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by epc 6y ago
At some point in the past twenty years IBM downsized its technical writing teams. When I started as an intern in 1990 there were ~250 people in the “Information Development” group in Poughkeepsie responsible for MVS, RACF, RMF and a variety
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by epc 6y ago
I learned I had a mild form when I was about 40, though I had symptoms dating back to college. Mine is sort of the inverse of yours: I will see someone, I know for certain that I’m supposed to know who they are, but draw a complete blank. L
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by epc 6y ago
Clarisworks was a successor to AppleWorks for the Apple 2/2gs computers. Don't recall when MS Works launched but they didn't have an exclusive on the name. IIRC Appleworks was launched alongside ProDOS.
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by epc 6y ago
I store the TOTP seed and backup codes in plain text files in an encrypted filesystem. I copy the filesystem blob to a couple of USB keys every month or so and store the keys in safes.
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by epc 6y ago
The one I bought uses standard NEMA cords and outlets: "CyberPower PDU15M10AT Metered ATS PDU" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NEHUX08/ — it’s overkill for my use case but was the smallest opti
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by epc 6y ago
Buy an automatic transfer switch. Plug one input into a UPS, plug the other into either the mains or another UPS (preferably a different brand but identical power). I resorted to this after having multiple APC and Cyberpower batteries fail
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by epc 6y ago
I have a really dim recollection of an IBM WebExplorer variant that had limited support of DSSSL but it may have been tied to the work we were doing with HyTime. None of the interesting WebExplorer variants ever saw the light of day in pub
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by epc 6y ago
Stuff disappears from the web, from Google's index. Jurisdictions issue diktats that information be removed. I used to rely on tags on bookmarks to find things, only to discover that the pages I’d bookmarked had disappeared (bit rot,
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by epc 6y ago
Not staying an extra semester to finish CS as a second major (my college required a senior thesis, like a mini–dissertation, for every degree). Having a minor in CS was about as useful in the technology field, career wise, as having a binar
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by epc 6y ago
Not necessarily. I have not been in the building in question, but have looked at multiple other apartments in NYC where the elevator opened directly into the unit, no door. Typically older buildings, not newer construction.
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by epc 6y ago
<#include I–am–not–a–lawyer–this–is–not–legal–advice.h> My understanding dates to the 1990s but a covered company does not get to pick and choose what areas a protected class may be discriminated against. So, if a class is considered
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by epc 6y ago
Veterans are a protected class (at least under labor law) in the US based on a 1974 (VEVRAA).
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by epc 6y ago
In my experience only phone numbers and email addresses are verified, and only on initial domain registration. Post registration I get regular "ICANN verification" emails which all pretty much say to only act if there's inco
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by epc 6y ago
I haven't been at IBM since 2001, but when I was there any suggestion like this would have been beaten down by multiple layers of the big grey cloud for even intimating that such a visible, key piece of IBM marketing material should be
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by epc 6y ago
I occasionally do some consulting but mostly manage a small portfolio of investments I made over the years which spins off enough income to be financially ok. I don't have a CS degree, which is an immediate filter. I don't have an
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by epc 6y ago
No great advice other than to look for tech roles in non–tech companies. The FAANG gang will never see your resume or application as their automated screeners will silently reject you. Startups will advise you that you cannot possibly unde
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by epc 6y ago
People keep using my mac.com address to register for various things, including one bank account. For Instagram I had to register all the mac.com/me.com/icloud.com variations as new accounts simply to stop people from creating acc
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by epc 6y ago
Georgia the US State or the country? Personal opinion: never use a personal address for a business. PO Box, UPS mailbox, coworking space, sure.
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by epc 6y ago
suck.com, kvetch.org, four11.com, Cool Site of the Day. Used to lurk on slashdot since my employer barred me from posting anywhere publicly. There were many fun, experimental, one–off sites in the early days that barely lasted a few months,
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by epc 6y ago
Do you want to continue doing front end work or cease doing it? Could you learn/master React and add that to your portfolio? Instead of switching quickly, consider picking an array of skills to develop that complement where you want to
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by epc 7y ago
I used a slightly modified version of Stephen Covey's time management matrix (urgent vs non-urgent, important vs non–important). My modification is that things that fall into the not-urgent/not-important bucket get retained if th
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by epc 7y ago
Could also be ISPF dialogs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPF , https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ib... ).
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by epc 7y ago
Search on "google beyondcorp", or start here: https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
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by epc 7y ago
Problem with that plan is (was, as we discovered) you can't get medications filled at the discount price, and you can't get 90 day scripts filled at all in case you need to hide from the world. Given the spread of the pandemic we
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by epc 7y ago
Just experienced this with my spouse leaving Google in February. COBRA window was 60 days from last date of employment. We weren't going to go with COBRA until the pandemic expanded to the US, then we paid for two months.
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by epc 7y ago
Anywhere from 14 to 37 days, based on this article https://www.mcknights.com/news/coronavirus-may-live-in-patie... which references this study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/articl
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by epc 7y ago
I was IBM’s “corporate webmaster” in the 1990s. Pretty much the only way I could get support to solve problems was for the web site to crash (and then it would be all hands and executives on deck, which was almost just as bad). e.g. we we
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by epc 7y ago
Don't rule out the Yeti for its size. I bought one several years ago and rely on it for most of my audio/video calls. It has awesome pickup, mine sits about 18" away from my face on a monitor stand (just to the side of my mo
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by epc 7y ago
When I was initially a manager of a world wide, cross-corporate project, meetings consumed all available time on my calendar. I was still evaluated as an I/C so I would do my "I/C" stuff at nights and on weekends. This
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by epc 7y ago
I use Safari for all financial services, Chrome for Google stuff, newspapers, and some other sites I’m fine with being logged into and tracked, and Firefox for routine web browsing (like hn). Firefox is set to purge all cookies and offline

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