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by heelix 7y ago
Someone sold them a bill of goods about 'hotel' type desks. These things are a three foot cattle stall, not even a wall around it. Nothing permanent about the work space. I can get a 32G mac just ordering it at work. A desktop.
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by heelix 7y ago
I'm really excited with the prospect of a a fast, multi core chip that does not throttle on a laptop. That G14 that everyone seems to be doing the initial review with shows really nice single and multicore performance with a small the
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by heelix 7y ago
We really had to spend time convincing my older in-laws that such large gatherings were a really bad idea. A couple days later, their church did the same thing most sport and music events did - online only. I can't image an organizat
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by heelix 7y ago
The 'house by house' bit with the national guard is disturbing. I'd be concerned with someone pitching girl scout cookies door to door, much less something like this. As folks are getting back from spring breaks... I suspect
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by heelix 7y ago
Yah... When you try to use the on line form, $150 today if it was booked in January or earlier. I've not had much success getting through on the phone yet. Still have a few weeks to sort it.
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by heelix 7y ago
Oracle calls the 6 month releases a 'major' version.. .but many corporate shops only care about the LTS versions (mostly 8 or 11) which are getting 90 day 'minor' patches. Java 11.0.6 is current till mid April, in which
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by heelix 7y ago
Delta waves them for recent reservations. Our April plans were done in late January and they still want $150/ticket to modify something done on points...
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by heelix 7y ago
I believe copper will kill off this one in about 4-5 hours, compared to the 10+ hours of other materials. Not super useful as a hand sanitizer, but nice to know a copper door handle has a nice longer term self cleaning over shorter time fr
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by heelix 7y ago
Java 7, 8, and 11 are the Long Term Release (LTS) versions, that are getting patched every 90 days. Support to 2025'ish for them. With 9+, all the other versions get a 6 month life span, with new features in each and heavy deprecatio
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by heelix 7y ago
We use several branching strategies - all depends on the size of the codebase and the number of teams involved. Some work just fine with a trunk based workflow, some need that extra bit of layers. What I don't get is the infatuation w
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by heelix 7y ago
Not a Rust guy, but I did have to look up WTF-8. Had to chuckle at the 'wobbly transformation format' as I was translating it something else. :)
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by heelix 7y ago
Jesus Christ...They finally put the escape key back and potentially sorted the keyboard. While I'm sure there is a consumer market for such a thing, this would really make a mess things as a developer's laptop. The battery is alr
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by heelix 7y ago
Not sure about high performance mice, but Amazon does have some USB-C mice. I picked up for my daughter to play Stardew Valley on her mac. Was looking to avoid the daisy chain of adapters rather than a high sampling rate. https:/&#x2
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by heelix 7y ago
http://stratux.me/ I use a raspberry pi, a couple cheap USB radio receivers, and use it with my tablet to show the weather and nearby traffic in the air. On android, you can link the flight data via wifi (from the pi) to a
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by heelix 7y ago
https://www.microcenter.com/product/614968/lg-32qk500-c-32-q... I've been using this one. (Typing on it right now) Has a display port I wire my mac into when coding for work and run a Linux box on it when I&#
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by heelix 7y ago
To be fair, prior to the 1500 hour rule, the insurance companies dictated how many hours were the minimum. I'm not sure I knew anyone who could get into an "ATP" class (what is that, 10+ passenger?) aircraft with less than 8
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by heelix 7y ago
The only thing I'd miss from a larger company is the travel budget. The 'devil may care' attitude to drop a couple grand on a short window flight... compared to travel with the small company where that meeting could break th
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by heelix 7y ago
RayStorm Neo. I figured the pump and XSPC RX480 would carry over. Possibly the water block. Lord knows the 1950x does not need the cooling I have on it.
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by heelix 7y ago
Shot that link over to a coworker who was considering building a 3990x. While many parts could be picked up at MicroCenter, very happy to let someone else guarantee a build with a 4.8K cpu/mainboard combo. The early days of getting l
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by heelix 7y ago
Good lord... I realize my plane is 64 years old now. I was able to solo with about 8 hours of training (a few takeoff and landings by my lonesome). Most of getting licensed is learning how to deal with bad situations. Engine out, getting
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by heelix 7y ago
The other thing is they charge. for. every. single. thing... Want a carry on? Pick a seat? The price for these types of airlines have just about every nicety set up as a DLC, if you will. The base line ticket is cheap. Once you get all
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by heelix 7y ago
Good. I can't even believe they would allow a (mini) horse on an airplane... much less back in meat space. https://www.thedrive.com/news/29332/us-dept-of-transportatio...
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by heelix 7y ago
It is funny... this is such an important trait we screen for it in the interview process. The requests/scenarios become more and more absurd until they should say no.
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by heelix 7y ago
Things have really, really come a long way. I've got Centos 8 running Steam, and huge swaths of my library just work. I was not expecting that.
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by heelix 7y ago
I know just about everyone in my circle, in tech, filled the walls with smurf tube when finishing basements and any other wall they could get away with.
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by heelix 7y ago
ISPs have made it really expensive to get a static IP. I maintained a commercial connection for way to many years because I would remote into my home systems.
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by heelix 7y ago
Back in the COM days, we were largely a C++ shop. There were times where our business folks did not quite know what they wanted - so we'd prototype the COM component out in VB. It worked a little too well - for about a quarter of the
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by heelix 7y ago
I guess the question is what age should a person retire? For those of us born after 1960, retirement with full benefits, is age 67. Technically, you can retire at age 62... and draw a percentage. (Bonus, if you can wait till you are 70,
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by heelix 7y ago
And in musical format (from the same dude that did 'what does the fox say') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHgGK-tImY
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by heelix 7y ago
Not much to tell. My home FBO was OA, so I did it as part of getting my PPL. Traveled heavy (Mon-Fri, all over the US) for work and never once found an airport that would rent without a checkout. Always an easy checkout... but an extra $

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