troyunrau

troyunrau, 9 months ago

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

What if you’re running KDE stuff on *BSD. Or on Windows, for that matter…

(eg: I use Kate on windows as my primary text editor on my work computer…)

troyunrau, 9 months ago

I actually miss SVN. It had a lot of issues, yes, but the cognitive barrier was so much smaller. When I have a merge error in git, I basically just delete my repo and make a new one…

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Also, CVS, cvsup, both of which I’ve used in my early Linux years.

And fossil – which is the revision control system sqlite uses and I kind of like :)

troyunrau, 9 months ago

12 years from now, this post will be referenced by Merriam Webster as the origin of a common phrase

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Pro-tip: sort All by New Comments. Yes, if you refresh, you get repeat content, but you also find the unusual stuff and the repeated stuff is where the conversations are happening.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Word will be your biggest problem.

On rare occasion, you might get some sort of advanced PDF feature that will trip you up (embedded 3D objects or some weird encryption or something), but 99% will work as expected.

Linux is literally the home turf for major video player development. VLC works like a charm for literally everything.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Gotta overwhelm with numbers. A swarm of sparrows charmed by Radagast should do it.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Are they empty?

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

The seals… bolted.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

What a reactive load of…

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

troyunrau, 9 months ago

She is pretty much the best character on the show by virtue of being the best cast actor. Wow what a good choice. I give a close second to Amos.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Uncle, how do I delete someone else’s meme?

troyunrau, 10 months ago

There is a mostly abandoned town called Snowflake, Manitoba, Canada. They bulldozed the school even.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

ITT: people sitting in their comfortable first world environment commenting using electronics which were certainly mined somewhere, convinced they’re oppressed and not the root cause.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure I saw this episode of Community…

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Best meme. Shut down the internet.