glonq

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   by glonq 4y ago

   Our project is not big enough to justify tools like ArcGIS. Previously I'd used Global Mapper, which is also commercial but is somewhat more reasonably priced. But I recently gave QGIS a shot and am very happy with what it can do. An
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   by glonq 4y ago

   Thankfully there's plenty of scholarships and jobs for the kids who grow up in better states.
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   by glonq 4y ago

   After having not played since owning the original game 25+ years ago, I installed OpenTTD for the first time a couple days ago. Even with community-created graphics and sounds it looks and feels exactly like the original! I'm temporar
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   by glonq 4y ago

   I identify as a 555 timer chip.
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   by glonq 4y ago

   "A man is judged by the company he keeps" My local news [hi, Global BC!] can't do much better nowadays than to scrape up ambulance chasers, loan sharks, MLM, and dodgy pharma as advertisers.
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   by glonq 4y ago

   I cut the evening news out of my daily routine in 2016, and have no regrets. It's basically all fearmongering, tribalism, and recreational outrage. I still try to remain aware of local and national and international events; I just don&
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   by glonq 4y ago

   I know a couple that got married after meeting in CS1.6 Wild!
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   by glonq 4y ago

   If I ever work in a place that needs me to have a headshot, I'm just gonna mash thispersondoesnotexist.com until I find somebody who looks vaguely like me.
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   by glonq 4y ago

   Definitely some diminishing returns here. I'm pretty sure he could have acheived 90% of these results for a tiny fraction of the $2M cost. That last 10% just makes him look uncanny and freakish.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    I would switch to plant-based meat if it scored at least 2/3 on... - healthier - cheaper - tastier I think it currently scores somewhere between 0 and 1 out of three.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    > WinUI, WPF, WinForms, Win32, WinRT, MAUI Literally the reason why I retired from developing rich/native windows apps. I also got burned when they pulled the rug out from under Silverlight. Is MFC still a thing? Don't forget
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Well there is very likely a market for AR glasses that draw "toplessness" over clothed people ;)
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    by glonq 4y ago

    LOL they'd all get named like "stupid bill for jerks #17"
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Oof, we have already bonked into enough lumber in poor visibility. Hoping that if we keep X miles offshore there's fewer logs. I've been petitioning for a bow- or mast-mounted camera for spotting debris.
15. 465.▲
    by glonq 4y ago

    You haven't lived until you've used ^G to abuse somebody's hearing.
16. 466.▲
    by glonq 4y ago

    Oof. That would make a landlubber out of me.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    My buddies and I aspire to sail around Vancouver Island, but it's stuff like this that scares me.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    repay their descendants?
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    by glonq 4y ago

    https://archive.ph/ZqKDa
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    by glonq 4y ago

    I lost 100 pounds "the hard way" (diet and exercise) a couple years ago. Gained back 30 and am fighting to burn that off again. It would be nice to have an affordable, low dose of one of these obesity drugs to make the fight a bi
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Lazy journalists are quick to report every.single.incident that involves a Tesla in any way. "Woman shot and killed by man who used Tesla FSD three weeks ago". Yet I don't see any "Tesla saves wife and children from bei
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    by glonq 4y ago

    In college I read PCMag and Byte voraciously, and all that knowledge helped me land a really good summer co-op job using C and Fortran and Bash to program utilities for scientists at a seismology/oceanography lab. Meanwhile, fellow st
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    by glonq 4y ago

    I deliberately avoid startup porn and hustle porn. Otherwise, my impostor syndrome would get 100% worse. I would feel that my salary is terrible, my skills are dull, and I'm lazy. Some days, even just scanning the headlines here on Ha
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    by glonq 4y ago

    As a Tesla owner (but not a Musk fan!) I've definitely noticed a lot more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas and Tesla owners recently. The average person is already poorly emotionaly/intellectually equipped to resolve "
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Short answer: nope. Long answer: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/airtime-calculator
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    by glonq 4y ago

    rename staging.* preview.* ...there you go.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    I just got off of a big LoRaWAN project for remote data collection. Antenna elevation is your friend. At long ranges, be aware of the fresnel zone!!
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Ditto. If it weren't for my Vic-20 and Compute magazine, I might not have embarked on my career in software development.
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Ugh; one of our profs had spent some years in Switzerland working on control systems for tunnels or something like that, and made modula-2 mandatory for our data comm course even though students were proficient in C/C++ at this point a
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    by glonq 4y ago

    Even though it's a commercial (non-free) emulator, I can see that they're not wasting any of that money on frivolities like modern website design /s