HeyLaughingBoy

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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
A couple years after I graduated college, I came across the 1972 movie of Macbeth . The experience was so drastically different from reading it in high school that it seemed like a completely different play. Suddenly, it all made sense now
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
> Do you know how much it costs to operate a helicopter Do you know how easy and cheap it is to make gunpowder? I was making black powder rockets from grocery store ingredients when I was 12.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Reminds me of the movie I saw this weekend with the homeless guy who said he used to be a software developer at Apple, but there were some "disciplinary issues."
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Nice winter coat on that pony.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
In the US, IIRC, you had to be a member of the Coast Guard. Isn't it the same in Canada?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
If you assume that you can't fix something, you're right.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Generating "engagement" by making ridiculously outlandish statements has gotten so common that it's impossible to distinguish them from people who are just hopelessly naive.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
> software is robust/rock solid but the code is essentially unreadable I come across this fairly frequently. I think it's because the code has simply been tested into submission. So it works for that particular set of use cases
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Wasn't there a period when the insane China tariffs started that the Chinese manufacturers of Western luxury goods threw the veil off and started selling them direct at much lower prices?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Why on earth would anyone be surprised that this market exists? I can understand being surprised that it's possible to deliver those items at the stated price, but the market's always been there.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Let's at least try to compare apples to apples and not stretch the scope.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
> The later is nice socialy. Not if they don't like you.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
> The question was "why care?" And the answer is "wake me up when those things start happening." I can imagine all sorts of even worse things being done with my data, but until they happen, it's just speculation.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Burger King has a promotion going where if they screw up your Whopper, you get an extra one for free. My wife laughs at me because every time I see that commercial, I point out that if our local BK (now out of business! surprise!) had to do
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
The App irritates the living f** out of me. I live about 10 miles outside town and it assures me that when I'm two minutes away, they will start making my order. That has never happened. I either have to click the "I'm here n
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
At my first job, our entire order-entry and inventory management system was written in QBASIC. I wish I had the source to try it out with this. I know someone who might, if we could figure out how to get it off a DOS 5.25" floppy!
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
So the TikTok memes about an "emotional support excavator" are real!
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Showing my age, about 35 years ago, someone (wish I remember who, but google probably knows), wrote an article in Analog magazine called "The Dogma of Otherness" that spoke to the tendency of a certain demographic to always try to
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
That's funny because the Bluesky app is the only social media app that I have installed. Everything else I do from the browser.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Nope. Like people working in all sorts of safety-critical jobs around the world, we exercise care and (hopefully good) judgement. I always find it interesting that everyone outside the industry focuses on the downside and completely ignores
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
To bring it back around to software, Jack Ganssle, author of several books, articles and seminars on embedded systems programming is the only person I know of who's had an EPIRB triggered three times.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
I have a DVD somewhere about Donald Crowhurst's "attempts." I felt sorry for the poor guy, but he really should have just admitted that it was beyond him and given up.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
That's like asking "why are you starting your own project. Couldn't you just contribute to an existing OSS project?" Some people need to do it themselves.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Irene was pregnant? Good for her!
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
And on Saturday, I bought a package of four 1/3 lb burger patties (ground chuck) for $7.99 and a package of burger buns for under $2 at a gas station. Kwik-Trip FTW. That price depends a lot on where you live and shop.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
And here I was stupidly thinking that making meals at home was the default and eating out/getting takeout was the exception.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
That has only been true in the largest corporation I've worked for (around $4bn annually). Even then, we (devs) had to challenge inconsistencies in requirements or incomplete specifications. The only job I've ever had where I coul
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
The code in cars is, by definition.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
Not really. In those safety-critical areas, the code really is no different. What is significantly different is the surrounding process. I had to make some software changes to an old medical device this year. The overwhelming majority of th
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by HeyLaughingBoy 2mo ago
I just learned about Alpha-Gal Syndrome yesterday through a Radiolab podcast. It was really interesting, but they didn't mention that it was spreading. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since climate change.

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