jcadam

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by jcadam 4y ago
> Coleman camp stove running off of a propane cylinder. And people will be running those inside w/o proper ventilation whereas they could have been using a much safer gas range.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I wouldn't be too surprised to find lobbyists from appliance manufacturers and utilities behind this sudden push to ban household gas appliances.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I moved away from cities to be left alone, but the city folk still feel entitled to tell me how to live.
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by jcadam 4y ago
University Problem: Students are complaining about insufficient parking on-campus. University Solution: Wipe out 1/4 of the available parking space to build a shiny new library, renovate the old library - turning it into a "studen
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by jcadam 4y ago
Clearly you weren't using the right web rings.
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by jcadam 4y ago
A lot of this occurred in 2008 as well. Many of those jobs simply never came back, even after the economy recovered.
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by jcadam 4y ago
So you spend all that time and effort mastering an actually decent IDE, and then you take a job/client that forces you to use eclipse (it's always eclipse).
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by jcadam 4y ago
That is... not a smooth ride.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Reminds me of the time at a previous job where a poorly supervised engineer developed a complex application using LabVIEW (an utterly inappropriate use of the technology) and then took a new job with National Instruments, leaving a shop ful
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by jcadam 4y ago
As a senior software engineer, the most tiresome type of software dev to deal with is not the junior developer, it's the highly opinionated intermediate-level dev. They say things like "we'll obviously build the system using
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by jcadam 4y ago
First I've heard of this - but it appears to mimic how a lot of people (myself included) tend to take notes in a paper notebook. I might give it a shot.
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by jcadam 4y ago
And forced air can be quite dirty (dust/pollen/etc.) if you don't clean your ducts regularly.
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by jcadam 4y ago
There's the expense of maintaining a central A/C, ductwork, etc., that I'd rather not deal with (not to mention electricity is expensive here). Yes, if the air outside is dirty (forest fires, volcanic eruption, etc.) you&#x27
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by jcadam 4y ago
My house uses a NatGas boiler and in-floor radiant heat. It also has wood stoves for those -20F (or worse) nights when I need a little supplemental heat (or the power is out and the main heating system is offline). A heat pump would be a w
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by jcadam 4y ago
> pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example Remote start has been a common feature of many ICE vehicles for a long time.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep. Started with Apple BASIC on an Apple ][e, then Amos on the Amiga, then C on MSDOS :).
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by jcadam 4y ago
C was the first language I learned after messing around with various flavors of BASIC way back in the day. I learned C using Turbo C for DOS and a big book, which is probably an 'obsolete' way of learning in 2023. Haven't us
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by jcadam 4y ago
Ooooh, there may be a year of free credit monitoring and maybe even a check for $36 in my future.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Looks like I'm out $36. My LastPass subscription auto-renewed TODAY. But I obviously can't trust it, so I'm in the process of changing passwords and emptying my vault :(
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by jcadam 4y ago
I assume it's this: https://www.space.com/38413-your-name-on-mars-nasa-insight-l...
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by jcadam 4y ago
Don't have too much trouble with porch pirates up here on my 2.5 acre property in Alaska. Though, sometimes UPS/FedEx drivers can't make it up my hill in the winter and decide to just lean a package up against a tree. That&
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by jcadam 4y ago
The '08 recession forced me into a job maintaining an old Ada system when I was a young developer. Toward the end of that experience I was put on a project that involved modernizing and updating said system by porting it from SPARC&#x
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by jcadam 4y ago
Not to mention EVs are completely unsuitable for places like rural Alaska. They don't even put ethanol in our gas up here (don't tell Joe).
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by jcadam 4y ago
Because at $250k/yr they'd have no trouble attracting engineers willing to learn COBOL. There isn't a current "emergency" a la Y2K to spike the demand of experienced COBOL programmers; they have time to hire anyone
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by jcadam 4y ago
I'm assuming to get it done before the end of the fiscal year.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Crazy. Usually it's just "Pay stops today, benefits at the end of the month. Hand in your badge - off you go."
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by jcadam 4y ago
I would think not. The one time I was on UE (back in 2008), you had to report any income you received. edit: apparently in some states you can - at least in Colorado in 2008, you could not. Generally your unemployment would be reduced
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by jcadam 4y ago
I'm 100% confident I could build a "facebook" with a better UX than facebook. Heck, facebook used to have better UX back in the days before they started focusing on monetization. That's not the problem. The problem is
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by jcadam 4y ago
No, early 2020 was the last time I was sick, some respiratory virus (didn't test). I haven't masked in a long time either - the only places still requiring you to wear a mask around these parts are hospitals (and I really try to
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by jcadam 4y ago
When can I pick up a Mr Fusion at Home Depot?

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