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by castillar76 5y ago
Memory safety is a big thing right now, and that’s one of the big draws for rust. Not sure that’s a big selling point for this program in particular unless you’re just a fan of rust, but it’s why you’re seeing a lot of things point out thei
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by castillar76 5y ago
Reminiscent of the the Therac-25 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 ) incident. The sad thing is that there will be a lot of finger-pointing, potentially some financial penalties that will get paid off without inc
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by castillar76 5y ago
Agreed: trees are nice, but no more a part of Quakerism than other symbology (effective as a metaphor, but not an integral part of the practice). I would put forth an alternate theory that's a bit more practical. Quaker Meeting takes p
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by castillar76 5y ago
Almost forgot since it's a recent purchase! For working on my laptop long stretches and for typing with the iPad, I just picked up a Nuphy Type 1 ( https://nuphy.com/collections/shop/products/nutype-f1 ) a
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by castillar76 5y ago
Switched recently to a Keychron K4 (v2), the aluminum/hot-swap model. It's heavy and solid, compact enough that I can have a numeric keypad without feeling like my trackball is off to the right somewhere in Narnia, and the default
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by castillar76 6y ago
I definitely hear his argument about opportunity costs, and in terms of dollars and time (particularly human effort), I agree we should be focusing on the most important efforts to combat COVID. It's the most critical threat right now,
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by castillar76 6y ago
I've been using Typinator and singing its praises to people for years. I have some abbreviations I only use once in a blue moon, but there are a couple I've gotten miles and miles of use out of. I started by picking a 'shortc
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by castillar76 6y ago
Back in the before-times when we had all-hands meetings, my boss had a running game where he would randomly call the cell-phones of people who were presenting or who were sitting in the audience, to see who'd forgotten to leave their p
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by castillar76 6y ago
Ever since a co-worker was caught out messaging a snarky remark to his boss (who happened to be sharing his whole screen at the time, thus broadcasting the snark to the whole call), I've been absolutely paranoid about never messaging t
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by castillar76 6y ago
When the pandemic hit, I was involved in an improv musical-comedy team that was easily the best thing I'd done for my brain and mental wellbeing in a long time. The ability to be right in that moment right then was really difficult and
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by castillar76 6y ago
I think it's time to bring back the lunchbox PC form factor. A lot of people need the ability to work from various places, but they're not constantly mobile. They don't need something they can pick up and toss in a briefcase
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by castillar76 6y ago
Yep, this was a common Perl construct as well, since you could follow "or die" with a custom error string. I used to amuse myself (way back in the Stone Age, when I was in college and didn't know better) by using amusing and
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by castillar76 6y ago
The reputation for BIND for a long time was that it was immensely complex because (as the reference implementation) it supported absolutely all the weird corner-case oddities that you could do with DNS. All that code complexity and flexibil
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by castillar76 6y ago
I've used split keyboards for ages, and until recently had a Kinesis Gaming Edge that I really liked and still highly recommend. But what I found was that I was "freezing" while typing: instead of typing smoothly, it felt lik
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by castillar76 6y ago
Smart! I just wish PowerPoint had better support for content formatting in the notes. It’s really barebones and hard to edit—more like working with text in an Excel cell than a proper document. (Which kind of makes sense, from their perspec
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by castillar76 6y ago
Years ago, my dad's hospital had a rule that the head of the department had to review all slides before you gave a presentation at a conference. The department heads had one consistent rule: they had to be able to view your slide with
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by castillar76 6y ago
I had similar problems at work until I realized there were two competing agendas at play. One group wants the slides to be "here's a record of what I talked about so people who didn't make it can read it later", while an
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by castillar76 6y ago
That would be my question, yep. Beyond mind-share and goodwill, what does Grafana gain here?
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by castillar76 6y ago
First, this made me giggle because I run into that attitude all the time. "You're hosting things on a SERVER? Why would anyone do THAT? Heck, you should be putting everything in serverless and avoiding even the vague possibility t
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by castillar76 6y ago
Yeah, this is always the problem with apocalypse-level events like this. There's always a period of fragmentation where everyone and their Aunt Lillian starts a new fork project to pursue whatever angle they want. It'll take some
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by castillar76 6y ago
It was SO GOOD. I made sure to get good biscuits for the test too—I figured if that was the only sausage I’d have for another year, I’d make it count .
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by castillar76 6y ago
No fix for it that I've seen; just abstention and hoping it fades. I think they're doing some research on it, but messing with the body's immune system can be really bad mojo.
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by castillar76 6y ago
During that year, if I ate meat nothing would happen right away. Then the itching would start, from my ankles and working its way up as my whole body broke out in hives. After the first attack, I took it crazy seriously (discovering I had t
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by castillar76 6y ago
By coming awfully close! I had a hamburger for dinner. An hour or two later, my ankles were itching fiercely and I assumed I'd run into some poison ivy while tending the yard, so I took some Benadryl (which may have saved my life). Aro
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by castillar76 6y ago
I really wish more people would heed this. It's obnoxious, and I know people take advantage of it (and wish they wouldn't!) to claim allergies to things when they just don't like them. But it's just not worth playing wit
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by castillar76 6y ago
Hah! I actually had to have the initial test at the allergist's office. He had me bring in two sausage biscuits and eat them at 8:30, and then they watched me in his office for six hours to make sure I didn't react. I still felt n
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by castillar76 6y ago
As I understand it, it's an immune system response rather than an allergen: your body sees the alpha-gal proteins as an invader, and develops an immune-system response to kill them off. So if you don't stimulate antigen production
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by castillar76 6y ago
This happened to me following a tick bite, and I spent a year not eating mammals of any kind. Not eating beef or steak or pork or lamb is surprisingly easy on the surface and the choices are better than they used to be. But it's amazin
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by castillar76 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of services like this, but in order for the Certisfy Partner's certificate issuance to mean something, it can't just be J. Random Noob who works out of the café down the road selling
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by castillar76 6y ago
And then before that, we had IR beaming of business cards. I remember doing that on Palm Pilots back in the day and thinking it was so neat.

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