jcadam

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by jcadam 2y ago
Oh, everyone has a number....
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by jcadam 2y ago
Up here in Alaska, I tend to get a little water seeping into my basement at the cove joint (walls are ICF) after heavy rain and/or the spring thaw. Now, the floor in the basement is concrete, and whoever built the house had the basebo
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by jcadam 2y ago
And which ones do we keep? Which senior engineers are just coasting and which are among the few who are the final reservoir of institutional knowledge holding everything together? Does anyone know? Meh, let's just hand the task to H
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by jcadam 2y ago
Ah, the 'ol "workforce greening" where we get rid of all the expensive old farts and replace them with younger/smarter/cheaper devs right out of school. It's brilliant and it always works. There are no downsid
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by jcadam 2y ago
I've got a tea kettle going on my gas stove right now and I feel fine.
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by jcadam 2y ago
My introduction to programming was with Integer BASIC on the Apple II. I was about 7 years old at the time and was hooked instantly. From there, I moved on to Amiga AMOS (also a basic), Pascal, C, and so on... Given the state of the field
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by jcadam 2y ago
Ah man, go outdoors... fly a kite or something.
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by jcadam 2y ago
I've been a software engineer for 20 years now. Based on the rates charged and the difficulty even finding an available plumber, I'm pretty sure an experienced plumber makes a better living than me. Also, plumbers/electrician
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by jcadam 3y ago
> Why do companies do that? Sane hiring practices are inversely proportional to company size.
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by jcadam 3y ago
A young engineer must know that getting stuck on a legacy project is a career-limiting move. Happened to me when I got stuck on a old Ada codebase for a legacy aerospace system (unemployed in 2008, you take whatever job you can get), and i
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by jcadam 3y ago
Yea, yea, I know. The one time I just assume it'll be fine, because Dell sold a developer edition of the 9315 with ubuntu pre-installed. Then I receive it and find the linux support is a total kludge with custom drivers and disabling
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by jcadam 3y ago
Finding a laptop that runs Linux natively and acceptably is always a challenge. My Dell XPS 9315 touts linux support, but only with an older version of Ubuntu using custom drivers (as I discovered after purchasing it). So I've got ma
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by jcadam 3y ago
Java EE will be the COBOL of 2037...
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by jcadam 3y ago
"Indistinguishable from a pair of sunglasses" is pretty much a hard requirement for me to even try anything like this. No doubt most of the clowns walking around in public wearing these things were paid influencers. There's
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by jcadam 3y ago
I've found laptops always go back, but monitors they tend to not care about. I've been on contracts where they only want the laptop back, after sending you a complete setup with monitor, keyboard, etc.
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by jcadam 3y ago
Last big layoff I was a part of in the before times, I was working for a huge aerospace company who just lost out on a major gov contract. We were told layoffs were coming, and they would happen on a certain day. You would get a phone cal
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by jcadam 3y ago
Last time I was laid off (2022) it worked this way. It was a remote job - I was pulled into a random 1:1 meeting with my manager and immediately afterward I found all my permissions/access was gone.
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by jcadam 3y ago
I have a 7500W dual-fuel generator but haven't gotten around to installing a transfer switch yet. I have a well pump and a gas boiler that I really miss when the power is out :) Radiant in-floor heat is pretty efficient (and it's
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by jcadam 3y ago
Could use such a ship as a time machine (well, that only goes one way).
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by jcadam 3y ago
When I was in college, programming assignments were turned in with a code listing and a 3.5" floppy disk shoved in a paper folder. Kids these days just push to a code repo and call it good - they'll never know the joy of seeing &q
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by jcadam 3y ago
Or... when you finally get to the part of the game that requires you to insert disk 7 of 7. And then you discover disk 7 is bad.
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by jcadam 3y ago
Javascript shell?! It's like c shell, only worse.
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by jcadam 3y ago
> tech or biotech or anything that pays well Go into plumbing. Plumbers around here in my small rural area charge $200 just to show up. It's probably more in the bay area.
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by jcadam 3y ago
> fire everybody At the very least, anyone in a management position.
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by jcadam 3y ago
I live in Alaska and Alaska Airlines (which isn't Alaskan - it's HQ is in Seattle) has a rather... notorious history with safety/maintenance issues. I fly Delta whenever possible when travelling to the lower 48.
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by jcadam 3y ago
Yep, prefer designs from the Old Boeing (pre-merger). The 737 MAX doesn't count because it is not really a 737...
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by jcadam 3y ago
Apparently the door was permanently plugged, as Alaska Airlines didn't order the airplane with that optional door in place. So... turns out it wasn't so permanent - and definitely an issue with Boeing rather than the airline.
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by jcadam 3y ago
Looks like I have to stop making jokes about Scarebus. Boeing quality has been in a steady decline since the McDonnell-Douglas merger.
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by jcadam 3y ago
Nice. I sat through a sales presentation/demo by D-Wave once. Very interesting, though limited to a particular class of problems. Heck, the copy on their homepage is a big clue: "Our customers are building quantum applications fo
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by jcadam 3y ago
What you're supposed to do is have an alcohol-fueled all-night session of modifying values in your Keycloak realm settings one at a time until it works. Then, you export the realm file and tell everyone not to mess with it.

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