justinlloyd

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by justinlloyd 3y ago
From one dyslexic to another, who never got the option to even use a computer in school or college and instead was forced to write out everything long-hand, thank you so much for this. I use voice-to-text in the workshop and when taking not
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
As a child growing up in the UK I was allowed to call up, each evening, the bedtime stories phone line run by British Telecom. I used to call that bedtime story phone line from an an old 1970's era rotary Snoopy telephone from British
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I've worked on build systems quite a bit across a disparity of languages, frameworks, operating systems and engines. I've constructed some really big build systems spitting out 100's of SKUs across a dozen target platform, an
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Technically the binary language of moisture evaporators would be a good example. But for humans, perhaps Quipu/Khipu. Morse code too, I guess.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
My media consumption habits went off a cliff since the pandemic due to life circumstances. I am slowly picking up the pace again. I have read around 3,500 books, not all of which I keep on the shelves. A nearly complete list with reviews o
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
We need to raise the living wage, and the living standard of our people. But that's a separate discussion. The couch was not 10% of my gross annual income.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
We drive a second-hand Toyota that we paid cash for. The previous car we racked up 200,000 miles before deciding to "upgrade." I wear worn out Skechers sneakers that have seen better days. The leather belt that holds up my pants i
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Last time I bought a couch, a new one, it set me back $6,000. It took me the better part of eight months to find it. Solid wood. Proper joinery. Thick padding. Pig skin leather. We kept it for 20 years before giving it to some friends who h
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
The notion of a homelab is really, more of a suggestion. I have, what you might call, a "homeprod." "Be aware, the video server and sync server will be offline between the hours of 8PM and 10PM on Friday, March 8th for hardwa
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Have been acquired/acquihired a few times. Universal. Some holding company you've never heard of but probably have spent quality alone time on their primary website. Activision. General Electric. Accenture. The distractedness of t
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
> Are you evaluating the pay at the current place as if there was no missing back pay? Correct. > As "slightly more money" sounds like "lots more" when the current place isn't making payroll Also correct. I am
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I am just outlining the current situation. Nothing stated in my grandparent comment about my future plans. Had a one hour casual chat with a start-up game studio in early February, and the offer came through in email on Friday for significa
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Probably. :) Look to your left. And whatever it is you do, don't blink. Don't. Ever. Blink.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I am currently working with a start-up where the company is incapable of meeting its capex obligations. The founder raised a good amount of capital from investors a few years ago, and that provided a decent runway, but there's no tract
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Android in my pocket. Windows (and Linux) on the desk. Apple in the backpack. Yep. Pretty much. And the Apple Macbook Pro, apart from macOS, is also the best Windows laptop I've ever owned too. We have several Surface Book laptops of v
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Networking and marketing. Many opportunities come through LinkedIn. Plus several other smaller channels. I engage recruiters in conversation, but not one of them has ever come to me with an opportunity that is worth a damn that I would cons
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I have pastimes that bring me joy and make me happy. Apparently you derive your happiness from trying to make other people feel bad about themselves. We all need a hobby, I guess.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I have always used humour, proper humour, not sarcasm, in a variety of ways. Find the dark humour in a dark situation. Make a wise ass remark during a stressful situation. Sometimes the humour is inappropriately placed; inappropriately plac
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
That would be me too. Though for that laundry list, I'd expect commensurate pay too. Used Ceph on a studio wide build system, built a couple of plugins for it. Don't really like Nix and use it under protest.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Loc8tor tag on the cat collar, and a couple of low-power ESP32 beacons in the house to triangulate. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/weekend-side-project-justin-l...
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
It posted a MT task when it detected weight in the litter box that was less than a cat but more than a little pee. Very sensitive digital weight platform and some fine tuning of the heuristic to get it just right. Then the MT task had to be
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
We had physical green and red lights controlled via USB on a build machine. So when someone checked in code to SVN, the build monkey would kick off, and if the build passed, the green light would come on. And if the build failed, the red li
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
"Selfhosted" solutions: Retro chores: A chores list mounted to the wall. It has a 4K OLED touchscreen that is 20" tall but only 4" wide. Physical toggle switches controlled by electro magnets so that the Raspberry Pi ins
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Early in my career, with the bravado of youth, I sold myself as a hacker/computer whiz. Now I sell myself as someone who solves interesting problems. I did game development, then embedded development, more game development, back to emb
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Many moons ago, when silicon clock speeds could be counted by man, I had written some software that looked innocent, that booted from floppy, that played a game, but really walked through the ROMs and EEPROMs plugged in to the BBC looking f
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
Yep, LEGO endures. I've done entire branded boxes filled with a custom instruction booklet, such as "build this diorama of our video game studio" or "this is a character from our upcoming game" or "it's a
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I learned, quite by accident, that carrying around several boxes of the small Cadbury's Flake chocolate around a conference in Las Vegas was an amazing ice breaker to conversation. From there, the next game developer's conference,
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
When I lived in Santa Cruz back in the early 2000s I lived in a duplex, and my duplex neighbour and I would cook and give away well over three 30lb bags of baked potatoes each Halloween. Bake the potatoes early in the day, cut them open, pu
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I used fine tuning to approximate my style. Which is especially important around my logging style as I tend to break it down in to sections, and it is stream of thought writing, example of what I mean is here: https://www.github.
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by justinlloyd 3y ago
I discovered that I can be a bit of a tease.

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