FartinMowler

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by FartinMowler 2y ago
And the speakers set to 11?
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
This has me worried and slightly panicky as all this could hurt my family and I. I'm Canadian and a retired IT guy, less by choice and more by ageism in IT hiring. Seeing and knowing that forced early retirement could easily come in th
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Thank you for alpine-ajax! It's amazing as an HTMX-lite or HTMX-just-right in many many use cases.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
30 hours and I still haven't left the province of Ontario (Canada).
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Close. Pascal said “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Twain said the other (longer) quote.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
米 ... lol, reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut novel that included his rendering of a human orifice.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Okay. The equivalent at the single voter level is if a voter is undecided between Candidate A and Candidate B. After much contemplation this voter decides she's 50.5% in favour of B and 49.5% in favour of A, so heads to the polls to ca
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Haha, reminds me of 20 years ago when someone said they are building a PHP app from scratch and this time they won't have HTML, business logic and SQL all in one .php file. We learn as we go ;)
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Brilliant idea, thanks. I thought my 2 hour walks were long (and beneficial). I need to try doubling that, then doubling that, then doubling that again.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Wow, that's a somewhat rare edge case. Let me see if I can beat that (hold my beer): 5. Astronauts for Boeing Starliners who are not certain when their return flight will be.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
> Open source is basically non-existent. I think he meant that open source third party add-on packages for .NET were basically non-existent. Not .NET itself. Your "_almost_" qualification has me concerned. Over the decades I
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Ba-humbug! Hosting at home on a server purchased from a vendor like Dell? That's not true self hosting either. A true Scotsman self hosts on hardware he soldered up himself. /s
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
There's a ton of variety out there in the real world such that you'll always find a few businesses that match almost any scenario you can imagine. So, yes, for some business doing a process a certain way is a competitive different
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Exactly this! I recall a large survey of SAP deployment projects in the late 1990s. By far the most successful consultancy, out of Chicago I think it was, had it written in their contracts "you'll change your business processes
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Agreed! There's waterfall & agile and dogmatic & pragmatic. I've never worked on a dogmatic waterfall project but have worked on several dogmatic agile projects (that made me strongly wish I wasn't). In the pragmatic
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
I once worked at a corp that sold software. For the exact same software product, maybe 10-20% of customers received so much benefit we could have charged 2-3x the price and they would still be very happy. On the other end, for maybe 10-30+%
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
I run asciidoctor's Docker container. It does what I want it to do without leaving a mess behind on my laptop.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
I thought it was Benjamin Graham, who's most famous pupil was Warren Buffet. I'll have to look it up when I get back. Right now I'm in the woods, drunk, in a tent in a rainstorm with nothing to do but HN and without a care if
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
(having a flashback to the bile blog)
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
Well, .... I was expecting orange coloured art made from Kraft Dinner noodles. Disappointed to say the least.
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
For me, it's not so much the shutdown as it is the extremely short notice of the shutdown. At a BigCo I worked at, this would have missed the regular project funding cycle for 2024 and so would have to be done as an unplanned emergency
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
What would you propose instead that is comprehensible to visual designers, programmers, and document authors?
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
Kiosk Banking. Back in the 1990's, just before the web became a thing, it was an idea to bring banking to consumers without the bank buildking, which they called "brickless banking". Kiosks would be placed in public locatio
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
Rye is replaced by UV. See https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/15/rye-grows-with-uv/
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
Can we get ourselves off smartphones?
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
(swoosh)
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
Then why did Russia feel the need to enter into the agreement if holding the keys was sufficient?
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by FartinMowler 3y ago
Happy Meal Hour?