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by heelix 5y ago
Same. The 16:10 we have with macs and the new xps are nice, but what I would give for a 4:3 ratio display on a modern monitor.
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by heelix 5y ago
Back in the dot com days, we had all of our stack running on Solaris. (nothing clever, just Weblogic/Oracle) Our president (?) got a beast of a tadpole to do live demos in the field. The first major demo, he set up to present/p
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by heelix 5y ago
The thing that killed most folks was the virtualized machines. They price on host, not guest OS. Got a 4 core virtual machine on a 128 core host... 128 cores need to be licensed. Those small web apps became crazy expensive where physical
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by heelix 5y ago
Adopt OpenJDK did have the LTS releases. They rebranded last release - https://adoptium.net . The quarterly updates to Java 8, 11, and now 17 are all there, and up till then, been pulling 8/11 from Adopt OpenJDK's sit
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by heelix 5y ago
It is the dependencies. We bit the bullet and cut over (most) everything to Java 11 last year. Things that were removed from the JDK into new dependencies were the easier bits to sort - JAXB, some old Sun classes, and Java EE bits. All t
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by heelix 5y ago
You porpoise the landing. The front gear in just about every aircraft is not intended to take the weight that the rear can. End up in an unstable oscillation, until it gives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmHYWjEmkY
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by heelix 5y ago
The guy played VI like a Stradivarius. I'm at best a hack, but watching him work through learning XQuery for the first time. Almost like a window into his brain real time. He impressed the hell out of me as most folks don't nat
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by heelix 5y ago
They do recycle SSNs! I had a project where we used the death master files (they use to be more free/public, now https://ladmf.ntis.gov looks like they have a fee ). It was really interesting data pull sequences of users
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by heelix 5y ago
If you had the drivers, Windows XP-64 was fantastic. A (ahem) workstation twist to Server 2003, which was better than XP and updated version of Windows 2000. I really miss the ISO tweaking tools that were common in the 2000/Win7 days
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by heelix 5y ago
I do a fair bit of camping. One solo trip, I opted to leave behind all the normal gadgets and discovered I had no chronological tooling with. Skies were overcast -- and I suspect I ate breakfast early, lunch by 8, and supper by noon. Was
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by heelix 5y ago
Hah! I have used Google Translate to do some naïve translations. Was creating portlet code that supported i18n, and took a crack at a few of the labels. Much to the amusement of the folks I demoed to, I used the French word for a person&#x
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by heelix 5y ago
Man, if only copper was easy. One of the gotchas is most connectors for CPU, graphics cards, and chipsets tend to use the G1/4" ends up having metric on the other side. 12mm or 13mm. Most copper pipe is .5", which works out
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by heelix 5y ago
The time frame makes the funnies/horrors of "Lime Jell-O Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" song make sense. Calories, such as they were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tWuG2oPL3o
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by heelix 5y ago
At the time, we wanted the workstations to match with the servers. Docker sort of made that a non-issue now.
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by heelix 5y ago
For us, two places. When the feature is ready to be merged in, it is reviewed by the scrum team. When they say a set of code is ready for production, it gets tagged - and that tag gets the formal peer review.
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by heelix 5y ago
I ran Steam on Centos. You had to do some conversion to get the Steam app into an RPM format (or use one of the relases that did it for you). I've messed with it on Centos, Ubuntu, and even played with SteamOS. Last time I did this w
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by heelix 5y ago
I'm going to write me a new minivan this afternoon! https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
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by heelix 5y ago
Ironically enough, this is what drove me into real airplanes. As a kid, did the line and rc models. Very easy to turn hundreds of hours of build time into... trash. The cost of the better RC stuff was darn near what you might spend on an
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by heelix 5y ago
yup - this one kills me too. I'll have multiple VMs/docker images up and running all week and discover my dev machine sitting there with a fresh login prompt. A hard, not scheduled by me, reboot is absolutely unacceptable.
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by heelix 5y ago
Good lord... that was a tough read.
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by heelix 5y ago
We will occasionally mix one of these in. We are really looking for folks that can actually say 'no'. In some cases, we will keep tossing out absurd requirement on a 'how would you' project. One that some use is askin
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by heelix 5y ago
Something like this would make it pretty easy to spot one of those stingray devices, I bet. Cell towers tend to stay put, so mapping out an area would go quick. Were a new 'tower' show up in an odd spot -- there may be shenaniga
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by heelix 5y ago
Oh noes. I'm one of those people who keep calling it that. What is the correct pronunciation?
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by heelix 5y ago
I came very close to taking a hit. Was working with a flight instructor on some instrument training. On landing, a deer broke out and took that as an opportunity to cross the runway. Speeds were way too low for me to throttle up and pull
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by heelix 6y ago
>just arbitrarily throwing half the resumes out how else to you filter out the unlucky candidates :)
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by heelix 6y ago
I rent a small 2 seater airplane. On long cross countries where the wind causes problems, it is not uncommon for the fuel to last longer than the bladder. Our rental shop had to put out a similar message - if you used a pee bottle, don&#x
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by heelix 6y ago
She had been around for around a year when that happened. The 'first day' story linked by Reddit was someone else. It was her first time modifying an index on ES, however. I include the scrum master and PO to be complicit, as re
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by heelix 6y ago
For us, one of our junior Devs managed to wipe out all environments, all datacenters for one of our Elastic instances. They got handed a task to modify an index. The Dev Lead and Sr. Devs were 'too busy' and she stack overflowed
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by heelix 6y ago
We do regular trips up to the BWCA (Boundary Waters Canoe Area) - an area between northern Minnesota and Canada. Fantastic camping where you paddle in and basically only get a fire pit and shitter - the rest is wilderness. As is tradition,
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by heelix 6y ago
There was a time where I use to fly internationally very frequently. Very use to having the manager sort out the car/flight/hotel with our travel agent - so for the most part I just grabbed the tickets and go. Manager asked me -

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