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by glonq 4y ago
Cool. Like most of Trump's grifts, I wonder which one of his cronies will go to jail when this one eventually implodes?
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by glonq 4y ago
I just left a project where I architected the system and managed multiple dev teams for two years. The manager who replaced me is doing maintenance and updates with a pared-down team, yet took "principal software architect" as hi
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by glonq 4y ago
Every time I see a new-ish game released for free on the epic games store or indiegala, I think "bummer, I guess it's still mac and cheese in mom's basement for these guys.
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by glonq 4y ago
Yup. In Elon's defence (not that he needs or deserves it) -- if I had a bunch of armed and angry folks who wanted to see me dead, I wouldn't want their job made easier thanks to some doofus publicising my location in real-time.
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by glonq 4y ago
I spent a few weeks in Uruguay this year, and those folks are big on mate. I brought a cup and bombilla back as souvenirs, but they are currently just 'decorative' right now; I haven't used them to drink mate yet.
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by glonq 4y ago
I chose Rackspace at two different start-ups in the 201X's. I think one of them is still using them, but planning a migration to Azure. Yeah, their 'fanatical' service was really good once upon a time.
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by glonq 4y ago
alternately, "Emissions gains from EV's erase entirety of Pennsylvania methane leak"
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by glonq 4y ago
"Microsoft veteran demystifies Abort, Retry, Fail DOS error" https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/dave_plummer_abort_re...
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by glonq 4y ago
I don't think that's true, especially outside the US. I bought my Tesla because it's a really good bang-for-the-buck electric car. My political ideogies are not particularly aligned with Elon Musk's, but that doesn&#x2
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by glonq 4y ago
"Issue alignment" is the thing I hate the most about partisan politics, especially America's polarized two-party system. Why am I expected/forced to vote in a manner that bundles my views on guns, gender/orientation
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by glonq 4y ago
> Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. Oof, bump that 80 up to 99% and that's my wife. She will see two <people with a similar trai
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by glonq 4y ago
Number of hours I've put into Minecraft: hundreds. Number of times I've seen (or cared to see) the ending: zero.
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by glonq 4y ago
We just finished a project where we spec'd catphones for a remote rugged data collection system. The Cat42 is based on a mediatek chipset and gave us "meh" performance. BT/BLE was underwhelming compared to other phones.
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by glonq 4y ago
laid off + paid off = Plaid off
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by glonq 4y ago
Not that any time is a good time to be laid off, but being this close to Christmas sucks worse. It'll make shopping and travel and family plans a little more uncomfortable.
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by glonq 4y ago
"Signed, rich guy who hopes that shareholders react positively to these layoffs"
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by glonq 4y ago
One of my dad's favorite stories: Once upon a time, all the dogs went to a big party. But because dog butts are smelly, they were required to remove them at the entrance and hang them up on the wall. Halfway through the party a sneak
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by glonq 4y ago
I'm fine with Win11, in a "meh" sort of way. For me, it didn't add anything meaningful to Win10, but didn't change or remove anything meaningful either. The biggest hassle in upgrading was having to enable TPM in my
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by glonq 4y ago
If we already use remote-controlled robots to disarm bombs when it's too risky for a human cop to do it, then why not the same for incapacitating a violent suspect in difficult circumstances?
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by glonq 4y ago
It's a bit of an overhyped "must-read" math/compsci book, but Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid was great for both enlightening me as well as utterly confusing me ;)
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by glonq 4y ago
At the first place I worked, I thought I'd be a lifer. They moved my division to a different country, and I followed it there. They sold it to another company, and I stuck with it. They it suffered a takeover by a bunch of wall stre
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by glonq 4y ago
TBH nothing pushes me towards misanthropy more than the sad realization that virtually everything nowadays is either heavily exaggerated or just outright fake/lies. And it's not even the actual dishonesty that bugs me, it's
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by glonq 4y ago
Can confirm. Have been a vendor on a Booz Allen job.
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by glonq 4y ago
Thank your for inadvertently popping the Monty Python parrot sketch into my brain.
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by glonq 4y ago
My college taught us pascal and x86 asm before teaching us C. I think that was perfect because "bookending" it with a high-level language and a low-level one helped put C in perspective nicely. Knowing asm definitely helped to d
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by glonq 4y ago
No big deal... Reddit's video player has been hot garbage for a couple years now. Maybe they need to fire half the programmers and then force the remaining ones to pledge to work "hardcore" ;)
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by glonq 4y ago
As a non-American who lived in the US for many years, it always astonished me that they have so many levels of law enforcement. It would be somewhat hypocritical for America[ns] to call other countries "police states".
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by glonq 4y ago
I had the luxury of being able to document the hell out of the previous system that I worked built -- before, during, and after development. It was a refreshing change from 'just hurry up and build the damn thing'
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by glonq 4y ago
Ditto for "C in 1991 on a VAX". But at least my college had the courtesy to teach us asm on a PC before that so that we could appreciate how addressing worked. Plus it helped to demystify pointers in C.
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by glonq 4y ago
The book "Weapons of Math Destruction" nicely covers how these college rankings are nonsense. Summary here: https://medium.com/@k935k262/college-rankings-in-weapons-of-...

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