Vivtek

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by Vivtek 4y ago
I can't avoid slow software because older, less bloated versions of mandatory tools in my industry (translation) are sunset with no recourse, and incompatible file changes mean I have to upgrade.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Agh, there I go all America-centric! One piece of advice I'll give you (I have a coffee farm in Puerto Rico) - you can make a lot more selling as an estate brand, i.e. retailing it yourself. From Madagascar, though, I have no idea ho
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Coffee is a weird crop. 8000 trees is probably about 8 or 10 acres, and you're not going to be able to work that yourself. Where you at? Hawaii?
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by Vivtek 4y ago
There are people who prefer robusta. Just .. not many.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
I am laughing in technical translator.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Me? Because "home", for me, while I've been working remotely since 1994, has been Indiana, to Puerto Rico, to Budapest. I go when I want, do a little schedule juggling maybe. And now I live in the tropics in the jungle on a m
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Englisch klingt so butterweich.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
You're not alone.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Tesla, not Twitter. I misread it the same way.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Because when they don't, I end up owing the IRS $150k with a lien on my house.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
I did the same thing with Bolo on an Apple ][e - I never got very good at the game but I dumped the assembler code for the whole thing onto greenbar paper and marked it up with highlighters. Then gave myself infinite lives, made the maze wa
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Oh, this is sweet . Back in my Windows days I relied heavily on AHK for hotkeys as well as some glue for various tasks, and while I've managed to figure out most of the glue items on Linux (which I've used for the past five years
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by Vivtek 4y ago
Oh, son (and I say this because my son is also 23, spent a lot of his life on League of Legends and kind of regrets that, and is just now finishing college) - that way lies madness. You know what I was doing with all my time when I was your
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by Vivtek 4y ago
That ... looks like it would be pretty neat if I could distinguish the colors.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
It appears that what falls off with age is a tolerance for hoop-jumping. Or perhaps the ability to follow instructions.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
My 27yo ("reference Millennial") even has a mental image of the video (although has never seen it on a Tele-Vision Device). It may have entered the meme reservoir on its own at this point.
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by Vivtek 4y ago
This has exactly the same maddening maladaptations that forced me to switch browsers for a reasonably adequate Facebook "experience". JavaScript that breaks in older or less popular browsers is not something I think needs to be pr
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by Vivtek 5y ago
This process has started in Puerto Rico, too. People still mostly use cash, but almost every vendor these days has ATH-Movil, a phone-based payment system through your bank.
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Came here to say this, as a professional translator finding it harder and harder to make ends meet.
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by Vivtek 5y ago
This is an excellent point. I've been trying to go back and fix that, by correlating pictures with journal entries or blog posts and the like. I wish I'd taken better notes about who all these people were and what they meant to me
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by Vivtek 5y ago
It's written in Perl - I think Perl is a niche language these days, right? I wrote a version of part of it in Racket, too, which definitely qualifies. I keep thinking I might move development to Zig. The language is Decl. I think at th
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by Vivtek 5y ago
My hobby project is a niche language.
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Look, I'm 55 years old. There are people I haven't heard from in maybe thirty years, easy. I wouldn't mind catching up on those people yearly - and it would be at least a thirty-fold improvement over my current management tec
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Absolutely. When Facebook got to the point that my old friends and family were ubiquitously present, it was a godsend. I reestablished contact with people I hadn't heard from for years, kept up-to-date on family that I would otherwise
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Huh, you are correct. I guess a better way to put this is "the original Readability I encountered was in Python"! The first version I saw was in Aaron Swartz's 2012 read2text tool, but a check of the URL I found that throug
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by Vivtek 5y ago
All I really need is WiFi, Linux, relatively low power draw, and low cost, and I can fake the WiFi with an ESP8266 if I have to. Beagleboards seem to have the same supply problem as the Pi, though. Odroid is something I'd never heard o
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Here's a reasonable overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988 I'm not sure that one touches on neuroscience; it's more psych-oriented if I remember correctly.
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by Vivtek 5y ago
You know, the original Readability was in Python. You could eliminate your Node dependency by moving to it, I'd think.
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable. I mean, potentially. I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd
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by Vivtek 5y ago
Yeah, same. I have an ag robotics application that I can prototype with stock on hand (glad I prebought a few Pi Zero W now) but I won't be able to scale up my test fleet for the foreseeable future, and that's going to be a proble

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