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Nevada-Smith··on Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
Depending on what you're looking for, try Google Scholar [1]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/

Nevada-Smith··on Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
Google Scholar "waders" [1]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C29&q=wad...

Nevada-Smith··on How a Remote Alaska Town Gets its Groceries
Adapt, improvise, overcome... life goes on.
Nevada-Smith··on Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock
> (seems they have high temp advantages over LCDs)

According to Wikipedia [1], it's their low temperature advantage: "...unlike LCDs, VFDs are not limited by the response time of rearranging liquid crystals and are thus able to function normally in cold, even sub-zero, temperatures, making them ideal for outdoor devices in cold climates."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display

Nevada-Smith··on Make your own cut out models of old computers
Paper models are here: http://rockybergen.com/papercraft
Nevada-Smith··on How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
One is not paid what one is worth--rather, one is paid for what the job is worth.
Nevada-Smith··on Trump signs internet privacy repeal
I intentionally omitted that bit because I didn't want to prejudice the bit I did quite. If something is true, does it matter who stated it?
Nevada-Smith··on Trump signs internet privacy repeal
FTA: "...the backlash was overinflated given that the FCC rules never went into effect and that popular websites not covered by the regulations also use customers’ data for advertisements."
Nevada-Smith··on Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)
May as well throw out the lawyers too.
Nevada-Smith··on TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
> And by the way they actually explicit mention it on the homepage - it says .NET 4.8 right under the download button.

True, that. Except who keeps track of which version of .NET works with what? I for one don't.

Years ago, I used to use TablePlus on my Win 7 box but eventually canned it for better (IMO) alternatives. So when TablePlus recently reappeared on HN, I decided to give it another tryout.

Not one to keep track of .NET compatibility, I simply clicked their "Download for Windows" button, and ran their setup program, which eventually prompted for me to download/install .NET 4.8, as if everything was okay so far...

All this extraneous effort could easily have been avoided simply by:

a) s/Download for Windows/Download for Windows 10/

b) Browser OS sniffing-->Sorry, you're using an unsupported OS

c) Their install program could have announced straight away-->Sorry, you're using an unsupported OS

Nevada-Smith··on TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
This program won't install on Windows 7 because it requires .NET Framework version 4.8, which won't install on Windows 7, because Micro$oft doesn't support it any longer. Given this, you'd think TablePlus would explicitly mention this before putting Windows 7 users through this unnecessary waste of time.
Nevada-Smith··on A Message to Our Users
"Thousands of enterprises around the world have done exhaustive security reviews of our user, network, and data center layers and confidently selected Zoom for complete deployment."

Interesting that he would point out the failure of thousands of IT departments around the world.

Nevada-Smith··on Movies you should own: The Andromeda Strain
Another terrific movie is "Warning Sign" (1985) starring Sam Waterston.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090293/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Nevada-Smith··on Movies you should own: The Andromeda Strain
...and the movie with the most realistic portrayal for a post-apocalyptic world is "The Road"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Nevada-Smith··on Orange – Interactive Machine Learning and Data Viz Toolbox
I like how their interface is similar to Grasshopper's graphical algorithm editor for Rhino 3-D.
Nevada-Smith··on Early South Dakota Thrived by Being a Divorce Colony
Meh. Reno, Nevada held the title of Divorce Capital of the World for six decades. http://renodivorcehistory.org/
Nevada-Smith··on TablePlus – Native GUI tool for relational databases (2018)
Data density is particularly important for this type of application's success. My post wasn't meant to be pejorative; rather, they should read the article with the goal of improving the "data density" of their tables, and other areas.
Nevada-Smith··on Builder vs. Programmer Perspective
Sheesh, take a look at their errata page: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/errata.html
Nevada-Smith··on This person does not exist
Would this work with ASCII-art faces?
Nevada-Smith··on TablePlus – Native GUI tool for relational databases (2018)
TablePlus' authors should read "How white space killed an enterprise app (and why data density matters)"

https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app...