget who helped them.

(I wrote a book on this and other things about programming here: http://themediocreprogrammer.com).

@saramg Oof, I didn't even think of The Hero's Journey angle. God, if I never see the vestiges of Joeseph Campbell's lazy scholarship ever again it will be too soon.

@platypus Dewey just didn't think big enough. 🙃

@platypus I think that's the section to the right of the computers in every library I've been to. 😁

(and yes, I've mentioned this before as a question for why that is).

Hello, I'm a child of the 1980s who loves Rush and is steeped in Atari lore.

Throughout this book I kept saying "I see what you did there". It felt like a bunch of nostalgia taped together into a narrative (mind you, not a horrible narrative, but definitely not something that I would willingly repeat)

I know there are folks who adore this book for what it gives them in nostalgia and experience, so I'm glad it has its audience. I'm just not sure it warranted a second go.

@CarlCravens Yeah, I'm wondering how many Amiga folks didn't use Workbench on that machine. Coming from a Macintosh and GEM it just feels clunky by comparison. Even FVWM with X Toolkit seems like an improvement.

@freakazoid What I'd love to see is what software has attained these lofty heigts of perfection. I'd love to know how me, a sinful being, might look upon the face of God.

Every time I think "I should have bought an Amiga back in the day" I fire up Workbench 1.3 and realize how absolutely inscrutable the Amiga GUI was.

I just wrote a quick "hello world" C program and God knows where I saved it to.

Chris Crawford was right: Apple did to the Amiga what Apple did to Atari.