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dole··on Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?
Security was a pain to implement and easy to punch holes through. Unregistering, updating, reregistering libraries across remote sites sucked unless you had a good method, which we didn’t.
dole··on Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor
Enter a N or n into the Editing box, you'll see the two grids that make the glyph up along with a blank third grid on the bottom, add a small tilde in the top two rows. Or copy and paste the actual Ñ or ñ characters into the Editing box to create it new, and you can use it immediately with the alphabet textbox on the left.
dole··on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
Worse question: who’s got a hn frontpage/grease monkey/ai assisted subscription service to replace the main links with the archives?
dole··on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
https://archive.is/1G2Ut
dole··on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
I'll second the call for checking out smaller companies with Ender clones and similar like Sovol and Qidi; you can find refurbed models like Creality K1's for $200+ off if you're not averse.

Regarding slicer software, Ultimaker Cura is great for beginners, Orca Slicer has a slightly steeper learning curve but they both have their pros and cons such as different support generation algorithms, having an alternative when something doesn't seem to print right with one.

dole··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
The USB-C connectors are mostly for charging, and IME it'll take 4-6 full cycle charges until most are out of vape juice and disposable so they're always accessible. The packaging usually is snap-together with no screws so it's a puzzle.

I'm still surprised to see the fancier LCDs used which range from 2x4cm - slim 1.5x3cm (Digiflower, Raz is super popular.) Most LCD vapes which range from $20-25 are starting to fall by the wayside for $13-15 vapes with simple SMD LED displays with color overlays, (Kadobar, Geek Bar, Cookies, North) easy to make 7-segments for battery/juice status. Some are elaborate with wraparound displays that I've mistaken for flexible OLED and are deceptively cheap.

dole··on Microsoft PowerToys
Command Palette is the Mac/Linux style app picker that's nice and bloated and does what hitting the Windows key and Start Menu search should've done in 98SE. I've got it bound to Win+Shift+Space but it's laggy and dumb enough (doesn't learn what I'm always searching for and running??) to where I don't bother. My money's still on it eventually replacing the Windows key binding.
dole··on Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
My suspicion is that they make the stopgap OSes deliberately shitty and performance hungry so they can sell on the easy gains and improvements. I know, "never attribute malice" but this is such a theme, over 9 generations of an OS, that it can't be completely accidental.
dole··on Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
With Win11, I feel all the WinUI overlays have eaten the performance gains of Moore's law. Before Win10, Explorer used to just work. Now explorer won't auto-refresh when it's supposed to after renaming, moving or deleting a file, there's some refreshing loop bug where it'll keep popping a list back up to the top when you've scrolled down. Increasingly running into (assuming locked) files that won't copy or move or give any error or notification of why. Learning more Powershell, Robocopy and CLI commands just to do basic tasks, of which I'd rather learn the linux incantations for.
dole··on The Last Programmers?
Looking a little deeper, the author's written a scattering of blog posts in the past 3 years, and has spent seemingly little more time as a professional software developer versus finance/business. Not jaded enough yet for senior
dole··on How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video]
For a comparison, try to find a good legal version of Namco Pac-Man on mobile that isn't locked under a Namco Museum Vol. 1 IAP. The Namco Museum app itself is "free" and you get 1942, but have to buy the others.
dole··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
Would also be a lot cooler and reliable than putting anything more than two magazines through an 18C or 93R.
dole··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
Absolutely none of this shit is gonna get close to happening.

The recent week long pause in the Air Force seems like some brass made a decision that Sig or DoD forced them to walk back.

dole··on My original Palm IIIx
The Treo 650 was the seemingly perfect blend of a color IIIc with tactile keyboard, stylus, cell phone capabilities and good ol PalmOS.
dole··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
I spent numerous times a day crafting paragraphs desperately trying to convince others that I didn't care. The faster I can realize the feeling's probably mutual, the faster I hit that back button and find the next thing to not care about.
dole··on 24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville
After 4 crashes, I can tell you the likelihood of you dismounting a 10mph+ scooter graciously on your feet running is very, very unlikely.
dole··on U.S. drinking rate at new low as alcohol concerns surge
Will increase as legalization and normalization; lounges, infused foods and beverages replace alcohol as an acceptable social lubricant. People were partaking clandestinely, COVID certainly accelerated the market.
dole··on Epson MX-80 Fonts
Star Micronics Gemini-10X to Xetec Super Graphix interface card to C64. The bane of my existence seemed to get the sprockets synced and eventually started wrinkling the paper after a few pages.
dole··on The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation
Thought the name seemed familiar; he wrote a number of the early MS .NET 2000's era of C#, VB.Net and other Microsoft Press books. Warms the heart to see an industry mentor bang out goofy stuff for curiosity and fun.
dole··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Also from the country with television detection vans so you can pay your TV tax, what CAN'T vans do?
dole··on Infinite Pixels
z-index = i_love_you;
dole··on Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed
I was one of the unfortunate suckers who paid around $100 USD to get one shipped from Canada before the US ban lifted, but it sure made renting games from video stores a lot more satisfying.
dole··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
Switch’s network stack and some drivers are FreeBSD based, but that’s about it
dole··on Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
FastStone’s even better than ACDSee used to be. Small footprint, free, portable, wouldn’t be surprised if ACDSee was the inspiration for it.
dole··on Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
Yakisoba in traditional Japanese cuisine is noodles (“soba”), fried (“yaki”). Noodles varies but you can use ramen, udon, or others, and it’s stir fried up with vegetables, meats and a worcestershire based sauce and has been in japan since the 1930’s so like most things it means different things in different places.

This is my personal gold standard for yakisoba: https://sanyofoodsamerica.com/products/sapporo-ichiban-chow-...

But I’ve also seen “yakisoba” served up in US military mess halls and correctional institutions as little more than spaghetti noodles and hamburger as well.

dole··on Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban
Texas where regular cannabis is still criminalized and there's no actual dispensaries, the tobacco, smoke shops and gas stations are flooded with the delta-8, 10, 12, etc products. Advertising on billboards for cannabis analogs with the leaf but no full cannabis (edit: delta-9 for those unaware.)

It's ridiculous. There's no enforcement on all the analogs that work maybe 50% as well as the actual thing. The state has to be happy and looking the other way on all the tax revenue now being brought in by these corner smoke shops.

dole··on How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous
BIC lighters are more of a first resort than a last resort.
dole··on Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns
I was curious myself, so I'd think resist printing such as [0] Katazome or [1] Rōketsuzome, using wax wheels. I feel like shibori would be tough for pattern accuracy but considering the craftsmanship I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katazome [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dketsuzome

I have a very similar tattered thread-bound book of these style of kimono patterns at home but I don't think they're from Hokusai.

dole··on Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off
Virtual money doesn't mean anything, gamblers will bet the max knowing they're not losing anything.
dole··on The impossible predicament of the death newts
Thanks to YOU for the teal dear.
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