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by greyhair 6y ago
I posted elsewhere. Stash is your friend. If you aren't using stash today, learn it. And learn the difference between 'stash pop' and 'stash apply'. Each has its place and time.
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by greyhair 6y ago
Exactly. When people say 'before we had version control' I want to ask, how old are you? And by the way, I am older than just about all of you. Started with SCCS with versioned control lists to determine what got pulled from SCCS.
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by greyhair 6y ago
also, git stash is your friend. and after you stash, it isn't always 'git pop', but possibly 'git apply' There are times when I have three (or more) stashes stacked up on any given branch. I know I have reached a co
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by greyhair 6y ago
I have been using version control of one flavor or another since I started down this career path in the mid 1980s. My home projects went from SCCS to CVS to SVN to GIT over the years. But there was always some form of version control, even
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by greyhair 6y ago
I haven't gone back to re-examine Wayland for a while now, because forever I have used RDP to access my headless servers. And before you waste time with "Instead of RDP you should..." Save the effort, I have no interest. RDP
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by greyhair 6y ago
There is a very high variability in the quality of their goods, that is for certain. Each of my daughters bought steel bed frames that will likely last a lifetime. They are really solid. The slats will probably need to be replaced someday,
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by greyhair 6y ago
In thirty five years, I have encountered three zealots that became worse over time, because their zealotry was seen by upper management as dedication and resolve, so they were rewarded. As we all know in engineering, positive feedback is ba
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by greyhair 6y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy starts out with "Don't Worry". By the end of the sixth book in the trilogy find it was right to worry all along.
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by greyhair 6y ago
I didn't really learn "pat yourself first" until I was thirty. That set me back a few years, which took time to recover. When I mentor young people right out of college, the first thing I explain to them is that very principl
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by greyhair 6y ago
I am an old person, still working, but here are a couple points I have lived by: 1)when you decide it is time to look for a new job, even if you have your sights set on a particular position, always fan your resume out to at least three pla
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by greyhair 6y ago
The biggest issue to me concerns the will of people to distribute other existing methods. For example, establishing fiber, transoceanic as well as transcontinental around the globe. Proper fiber rollout would take longer, but should have st
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by greyhair 6y ago
Do they actually own it or do they hold leases? I know it is a subtle thing, but I am just curious. If you know which it is I would like to hear. Thanks.
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by greyhair 6y ago
Rail guns! Pods full of compacted trash launch out to a 'catch' zone using rail guns.
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by greyhair 6y ago
Two different targets, I have used both. I have so many 5V power supplies sitting around, they git in the way. Including 12v/5v buck converters for auto stuff. You can configure for headless when you set up the SD card before you ever
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by greyhair 6y ago
So some contingent of customers demands that their ISP block some sites, for all customers, or they are going to boycott. SO basically, your fucktard neighbors decide to censor what you are allowed to see on the internet. Until the blocked
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by greyhair 6y ago
It is funny when I think of the hundreds of thousands of lines of code I have shipped in my long career (all embedded) and how little of it ever had to handle a string. I agree, C is a really poor choice for string or other human readable c
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by greyhair 6y ago
And I have run across, and implemented, both linked lists, and arrays, in embedded systems. The implementation depended on what made the most sense for the particular problem being addressed.
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by greyhair 6y ago
It's not like that is hard to fix, and modern compilers will flag uninitialized variables. Use your brain and use your tools. C is not really that hard for a large number of problem sets.
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by greyhair 6y ago
ECC is required on mission critical hardware. I have spent 36 years fielding embedded devices in core network (D1/E1, SONET, ROADM/MPLS, Cellular basestation) and I will tell you that large ECC covered memory arrays always show sm
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by greyhair 6y ago
Reading this article takes me back to my youth when a couple of very attractive coeds were staffing a table asking people to sign a petition banning nuclear weapons. I cannot recall the details (40 years ago) but I asked to see the actual f
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by greyhair 6y ago
Oddly, I signed up for Spotify family so it would be more affordable for three kids. I spend way more time in Pandora (premium) because after several years of use, it has built up a good idea what I want to listen to. I find Spotify repeats
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by greyhair 6y ago
So I am just supposed to go though a site and give them my spotify credentials? In 2020?
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by greyhair 6y ago
One beauty of a smart phone is just before laying down to sleep, just ask your phone to set an alarm in eight hours, and put it well out of your reach. And don't get back into bed (or the couch) when you get up to cancel the alarm. Jus
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by greyhair 6y ago
I agree, that being open about that is completely key. When I was very young (1970s) I had a few female friends that I had no interest in dating, and they had no interest in dating me, but we agreed we were available to each other during ti
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by greyhair 6y ago
Or (being it is convenient here in NJ) just driving to a diner any damn time of the day, and getting a big wedge of chocolate cake and a cup of coffee. And nothing else. Chocolate cake and coffee for breakfast at 7:00 AM? Hell yeah! At 2:30
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by greyhair 6y ago
"Say “I don’t know” or “I don’t have an opinion” when you don’t" My father drove this into us as kids. It always made sense to be, and then I grew up, and realized how many times adults just make shit up to avoid looking like they
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by greyhair 6y ago
Other than commuting, and grocery shopping, my car also stays parked. My wife and I only looked at small urban areas to live (we both lived urban when we met). I have telecommuted through COVID, and in the last year, I have only put 3500 mi
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by greyhair 6y ago
There are a lot of interesting laws about what transpires if you stay somewhere 'too long'. And most of these laws are suspended for college students, simply because if they were enforced for students, then the out of state studen
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by greyhair 6y ago
Much of the WSJ news desk is in a constant state of war against the OP-ED desk for just this reason.
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by greyhair 6y ago
I guess Facebook wouldn't be happy with tab containers I use in Mozilla, or the pihole I use for DNS.

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