glonq

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by glonq 2y ago
Especially to those of us who were edgy and cool 30 years ago.
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by glonq 2y ago
4.0 was a buggy release. Where's the DOS 4.01 source?
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by glonq 2y ago
Looking at \src\H\VERSIONC.H, this seems to be DOS 4.0 ...which was buggy and quickly followed by 4.01 Are they releasing the source to 4.01 too? Would be neat to see a diff of those.
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by glonq 2y ago
PalmOS was a decently civilized platform to develop against. I remember using the CodeWarrior IDE to build a little portable app for managing parking meters. Using XModem over RS-232 you could update the machines' configuration, down
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by glonq 3y ago
My least favorite thing about owning a Tesla is the association with Elon.
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by glonq 3y ago
Over the years, I've become increasingly averse to starting new projects, new tasks, and even just sub-tasks. Which isn't great considering that I work in an engineering / R&D environment! If I get dragged into it, I&#x2
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by glonq 3y ago
If you had built COBOL systems for banks and gov't in the 1980's, your work would still be alive and kicking today ;)
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by glonq 3y ago
I interviewed two guys last month who were definitely using some form of real-time assistance on a remote (MS Teams) interview. Their English language skills were atrocious, but their answers were still peppered with ten-dollar words that
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by glonq 3y ago
i tried to subscribe to the family plan, but YT says that we can't because we have google workspace accounts. ...so back to blocking ads, i guess...
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by glonq 3y ago
I've worked at nothing but small start-ups/re-starts for most of my career. I do get how/why headcount needs to balloon; thankfully I've mostly worked at places where we kept things lean and mean. For me, things stop be
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by glonq 3y ago
I grew up on Garfield when I was a child, then The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin & Hobbes as a teen. Gen X really hit the jackpot back then!
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by glonq 3y ago
If you'd have told me that Okta has 540 employees, I would believe you. Even double that seems plausible. But damn, 5400 is a lot.
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by glonq 3y ago
Can confirm. Due to late/lazy screening, my cancer was caught late and now I'm fighting an uphill battle. It doesn't seem like rocket science to screen early but also not over-treat .
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by glonq 3y ago
Oh I remember when that whole thing went down. It caused quite the buzz on Slashdot. ...but now I'm struggling to remember how many times I've logged into Slashdot in the past 10 years...
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by glonq 3y ago
Hopefully this improves the quantity and quality of meetups in my area, which seems to mostly be ESL, toastmasters, book clubs, various fringe nutters, barhoppers, and old people who want to go on short walks.
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by glonq 3y ago
Easy targets, I guess. Gotta be tougher to expect any $$$ out of them, though!
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by glonq 3y ago
I applied CICO to lose weight and keep it off. It's sad to see what nonsense (like "metabolic damage") people will invent to justify failing at weight loss (or worse, never even attempting weight loss).
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by glonq 3y ago
Yeah, my mistake buying an ultrawide monitor. My 4yo rig can push 1080 okay but 3440x1440 is a bit much. I don't dare aspire to anything higher than 60fps.
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by glonq 3y ago
This. We had good results bouncing LoRaWAN packets around 14km using directional antennas and decent elevation. Watch your Fresnel Zone!
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by glonq 3y ago
It's never a good time to pick up a 3060. Can you stretch a bit to a 3070?
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by glonq 3y ago
Yeah I'm doing totally fine with an i7-9700K, although having 32gb sure helps. 2060Super GPU is starting to feel dated though!
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by glonq 3y ago
Depending on your definition of 'reasonable', that ship sailed a few years ago and ain't ever coming back
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by glonq 3y ago
Neat. When I owned 8-bit machines back in the 1980's, I never bothered to learn assembly; just BASIC. I'd love to tinker with retro computers again including things like the Commander X16, but to be honest I'm too old and i
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by glonq 3y ago
> Rust is the first (and only, at the moment) language that userspace programs can be written in. Shouldn't be much effort to make it compatible with Crablang, no? /s
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by glonq 3y ago
When I'm managing a team of good developers, I trust their feedback on what the best tool for the job is. My lead developer is real strong in C#, so that's generally what we use for back-end development. On mobile we did C#&#x2F
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by glonq 3y ago
your point does stand. ignore the trolls.
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by glonq 3y ago
50ish here. If I'm ever looking for a new job again [hopefully never!], I'll be sure to dye my hair and drop dates from my job history.
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by glonq 3y ago
Raymond is a treasure. Not everybody who can do things can also teach/explain things so well.
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by glonq 3y ago
My current perspective is "I'm not interested in fighting anymore about what people should or shouldn't do. I just want to find somewhere nice, far away where I can live a clean decent peaceful life alongside anybody else wh
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by glonq 3y ago
Vancouver resident here, so I found it interesting that the article called out BC as an example of failed/ineffective policy. And I can't exactly disagree with that sentiment -- politicians have spent decades promising then faili

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