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by kerblang 4y ago
For a real-life story of a heisman trophy quarterback who bombed out of the NFL and became a hall-of-famer in canada, ref. Doug Flutie. His brother was also pretty successful up there. And they have a rock band together. https://
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by kerblang 5y ago
> then seamlessly come back up to a more fully featured language to deal with that data That's the thing - I don't see how you can do that. The command blocks return nil or error, but not the output, so that you'd have to
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by kerblang 5y ago
Yes, the transition is really an 80's-90's thing. A lot of films are basically using comics from that era as storyboards. The few superhero films of that era were generally lightweight fare based on much older comics.
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by kerblang 5y ago
I feel like the tech bubble is really just an outgrowth of an economic boom; big money rolls in, and needs a place to go. Everyone is happy to invest in dog shit as long as they can buy dog shit at $190/kilo and sell at 10 bucks more.
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by kerblang 5y ago
How far is 7k steps for an adult, roughly? 2km? Edit: From what I'm reading, about 4-6km, or 2.5-3.75 miles. That's a pretty decent walk. Guess I gotta do more.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Ah good I shall try it again
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by kerblang 5y ago
It's up but whenever I try to make a page it internal-server-errors me. I'm not unappreciative I was just hoping maybe the author would say, hey I saw your booboo in my log and fixed it for you or something. Instead cometh the dow
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by kerblang 5y ago
> Internal Server Error Boo
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by kerblang 5y ago
I like how the author repeatedly pointed out how much HN hates web3, and the postings herein reinforce that with hilarious intensity. I mean, hey, guys, I think everybody knows you hate web3. But thanks for the reminder anyhow. ps For the r
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by kerblang 5y ago
I've worked in the USA at numerous companies for 30 years and never was sent to "active shooter training". I have had anti-harassment training, suspicious person training, security training, safety training, and then some but
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by kerblang 5y ago
> Default to public channels for better workplace communication I have tried so hard to get people to do this, but it seems like a lot of my coworkers are honestly scared of "public" channels, and by "public" I mean a
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by kerblang 5y ago
You know what would be kind of neat? Like, a web site you'd go to called makemeoneofthose.com, and you'd click some buttons, and then sometime later you'd have a hosting setup that you own with some software, web server(s) an
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by kerblang 5y ago
Would something like this help? (No of course I haven't compiled it.) int len; while ((len=file.Read(buf,0,buf.Length)) > 0) { for (int i=0; i<len; i++_) { if (buf[i] == '1') {
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by kerblang 5y ago
I think you are correct. Was able to get in by first doing `ssh-keygen -t ed25519` to create new private/public keys (be careful not to overwrite ssh keys that you are already using for other things!). RSA support is being phased out i
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by kerblang 5y ago
Like, say, a deploy. For example's sake.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Not real informative but it did bring up bazel which I went and looked at: https://bazel.build/docs Wondering what the experiences of others are with this thing. It claims to be anti-"task-based" which strikes me
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by kerblang 5y ago
My favorite deep fake is still Sassy Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM Ha it keeps on giving, note the picture on wall at https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM
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by kerblang 5y ago
Personally I was encouraged by > In Gallup's 2021 polling, 29% of Americans identified as Democrats ... 27% as Republicans ... and 42% as independents. Politics is a dirty but necessary business, and for many of us it's far bet
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by kerblang 5y ago
Yes technically the Kafka matter is a secondary to the author's main point, which is understanding each problem first . So yeah I would not waltz in and say, "Oh, no need for details, obviously you need to standardize on RabbitMQ
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by kerblang 5y ago
They hinted at the fact that kafka is not actually a queue, and it especially has problems with fairness if you try to use it as a queue for unequally sized "jobs" and/or unequally sized consumers. Kafka is for the exceptiona
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by kerblang 5y ago
In general, "unity" is something software developers routinely pursue just for the sake of unity itself, failing to understand that unity comes with significant tradeoffs. It is much harder to build a unified solution than a local
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by kerblang 5y ago
Now I can't stop myself: Bro, we put the bro in collabroation
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by kerblang 5y ago
See, when people sit elbow to elbow and can smell each other, they collaborate more. They use those headphones all day to keep their ears warmed up for the next Impromptu Collaboration Session. Really, the biggest problem is the fire dept k
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by kerblang 5y ago
I tried talking a phone number to my android but hmph nope
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by kerblang 5y ago
Absolutely right, aaaaand... it doesn't matter. People will do whatever is necessary to get their app in the user's hands. But Apple doesn't have Steve Jobs anymore and that matters a lot. Anyhow, the question driving everyth
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by kerblang 5y ago
If you are concerned about using unfamiliar and complex cloud software: A very reasonable option is ccrypt, which gives you dirt-simple command-line password-based encryption for text files (or any other files). It's available for most
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by kerblang 5y ago
Collaboration & empowerment require balance . It sounds like you've been pushed over the edge into collaborative hell, where you're getting pulled in every direction because there's a lack of clear ownership, responsibil
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by kerblang 5y ago
> One of the most effective engineers I worked with spent her first month here very intentionally taking every single one of her new co-workers out to coffee I worked with someone who did this (lunch instead of coffee) and was singularly
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by kerblang 5y ago
I.E. They raised prices and "ensured" scarcity, yes.
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by kerblang 5y ago
Dumb physics question: If a dying civilization 99,000 light years away sent its last radio transmission 100,000 years ago, we'd never know it happened, right? Maybe I'm missing something with those radio waves bouncing back and fo

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