derekp7

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by derekp7 6y ago
Yes, it was back in the 80's. But even as recently as a year ago I was looking at backup sump pumps, and the ones at the local big box store had the lead battery separate, plus you had to buy the acid in a separate bottle that you add
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by derekp7 6y ago
Of course the lead didn't explode, that is why I said the battery exploded.
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by derekp7 6y ago
If a company wants a passionate programmer, one who has an active Github profile, then in return I want the freedom to maintain that profile and program what I want and post it, without the company saying they own every creative thought I h
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by derekp7 6y ago
What is also important is the ecosystem that comes along with the language. Modern languages have a wide ranging list of libraries and plugins for them which make certain programming tasks easier. But that also means you have an ever shif
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by derekp7 6y ago
Lead acid batteries can explode though. The one hooked to the backup sump pump in my parents' house had went kaboom when I was a kid, scared the crap out of me (quite literally in this case).
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by derekp7 6y ago
Serious question. Humans have been dealing with domestic dogs for 10's of thousands of years, as work partners and companion animals. Obviously there should be some common methods that have been successful during that time, so why is
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by derekp7 6y ago
This list leaves off the most important thing -- emergency fund. You should have enough to cover expenses for a sudden loss of employment (3 months is usually recommended, but in this climate I wouldn't feel comfortable with anything
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by derekp7 6y ago
What is really funny is the size is really 1440 KiB, which is not 1.44 MiB and is also not 1.44 million bytes. So in that case it was a mixture of the two units (they would have been better off calling them 1.47 MB, as the actual size was 1
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by derekp7 6y ago
If the HUD covers part of the view of the road, I don't like it. If it covers part of the view of the hood (i.e., it is lower), then is it really different then having the dash designed so it sits higher up and you don't see your
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by derekp7 6y ago
The truth is that most real consumers (as apposed to us technologists) don't want e-ink technology. It is monochrome, can't do video, limited interactive due to refresh rate and ghosting... the only real thing it has going for it
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by derekp7 6y ago
The moral basis comes from how the majority have agreed to structure society. A family isn't legally allowed to go to an unoccupied piece of land, start cutting down trees or making mud bricks into a shelter and stay there. We have d
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by derekp7 6y ago
The real value is in evaluating your risk, which includes an analysis of the infection vector. A virus (or worm) can be more risky because it typically exploits a weakness in the system. And some trojans are more risky to some demographic
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by derekp7 6y ago
What I imagined years ago is that the Occupy movement and the 99 percenters would become the Democratic's version of the Republican Tea party. You can kind of see this to a degree in AOC and Sanders, if I understand everything correct
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by derekp7 6y ago
The code is on github.com/derekp7/snebu if you want to take a look. The next task on my list is to write up developer / contributor documentation on how the whole thing is put together along with various tricks (and simplifi
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by derekp7 6y ago
If you want even faster (and can hide the holes as part of the design) then pocket holes can get the framing together really fast. They have good tensile strength, and decent bending strength in one direction but not the other. So your de
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by derekp7 6y ago
I grew up with my Dad doing woodworking, so I picked up a lot from there. For tooling, I don't have a lot -- My Dad's old table saw when he got a new one, a compound miter saw, drill, hand held router, and recently acquired a poc
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by derekp7 6y ago
That is something that really surprised me, how light this "real wood" desk was (made from Poplar wood), compared to another similar desk that the wife bought a few months earlier (before the covid at-home back-to-school rush caus
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by derekp7 6y ago
The funny thing is that the furniture really isn't that cheap. I built a couple 3-drawer desks for a couple grand kids (48 x 16 inch top) out of solid wood with 1/4 inch plywood around the drawer unit, and only spent $130 on mate
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by derekp7 6y ago
If you have wal-mode enabled then the automatic locks are table level. So one process can be updating one table and another one can work on a different one. Also, you only need to enable wal mode on the DB once (pragma journal_mode=wal),
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by derekp7 6y ago
Another trick if you have multiple process (users) accessing the DB and you don't want to lock the DB for a long time, is to insert into a temp table (possibly with a transaction, although the time savings is not as dramatic with temp
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've seen this so much, and can empathize with them. When you have a product that took you years to master, the value that you bring to your employer is wrapped up in that product. So it isn't so much that someone is a DBA, they
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by derekp7 6y ago
A few years ago we were interviewing for a position, and one of the candidates was very up front with what the knew / didn't know -- however everything about this candidate showed that they would excel in the skills that were list
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by derekp7 6y ago
That very well may be, especially when viewed from the Free Software philosophy. Also note that Stalman may view Open Source as a regrission too. From the Monetization side (another word that RMS seamed to dislike), they see it as progres
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by derekp7 6y ago
This was actually a basis for the international Ham Radio scene back in the day I believe. I also see it playing out with FLOSS software development -- to me it is exciting when people from other backgrounds and countries download, comment
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've only skimmed the article, but this is what my perceptions are on the subject. The way I've always perceived it is that the Free Software movement promotes that Free Software is good, and that non-free software is bad (or unet
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by derekp7 6y ago
Just putting "No" at the beginning of the title would do the trick.
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by derekp7 6y ago
For me, the big risk is transmitting it to someone I care about.
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by derekp7 6y ago
This brings up an interesting thing I thought about, and I don't know if it was by design or just a side effect. It used to be that people's retirement was based on Social Security and a company pension plan. But now pensions ha
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by derekp7 6y ago
That statement is technically correct. And while being technically correct is great for the fictional bureaucrats on Futurama (I really miss that show), it can also lead to click-bait headlines. Most people will read a headline that says &
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by derekp7 6y ago
Not an answer, but another question. Back when eggs were demonized and grains were promoted, was there more lobbying flowing from grain farmers vs. egg farmers? Also including that chickens are fed grains, and therefore every egg sold rep

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