jjkaczor

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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Zero. I post the same things to Mastodon, Threads, BlueSky, and other places and get plenty of engagement. However - because I don't pay for a "blue checkmark", that's my best guess as to why I get zero engagement. That
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In vast sections of Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Quebec (and probably many other areas) anyone with a basement has to monitor for radon gas - it's just a normal part of the environment overall because of the geological makeup. If you can k
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Microsoft NIHS (not-invented-here-syndrome)
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
This is a nice introduction! Myself, I started with Jeff Duntemann's "Assembly Language Step By Step" - http://duntemann.com/assembly.html (He is a an engaging tech author - I have never not loved one of his
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
The best tool I have bought in the last 3 years was a 3d-printer... It lets me make other tools - even if they aren't as durable as steel, I can design them chunkier, or print a new one if they break.
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
I am from far enough back in time (started with 1st edition and then went to 2nd - and had almost all of the codexes, even though I only played a single faction/army) I would buy codexes (army books) for all the armies, because I liked
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Thank-you - I was searching for "Ars Magica" here in the comments - as it is the only fantasy RPG that I have ever seen come close to having the "feel" of actual "medieval" times, except - of course ... for the
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
>- His shows are scripted to varying degrees - I think this should be obvious to >anyone old enough to not think santa's real. Anyone who watches 99% of media should not find scripting to be a surprise. And many posting here on
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... Myself... I find their 3-year lifecycle for rulebooks a little aggressive... (as well as their pricing - but hey, it's a hobby)
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
This guy "corporates"... today you win at "buzzword bingo"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_bingo
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Thanks for creating this - I have cross-posted a link to your site/project on Reddit to "/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol"
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Halloween is about to become even more weird...
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Heh... I hereby submit: ¥phone , ¥pad
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Arghhhh... I did not have to see that... I was happy with my Kinesis Gaming Freestyle RGB Edge KB... Sigh, checks wallet... Thanks!
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Fire code? I would also think it would open up the company to liability if/when someone would take a tumble climbing up the ladder to their top-story cubicle...
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
... Or worse ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Heh... just wait until you get onto situation with a client machine/environment, open PowerShell and are faced with "Constrained Language Mode"...
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Canada does something similar - you can register to become a publisher, which then allows you to issue ISBN numbers for your works (eBooks count), with one stipulation - you have to send a copy of anything published to Archives Canada: htt
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Because they (or myself - or yourself) are not empowered to systematically commit crimes by their/our citizens - who pay for the privilege of that through taxation. So - you are saying that governments should not be accountable and tra
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Greed. Late-stage capitalism. Private Equity. Pick one - heck, pick any of the three - or all of them at the same time.
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Darn - I got all excited that maybe Rexx was back with something interesting -0 although this is also exciting and new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
Man, I wish Tim Hortons would die... But, it's like the 'default' addiction for Canadians and crappy coffee (especially after they switched their coffee supplier to a much worse grade). Before that, it was removing their in-h
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by jjkaczor 2y ago
> giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink >> Sounds promising.. This is hilarious to me - because the incumbent players in the satellite networking business were slow, anti-competitive dinosaurs. Th
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
This was "gripping" - I haven't been a developer in ages, but I was intimately familiar with the .net 1.0 (and beta/pre-release) and 2.0 ecosystem. At one point, I was shouting "gacutil" at the screen, until he
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
I would agree, except it is not some random average guy in a vehicle. This was a concern citizen, who was a whistleblower against his employer, who had just begun a legal deposition, and there are billions of dollars at stake. So - the scen
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Back when I used to help organized and run a technology-specific usergroup, where we were constantly working corporate sponsors for donations to pay for food/beverages, I joked that on meeting nights I would gladly wear a NASCAR style
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Huh - they once ran ads for ketchup that said something like: "Heinz, there are no other Kinds": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JplL1XzVV4
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Hahahahaha... So, I um have a very similar script that I manage for 'KTMJ' - it's not to find deactivated users, but to synchronize certain ldap attributes to another system. This organization is large enough (300k+ users) t
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
Heh... I preferred MapPoint, as it exposed a COM object interface and was controllable from other applications (like NetStumbler and VBScript) ...
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by jjkaczor 3y ago
... Well, I think many of the genre conventions were established enough that there was even one tabletop Steam Punk RPG that predated the publication of "The Difference Engine" (1990): Space 1889 - (first published in 1988/89

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