aaronbaugher

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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
You don't need to have a lawyer on retainer, but you should probably at least have the name and phone number of one you could call in a pinch. Most law-abiding folks aren't going to see that moment coming, so having a phone number
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Maybe virtual tasks need better organization or reminders than physical tasks. I rarely forget to wash my dishes because the dishes are right there. I don't forget to go gather the eggs because I have to shut up the chickens every nigh
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
AT&T used to be the default landline provider for my address, but they recently got the regulators to release them from that responsibility, so now there isn't one. So I can't buy a landline for my property, even though there&
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Also the scarecrow industry. I recall people hanging CDs in their garden, as the sun reflecting off them as they moved in the breeze would scare away crows.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yep. When we started an ISP about 1994, we gave the users a floppy that installed Trumpet Winsock, Netscape, and a handful of other programs for things like IRC and Usenet. Trumpet Winsock provided the dialup and networking which Windows 3.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Agreed. I used to hate going to funerals and skipped some, telling myself it was because I didn't know what to say, might embarrass myself, etc. After being in the receiving line of a couple, I realized someone else's funeral isn&
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I'll be borrowing "tech bro reductionism." That's the perfect term for something that's a scourge these days.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Right. Some of my programming work is done sitting back in my chair, a movie going on the TV for background noise, probably daydreaming a little while I write code or documentation or do basic tasks. Then there's other "deep work&
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
True. I built a web site for a local newspaper back in the late 90s. Their main concern was finding a way to charge for the content (difficult at that time) while making sure they didn't give anything away for free, so they did nothing
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Ditto. Being broke has always been existential, and pretty damn scary even if you had family and other resources you could lean on. Nothing's changed about that, though particular industries/regions may get better or worse.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Of course. But it gave a lot of people their outrage of the day, so that's good.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Because when people say "just make some lifestyle changes," "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Being fat really, really sucks, so most fat people have tried to make lifestyle changes, but they've gotten
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, I know several people who will turn on a streaming channel of old shows and watch whatever comes on, when they could just as easily pick their favorite episodes. I wonder if it's because we grew up with that, making it a comfort
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Something I've noticed from living most of my life in rural areas but part of it in cities is that urbanites have very strange ideas of what rural life is like (at least in the US). Rural people usually have some idea of city life beca
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's a slam on how petty many of the internal grudge matches are. But of course they don't seem at all petty to those engaged in them.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I still use it in my job every day too. It's just become a meme, the whole "write-only language" thing. No one says that about shell scripting, despite the sigils and plenty of stuff that becomes incomprehensible to almost an
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Especially when the position is filled by someone who couldn't earn half as much (in money, security, and prestige) if forced to compete on merit in the real world.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I use F2. Doesn't sound convenient, but it's just the right distance that when I reach out my middle finger hits it accurately.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yep. I was doing Perl CGI scripts at the time, and you often ran into deployment issues somewhere along the line of uploading the scripts via FTP, making them executable, and setting the permissions on any files that needed to be written. B
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
The immigration issue has been a crown lying in the gutter waiting for someone to pick it up ever since the 90s when the Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" Democrats teamed up with the Bush neocon Republicans to make corporat
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Looks like the last time I tried out Perl 6 was almost 10 years ago. Even wrote a few blog posts about it before giving up on it again. Might be time to take another look.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's unfortunate that that wasn't clear to people who weren't closely involved with Perl at the time. So many people got the impression that Perl 5 was outdated as soon as 6 was in development, so they thought they had to mov
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
The main problem I have with ticketing (and project management) systems is that I can't get the people asking me to do things to use the system. I'll set it up and show them how to use it, and then they tell me about issues via em
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Dropped out of college in 1988 after one semester. Never touched a computer there; they were still VAX systems reserved for certain programs at that point. Got my first computer (Commodore 128) soon after that, and started learning BASIC an
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It didn't really even work on Star Trek. They could pretend it did as long as they were on a ship that flew away at the end of every episode. But on DS9, since they were stationary and had to deal with other economies, the issue of mon
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
My electric bill already shows a fixed "facility" charge and a variable "energy" charge. If I didn't use any electricity one month, I would still owe the facility charge. I thought they all did it that way.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's actually somewhat the same in cattle. There are beef breeds of cattle for meat and dairy breeds for milk. Dairy breeds tend to be skinnier and don't grow as efficiently, so the bulls don't make good beef steers. There&#x
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I think the factory egg industry has already stripped the resources/comfort down as far as possible, so I don't see how this could make that any worse. I'm normally resistant to claims that a new technology is going to make a
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Pretty much. Small-time chicken owner here. The best ratio of hens to roosters is about 10-to-1. Each rooster will have his "harem" of hens that keep him busy, and the hens will be content. Any more roosters than that and they&#x2
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
What's funny is that OP thinks anti-Trump posts being flagged suggests HN is pro-Trump, while not noticing that pro -Trump posts don't exist here at all. Unless they're deleted immediately (seems unlikely), people with that

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