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by glonq 2y ago
Ditto for the Atari user group meetings I attended here in Vancouver in the mid 80's.
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by glonq 2y ago
Having put three kids through the public education system, I can confidently say that the system is broken from top to bottom; comprised of students, teachers, parents, administrators, government, and taxpayers all striving to do their wors
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by glonq 2y ago
We are truly privileged to witness the self-destruction and downfall of an empire. Take good notes so that future generations can learn what really happened and why.
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by glonq 2y ago
Long story short, as a junior programmer I did not fully appreciate the difference between credit and debit and ended up putting a bunch of money on customer credit cards instead of deducting it. And yes the app somehow passed our payment
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by glonq 2y ago
I love using alt-space for popping up PowerToys Run as a quick and dirty calculator. I guess I can use Copilot as a hallucinating calculator, but it sure seems like overkill...
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by glonq 2y ago
A PLC controller deals with anything that requires tight timing, so the Go portion is mostly higher-level control of the system and states.
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by glonq 2y ago
I inherited a project that uses Go for an industrial control system. It needs to manage valves and pumps and sensors in a performant and accurate and reliable manner, and that's what the developer (an electrical engineer) chose. FWIW
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by glonq 2y ago
Congrats to the GIMP team for being more spry than the HURD team ;)
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by glonq 2y ago
I'll add hijacking selection and Ctrl-C too.
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by glonq 2y ago
Anything that's not Token Ring.
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by glonq 2y ago
Oh no, no such thing back then!
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by glonq 2y ago
Good job on reporting on the problem, but you might want to cut the "Practical Wisdom" section because it is quite dubious. I grew up in a northern Canadian city where fireplaces and heating oil was common, and when a cold weather
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by glonq 2y ago
This week I needed a spacer that lets me use a hernia belt that doesn't interfere with an ostomy bag. Spent an hour modeling it in Tinkercad and then printed it out. Even if I could have found such a thing off the shelf, it's li
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by glonq 2y ago
Agreed. We really need anything but reddit right now.
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by glonq 2y ago
We chose Docker Swarm for a new project that we started two years ago, mostly because our developers liked its learning curve more than k8s's. We are happily running on Docker Swarm in production now, and don't see that changing i
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by glonq 2y ago
Somebody gave me the advice that we shouldn't start our new project on k8s, but should instead adopt it only after its value became apparent. So we started by using docker swarm mode for our dev env, and made it all the way to producti
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by glonq 2y ago
- Starts off with partisan political ramblings. - Blames everything on "kids these days" and social media. What kind of boomer garbage is this? Did my grandpa write this article? I read this article for free (thank you adblock) y
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by glonq 2y ago
Has somebody evaluated the pros and cons of giving developers a programming-specific AI tool like copilot versus a general-purpose AI tool like chatgpt or claude? We are a small shop so I would prefer to not pay for both for every develope
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by glonq 2y ago
Wow, crazy to watch all the bootlickers and nutters in his feed who are angry about this.
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by glonq 2y ago
That is much smarter than my tactic of yelling "pthread_mutex_unlock" out loud and then running away.
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by glonq 2y ago
As a non-drinker I can confirm that it is a real chore to endure most alcohol-centric contexts; having to try function without a social lubricant.
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by glonq 2y ago
Like any tool, the right amount of AI in the right places could be used to improve healthcare, and wrong/wrong could be used to ruin it. If your healthcare system is in the hands of politicians and/or capitalists, then expect the
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by glonq 2y ago
https://archive.ph/iLVDm
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by glonq 2y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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by glonq 2y ago
I remember the exact same thing. Might have been this BYTE magazine from 1996 https://archive.org/details/199604_byte_magazine_vol_21_04_f...
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by glonq 2y ago
Raise your hand if you read the topic wrong the first time.
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by glonq 2y ago
This is like a little humble and decent version of those "Adventures with Purpose" guys on YT. Nice work!
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by glonq 2y ago
> His contract with NCS was terminated in October 2022 due to poor work performance and his official last date of employment was Nov 16, 2022 This is why you don't force employees or contractors to work through their final two weeks
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by glonq 2y ago
I stopped listening to him years ago because he became too unsufferable, but I remember Joe Rogan on his podcast frequently asserting that telepathy or some kind of mind-to-mind communication was always just a few years away...
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by glonq 2y ago
if it weren't for NIH, i'd bet that a majority of HN readers would be unemployed right now!

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