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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I once had a project to turn a customer’s Excel VBA application into a real application (I used ASP.Net). He had been hacking on this Excel spreadsheet for like 15 years. Once I printed the VBA code because it was hard to navigate and it wa
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I’ve worked for two companies that had ESOPs while they were privately traded. In both cases, the companies were sold to larger corporate entities that promptly got rid of the ESOP. Not that it is all that bad. One sale happened after I lef
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
“Take a right at the next light. This might be a good time to roll up windows and lock your doors. And/or, if so equipped, lock and load.”
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Not psychoactive until you heat it (vape or smoking it), then it decarbolyzes (sp?) to THC D9. That’s true even in dispensary grade and the reason you can just eat it directly and get high.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
There’s a relevant discussion here: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/guidance-control-now-l... Apparently it’s okay as long as it’s vertical and not intended to aim at a target or deliberately leave the flying are
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Needle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wi
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
They need one for .NET MAUI. Copilot does a poor job helping with our port from Xamarin. “Maui is in pre-release at the time of training, so check the official documentation.” I’ve seen that several times on CoPilot and the JetBrains Rider
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
That was it. We squeezed every trick out of that thing.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Yes, you are correct.
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Around 1987/88, I was finishing college and worked at a copy/print/desktop publishing business. We had, IIRC, Mac SE 30s with Radius full page displays and several laser printers (in addition to high volume duplexing copiers
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
Yeah, I struggle some days to get my AI assistant to produce useful code for medium to hard problems. On the other hand, if I say “Write a Python program to recursively search through our code files and find or change something,” it will wo
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
My first professional software development job was circa 1982-83. I was in high school, working part time for my step-brother. He’d just got a luggable PC like the one in the picture and he paid me like $20 to write a MS-BASIC program to ca
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by cmpalmer52 2y ago
I’m about to try it in VR. I’ve gotten over most of my VR nausea, but I will say, the original Decent series games gave made me nauseated/gave me vertigo and headaches if I played them too much. Therefore, I am a little worried. So muc
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I went from a moderate fiscally conservative libertarian to a pretty far left liberal as I got older. Now I’m 57 and my conservative friends (the ones I still have), jokingly call me “Comrade”. It’s the opposite course from most of them, wh
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
About 20 years into my career, I wrote a tracing system for three phase electrical utility networks to help manage and predict outages and their impact. Basically, each phase was a dendritic n-tree with the phases superimposed on each other
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
It doesn’t even take wind or storms, if they get too big/spread out, they’ll sometimes just spontaneously split down the middle (one in our backyard pulled this trick and one in our front yard, but we were planning on cutting them down
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I’m not particularly religious and not Catholic, but the Sagrada Familia brought me to tears. The interior is one of the most beautiful man-made spaces I’ve ever seen.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
A good example to use for how to read a paper. Make sure you get all the way to the end and see who sponsored the study, then re-read it in a new light. I was reading through the find out what they were eating. Turns out, they were eating P
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
It’s very common in the Southeast US. It’s also a term within the science fiction community in the term “con crud” for any sickness acquired at a SF convention.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
But if you include TV with film, more and more people are willing to binge what is, essentially, a 10 hour movie. And freed from broadcast schedules, more series are experimenting with different episode lengths. This one needs an extra 20 m
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I was playing with the voice interface and pointed out something minor it got wrong (a misunderstood word in my input, not a hallucination/confabulation). The voice response began with, “Oops, my bad”, which made me laugh.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I have ordered dog treats through my Echo. “Alexa, reorder Charlie Bears” but you have to audibly enter a PIN, if I recall correctly. Eh, I might do it again, but it never occurs to me. But you’re spot on about learning commands instead of
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I’ve got about six Echo devices that I use basically as speakers, timers, grocery lists, weather radios, and some home control (lights and thermostats). I haven’t explored new features or asked it general questions in a while, but what I do
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
There’s no practical reason to draw, paint, play music, or write as a hobby.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
So when can I load these into my TV and turn my 65” UHD TV into a 25” Curtis Mathis console (mini-bar optional) from 1978? Seriously, my wife is into Mid-Century Modern - a wood console CRT emulator would be awesome. I may need to set up a
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Not even close. I want a two seats or a bench and a big truck bed. If I can’t haul a piece of plywood and some 2x4’s what’s the use of a truck?
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I had a 1998 Toyota Tacoma with a full length truck bed. I swore I’d drive it until the wheels fell off. Sometime close to 250,000 miles, the u bolts rusted through on the front wheels. One fell off in a drive thru. Got it fixed and the oth
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Are shady fecal transplant clinics a thing yet? Take these antibiotics for a week, then we’ll hose fecal matter from healthy, young, thin people into your intestines like a reverse enema. Move over sperm banks and blood banks, the poop bank
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
If I was never exposed to the idea that the brain is where all our thinking occurs and believed instead that the brain was an organ for cooling the blood and the real center of my “soul” was my liver or something: Would I still feel like my

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