DonHopkins

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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   After looking at your comment history and seeing your track record of being totally and consistently wrong, I'd say: definitely yeah no. And you replying "No yes" just makes it yeaher and noer. It's you, not "most p
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   I take what he said as admitting that he is one of the "many decision makers [who] have little knowledge (or don’t research) the implication of their choices", and that objective fact stings him personally.
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   Dang! ... Who ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs? https://ifunny.co/picture/dang-who-ate-the-middle-out-of-the...
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   At the RISC of sounding short on instructions, do you mean Sophie Wilson's ARM? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   Who would have ever thought that division could be so ... divisive?
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   Forth-83 beat C99 by 16 years! >Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729890 https://twitter.com/I
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   I've got half a mind to read that book again, because there are some things about it that I just can't put my finger on... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosotomy
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   It's not just changing badly, but changing to the wrong thing. They'd beaten AT&T in the Unix marketplace, then celebrated by getting in bed with them.
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   by DonHopkins 3y ago

   Yeah, thus spoke Zarathustra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufKsOhkTL8 I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    >Retail stores also use sound and music to manipulate the environment. A study from the early 1980s showed that slow-tempo music led to shoppers moving more slowly through the store and spending more money than if fast-tempo music played
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    A brilliant idea that would never make it through the legal department. Somebody I worked with at TomTom had the brilliant idea of gamifying the driving experience with internet connected TomTom PNDs, by publishing a real-time Leaderboard o
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Within my circle of friends, all Aarons get Key & Peele's "A-A-Ron" sketch quoted to them as often as all Daves get Cheech & Chong's "Dave's Not Here" sketch quoted to them.
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    From the Incarcerated Software Foundation. With ReiserFS pre-installed! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Coming soon: I'm compiler. I'm debugger. I'm stackoverflow copy paster. I'm copiloter.
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    What if the top's singing "Feed Me, Seymour!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHrzZUascE
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    >exhortation I assumed you were talking about Sun, and I read that as "extortion". It reminds me of the vicious intimidation tactics that Sun executives made their poor sysadmin enforcers perform on their behalf, to ruthlessly
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Does anyone find themselves accidentally mispronouncing Jason like "JSON"? It must be as annoying as mispronouncing Aaron like "A-A-Ron". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    An actual db like BigQuery supports importing jsonl directly. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data-cloud-st...
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Then you are well on your way to rediscovering csv, and you still can't handle self-describing records with different structures, or nested sub-structures, or arbitrary length arrays, or null records, or unicode and control character e
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    And in a few years plus a nanosecond we will rediscover what a terrible, insecure, bug-prone, foot-gun api scanf(3) is, because of buffer overflow errors, lack of input validation, difficult error handling, clumsy newline handling, and form
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Do you have any insight into why the Gnome desktop never officially adopted pie menus? I know there were a few early implementations of pie menu widgets for Gnome many years ago, but as far as I know the window manager and desktop never ado
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    "Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    I've had it translate back and forth and write songs in Simlish! It even knows and is fluent in fake nonsensical languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    That, and you can ask it to translate literally or colloquially, to summarize or explain about acronyms, cultural references, names, code, syntax, diagrams, graphics, or anything else. GP: If you're going to play a curmudgeon, at least
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    That's a load of racist bullshit. Stop listening to and parroting Tucker Carlson.
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Perhaps every 10 years you have to hoist the entire house up with a crane and redo the seals.
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Remember that terrible feeling you have of being the victim of racism as a white man, and recall it next time you hear somebody who's not a white man complaining about being discriminated against or bullied when it comes to their day t
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    ChatTHC
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    I prefer the term "Hollywood Principle": Don't call us, we'll call you.
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    by DonHopkins 3y ago

    Unless he can bring it back to Star Trek ablative armor!