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by heelix 1y ago
I picked up a Quest 3 headset, with the thoughts of using it coding when I had to deal with a hotel style work desk. The text was just not sharp enough to be usable for programming.
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by heelix 2y ago
I've had some fun ones, when interviewing folks - back in the days when people where hiring. * had someone make a giant cheat sheet with interview questions and taped it to the wall behind their computer. Part way through, the tape ga
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by heelix 2y ago
I'll be pissed if they broke my Ubuntu instance ...again under the guise of security.
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by heelix 2y ago
Man it is hard to do. It is about the same amount of work to spend $200 as it is $2,000,000, and that is really tricky for community supported (free as in beer) versions. If there is a commercial license - like one has AGPL or paid somethi
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by heelix 2y ago
I used to work for a NoSQL company that was more or less an XQUERY engine. One of the things we would complain about is we did use wikipedia as a test data set, so the standing joke was for those of us dealing with really big volumes we&#x
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by heelix 2y ago
The Brother HLL8350CDW I picked up in 2014 is still rocking along, with cartridges for the color laser being reasonable. My Bride has a brother mfc-l3770cdw, which she has been happy with - that was picked up a few years ago.
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by heelix 2y ago
NTSB did release some follow up data. They have the bottom of the jet at 325', +/- 25'. Helicopters add a tough element to any airport operation and DIA is one of the more challenging airports with the extra restrictions on
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by heelix 2y ago
I assume the point of mining in space is to have raw resources that are already outside the gravity well. Not so much for bringing it to earth, but space based construction.
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by heelix 2y ago
Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting
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by heelix 2y ago
Our US company sent me to France to help out with an implementation. The guy I worked with spoke very little English and my French is terrible. Both of us had done Latin, however - so the comments were hilarious as we used that as our com
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by heelix 2y ago
Big fan of the tool. Sublime was one of the few editors that could even open the massive logs one project was generating. The recovery is so good, I've realized I had dozens of tabs unsaved for years until IT updated machines. One que
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by heelix 2y ago
I think the last time any of my computers had a case was back when I realized the pair of 900gx2 cards I was running was turning my computer into an easy bake.
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by heelix 2y ago
The 'move in' appeal comes into play. While the land/location may be great - places with the lime green toilet and 70's shag carpet will require renovations to be considered current. The flippers are doing the work - u
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by heelix 2y ago
Installing 4.37.2 does sort the malware warning, for those who install with the binary. Was a fun post holiday treat for those who have lots of developers.
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by heelix 2y ago
I replaced my kid's 2017 mac she used through university last year. I expected it to be trashed - and turns out it is in reasonable shape. While it looks like this might be the last OS refresh for it, it felt usable. 16G of RAM prob
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by heelix 2y ago
So very much this. As I was learning Rust, I'd ask what the equivalent was for a snippet I could create in Java. It is funny. I look at the Java code provided by prompts and go meh. The Rust code looks great. I realize this is pro
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by heelix 2y ago
When I worked as a SE, we'd often categorized sales reps as 'hunters' vs 'farmers' when it comes to managing the accounts. The hunters would hit their numbers, collect their bonus, move on, and leave the account in
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by heelix 2y ago
Woohoo! This is my favorite time of the year. As the year rolls into vacation'ish days and on call rotations, this is where I hunker down and use this to code something other than power point. Last year, solved via my primary langua
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by heelix 2y ago
I live about six miles or so from the office. I'm so much more productive (and end up working far longer) at home than in the cattle car hotel configuration. I dislike the idea that they might try to pitch things as 'pay less&#x2
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by heelix 2y ago
The first time I'd seen a blameless post mortem, I thought it was a load of bs, as another organization had just caused the first significant production outage our app had ever had. Convenient... no blame. We went along with the proc
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by heelix 2y ago
I'm coming in as someone who helped get thousands of Java 8 based SpringBoot 2.x apps to Java 17/21 and SpringBoot 3.x, so a non-trivial portion of my last year. The javax -> jakarta namespace was a part of the issue. Turns o
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by heelix 2y ago
Oracle broke compatibility between Java 8 and Java 9+, so many of the libraries that have a dependency on older functionality are not getting maintained. Java 8 is turning into a dangerous space because even though the JDK is getting patch
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by heelix 2y ago
I did my first ride when I was at a conference in SFO earlier this month. Part of it was it 'shows' you what it sees, which was a bit better on what I could track as a human with my head on a swivel. The car never went beyond re
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by heelix 2y ago
For what it is worth, I'm running that with open loop water cooling. If your chassis has the space for it, my rig won't even need to turn on fans for large amounts of the day. (Loop was sized for a threadripper, which were not r
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by heelix 2y ago
Same, though I don't think it is going to help Amazon the way they hope it does. I moved books over to my kindle and had it nuke my humble bundle collections when I added a purchase from Amazon. I've not connect it again until I
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by heelix 2y ago
This is sort of like planting trees. I cut bait on chrome when they first announced they were dropping/impacting adblockers. For the most part, things are good enough the only time I spin up chrome is confirming something renders as
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by heelix 2y ago
I had no idea that mayo expired. I had dragged a tub of mayo through several university housing locations and two apartment moves before my new bride noticed the long expired container's date as we combined refrigerators. I'm not
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by heelix 2y ago
Forget the answers, Stack Overflow is just a toxic place to ask a question. You might get lucky from searches where others had a similar question, but god help the poor soul who makes an ask. I've ASKED AI more things this week then
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by heelix 2y ago
Yah, I got hit by this as well. Was pulling some stuff off of windows, it updated overnight, rebooted, and I woke up to my default Ubuntu boot being horked. A bit of a WTF till I started searching for it. I'll be backing up and leavin
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by heelix 2y ago
Ah man. Back in my university days, I worked in an infectious disease (HIV) lab that shared space with some GI docs. Went down to Mexico and came back with enteropathogenic e. coli. While they were super happy to get some fun samples and

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