gavinmckenzie

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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Amazing. There was a time, nearly 20 years ago, that I was let go from Adobe. My colleagues assumed that because of my position/tenure/knowledge that I was layoff-proof. I told them that I was just a number in a large organization
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Oh wow, you just managed to describe me completely. I'm inattentive-type ADHD (diagnosed as an adult), and all of my thought processes are super visual; constructing visual mental models in space is how I problem solve and a lifetime a
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Unless you own a dog, and then it can be a huge risk. It doesn’t take much xylitol to kill your dog, and I’ve watched a friend lose their dog due to this. I’ve had a scare where my dog ate a piece of a popsicle on a hot day that, unknown to
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
I find it interesting that lucid dreaming has an impact on your feeling of restfulness. I can't say I've experienced the same, but I'll try to reflect on this more given that almost 100% of my dream states are lucid and have
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
A discussion around the numbers of medically-assisted death and what can be done to reduce those numbers through better treatments and services would be a worthy discussion. But it’s inaccurate and needlessly provocative to say that the gov
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Nope, not true. I’ve been contracting for 15 years and regularly encounter leetcode interviews. When I can, I’ll outright ask if the client intends to do this kind of interview. If they say yes, I’ll explain my objection to the process and
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
This strategy of not focusing on growth is key to my interests. For example, I’ve been a customer of Fastmail since they launched maybe 20 years ago. And I’ve got my family and many colleagues using Fastmail. It is a paid email service. Cou
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
My daughter went to a Montessori school here in Canada from 18-months old until high school. About the class size... As a Montessori class has students in three different year levels together (e.g. a Casa class would have children aged 3, 4
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
Also, if you weren’t aware, Prospect started out as one of the early Kickstarter-supported indie short films, and it’s great: https://vimeo.com/90049558
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
How do you sync your Apple photo library to your Syno, given the Apple library is a package file containing a maze of machine-generated nested folders and many nearly duplicate image files (at least for those images you’ve edited)?
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
Deakins has also said the same thing about Skyfall — that for the most part what we see on screen is what he saw from behind the camera. And Skyfall also has scenes of super bright colours, although those bright saturated scenes do have a l
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
Very cool, but as a Canadian, I am disappointed that a more detailed view of North America as a whole (Canada+US+Mexico) wasn't included.
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
Yes! Signing (albeit with a small vocabulary) was surprisingly successful with my infant daughter, over 20 years ago. I was initially skeptical, but it worked really well. Not sure if it reduced my infant daughter's communication frust
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
As a 100% introvert who enjoys presenting and being in front of an audience, I completely understand the behaviour the Croatian chef described. It's not that unusual. I can't find the original source, but long ago in an interview
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
It looks very interesting, but the first thing I noticed as a macOS user, is the shell has a built-in command "open" which I expect will conflict with the standard macOS command "open" and I haven't found any docs t
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
I had the pleasure of flying the Concorde, almost by accident, in the 90s. Yes, I was flying on business, but for some reason I couldn't get a flight on KLM to the Netherlands at all that week and my creative travel agent mused "H
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
I love Interstellar despite some of the liberties it takes. For me the number one thing Interstellar did so well was communicate clearly that the universe does not care about us. We are infinitesimally small and insignificant. I felt the sc
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
For anyone old enough to have watched the original 1987 Verhoeven RoboCop, surely the word glitch is permanently associated for the hyper-violent scene where the enforcement droid ED-209 is demonstrated as a massive fail, only to be summed
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by gavinmckenzie 5y ago
In the past decade I have politely declined to answer leetcode style questions in interviews. I’ll offer to discuss how to solve coding problems in general terms, and I’ll happily whiteboard diagram solutions, but I will not code on a white
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by gavinmckenzie 6y ago
One way for me to rationalize the possibility of some UFOs being alien tech is the possibility that they are drones — unmanned. Popular culture consideration of UFOs as alien craft seem to assume there are sentient beings inside, possibly d
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by gavinmckenzie 6y ago
To me this is analogous to the incredibly common practice of applying scanned grain from 16mm or 35mm film stock in digital cinematography workflows, making the result “feel” more like film — or our expectations and perceptions of cinema. S
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by gavinmckenzie 6y ago
I can relate. I have a handful of recurring dream worlds that I visit. Sometimes I'll have a series of dreams over a few days that all take place in the same dream world. Months or years can go by and then I'll find myself dropped
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by gavinmckenzie 7y ago
I've owned six Mazda vehicles over the past 30 years. Current owner of a 2016 CX-9. The stock behaviour was that the touchscreen doesn't accept touches unless the vehicle is stopped -- though it doesn't require you to put the
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by gavinmckenzie 8y ago
In contrast to the other comments about how 2049 was slow etc., let me say that I took my wife and daughter to see 2049. We watched the original "Final Cut" Blade Runner a couple of weeks before 2049 and both wife and daughter fel
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by gavinmckenzie 8y ago
It feels very close to the weapon in the Schwarzenegger film Eraser.
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by gavinmckenzie 8y ago
As if planning for a baby wasn't stressful enough, choosing a name feels like a huge responsibility. Especially when you have a small number of peers who either changed their name as adults or choose to be known by a middle name rather