BuckyBeaver

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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
You're missing an important distinction: Cash is legal for all DEBTS. Nothing says the store can't refuse to take cash, as long as they also prevent you from establishing a debt. For example, a restaurant that doesn't want to
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Directly from a longtime colleague who worked there. Not someone who makes stuff up; a multi-decade veteran of major software firms.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Really? You know company-wide practices at all offices, for the last decade or so? I have this first-hand from a colleague who worked there, and he is definitely not one to make things up. Plus... this would be an oddly specific lie, don&#x
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
That's pretty much what they did. It's not as if they got out and attacked the guy.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Google does this same shit. They even have a graphical tool for it; not kidding. Google, widely mocked for the douchiness of its hiring process (which it admitted to years ago and claimed that it was trying to reduce), forces employees to r
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
It's also illegal if they give you the item before you pay. Cash is "legal for all debts.' So if they let you establish a debt (by, for example, drinking some coffee), they must let you settle it in cash,
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
The no-tipping/fair-pay policy is good, but not accepting cash is bullshit.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Uh-oh! One of them down-modded my statement of fact.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Ironic that Reddit moderators, some of the biggest jagoffs on the Web, might end up helping to protect online freedom.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I read a great takedown of the whole "alpha" thing a while back, but can't remember where. Its message was that "alphas" are kind of losers, when all is said and done.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I think that's worth a lot. Sometimes I worry that I'm just not fast enough at some of this stuff, but then I pull off something well under pressure and feel better. Temporarily!
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I'm thinking of building a plane. Also a couple of applications. And finally learning to play an instrument. Meanwhile I'm looking forward to my $440 a week in unemployment!
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I switched to LibreOffice. MS Office has regressed dismally since its heyday in the '90s, and now with Microsoft's offensive hounding to "log in with your Microsoft account" at every goddamned turn it's simply unacc
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Works great on desktop Safari, too!
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Unless renewables can provide ALL of our energy needs, we MUST built some power-generation facilities, must we not? The last I heard, there's no way we can avoid generating a bunch of our power. So if not nuclear, what?
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Ha, yes I started with Borland too. Before that we had to chisel our code into wooden tablets and feed them into a steam-powered Computing Engine. OK, OK; there might have been some Atari BASIC and macro assembler in between those two. Then
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I'll write a shitload of commit messages before I'll give OpenAI my phone number.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I agree. We just buckled down and studied the documentation, which (as you note) was usually good and often excellent. Microsoft's small textbook about C++ was the best I ever encountered. While I threw most of my obsolete books away,
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I just noticed this after typing my comment about this very thing. In addition to those TechNet CDs, we established some rapport via CompuServe or phone with specific Microsoft support people. Occasionally they would fix a bug we reported a
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
I already look at what I learned in the early '90s with no Internet. We had the massive binder of Microsoft TechNet CDs and an MS support forum on CompuServe to undertake the largest known Visual C++ project at the time (according to M
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
There is no video of the wreck.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Pretty much, then, yes.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Great, thanks! I’m pretty psyched to get started, after reading these comments.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
What are you on about?
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Thanks!
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by classic, but I designed it manually to be queried with plain SQL. So I suspect the answer to your question is yes. Thanks for the info!
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
OK, good to know that you can do both.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Yes. Cheesy skeuomorphism caused a massive overcorrection. It’s time to get back to some subtle bevels and highlights and stop dicking with it.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Thanks! That’s happens to be just what I need to do: import pictures and related data.
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by BuckyBeaver 4y ago
So do you just not use Laravel’s ORM?

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