jzellis

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by jzellis 5y ago
Speaking as a man with a naturally deep speaking and singing voice that's been roughened by decades of smoking, drinking whiskey, etc., it definitely, uh, works, and has worked across cultural boundaries. But it's also true for wo
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There's more value in making tech cheaper than making it better. VR and AR are still not ready for primetime because the hardware required isn't cheap enough to be commodity yet. Most of the stuff we make is trivial, a lot of it i
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by jzellis 5y ago
I've been working on a tool that generates the basic scaffolding for a CRUD API/GraphQL app in Node/Mongo/Express. Basically you write descriptions of your database models and it produces a very simple standalone app - y
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by jzellis 5y ago
Badly according to the FBI profilers
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I didn't realize they were making a sequel to The Internship
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Of course you're right. It's also a massive energy sink, in an era when the question of how that energy is produced matters more than almost anything else on the planet, for the very future of that planet. And do you think anybody
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by jzellis 5y ago
I'm just outside London, moved here to marry my English wife from Vegas. I work part time doing basic IT for a US law firm due to health issues after heart surgery, and Yankee dollars are worth jack shit here - I'm not making seri
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by jzellis 5y ago
Because you're trying to shoot something flying at 500 miles an hour, piloted by a tiny lunatic who actually thought this sort of thing was a good career move and is probably on military-issued meth, with a projectile the size of your
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by jzellis 5y ago
Golly, because he was so right about everything else.
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I still wanna get some old Cray XMPs and use em as office benches. RIP Sidney as well. A great actor and, by all accounts, a great man.
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It's funny that you treat this as a theoretical tech question rather than, say, just asking one of us ancients who was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago. Yes, it was. The Commodore 128, for example, was even capable of displaying extremel
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by jzellis 5y ago
This looks like it's frankly bullshit, but it does raise some interesting questions; not about EMPs, but people. There's a question I occasionally ask people: what would you do if you woke up and the power was off and it wasn&#x27
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by jzellis 5y ago
It's amazing to me how many "web developers" don't actually seem to know how to write pure html/css anymore by hand. They rely on these gigantic frameworks to do literally everything. Like a lot of Gen X/Gen Y
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by jzellis 5y ago
My God, you mean it's possible to build a site that doesn't require 10MB of compressed stupid ass frameworks and preprocessors to turn your code into, uh, slightly different code? You can just... write HTML and CSS yourself? By ha
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by jzellis 5y ago
Oh, man, I'm glad you cracked this. I spent days getting the Neuma stuff to work and I think I finally got it sorted out, but it was such a bear that I didn't bother sharing it with anybody else. My own use case for this is that m
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by jzellis 5y ago
MIDI DIN to USB adapters are really cheap and I've never had a problem with even the most generic Amazon one. You don't mention your level of MIDI expertise, but what you should probably know, if you don't, is that analog syn
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by jzellis 5y ago
Somewhere in FSB headquarters there's a room with a bunch of eBay bots buying these up from collectors and a bunch of dudes in hazmat suits with hammers and Tupperware bowls smashing em up as they arrive and saving the bits for later
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by jzellis 5y ago
My Doc Martens. The design of a shoe is pretty well worked out, but the devil is in the details, and my Docs have been carrying my fat ass through deserts and snow and jungles and cobblestones and pavement for twenty years, and I got em use
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by jzellis 5y ago
I remember the Creative Commons launch party, and mistaking Aaron for someone attendee's kid - he would have been what, Jesus, sixteen or seventeen? At least until Larry Lessig introduced him. He was so wee, and so obviously brilliant.
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by jzellis 5y ago
So one professor of medicine at Oxford says that long Covid is idiopathic. As Bell is an academic professor and not a clinician in the field handling patients, or a virologist tasked with studying this particular situation, his opinions are
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by jzellis 5y ago
That's what happens when you run your entire site off a VM running as a WhatsApp chat bot.
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by jzellis 5y ago
Ah, man, kid, try being 43 with a Github profile full of half-finished repos. You haven't failed. Part of what's pathetic about the tech industry and culture, and why I've mostly bowed out of it, is that it makes you feel lik
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by jzellis 5y ago
I've always wanted a kei truck since I first saw one in a movie in the 1980s. They seem to be legal here in the UK, where I've recently relocated from America, so getting one might be in the cards some day, when we're not liv
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by jzellis 5y ago
I'm weird because I have a couple of older MacBooks, but my primary OS, even for web dev, is iPadOS. I use Textastic as my primary IDE for Node/JS/HTML and Blink to log into my remote servers and my Raspberry Pi. For me, as s
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"Sherman, set the Wayback Machine!" "What year, Mr. Peabody?" "Any year when Notepad was still my IDE of choice!"
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So one assumes you're super cool if wherever it is you live or come from is the place that becomes uninhabitable, then. If it's your family that has to abandon their home and become refugees. That's just the way things work.
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Yes, but we're also finally unfortunately at the point where those people can be dismissed out of hand and the grownups at the table can have an actual discussion about the obvious and imminent threat at hand. They sound like the crazi
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by jzellis 6y ago
I worked for one of the startups Tony funded in Vegas and was around for most of the Downtown Project stuff, and was also one of the most vocal critics of what happened there. This story covers just the tip of the iceberg. I'm really s
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by jzellis 6y ago
So it turns out that it's pretty easy to get around tethering data caps on phones in a couple of different ways, especially if you're on Android and have more control over your network settings. I'm in the UK now and use prep
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The Hardest Part of Telecommuting(youtu.be)
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