The first thought that popped into my head when I saw the post title was someone pressing the up arrow 24 times to find that `ls` they used a couple hours prior.
You might be interested in the book "The Cuckoo's Egg"!
It describes how in 1986 the compute time accounting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was off by 75 cents - literal theft of compute time, in other words. Long story short: it was a hacker in Germany, compromising a large number of US government computer systems in order to spy for the KGB.
This is an excellent recommendation for an excellent book. As the hackers were German, the hackers' perspective is somewhat well-known in Germany, and it's interesting to learn about both sides.
I just learned that a documentary on this topic with Cliff Stoll exists: The KGB, the Computer and Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHNVNRQTJg - I haven't watched it yet, though.
Misc comment but I find it odd that the author seemingly intentionally killed those old posts, you couldn't google "game physics" a decade ago and not see his timestep post which helped a lot. Glad I run my own archiver.
Could be a new tab "collab" or something to do with joint work maybe, one could post a site, repo or detail a past work experience and anyone who was around or passed thru could reconnect, discuss stuff and share anecdotes. Thinking long dead internal faang tools, stuff like op's post, abandoned repos, old shareware etc. Could also be a place to find cofounders or people interested in starting or working on stuff together.
That would be interesting to see. Kinda like a tell-hn, but for old/abandoned projects? I've worked on a few of those internal projects (such as time-traveling vector db for ML tools back in '19), and stuff like that.
Dunno how useful it would actually be, but an interesting thought.
I would be into this. I'm basically trying to teach myself development by doing things with abandoned projects I find interesting. While nothing I do is even remotely production-ready, it would be cool to pair with someone more experienced to gain better understanding and perspective since it seems remarkably hard to find a mentor.
Disagree, I use a tsp of cane sugar in mine, you can't agitate it efficiently by hand and it needs to be piping hot to help it dissolute. You need something like a cheap $10 handheld milk frother/mixer or something that can get into it better than your hand going anti-clockwise. I typically add a small amount of hot water and get a thick sweet enough paste then add more hot water if I'm doing instant and for ground the same but add a strain step at the end.
OpenIn seems like something I've been hunting for for a while on Windows, use case is I primarily use firefox but I have so many google logins that it only makes sense to use chrome where applicable for several reasons the most annoying being it's hard to toggle between accounts when logged into multiple google accounts, I also use Notion Calendar which by default tries to open firefox when you start a meeting. So my workflow typically is click join meeting, go to the firefox tab, copy said link then open the appropriate profile and paste link. Ideally I'd want to click that link which launches Chrome where I select a profile and it continues to the link.
To be honest I am surprised how bad any OS supports browser profiles. Most people do use the same laptop for Work and Personal. And ok, now all the major browsers support profiles, but why the Password managers don't integrate with it, and support profile specific passwords for example?
I know people who've used strange ones like .club or .wtf and gotten by and others who due to the groups they interact with have to switch back to dotcom or something more recognizable etc. If you fall in the latter where someone might not "get it" and maybe even append .com (hello@hb.party.com) thinking it's missing then that answers your question. In my country companies end with Ltd (Limited) so got one for my "company.limited" and it's pretty cool, no issues there and makes for some interesting convo when I give people, also my primary email is hosted at fastmail and my email is me@"my full name".com so I can also when some asks say email me @ ... as a sentence.
Literally did something similar just last week, was looking for a good redis gui on windows and couldn't find one that clicked (closest I got was Another Redis Desktop Manager but it sorted my keys like 1, 11, 2 etc) so turned to sqlite and implemented this. Also added a "sync to disk" method so I get both the benefits of ram and persistence, worked out great since the data I'm getting over tcp has a sequence number so in case of any errors I resume from the last sequence number in the db. Thinking of fully committing and moving some stuff from the language like decoding the raw bytes to build a json object to an extension.
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