bpchaps

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by bpchaps 11y ago
I've been told that at just about every job I've been at in the past, and you're right.. It's incredibly de-motivating. Most recently, I quit my job after 4 months because I tried to make too many improvements. Every t
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Wow. Not even https and it even lets you associate your yay/nay with facebook.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Truly. I get the slight impression that you know me in-person, or at least someone very, very similar. Or you experience similar. Things are definitely better these days. I'm currently in the process of swit
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I'm at a complete loss of words at why you think that's even in the same class of support...
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's not that simple, even for the doctor. I've had about five doctors tell me that I have ADHD which always led to amphetamine based prescriptions. That generally helped with the attention issues, which was my biggest concern.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Best experience I've ever had was when I woke up at a hotel in Muir Woods and just started.. walking. I didn't have a car, a map or a phone intentionally. There was a trail, I had enough food, and there were enough every ten min
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Easier said than done when personality and mental illness are so easily comparable. The travel, etc was the catalyst that helped me clear my head to think about what was going on and finally ask my psychiatrist "What if I had X".
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by bpchaps 11y ago
* I missed out on taking a photo of the amazing view -Bring a camera. * We were talking about the different standards of living around the world, and I mentioned that Norway was the best country in the world, and also that they have a ton o
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Thank you. This is my main reason why giving up on eclipse shortly in. There's something to be said when your application can't handle small failures. (Looking at you, too, visual studio)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I think with professional level applications, the same thing can be said, but with a shift in gradient. Why wouldn't it be? I've been working with logstash a bit lately and... oh my god. The documentation is outdated, the initial
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yeah, should've been 10x more clear. What I meant to say was that by using aliased commands for something as widely used as rm, it's easier to forget the nuances and cause some serious issues. A better example might've been
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Man.. I'm always skeptical of doing things like this. It's one of those things that just comes to rear its ugly head in the future on a machine/user that doesn't have the alias configured. Recent example - I wrote a bash
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Alright, you convinced me. Sounds very similar to my ongoing situation. I've been taking clonidine and vitamin d for stress and anxiety and I'm really annoyed with the way doctors prescribe (wrote about this a couple hours ago in
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by bpchaps 11y ago
There definitely is a strong focus in psychiatry to just "throw stuff and see if it sticks", rather than actually understanding the mental pathways patients go towards. I got diagnosed with bipolar-like symptoms and was initially
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I used to work for a major financial exchange like this. When I joined, the root password was known by /everyone/. They also used telnet instead of ssh. Another company I worked for used rot13 for their back end risk management
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by bpchaps 11y ago
False dichotomy territory there. I had to deal with immigration lawyers for a friend about 2 years ago after deferred action took place. She was born in Mexico, but her parents came over here shortly after she was born. With deferred action
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by bpchaps 11y ago
After a decently large RAID failure, I needed to gzip and send as many large files and send it over to S3 as quickly as possible on the risk of another failure. The script would gzip the file and then sync it up to s3, all in its own backgr
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Incredibly cool to see this data released! I FOIA'd the same data twice and got rejected both times. Apparently the data was part of an active court case where ex cops were suing to get 4+ year old complaints deleted. It wasn't th
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I use bash pretty regularly in the devops/sysadmin world pretty often. It can do some wonders, but it has some /serious/ issues. That said, the reason it beats Python and all is simply because it's almost guaranteed to b
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Reminds me of Isaac Asimov's "Franchise", where multivac picks and legally requires a regular family man to run in in an "electronic election" for US president. Highly recommended short story! https://en.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Funny. I posted something similar about Chicago a few hours ago. Copy/paste: Chicago Tribune pretty much did this after a FOIA request for red light data was published. It's not searchable by owner name, but it's still pretty
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Chicago Tribune pretty much did this after a FOIA request for red light data was published. It's not searchable by owner name, but it's still pretty terrible. http://apps.chicagotribune.com/news/local/red
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I don't understand how this would work reliably, honestly. My first impression is that there are just too many variables involved. I can see this favoring the "gotta get it now" crowd.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Nobody? I use my laptop every time. Sure, it's a little less comfortable, but it's also one of the few places where I can do undistracted work. Just sayin'
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Slight rant. This is currently a major problem for me that I'm not entirely sure how to handle still. I'm young, never went to college, and my experience is entirely through work in the financial area (with side projects). In a l
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Principle of Charity, my friend. I'm not really sure where you got a negative vibe from his comment. It was more of a comment on how effective word-choice is on someone's symamantic tree.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I've been using cmus for the past two months and absolutely love it! Its simplicity compared to many other ncurses-based applications is refreshing. My only wish is that it was a bit more "vi-y". I'm sure someone has a w
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by bpchaps 11y ago
That's seriously, seriously easier said than done in about 10% of cases that this sort of thing comes up. Especially when dealing with awful vendor code. What about an application that takes an arbitrary date as input? Keep in mind tha
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I dunno. Cron is particularly bad. Want a sane looking cron? You'll probably end up writing a wrapper script to handle stdout/err. Every time I deal with an annoying dev or proprietary binary, my crons turn to a total mess. Also:
840.
by bpchaps 11y ago
And I think your immediate reaction to my comment is also strange, but also knee-jerky and shallow. :). You're implying that I'm suggesting she's being weak by "sucking it up". That's not the case at all. Being

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