What about "Google finally doesn't zoom the map out when you modify a search"
Oh who am I fooling, they're always going to go out of their way to do random broken shit you never asked for
Readit Newskristopolous commented on The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991) github.com/gvanrossum/abc... · Posted by u/tony
I swear I remember using this. I even remember the syntax. I was able to compile it and just start writing in it. I have no idea how I know this syntax.
Did early linux have this? Maybe netbsd?
I actually found it. It was on simtel: https://archive.org/details/Simtel20_Sept92
I must have gotten it from there. I would routinely get any thing Walnut Creek would make.
I also realized a couple years ago I could navigate EDLIN without help and knew how to use masm. Somehow I had forgotten what I know but my fingers did not.
kristopolous commented on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) creolened.com/windows-gui... · Posted by u/phendrenad2
Windows 1 had hamburger menus, originally from Xerox Star.
Kinda cool
You can read it (illegally) here:
https://www.zipcomic.com/superman-1939-issue-1
And I dare say, someone spending 9 million clams on this comic book is more than likely going to have it sitting in a very UV-protected vault somewhere ..
EDIT: Sorry - I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com is infringing the copyright - adding this note to point that out, but I will maintain my original link as intended. Better to read it on DC Universe Infinite, if you have access, or maybe it’s available through Libby or Hoopla library apps.
I assume it's just an inflation robust store of value.
If I was lucky enough to have to defend say a billion dollars from diluting over decades, a priceless comic sounds like a decent acquisition
kristopolous commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
I watched a video on the demise of the penny and its predicament was so succinctly explained: everyone gets pennies as change but few carry them around let alone spend them, so we are stuck producing ever more. One news outlet even did an "experiment" where they threw hundreds of pennies on the ground in a city on a busy morning and not one person stopped to pick any up.
I actually do that for numismatic reasons now. After today they will only increase in scarcity.
Not that I imagine they'll ever be valuable mind you... I should really just go and get $5 worth somewhere. That would satiate my desires
kristopolous commented on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ntp.org/... · Posted by u/gastonmorixe
I refuse to donate.
Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it.
Let it fail and see what happens.
Is there any endowment for such projects?
Something like money to the endowment from the big corp, then would be recipients petition the endowment for ongoing funding, some board decides based on a set of open protocols...
Because honestly I've seen this a bit recently - major infrastructure projects looking for effectively pocket change; a couple thousand.
They shouldn't ever have to beg for money, this is stupid.
ctrl+u this ... there's some nice parts commented out
kristopolous commented on Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser github.com/dillo-browser/... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
I raise you The East India Company
Belgian Congolese tire companies under King Leopold, Atlantic slave trade companies, Basil Zaharoff and Vickers who sold machine guns to both sides agitating WW1, IG Farben who did the Nazi gas chambers, Shell oil who since the 1970s continues spending billions funding climate change disinformation and billions preparing for it, at the same time... It's a long list.
Take Hyundai, a brand I drive, childhood slave factories, in the 2020s... You can't even brush your teeth without the ghosts of slavery.
If this article broke some loop, you could answer my question and tell me one thing you got out of it. What's a manifold?
I'm pretty confident I'm not going to give a definition that's suitable for you and I don't wish to engage with diminutive minutiae or arcane jargon in a hostile combative atmosphere.
I don't think I can improve this silence.
Have a good day.
He also remembers having giant bags of toys dumped on the floor of the hotel rooms.