HeyLaughingBoy

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by HeyLaughingBoy 5d ago
Or, you know, just use a different license?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 5d ago
I can't possibly take this at face value since it's obvious that people (businesses) pay others many tens or hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars to build software for them. So, what do you really mean?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 12d ago
I've been holding on to a couple of fanless industrial PCs as much for their cases (I could drive my truck over one, and it wouldn't even make a dent) as for any possible future uses. As time moves on, being able to use them looks
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by HeyLaughingBoy 18d ago
My experience with hardware engineers, at least IRL, is very different. They love to talk about their work. However, I used to be an EE so that probably helps. As for Reddit, there's a lot of "bury head in sand and problem will go
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
"I got five kids to feed"
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
It's funny. As a SW dev working on medical devices, I've done at least two catheter ablation machines that I can think of, but I never knew the specifics of exactly what problem it solves. I mean, I obviously know in detail what t
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
Huh. I was actually thinking about him a few days ago. Is he still among the living? I remember posting on PM about 15 years ago asking how to fix a mistake I kept making and he gently smacked me on the head and basically said just learn to
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
I had a co-worker who was an experienced software developer but had never worked on a system that interfaced with the physical world before. For quite a while, he hated having to test on real hardware because all sorts of failure modes that
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
That's not a valid comparison. A Jira log is not part of a Quality Management System (QMS). An aircraft maintenance log is. If you fake data in the QMS, software or not, for a regulated industry, I can assure you that it won't be
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
I don't think you guys are really disagreeing with each other. Just that one is using a colloquial definition of "missing" and the other, a technical one.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 25d ago
This really made me think about what got me interested in programming and I have no idea. In HS, I had a Physics teacher who had a TRS-80 (Model 3, I think) and he would let us use it during Lunch for whatever. But I was already interested
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by HeyLaughingBoy 26d ago
To paraphrase what I recently said to someone I haven't seen in 25 years: one of the greatest gifts that ageing has given me is increased self awareness.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 26d ago
I think this is just a Jira/bitbucket thing. If you add a feature branch, that's how the naming convention defaults. I've been seeing it for years.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
PayPal? I sign in all the time. If you're referring to the popup to add a new authentication method, you can just escape past it.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I was confused by this (because I rarely carry cash) until I saw your response below. I think OP might be using credit/debit card interchangeably? I don't use my credit cards unless I have to, but my debit card is used daily.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
It's probably mostly labor cost. An 8x10 shed kit starts at under $US2k but if you pay someone to assemble it, including electrical, the price will go up very quickly. I know someone who builds horse shelters that are larger than that,
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I guarantee you that it's always been the case.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but why is this a surprise?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
That "just" is really doing a lot of heavy lifting. Economics is what makes this country work. If converting to renewables makes more money, that's what will happen and the people making the money will find a way to justify i
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I was surprised by this too. From a background in writing code to control precision pumps, I have a good idea of what 50 µL looks like and it seemed like an awfully small amount. But I don't know how concentrated the oil is. FWIW, I ha
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
To be clear: the question isn't illegal. What is illegal is using it to discriminate against a protected class, so as a result, no interviewer with half a brain will ask those questions.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
Usually not if you already have a day job. But that's completely orthogonal to the original statement.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
Dunno about that. I live in the US. I can start a small business today and the only thing I'd have to do differently is file an additional form on my taxes next year. Yes, that's a simplification that doesn't apply to every s
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
So I can go out and kill my neighbor without having to worry about consequences, then? I mean, just say the word: he's been pissing me off recently.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
Do you have an actual use for them? I might have a few tubes of Z80-CTC & SIO in the basement if I haven't given them all away yet.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
Jesus, this rant is so eerily similar to one I read 25 years ago when someone explained why they stopped using C and started using C++ that I wouldn't be surprised to find that you are the same one who was complaining back then.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I'm in Medical Devices and while AI is at best a small part of development right now, rest assured that we are actively investigating how to make it an approved part of our process. Then again, coding was only ever a small part of our
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I don't see that at all. These look like typical decisions that a technical team lead would make and then inform project management of the decision.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I would agree wrt my High School teachers. They were basically competent, but not particularly good. In college however, my Humanities professors were better than I appreciated at the time. They forced us to think about the material and cha
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by HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
I couldn't find the exact point that I was thinking of (when Hamlet is telling Ophelia that men are basically all just assholes), but I think this modern-day version of Hamlet helps to illustrate your point: https://www.yout

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