TomMasz

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by TomMasz 4y ago
I am one of these people. I got handed a bunch of weird tasks and jobs over the years as a result. I agree with the idea that these people do best in startups where flexibility is needed. In the big company I ended up working at, it held me
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I tried to obtain a Polish passport but my grandparents left the country when it was still part of Russia under the Tsar. You have to have ancestors who were there post-WWI to qualify.
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Productivity rose year over year while wages stagnated and layoffs were frequent. Workers have discovered the hard way there's no payoff for hard work.
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This tracks with my personal experience. I can certainly be extroverted but it's always a draining experience and requires time for me to recover. Being able to switch like that is probably the hardest thing for an extrovert to underst
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I tried one of my recent B&W film images. It basically recreated the original scene (a graffitied building). Nice!
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It's like product/service reviews, which are dominated by unhappy customers since few happy customers feel sufficiently motivated to take the time to review. The people most likely to answer technical questions are insufferable pe
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I had to make the decision to stop medical intervention and start palliative care for my 92-year-old father. He had developed an infection, exacerbated by poor circulation and a reluctance to seek medical care. He was hospitalized, given ma
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It's also a governance issue. Any site or service that's run by a single person, whether it's well-financed or not, is subject to burnout, illness, death, etc. Having a team and/or having a succession plan can help insul
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They over-stress the hunter and under-stress the gatherer. Yes, meat is calorie-dense and without preservation doesn't last long, likely leading to gorging when it was available. But hunting takes energy and isn't always successfu
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It's not clear they even tested to see if it worked at all, they just assumed it would based on the main ingredient and moved on.
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A lot of time it's from what my friends are talking/linking on social media. But I also use Bandcamp now and then as well as Wikipedia (seriously). The latter might not sound like a music discovery engine but if you look up a band
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The treasurer of my old volunteer fire department was a manager at Kodak and he always brought the Kodak calendar to put on the wall of the board of directors room. Kodak had moved back to a 12-month year, but as shown in the image in the a
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There aren't many things you can't open with a Halligan bar as long as you don't care how much damage you do.
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You have to wonder about the economics of this scheme. The music probably isn't expensive to produce and clone, but Spotify pays so little per stream, how is it viable to purchase bot streams in large quantities?
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I ride my bike on the Erie Canal path, a restricted-access path intended for pedestrians and bicycles. Having vehicles capable of 30 mph on that same path is just asking for trouble. I hate them.
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This is the OS I started out on. It's been a long time since I typed #CP IPL CMS PARM AUTOCR on a 3270.
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The University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics was working on laser fusion back in the late 70s. Despite multiple upgrades, they never achieved the goal, eventually outgrew the facility and the DoE moved on to the NIF. I
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I was looking for Charlie Christian and found this: https://archive.org/details/78_charlies-choice-part-1_charli... It's part of series of 78s cut live at Minton's. I also have an LP somewhere that supposedly
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Regarding the birth of Bebop, there are live recordings from after-hours sessions at Minton's jazz club of Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Christian among others (some available on archive.org). They're really the only record o
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When you're introducing OOP to beginning programming students, these metaphors still have some value. Beyond that, though, it's time to go with more realistic examples of polymorphism.
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This was funny 25 years ago.
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If only he'd used his talents for good, not evil. Seriously, though, I swear I've encountered some of these before. If TBL was dead, he'd be rolling in his grave.
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How do you use it? I downloaded it a while back but I still don't know what it's for.
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Whatever OS/machine I'm on one of the first things I do is map the Caps Lock key to nothing. PowerToys requires you to map it to something , though, so it gets to be Left Shift. Either way, no shouting.
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My wife works for the local Board of Elections. Two years ago one of the polling places she manages had a wild turkey menacing the parking lot. Apparently, people had been feeding it and it had become used to getting handouts and was drivin
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Tuning was the key. Once you understood the protocol and the robustness of your connection, it was easy to configure Kermit to run fast.
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I hit a deer on my motorcycle. I remember nothing between the initial impact and finding myself on my back looking up at the sky. I had been separated from the bike and slide on my side for a considerable distance (only going 30 mph, luckil
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Alas, film's recent popularity comes with (literally) a price. Cameras that were practically being given away are, thanks to "influencers", now insanely priced. Film was expensive enough but pandemic-related supply issues and
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An older app that is similar is The Brain. It allows you to move in and out of topics and does a decent job of dealing with large numbers of items. I used it a lot in the early 2000s and it's still around. https://www.thebra
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This certainly looks nice. But the courses I teach require students to use VS Code with Python and Java, which means I have to use it, too. It doesn't work well with PyTest and while it's pretty good with JUnit, dealing with exter

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