jdwithit

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by jdwithit 4y ago
Context changes. There are various homophobic slurs that used to mean something else but now have a new, extremely hurtful meaning. And nobody tries to use the previous definition except in bad faith to be a pot-stirring asshole. By the sam
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by jdwithit 4y ago
I am going to have to steal --yolo. Love it. At a past job it was basically our team slogan (extremely tongue in cheek... has anyone ever said YOLO seriously?) any time we were deploying a change we were at all nervous about. I can't b
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by jdwithit 4y ago
I loved Asheron's Call, played it a lot back in the day. My friends and I were in high school at the time so we had absolutely no idea what we were doing, but that didn't stop us from running around the world goofing off. My hobby
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by jdwithit 4y ago
As a fellow internet old timer, I agree that social media never really hooked me. I still spend vastly more time reading and posting on the SomethingAwful forums, which have been going for more than 20 years at this point, than I do Twitter
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Reporting this post for terrorism ;)
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by jdwithit 4y ago
This is so Texan it hurts.
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by jdwithit 4y ago
The article and some of the posts here make it sound like the observation cars are closed to anyone except sleeper/first class. Would be curious to know if that is true. Cause yeah booking coach and then hanging out in the observation
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by jdwithit 4y ago
The OP is from Europe so there was probably some novelty to the 20 hours of endless corn the first time. But, yeah, once is enough. Having driven cross country several times for various reasons, the only appeal of the run from Chicago to De
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by jdwithit 4y ago
If I'm by myself on a plane, I REALLY do not want to talk to my row mates. Getting sat with someone chatty is my nightmare. It's nothing personal. It's just that it's the very rare occasion I am not flying with my young
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by jdwithit 4y ago
The IP resolves to Digital Ocean. So I doubt it's on their level. The author themself probably saw the server melting down and/or hosting bill going up and threw up a really silly "solution".
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by jdwithit 4y ago
That may be a better choice, but it wouldn't have prevented the bug from the article, would it? Because at the time of release, the date didn't overflow. And after their goofy "subtract 5,000 days" fix, it didn't ov
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Doing zero troubleshooting and immediately jumping to the conclusion that it's someone else's fault is frustratingly common. If you want to make a network engineer reflexively reach for a bottle of liquor, DM them on Slack "h
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by jdwithit 4y ago
This has been a problem as long as laptops have existed. I had a Dell in like 2006 that I would close and throw in my backpack at the end of the day. When I got home there was a 50:50 chance it would be about 5000 degrees with the fans blas
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Same here. Even that simple task (setting a timer) only has about a 75% success rate for me. The other 25% it spins for 30 seconds then says "hmm something went wrong". Trying for anything more complex, even playing a song or albu
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by jdwithit 4y ago
My father in law (mid 70s) uses it constantly to compose text messages. I'm not sure I've ever seen him type one.
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Yeah I was going to say much the same. Nobody with a large cloud bill is paying anywhere near list price. It's very hard to compare services apples to apples without actually getting a private quote from each side's sales team unf
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by jdwithit 4y ago
I got deep into homebrewing beer for a while for this reason. It was extremely satisfying to make something tangible and physically taxing after spending all week tapping on a keyboard. Not to say that software isn't "real",
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by jdwithit 4y ago
I have a friend who works in finance at a huge bank. He makes a killing, but absolutely despises his job. His stated goal is to make enough to retire early (we're ~40 now, so soon-ish) and then work part time at a hardware store just f
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by jdwithit 4y ago
First time seeing this, but reading the docs it looks more like a modern take on Rundeck[0]. A way to give developers one-click access to operational tasks. Rather than a service catalog and developer portal like Backstage. [0] https:&#x2F
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by jdwithit 4y ago
It seems regional. In my community in Colorado, there's an extremely active Craigslist market. Where I used to live in New England, it was dead and Facebook ruled the scene. I really love Craigslist's search, minimalist UI, lack o
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by jdwithit 4y ago
We recently moved cross country and my wife tried to sell a lot of our stuff on Facebook marketplace so we didn't have to ship it. She dealt with an INSANE amount of bullshit. A lot of it was exactly as you said, they express interest
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Yes, all positions, there's a little more info about it in the linked Wikipedia article. Apparently Frank Gore had one of the all time lowest scores with a 6. He is a borderline Hall of Fame caliber running back.
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Yeah. Place I was working did a massive layoff at the start of COVID, and immediately began hiring again for the vacated positions. Except now the hires were contractors in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe rather than FTEs in t
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by jdwithit 4y ago
According to this article[0], product and engineering was ~150 people at the end of 2021 and they hope to scale to 400. Which...seems like a lot for what the company is? Although the hiring landscape has changed drastically in the last mont
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by jdwithit 4y ago
+1 to the other replies here, I think it's very poor form to throw the engineers under the bus for not being curious. The most likely explanation is they were under insane time and resource constraints, especially in the games indust
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by jdwithit 4y ago
Holy hell, I'm glad I clicked on this story. Had no idea this feature existed, I've been using much clunkier solutions to get a photo or document over from my phone. Thanks!
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by jdwithit 5y ago
This poster has clearly worked at the same kind of companies I have. Plenty of them would gladly burn 10x what it would cost to just buy the damn license on engineering man-hours switching something that's inferior but free. Because
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by jdwithit 6y ago
There's certainly been successful films made around much less. Hell, Castaway is basically 3 hours of Tom Hanks talking to a coconut and it grossed over $400 million.
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by jdwithit 6y ago
Heh, was about to post this one myself. My buddy got in big trouble in the high school computer lab making this typo. I wonder what percentage of domains in the late 90's were simply "adult" sites trying to capture traffic vi
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by jdwithit 6y ago
IIRC it’s a joke referencing the pop song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and the unreliability of many of the systems he tests.

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