canadian_tired

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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Agreed. There is a bunch reasons we are still reliant on chemical rockets, and this silly thing does not solve for any of them. There are so many things that can go wrong here. The vacuum they need to pull in that HUGE chamber is not tri
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Oh wow. I fondly remember DesqView (no /X) and being completely amazed. I think around that time the larger buzz was around SCO Unix.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
YES! Agreed!
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Canadian here, so I had my turkey fix earlier this fall. And it was not dry. What is "dry" anyway? For meat: Mostly the lack of water and fat. Water and fat provide flavor and improve texture...so without them, turkey is basica
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Dang! Just saw this. Agreed!!
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
This reminds me, somehow, of "The Meaning Of Liff". A wonderful book you need to read. A sense of it can be found here: http://liff.hivemind.net/
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Wood is renewable when you can grow it, cut it up into useful shapes, then at the end of its useful life, compost it. As soon as you add a shit load of processing and plastic and other stuff it's not "wood" anymore than gaso
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
This is a great leap ahead, and makes me happy. But I would also like to do a shoutout to a local-to-me company that has been around for decades and have always had a decent amount of modularity. https://eurocom.com/ec&#
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Fantastic job. Your analysis and documentation is spot-on...great to see.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Well said.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Exactly. I can't speak for laser, extruders, knives or such, but for subtractive work (i.e. milling / drilling operations with some form of rotary tool) this design would be an exercise in frustration. Typically, you would have
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
My bad. What I should have said was "Edward Tufte's books. They contain beautiful diagrams". LOL...Didn't know about "Beautiful Evidence" until you mentioned it. I know exactly what you are feeling trying to
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Doesn't that feel incredible? Just one win like that can make a whole month or more of happy thoughts for me. I benefited from a manager like this early on...never forgot. Now, when I can, I pass it on.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Happy to help...at least a bit.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I get angry too. I also struggle with it. I have found that thinking of myself as an Observer as well as a Participant has helped. Two very different hats. For example, when you are "in the shit" you can easily get angry. But i
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I can tell you with certainty that there are indeed cultures that take code quality seriously. In fact, almost above anything else. However, the work itself may be uninteresting to you. Life in tech for me has been a series of impedance m
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I could do the same. But really, it's also my value proposition. "What's that you say? Your org has a dozen crappy systems of questionable lineage and you need to migrate to SomethingFromThisDecade? Let me pick it apart f
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
>If programming languages were only about telling computers what to do, we'd all be coding in assembly. Damn. That is pure gold. Thank-you. Get this on a t-shirt or something, would you?
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
"Experience is all the little edge cases that cropped up over time." Absolutely. I will be using this one.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Sure. Let me clarify first: The craft I refer to is the ability to create clear, detailed diagrams that not only document a system (like a layer 3 diagram), but also to express a series of ideas or concepts that a group of people is tryin
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Beat me to it. But yes. Especially the wastoids.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
All of these points are relevant and in my experience, true.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
I love this rule! I try to do the same thing. I look at it as an investment...long return. Arguing to win daily is a fools game. As you say, make your point and watch things unfold. Over the long run, if your guidance along the way wou
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
You raise a good point about ageism... and perhaps the concept of tenure. My advice to young guns is that never rely on your employer to take care of you. HR is there for the Company...not for you. Most "lifers" I have worked w
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Yes. New Stuff doesn't always supplant Old Stuff. And when it does, it does so at different rates. There will always be work available to bridge/replace Old to New. Heck, look at mainframes.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
You are absolutely correct. Over the course of a few phone calls and some simple diagrams, my team managed to shrink what looked like 18 months of effort for 10 people, down to 2 simple, 3 week projects for 3 people. It wasn't wizardr
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
This captures a lot of what I have always wanted to express. I am of same cohort as the author, and aside from being laid off once (which, honestly, was wonderful) I have managed to stay well employed 30 years in tech. I hold no degree. I
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Sometimes old tech is best tech! Thanks for this. Although, my experience suggests that using a drill bit to put holes in leather is not the way. What you want to do is punch the holes. Easy to do...find a short length of steel tube of t
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
You and me both. I ran OS-9 on my CoCo 1 in 64Kb RAM... sometime in '84 - '85. Could not do a lot, but it gave me a bit of grounding when I was dropped into SCO Unix in the late 80's.
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by canadian_tired 5y ago
Many years ago...maybe 1994... I had the opportunity to play with a GE Talaria "light valve" projector that works on the same principle. The image quality, at least then, was by a large margin better than anything else on the mar

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