ben7799

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by ben7799 6y ago
I did this through a pilot program through our IT department. Years ago when I wasn't full time employed I used to do a lot of linux and send patches when stuff was broken, etc.. We used both XPSes and System 76 machines. A whole bun
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by ben7799 6y ago
This stuff is always a joke. Who knows what his actual job is but any time you see these articles they immediately start with long sections of all the hacks & work needed to make the basics work. Battery Life Issues Getting a mouse to w
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by ben7799 6y ago
I've implemented this for scalability a few times. In practical terms where I had to use it we ended up with the query portion being fulfilled by a materialized view that organized & aggregated the data in a way to make the queries
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by ben7799 6y ago
I read it more like people back then weren't so sensitive and didn't even take that kind of straight talk as arrogance and dismissiveness. But then maybe Alan Kay will show up and clarify. I'm just old enough to remember when
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by ben7799 6y ago
There is one other weird aspect if you compare millenials with GenX. Millenials spend a lot more money on a lot of stuff that didn't even exist in the period in the 1990s the blog author was talking about. In the early 1990s if you wer
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by ben7799 6y ago
I'm similar age.. the talk of hourly wages rings true to me. In the early 90s I was still in HS. I made $8/hr as a lifeguard in HS and $12/hr as a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. I'd clock out of one and clock in at
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by ben7799 6y ago
All I know is my 2018 15" MBP is flaky as heck plugging in docks, monitors, keyboards, etc.. through the various USB-C dongles & docks. It almost never just plugs in and everything works. Sometimes you have to plug/unplug m
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by ben7799 6y ago
I think you can't ignore the side issue that even if you work in a US tech company with better than typical female representation almost all the female engineers are immigrants who come from other cultures that have stronger emphasis o
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by ben7799 6y ago
The MS ones are unsung heros here. There's way too much emphasis on the mechanical switches among the community. I got infatuated with mechanical keyboards with Cherry MX switches about 10-12 years ago and gave myself RSI from using th
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by ben7799 6y ago
This depends on your use case. I work on an enterprise project with 100+ gradle projects and a pile of targets for docker containers, kubernetes deployments, DB schemas, Redis stuff, etc.. Eclipse is incredibly slow in this use case compare
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by ben7799 6y ago
Nintendo has a long history of taking hardware risks that are targeted at actually making interesting new types of gameplay possible. The richness of games available would not be possible if Nintendo was not in the picture as a hardware man
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by ben7799 6y ago
I don't know if you can really have the perspective on this if you were a classically trained musician. You already knew all that stuff inside and out. I think a lot of music produced on a qwerty keyboard eschews huge amount of music
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by ben7799 6y ago
His music has been incredibly stale for years though. Maybe as a result. Longtime listener.
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by ben7799 6y ago
One thing that's easy to get lost with all this gear explosion is none of it's really a good starting place without initial musical knowledge, which does not come from fooling with recording gear or DAWs. Because I was in computer
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by ben7799 6y ago
I've been using java since Pre-1.0 and professionally since 1999 and I don't see checked exceptions as being particularly high up the list of java issues. Even with all the functional stuff they almost never seem to really create
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by ben7799 6y ago
This is kind of a silly thing to be worried about with Vitamin D. Yes it's fat soluble. But the amount you would need to take in supplements to cause a problem is enormous. (Every vitamin is different) You could probably take an enti
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by ben7799 6y ago
I wasn't even talking about this tech obsessed stuff. Just clumsiness with ergonomics and weird design. My preference on ergonomics and color has long been Canon -> Nikon -> Sony distant last If the camera is unwieldy to use and
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by ben7799 6y ago
I've been aware of this for a really long time. There's no super easy way around this but Sony has been really clumsy about it for a long time. Canon has long let you turn this off, probably close to 15 years ago they implemented
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by ben7799 6y ago
A lot of this fretting seems to come down to people who are bodybuilder types. You don't need to be in a commercial gym to maintain solid functional fitness. You might need to be in a commercial gym to maintain unnatural levels of musc
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by ben7799 6y ago
It's maybe rational if you're an Ayn Rand Objectivist and you think the older people you infect who die are not worth your time and energy to keep safe. It's very much a selfish prioritization of the individual above everyone
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by ben7799 6y ago
Start playing an instrument and get some lessons. IME there is nothing that makes you appreciate music more than learning how it works at a really intimate & deep level. You have a super deep connection with the music when you're
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by ben7799 6y ago
"The Winter Fortress" is a fantastic book about the Norwegian sabotage of the heavy water plant... really highly recommended.
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by ben7799 6y ago
A Garmin Edge model with built in OSM (8xx/1xxx models) are absolutely phenomenal at this with no mucking around with apps or any cell service required. I think it's what almost all very serious cyclists use. I've done 150 mi
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by ben7799 6y ago
Thanks for this.. killer photos.. Was this at an airshow? Was someone following you around to make sure you didn't pull on any wires or anything you weren't supposed to be touching?
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by ben7799 6y ago
#2 - This was just a big distraction to get the ADD media to forget about Russian bounties on US troops.
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by ben7799 6y ago
This program was a wild success beyond Trump's wildest dreams. No one is talking about Russian Bounties on US troops. Crisis averted. He just keeps on winning!
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by ben7799 6y ago
Seems pointless unless they start vetting every ad to ensure it's not political. It's amazing they don't vet ads to begin with since it does sound like they have those armies of contractors checking every post... but the post
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by ben7799 6y ago
Briefcases were pretty dead by the 1990s weren't they? I'm 43, I've never owned a brief case. My father had them in the 80s.. but he had a laptop by around 1990 and the briefcase disappeared. My father was an engineer and lat
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by ben7799 6y ago
They don't mention that so few people have served in the military these days. Wearing hats could have easily been more popular because so many more men were veterans back in the days after WWI and WWII. They would have been used to w
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by ben7799 6y ago
You want a Tilley Hat... prized by boaters for not falling off in even the stiffest of winds, keeps your head/shoulders from burning in the sun, floats, and nearly invincible.

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