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gruntledfangler commented on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me zerokspot.com/weblog/2025... · Posted by u/speckx

At one time I worked at a research institute. It had a huge library that was only partially filled. One of the directors wanted to buy every developer their own Safari subscription. The cost was quoted at around $4K/mo IIRC.

I pointed out that it would be far more cost–effective to simple let us request hard copies of whatever books we wanted, and then they would just stay in the library. No one worked remotely at the time.

We ended up getting Safari subscriptions for everyone.

gruntledfangler commented on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? · Posted by u/urnicus

gruntledfangler · a month ago

I’ve worked at many bars and restaurants. The best ordering interface I ever used was at Pizza Hut circa 1999. It was a monochrome TUI (orange). It was ancient-looking even then.

The speed was incredible once you got proficient. Once you got the muscle memory down you could punch in any single pizza order in less than a second. Even something complicated like different toppings on the halves was NBD. Pizza Hut was always coming up with these ridiculous gimmicks and the system could accommodate them seamlessly. Just incredible.

This system probably quietly saved the company millions in its time.

gruntledfangler commented on Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters printables.com/model/4412... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

gruntledfangler · 3 months ago

“You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”

gruntledfangler commented on Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver? · Posted by u/gillytech

gruntledfangler · 10 months ago

Spry assets

gruntledfangler commented on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts blog.rongarret.info/2025/... · Posted by u/lisper

gruntledfangler · a year ago

> Why don't the banks care? Because they treat the cost of fraud as just another cost of doing business, and they pass it along to you, the consumer. And they do it in a diabolical, stealthy way that you don't notice. But that's another story.

Desire to know more intensifies

gruntledfangler commented on Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries' smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

gruntledfangler · a year ago

“The health check will also serve as a “mission-control center” for decision-making, per the statement, by using satellite data, A.I. and multiple scientific disciplines—as well as the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, which is something the researchers hope to incorporate more of in following editions”

Just in case you were considering taking this seriously…

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gruntledfangler commented on Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/bswud

gruntledfangler · a year ago

“ Lab diamonds are a testament to the principle that what nature can do, man is capable of doing better.”

Profound hubris in an otherwise interesting article.

gruntledfangler commented on I Snuck into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class (2017) lithub.com/lidia-yuknavit... · Posted by u/8bitsrule

gruntledfangler · 2 years ago

That article was, at most, 5% about Ken Kesey and his course and had very few insights outside of the author’s opinion of him. Most of the article is about the issues of some other woman.

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