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by hinkley 9mo ago
My ex didn’t go to her own father’s funeral because the company said she couldn’t have that much time off. Six months later when she talked about it at work they were horrified she hadn’t felt she could go, but how could you possibly make t
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Eastern thought had quite a moment in the sun in the 60’s and 70’s. All I can say is lead poisoning does terrible things to the mind over time.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
See, I was just gonna say, “what art?” but you put far more wood behind that arrowhead. - XML-DSIG survivor.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Another variant is that suffering is a virtue. They say doctors make the worst patients. I wonder if programmers are the least useful of users.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
One of the perennial problems with on call situations I encountered was that at some point everyone knew that a production incident was going on and people were either trying to help or learn by following along running the same diagnostics
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by hinkley 9mo ago
When Covid hit I wasn’t the only one working remotely at my company, but I was the only one working remotely in North America, and apparently the only one trying to Work Smarter. By then there were a handful of feature toggles I had impleme
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by hinkley 9mo ago
That’s a DVD. You monster.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
There was a hacked driver you could get that would tighten up the tolerances of the stepper motor and get from 1.5 to 1.9 MB of data onto a single floppy, but sliding the tracks closer together. There was I believe at some point a game that
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Oh I wasn’t misremembering that. Penn [Jillette] said "If not for Randi there would not be Penn & Teller as we are today."
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Okay turning a jukebox into a drive carousel would be a pretty cool mod.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The first time I installed Slackware I didn’t have enough spare floppies to get the whole thing, I had to delete some things to do so, and then copying it in the computer lab lead to several dead disks. The installer didn’t yet have a retry
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The first program I ever started on one day and finished on another was saved onto an audio cassette. And I thought that was pretty weird. But like the vinyl it has really terrible random access behavior. It would be sorta cool if someone u
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I worry if I will still be in the industry though by the time that users realize all apps they use are boring and derivative because all AI can spit out is amalgams of what already exists. This will all turn into Western European cuisine be
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I can describe to you how we would murder someone and it’s down to intent whether we just conspired to commit murder or whether it’s just the sort of conversation a forensics investigator would have. You should feel creeped out if I actuall
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by hinkley 9mo ago
No I definitely saw that. My first job was right into a “fad” that actually took but there were many after that didn’t, and a mentor had told me about the hype cycle practically before the term had been invented, because he’d already scene
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by hinkley 9mo ago
You don’t think in language though. You consider in language. Otherwise we’d all be dead every time a car changed lanes unexpectedly. Some people have a voice inside their head that never stops. Mine was that way until I started meditating.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I thought this was going to go the other way. Worked on a project that wanted to make everything a different grayscale color. It was out of control already when someone one day complained that two pieces of text were a different color. They
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Meh. I decided shortly after becoming an atheist that one of the worst parts was the notion that there are magic words that can force one to feel certain things and I found that to be the same sort of thinking as saying that a woman’s short
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Some day in the future we will complain about AIs with a 2015 accent because that’s the last training data that wasn’t recursive.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The next trap is loudly announcing how you’re going to get yourself out of that situation, getting the neurotransmitter hit that comes from the announcement, and then never doing it. I have a person who has distanced themselves from me beca
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by hinkley 9mo ago
We all know that person who is borderline Munchausen’s Syndrome, railing against an unjust world they have mostly manufactured for themselves. Or the person who has no life skills and blames all their problems on “bad luck”. Fortune favors
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by hinkley 9mo ago
It becomes more challenging when the person is Carrie Fisher from When Harry Met Sally, “processing” the same information for years at a time. This is not a surprise. That he’s never going to leave her. You know the solution. You are the ar
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Dell has a shitty habit of down-rating monitor model numbers over time. The very expensive monitor your internet buddy waxed poetic about six months ago is now half the price and also half the monitor. It's not worth the trouble.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Necessary but insufficient. On several projects where I was the lead I started honoring the QA lead's attempts at vetoing a release. I was willing to explain why I thought changes we had made answered any concerns that QA had, or did n
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I was at a company once where they were talking about trying to do a rewrite of an existing tool because the original engineers were gone. But the requirements docs were insufficient to reach feature parity, so they weren’t sure how to proc
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by hinkley 10mo ago
Yeah and then we started expecting them to code. Which has not gone well. And the thing is if you have the suspicious mind of a top rate QA person and you can code well, you’re already 2/3 of the way to being a security consultant or a
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by hinkley 10mo ago
There’s definitely a bimodal distribution of QA people for capability. The good ones are great. The bad ones infuriating.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
We had a little server room where the AC was mounted directly over the rack. I don't think we ever put an umbrella in there but it sure made everyone nervous the drain pipe would clog. Much more recently, I worked at a medium-large Saa
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I'd like a Public Broadcasting Service for the Internet but I'm afraid that money would just be pulled from actual PBS at this point to support it.
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by hinkley 10mo ago
I got https://microsoft.web-safe.link/cZ17Xn_claim_gift_card.msi for this article. What do you get?

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