DRY, but also pre-optimization and dependency hell are bad.

Yeah I thought it was corporate raiding and massive leverage that killed them. Like most success name brands that made it to the 80s.

Bain Capital was well known for that kind of bullshit.

I would thing the plastic lining in that container would probably be high on the bonding list, but I haven’t taken a chemistry class in 24 years.

Maybe they have an old school 20gpf swirly boy.

Chives grow like weeds and whenever you need some just go out in the yard with scissors and give them a haircut. They grow back in a week or two, unless they’re under a foot or two of snow 6 months of the year. Which is where my farming desires end.

Browser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.

I’m gonna try this with my son, he knows with way clocks go better than his left and right.

How about Tb (TacoBellium)?

Yup 5-6 floppies and if one failed you could try to go back and copy one, but usually had to start over.

I got the Mac copy of Photoshop 4 from my high school this way with .sit files. It was like second to last floppy that failed (probably an ok AOL disk) and I had to go back the next day and copy it again. But it worked!

Not long after that a friend of mine got a ZIP drive, but it wasn’t SCSI, so it didn’t work with my computer. I didn’t get one until college (essential for a graphic designer in the late 90s).

Some Google, Apple, and Amazon stock wouldn’t hurt, and remembering to get out in 2000 and 2007 is impotent though.

You could probably make enough during the dot com bubble to be a billionaire without working, then sink all of it in buying and shutting down NBC before they can revive Donnie’s career.

If you can find a playlist of videos you can download whole lists with ytdlp.

I think KEKA.app supports split archives. Haven’t used it in a while though.

The error correction isn’t enough to overcome a bad background?

My memories of the early days of designing these things for ad clients (we’re talking 2010-11) were that like 20% “damage” was allowed before scanning became difficult. So of course my art director wanted to put cutesy shit all over them to be “unique”.

I just didn’t want the client to ask when it didn’t work because their phones didn’t like them.

I took German in highschool, but all that’s left is: Darf ich aufs Klo gehen?

That is still unparalleled with CUDA.

I still don’t understand how an open source alternative with better hardware support hasn’t happened yet.

A whole bunch of the companies that boomed died though.

Anyone remember bigwords.com? Or pets.com?

Its marketplace has been really popular in my area. Craigslist has all but dried up for may item types.

But they own Instagram as well don’t forget, and they have bought out many other competitors that we won’t ever get to experience.

Could be his dad for now old it is, but now I’m wondering if this is where he got his hair style from.

Yeah, lack of competition is driving a lot of this. Fixing bugs doesn’t increase their stock value. It doesn’t make the line go up.

Launching products and bragging about profits makes the line go up (especially just before a quarter or monthly report is due).

AT&T/Bell Telephone was like this for years until they were finally broken up (nominally). When cellphones came out and provided nationwide competition, long distance suddenly became free.

We need to bust up google, Facebook, etc. They have nothing to push them to be better, just CEO egos and investors to please.