ZacharyPitts

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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
Played so much on BatMud in the early nineties. Bat Mud is still running at https://www.bat.org Became a "wiz", and wrote my first code used by other people in 1992. That code is still running, 28 years later!
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
And the nickel, and the dime... and maybe the quarter
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
"IE". Difficult to search for what that means.
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
Woah, that’s a thing?
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
A bit late, but here's a very unique photo of the "running fence" taking from my backyard as a kid in Petaluma, Ca. You can see it 'running' along the top of the hill in the background. https://en.wikipe
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
Oregon does not even have REAL ID compliant driver's licenses. In theory, "Oregon will begin issuing Real ID cards on July 6, 2020.": https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/Pages/Real_ID.aspx . But I s
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
Last summer, the 3600X was my move away from Intel after 20+ years of building strictly Intel machines at home. Here the build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/p9D2FT
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
I made a chicken coop and chicken run in my backyard. My chickens are now 10 weeks old, and happily running around in the run every day. Now that I'm done (as of a week ago), I need another side project!
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by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
I have happily paid for ProtonMail for the past couple of years. I moved all my important email (i.e. anything involving money) off of gmail.
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by ZacharyPitts 7y ago
I was on call that night, working for Webcom, a forgotten pioneer of the early web. Working so our servers at Exodus data center in San Jose would keep functioning.... Nothing happened :) Of course though, because we had spent the previous
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by ZacharyPitts 7y ago
Standing in the midst of the butterflies at Natural Bridges some time in the early 90s is truly one of the wonders of my life. That day, there were easily more than 29k just in that one grove. By staying still long enough, I was covered in
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by ZacharyPitts 8y ago
At the same time, high school participation is way down over the past 10 years: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/30/high-school-fo... (plus many more articles with just a quick search). Locally
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by ZacharyPitts 10y ago
The amateur restrictions were removed in 1986, and professional athletes have been allowed to compete in the Olympics since then. Hence the 1992 NBA "Dream Team" competing and so on.
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by ZacharyPitts 10y ago
Fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits / reduce tax burden is a myth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985690
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by ZacharyPitts 10y ago
Got into mudding back in 92. After playing the game for a while, 'ascended' to becoming a coder on the backend. I created realms, and did some of the conversion work when the mud went through its first huge shift from a base LP
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
I think that's what my script does, if I'm reading you right. The scripts saves the external ip to a file. Checks every ten minutes to see if it has changed. Emails me if it has changed.
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
That's cool. I should look into the Gandi API and update my script :)
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
I find that even though I don't pay for a static ip from my internet provider, my ip address does not change much more than once a year or so. I wrote a simple script that emails/texts me using AWS SES if my external ip address ch
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
I ported my google voice number to... Google Fi! Most of the same features, plus now I don't deal directly with Verizon/T-Mobile/etc. I suspect that is where the resources that had been on Google Voice have gone to.
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
Ever since drop-dropbox happened due to Rice, I've been happily using SpiderOak on Windows/OSX/Android/iOS systems. Fine interface with customizable options that I need.
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
I like going one step further and making deployments and AWS resources into reusable code using Troposphere: https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere
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by ZacharyPitts 11y ago
While at UCSC in the early 90s, one morning I fell asleep in the front row of desks in an empty classroom (after a long night of studying). I was awoken some time later in a quite full of students class room by Tom Lehrer. He stated with a
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by ZacharyPitts 12y ago
Well, I'm glad I have a git repo of all my solutions, so I can get back up to my original 102 problems solved. And then go back to not doing it again because it is too hard now.
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by ZacharyPitts 14y ago
I immediately starting scanning the colors to see if this blog post from a couple of years ago was vindicated about all movies being teal and orange: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho... It is.
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by ZacharyPitts 15y ago
I've read most of Reamde already (have an early access copy from a bookstore book buyer friend). I'm nearly done (800 out of 980 pages). It simply is not a good of a book as the Baroque Cycle volumes or Cryptinomicon. I actually did not