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by heelix 3y ago
The fluorinert coolant was really neat stuff too. Inert, so you could submerge electronics in it to cool them. I was able to find recycled coolant and used that to do the liquid cooled build for my dual celeron system where coolant flowed
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by heelix 3y ago
Back in the days when LCD computer monitors were ridiculously expensive for a 15" monitor, I was at a customer in NYC where they had hundreds rather than the standard 'tv' style monitor of the time. Turns out, they had moved
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by heelix 3y ago
The Amazon video experience has gotten bad. You use to be able to do a 'free for me'. Now it is a mix of 'free', ads, and rentals - combined with the netflix style of showing categories of content, highlighting the same
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by heelix 3y ago
Code reviews are so impactful. Learning how to have others look at your code and provide feedback, and you looking at others and provide feedback is huge. Mixing in the junior devs into the mix, where they feel safe to ask what is going o
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by heelix 3y ago
If I remember right, I think my copy even shipped with a VHS tape of instruction. So many hours spent on it.
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by heelix 3y ago
BG3 was the first game I've paid full price for, since Doom 3. Almost any of the 'modern' game sales concepts - game passes, ridiculous DLC, loot boxes, etc - have me waiting years after release for the GOTY version at a hea
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by heelix 3y ago
Interesting. With Windows 10, I rarely use the start menu button. One of my boxes had the HP Print software. I did not see it add/remove programs, nor do I have any HP computer equipment. Looks like it wanted permissions when it st
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by heelix 3y ago
I've wished that students would be required to hand their semester long project to the person next to them each week.
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by heelix 3y ago
It is changing fast. Now that the lead free avgas is available for a trivial paperwork STC for all engine types, almost all the pilots I know are pestering their fields to switch. For GA aircraft.. things are in a wild shift first now.
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by heelix 3y ago
Many years back, we had just moved our new AS400 to a freshly build server room as one of those home shopping networks expanded into the rest of the building. It had a 'big red button' and one of the veeps touring the pre-power u
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by heelix 3y ago
Most of the world has solves in before my dog is up looking for breakfast, so the global board is a non-event for me. We do private leader boards, which are a good bit of fun. A couple of our EVPs opted to use AI to help them with it which
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by heelix 3y ago
Pulled a funny on the developer in the cube across from me. Plugged in a second mouse into his computer, and would occasionally wiggle it a bit. He was absolutely sure the office was monitoring everything he did. "It moved again!&qu
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by heelix 3y ago
Honestly, it just works. I can do a docker image that runs on aarch64, amd64, and s390x. For the SpringBoot apps - the hardware is rock solid and far more important, cheaper and under provisioned than the other 'standard' comput
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by heelix 3y ago
I'm getting ready to fly home -- came in for GitHub Universe and was amazed how clean and refurbished things were. There was a distinct lack of homeless. They have been replacing pavers, hosing down sidewalks, and the area not how I r
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by heelix 3y ago
The beauty of G100UL is you just need an STC - just paperwork - to be legal with GA aircraft. All gasoline powered aircraft and engines in the FAA’s type certificate database are covered by the STC for G100UL... which is amazing. I'll
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by heelix 3y ago
Was working for MarkLogic and got pulled into this a couple days before launch. That sort of thing was the least of their worries. They got the model wrong. With ACA, you were not allowed to do policy pricing on preexisting conditions.
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by heelix 3y ago
It was. The way they built it out was UML > generated Java, which persisted data as XML. The MarkLogic database could then do xpath/queries (think stored procedures) for the Java layer - so not just POJO > XML, though there was
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by heelix 3y ago
I remember working with these guys as well all got pulled in to help fix it. Gabe coded in VIM like a like a master violinist. Working with Mikey showed the power of metrics/SRE. Went from having everyone in the room pointing at the
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by heelix 3y ago
That was probably the most welcome bit of news. I've got a water loop on my older threadrippers that can handle that ballpark. After the 5xxx became unobtainium for us who build their own system, I've got a 7950x that won't
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by heelix 3y ago
Which - seeing like that, were the Linux file permissions originally octal? When thinking about permissions and permutations... and old magic numbers, that seems like the bits might fit.
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by heelix 3y ago
My best workstation runs Linux for work, so I've spent time getting 'odd' setups like Centos 7 to work before there were nice packages for it. Learned a bit trying to game on my good video card without booting to Windows. F
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by heelix 3y ago
Think SpringBoot might just change that. Folks are scrambling to move to 3.x, with 2.7.x hitting public EOL this November. With SpringBoot 3 requiring Java 17 at a minimum and Java 21 coming out this fall, I suspect our shop will see many
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by heelix 3y ago
For those of use who are old reddit fans, https://old.lemmy.world was exists and is close enough.
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by heelix 3y ago
I realize I pull out my 48g for taxes each year. Your 'second nature' comment hit home. I would struggle a bit with a normal calculator since I had used a 48g through university and beyond. 100% trust my input on the HP.
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by heelix 3y ago
The other way swish cheese is also referred to is 'breaking the chain'. Not uncommon for a bunch of individually minor things to become something major. The beauty of these reports is they help identify links that if removed, pr
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by heelix 3y ago
Back in the day when a 4x CD-ROM burner was a luxury, we got a phone call from a customer we shipped a CD to. Would not read. Did a second burn at 1x speeds, tested on several machines, and mailed out the disk. Would not read. Burned a
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by heelix 3y ago
Had it been a 404, I would have thought someone was pulling a funny on me. :)
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by heelix 3y ago
In my university days, I took Latin. Ended up doing a lot of work and picked up a smattering of languages - but across EMEA, there was a core familiarity. When work had me go to Japan, that lack of any foundational familiarity was shocking
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by heelix 3y ago
Mitre really lost a lot of respect with CVE-2016-1000027. Every few weeks a warning that any SpringBoot 2.x project has a CVSS 9.8, which causes all sorts of heartache for those of us bound to CVE remediation. Every blasted security tool r
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by heelix 3y ago
I'm less sure about that. Back in 2007 or so, our company was gobbled up by Oracle. Part of that process, I was the propeller head they sent with the suites to be screened by Larry. Very first question: Why you wearing a suite? He k

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