ToddWBurgess

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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
People keep talking about OS/2 in the past tense. It is still very much alive. It never really died. There are still a lot of mission critical apps out there that are still running on OS/2. OS/2 is still being supported and g
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
You really have to feel bad for the IT staff at Twitch who I expect are going to have a bad day today.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
The they will have to old school it and try a brick.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Instead of quitting social media I used the approach of use it a lot less. I seriously scaled back by Facebook usage and when I did, my mood improved considerably. I chalk it up to not getting all the daily anger and outrage Facebook tries
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I was a funeral director in a previous life and literally encountered thousands of bodies in my career. I can say having seen as much death as I have means I am not really too worried about my own demise. My take on thole thing is: living i
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
As someone who started their computer science studies with Pascal and then switched to C (I use C for comparison because it was the dominant programming language in 1990s computer science programs) , I can say that C just offered more to th
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
That pretty much describes anyone who works in a correctional setting.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
My mother panicked when she found out I started playing D&D with a friend at high school. She consulted the closest mental health professional she knew which happened to be the psychiatrist at work. The psychiatrist didn't see a pr
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Reading this reminds me of the days in the 90s when programs could target 10+ different Unix systems and shipped as giant tar balls of code. The C code consisted of giant #ifdef <UNIX VENDOR> blocks to accommodate how different Unix s
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Hearing the word ncurses brings back memories of second year computer science for me. Once upon a time. In a galaxy far far away
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How many lives did Canada’s Covid-19 Alert app save? This new study did the math(thestar.com)
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
The headline should have "For Now" appended to the end
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
My mother passed away from ALS at 53. It is a terrible way to go
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by ToddWBurgess 6y ago
As both a Flutter dev and an Ubuntu user, I am thrilled by the news. Looking forward to seeing how it all works out. In a nutshell, if anyone is interested how this works, the Flutter apps will be converted and compiled as GTK3 apps. Dart h
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by ToddWBurgess 6y ago
I think for most of here our first C64 program looked something like: 10 PRINT "TODD RULES" 20 GOTO 10