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by PTOB 5y ago
I work on the physical side; building hyperscale datacenters. You guys should try your hand at managing errors in that system. You've got it all: memory leaks, thermal overloads, misallocated heaps, pipes with strong type requirements,
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by PTOB 5y ago
This observation makes me laugh ... so that I don't cry.
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by PTOB 5y ago
"Harry King wasn't the hero we needed. He was the hero we deserved."
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by PTOB 5y ago
c.f. "Little House on the Prairie". Chimney fire is for real.
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by PTOB 5y ago
I originally posted a link to his work as a comment on this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29793770 I would like to introduce you to The Crafsman on YouTube. He's a hell of a lot of fun to listen to,
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The Crafsman – How to Teach with Beauty and Humor(youtube.com)
1 points by PTOB 5y ago|1 comments
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by PTOB 5y ago
I would like to introduce you to The Crafsman on YouTube. He covers the questions in your last paragraph, specifically for small runs and low budget. Even lower budget than you're thinking, so it's a perfect starting point. Plus h
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by PTOB 5y ago
I remember this. I lost it ... No, I put it away in a thousand small abandonments. Reading this woke me up to the sheer extent of what I've lost. I was once a kinder, happier man. Thank you. Don't lose this.
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by PTOB 5y ago
It's not the rows that kill you. It's the columns.
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by PTOB 5y ago
Quid est veritas?
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by PTOB 5y ago
Paul is going to single-handedly make my Alma Mater famous. ... or at least people won't say, "Never heard of it," when I tell them I got a CS degree there.
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by PTOB 6y ago
Used to be that there were lots of repositories of this very sort of thing. Seems they've dried up in the face of the Google algorithm. Any leads?
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by PTOB 6y ago
Humor, the hope that one is not alone in their beliefs, and that if there are a few others, you can filter for them by their reactions. Of course, this is a brute force method that has potential ... side effects.
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by PTOB 6y ago
I am a heavy AutoCAD user. I can type commands faster than today's AutoCAD can grab them. Sometimes it garbles them and executes an alphabetically adjacent command...
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by PTOB 6y ago
Same here. Probably the turbo encabulator on that XPS.
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by PTOB 6y ago
This human has read his history.
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by PTOB 6y ago
"Leaded gasoline poisoning all of the [world]." FTFY
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by PTOB 6y ago
People don't have to give their lives if you can divert thousands of dollars in required costs (over time) to good equipment, analyst salaries, etc.
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by PTOB 6y ago
I used to work for TAMS back in the day. Hope all is well for you!
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by PTOB 6y ago
And many people matching that description are also running corporations. And the wheel turns.
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by PTOB 6y ago
As a former Southerner, I can confirm. The Southern United States is the most British in its social constructs.
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by PTOB 6y ago
I love it. And it only uses 61MiB of RAM!
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by PTOB 6y ago
Aww man, I got stuck with Lauffer. I somehow never got to registration before Dawkins was full. I wanted to take Price too; some people didn't like him, but he's a legend.
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by PTOB 6y ago
It was small from about 1986 till the early 2000's. During that time they had the only undefeated football team in the Southland conference. Population shot up over the last two decades when they started losing games.
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by PTOB 6y ago
Same here. How many of us are there?
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by PTOB 6y ago
Too right!
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by PTOB 6y ago
I looked into it for a client's commercial building. $40k each for parts only.
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by PTOB 6y ago
... and certainly not for pleasure.
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by PTOB 6y ago
How the world turns! 100 years ago, an Irish last name in America would relegate you to menial labor with no hope of advancement. Being Catholic (at least in the Sourther USA) would land you with a cross burning in your yard at night.
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by PTOB 6y ago
I understand the misuse you're against here. "To lie" means to knowingly speak or write a falsehood. However, any reader knows he isn't claiming the speaker is a liar. He's claiming the statement is false, whether t

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