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by donatj 2y ago
220 scares me for exactly that reason. I've been shocked by US 110 pretty good a couple of times but the pain has never really lingered beyond a couple seconds after the initial shock. I certainly didn't hear anything. While the p
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by donatj 2y ago
I always salivated over Sun SPARC workstations. I'm kind of sad to hear that the specs of the last SPARC workstation were so … low… but I guess time destroys all things
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by donatj 2y ago
Huh, every time I load that page my phone throws a "Did you mean LinkedIn.com? This might be a scam" message
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by donatj 2y ago
Yep, I sure did. I never got anything about why they reached out to me specifically or any such explanation. Just that they needed a "node expert". The call lasted maybe 5 minutes when they'd scheduled half an hour.
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by donatj 2y ago
I had the University of Minnesota's "Coding Bootcamp" reach out to me a couple years ago about possibly teaching a course. I was genuinely excited at the prospect, it's always been something of a dream of mine to teach,
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by donatj 2y ago
When I first started at my current job some twelve years ago we would git pull from each other's machines directly. Everyone working on master, no pull requests, no definite HEAD. Real Wild West. Worked ok with a small tightly knit tea
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by donatj 2y ago
I have a VT220 in my office. About ten years ago I used to use it regularly as a terminal for my Mac laptop. I tried hooking it up to an M1 Mac recently but had a ton of issues. First there was no drivers for my serial adapter. Once I got t
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by donatj 2y ago
It seems like there's a simpler, lazier solution to having a puzzle with just two solutions. Just make two corners diagonal from each other interchangeable, then simply print "this side up" on one of the corner pieces and hav
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by donatj 2y ago
Who in their right mind is going whistle blow and risk their entire career over a security flaw that was detected internally, found to be unutilized, and was fixed in a timely fashion? The fact that such a case even has reporting requiremen
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by donatj 2y ago
I really wish there was a step before opening a PR, like a page with a list of what's out of date that let's you click a button to open a PR for one or more dependency updates.
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by donatj 2y ago
> X11-Basic will compile on 64bit systems but it will not be 100% functional. X11-Basic internally uses 32bit pointers (--> VARPTR()). These are not compatible with 64bit. Some tricks have been implemented to make it work anyways, but
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh yeah, I ran a location logger on mine for years until Google Maps location tracking popped up. Now that they're killing it… I don't think I'll go back to using a TomTom any time soon lol
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by donatj 2y ago
Eh, it is kind of over the top. The full application I work on, backend and front end combined, with hundreds of endpoints and a full team maintaining it - mind you with plenty of animated and interactive components as we target children, i
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by donatj 2y ago
I don't know how a modern kid would feel about the TUI, but I made a TON of games in QBasic as a kid. QB64 is a pretty good modern version thereof.
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by donatj 2y ago
Why now is the real question? Hasn't this basically been the state of things since the late 1990s? What changed that they're going after them now?
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by donatj 2y ago
Because Google Music was merged into YouTube. "YouTube Music" is in fact a Spotify competitor. My wife uses it and likes it well enough. It has some dumb restrictions though like children's music can't be added to a play
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by donatj 2y ago
I have something of the opposite problem with books. I'll get right around the hundred page mark, forget it existed, and start something new. I have probably 40 or 50 books with this status, and I have been doing this going back to El
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by donatj 2y ago
That's exactly what it's for
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by donatj 2y ago
In my department's (we were formerly our own company) internal framework throwing .html on the end of any JSON response outputs it in nested HTML tables. I personally find it very helpful.
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by donatj 2y ago
Maybe I am crazy but I don't really think it sounds that much like him. It's a little similar but different. It's slightly higher pitch, more nasal, and the intonation is a little different.
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by donatj 2y ago
I can name multiple Facebook features that have been broken for months. Temporary profile pictures most annoyingly of all. They stopped working close to a year ago. They simply never change back. No one's sanding anything there.
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by donatj 2y ago
As a fellow old, I'm inclined to say labels should just wrap the control unless there's a very good reason for it not to. Would have completely prevented the issue, wouldn't need a global ID nor the "for". Just gene
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by donatj 2y ago
It's wild you can SSH into a straight up regular old DOS prompt (or WSL fwiw) with it. There must be some sort of command code translation layer in action to make that work.
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by donatj 2y ago
> and have become less trusting of contributors following the xz backdoor That's almost certainly a good thing. Over the last decade plus of my using GitHub on three different occasions I have wandered into a project, submitted a pu
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by donatj 2y ago
I use Make fairly similarly. One fairly major footgun the author is not avoiding is their targets will break if files or folders of the same name exist. You should always .PHONY any non-file targets though lest you want your build to brea
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by donatj 2y ago
When I was starting college twenty years ago, the prevailing sentiment was all programming jobs were going to be outsourced and that getting a CS degree was a fool's errand. I literally had a guidance counselor try to talk me out of it
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh really. We haven't used it in years but when we were small and just getting our start we used it and really liked it.
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by donatj 2y ago
I hear this complaint often but in reality I have encountered fairly little content in my day to day that has felt fully AI generated? AI assisted sure, but is that a problem if a human is in the mix, curating? I certainly have not encounte
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by donatj 2y ago
I wonder how much of that is just... how to put it kindly... basically running out of people prone to overdose in the first place?
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by donatj 2y ago
It's easy to forget how big a deal QuickTime was back in the 90s. It was a core part of the operating system, allowing any third party app to easily embed video functionality. That was a huge deal, suddenly multimedia interactivity was

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