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by hondo77 5y ago
We had 286's running Microport Unix at the company I was at back in the 1980s. I seem to recall that we were using Microport because it was pretty cheap. Compilers and all. I could be mis-remembering.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> It feels like the Government pay system. Government employee here. > Basically the review system will become pass fail. Not if you want to advance. > If everyone isn’t treated exactly the same there will lawsuits galore. Um, no.
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ABBA announce new album Voyage and new “live” show(youtube.com)
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by hondo77 5y ago
If you don't feel imposter syndrome on a new job, you're probably doing it wrong. :-) I don't know how long it usually take to fully recover. I've found that a new job changes things around enough that I feel better so I
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by hondo77 5y ago
I've been through burnout before. A few times. Not fun. Alas, I never had the luxury of being able to take time off (it turns out that children like eating food). So, while I can sympathize, I also can't sympathize since I had to
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by hondo77 5y ago
Yeah, I truncated the experience section and for education I removed the years of attendance.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> ...a protest for having been left out of this process... Because it's not like they live in a representative democracy, right?
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by hondo77 5y ago
> Engelhardt set her sights on quantum gravity when she was 9 years old. I tried to come up with a witty comment about that but words fail me. Wow.
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by hondo77 5y ago
It was in an industrial park. I didn't think it was a bad part of town when I visited but the Pixar folks considered all of Richmond to be the bad part of town.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> ...they bought a piece of land and were there pretty much every weekend. That's not farming for a living. That is a hobby. Big difference.
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by hondo77 5y ago
The wooden dumbbells cracked me up. I guess they appeal to people who need to feel like they're lifting more than they are (10K metal dumbbells don't look nearly as impressive)?
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by hondo77 5y ago
> But this article does not contain the word "bless", and I wonder why it was left out. Most people use Moose (or its variants) so they don't have to bless things anymore.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> To a degree parents live through their kids. Are you enjoying your work? Have you found a girlfriend? It's like living through that age again. Or maybe they just...you know...cared.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> I used to think it was a way to put the human body through emotions that we don't get through living in a civilization. But I'm not exactly sure that's true. I dunno. Riding my bike 100 miles, during which it hit 107°, m
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by hondo77 5y ago
Not for me anymore: https://www.sellesmp.com/en/pro.html ymmv
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by hondo77 5y ago
You set out to ride 365 miles without chamois cream? Ouchie.
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by hondo77 5y ago
> Your manager has a HUGH impact on your work quality. Are you talking a Hugh Grant impact or a Hugh Jackman impact? Sorry. Couldn't resist. Hugely.
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by hondo77 5y ago
You do know that San Diego is in California, right?
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by hondo77 5y ago
> Every time I go there, I walk away feeling better, walking straighter, and in less pain. So what is your chiro fixing, if you have to keep going back for ten years?
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by hondo77 5y ago
Ag already uses way fewer workers than they did in the past. There are still some migrant workers but not nearly the number that there were 20 - 40 years ago.
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by hondo77 5y ago
Ah, good ol' MacZilla. Back when seeing videos with a Mac browser was much more difficult and not nearly as nice as on a PC. MacZilla made it better but it still sucked (slow, crashy, and rebooty).
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by hondo77 6y ago
Let me introduce you to comp.sources.unix: https://www.krsaborio.net/unix-source-code/research/1987/081...
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by hondo77 6y ago
> The difference in technology likely plays a large role - these parts were designed without CAD and modern fabrication protocols have changed. Actually, the B-2 was one of the first military aircraft designed with CAD. https:/&#x2
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by hondo77 6y ago
Do a long run/ride on the weekend. There's no rule that says one's workout sessions have to all be the same duration.
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by hondo77 6y ago
Remember that it is a resume, not a biography. As the author mentioned above, it's a sales pitch for yourself. If people ask about a gap, tell them about it. No big deal and at least the resume got them to respond. If I can condense 35
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by hondo77 6y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculati... : In British English, a similar idiom is "back of a fag packet".
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by hondo77 6y ago
> ...it blows my mind each time I’m in California and I have to drive forty five minutes or more to find a Dunkin’. It blows my mind that anybody would drive 45 minutes to find a Dunkin' in CA when local donut shops are everywhere
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by hondo77 6y ago
> What I would likely end up doing, though, is use that as the underlying representation but still return individual interval objects through the query API with a start and end date on each interval. How the model you present to the user
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by hondo77 6y ago
Yeah. I can take some pretty good photos. Digital allows me to take many more photos than with film so some are bound to come out great. My daughter, though, understands light much better than I do. She has an artistic side and she just g
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by hondo77 6y ago
Yeah, the article brings back all kinds of bad memories.

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