gladiatr72

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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Or perhaps more in-line with a favorite of mine: The secret to mankind achieving unpowered flight is for someone to throw themselves at the ground and simply miss..
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
They do.
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Wow. Nice post. This piece is an excellent example of expressing the complexities and thought processes that are are involved with designing a scaled/scalable network architecture using AWS. It is specific to their use case in some way
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
It's like Twitter, but In Real Life(tm)!
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Yeah. Linked In dragged me through four rounds of interviews and a coding test. To their credit, they did want to make an offer. I am just not, and never will be good management material. I politely suggested they mention such things on the
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
https://images.app.goo.gl/ksnbaTqVMfkaGgiQ8 I had the honor and pleasure to meet a childhood nerd-hero (the author, Jim Butterfield) at a Commodore retro gathering/convention in Louisville, KY sometime in the 2000&#x27
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
I realize you're being serious-but-funny, but I actually had to have that conversation with a development lead at a previous employer.
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Heh. Well, a Serbian SAM commander brought down an F117 by somehow tricking his radar into using the _lack_ of signal reflection to get a target lock. (mightve been a primary factor in the retirement of that aircraft) The B2 isn't supe
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Or perhaps tweet-density per unit of time with density score weighted to reflect non-tech-engagement periods not to include periods of sleep.
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
"... Improved compatibility with other Unixes (in particular Solaris)..." <snort>
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Thank Christ 3.7 will compile cleanly for many years to come. Let me guess.. RedHat sourced patch?
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Becoming? Where hast thou been, oh wanderer of the virtual wasteland..
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
M$/PC/IBM DOS memory management driver configuration
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
No. It is slow. But, it also bears the inertial weight of its age. I'll go zsh if, for some reason, I decide it's time to rewrite everything I've written currently backed by bash. I do not see that happening soon, though.
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by gladiatr72 4y ago
Huh. And here I thought the policy was "trash everything til the (mere) millionaires flee the state with their (mere) millions to go help fuck up the housing markets in other states".. What was I thinking?
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Yes, but no (but I understand what you're sayin') :)
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Hrm. As a nerd growing up in the rural midwest (b.1972) (hundreds of miles from a significant population center, there were some entertainment concepts that were born (Tron, Max Headroom, Knight Rider) that were pretty neat to a 12-17 yea
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_park
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Heh. Jesus. That's what we have left to offer? Trailer parks? Methinks Mr. Lore a little late to lay claim to that.. Erm.. innovation.
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Bacon.
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Great. IC futures market, here we come... Way to usher in Tomorrow, Elon. Spend some of your billions and make your own goddamn chips.
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/538/
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by gladiatr72 5y ago
Umm.. I still call 'em components.
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by gladiatr72 6y ago
I think that might be a general tar thing. BSD tar had support for rcp since forevr.. Not sure about sysV. Pretty sure GNU is the only one with the --local flag though!
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by gladiatr72 7y ago
Sit up straight. Don't play with your pencil. Swallow your gum. Seriously, though, the best thing I learned to do in interviews was to relax. Don't emulate the Big Labowski, but try to channel his essense. Unless you're the g
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by gladiatr72 7y ago
Yes.