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by glonq 4y ago
...will we see this followed up with "mistakes I made as a manager, but had to become an executive to see"? ;)
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by glonq 4y ago
George Carlin has a great classic bit on "God-given" rights.
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by glonq 4y ago
After transmitting something via the GSM modem, our onboard GPS chip would give inaccurate positions for the next second or two. That one sucked to prove and sucked even more to resolve.
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by glonq 4y ago
Canada also has "sea wolves" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Coastal_Sea_wolf
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by glonq 4y ago
As someone without ADHD... this sounds like literal torture too.
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by glonq 4y ago
Having spent the better part of 30 years working on/with/around embedded systems, I can't even count how many bugs I've bumped into that were hiding inbetween sofware and hardware. Or between software and compiler/
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by glonq 4y ago
I remember having to wear nice shoes and nice pants for my first IT monkey job, then wearing out the toes and knees because I was always scurrying around on all fours chasing down problems. Like packets spilling out all over the floor beca
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by glonq 4y ago
My daughter recently moved from Vancouver BC (which sucks for housing) to Seattle, which sucks for housing. Despite having a good university degree and a decent-paying white-collar job, she gets by in Seattle thanks to couch surfing and pet
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by glonq 4y ago
Reddit is a cesspool. If I had time and money to waste, I'd do reddit a spiteful favor and write a WokeBot that calls out every instance of non-equity language. Maybe it even auto-submits hate speech reports for significant transgress
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by glonq 4y ago
Yeah, it could have been IBPOC. Also, since we are exposing the silliness of all of this -- aren't "black" and "poc" discriminatory to "people who are experiencing albinism" ?
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by glonq 4y ago
Besides the fact that equity language makes your writing "mushy", my biggest problem is that it alienates part of your audience, including potential allies. In the mid 2010's America tried to become "too woke, too fast&q
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by glonq 4y ago
I think Canada is the 'canary in the coal mine' for some US companies. Struggling here foreshadows future struggles on home turf.
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by glonq 4y ago
relevant... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hDGJ2FwDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXYR69UhxI
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by glonq 4y ago
I was in Ecuador last spring and wanted to send a postcard back home to friends. Long story short, you can buy postcards but there's no stamps. There's also no post offices because the national postal service went bankrupt a coup
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by glonq 4y ago
Those are companies with a progressive facade thanks to good marketing and PR. It is not possible to be a progressive mega corp.
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by glonq 4y ago
It's disgraceful that Apple has been able to fragment/break something as fundamental as "SMS with extra sprinkles" for so many years. I know people who are trapped on iOS because they will become second-class citizens wi
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by glonq 4y ago
Competition is good, so hopefully this happens for real and it forces Nvidia to offer better product and better pricing.
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by glonq 4y ago
a generous amount of the latter, at least
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by glonq 4y ago
I'd love to borrow FB's brain for one week so that I could get an entire year's worth of work done.
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by glonq 4y ago
I fully endorse harmless lingustic/academic antics, but some of the people behind "linguistic purity" also seem like the kind of folks who endorse cultural and racial purity.
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by glonq 4y ago
Anybody else deferring their PC purchases or upgrades until NVidia is cured of their addiction to crypto/scalper-era GPU prices?
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by glonq 4y ago
How/why would you feel any different if Microsoft detected that you're on playstation.com and then injected a plea to switch to xbox? Or detecting slack or discord or zoom and injecting an ad for MS Teams? Or detecting websites fo
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by glonq 4y ago
No love for Atari/ATASCII art?
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by glonq 4y ago
Stolen bikes go to Vancouver's downtown east side. Trust me, I know this.
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by glonq 4y ago
...the other half of Americans deliberately want to be misled
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by glonq 4y ago
After reddit implodes, I vote that we bring back forums and/or BBS's
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by glonq 4y ago
A smart woman at work once advised me to never bring a problem to the boss unless you also bring some potential solutions.
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by glonq 4y ago
Also a barrier to mopeds or motorcycles. Car drivers can become blind to non-car traffic.
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by glonq 4y ago
https://everythingcozumel.com/chichen-itza-a-story-of-mass-d...
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by glonq 4y ago
What coordinate system would you like the answer in? ;)

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