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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
Modern televisions have made me wish they were just dumb (as possible) monitors with no software interface. Just select the input, power, volume, brightness etc those things no Roku or other smarts.
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
My father's uncle kept moving the fence between our property and his so he could drive to the back of his own property. This was an ongoing thing. I think eventually my father just gave up and let him have the strip. Now neither proper
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
Before you speak to the judge you speak to the prosecutor who can decide to add to the base fine of $173 + $25 court fee even if you don't go to court and it is at their discretion to increase the fine. A prosecutor involved for a spee
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
In Texas a speeding ticket is a Class C misdemeanor which feels overly punitive to me.
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
I wonder if they have spare parts to repair existing cars or if they would have taken some of their spares for new vehicles.
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
Yeah and knowing the programmer personally at the time I have no reason to believe he would not have known what he was helping to facilitate. Eventually the two programmers asked for their pay to be in diamonds like they were working for a
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by macjohnmcc 5y ago
I learned a few years ago that I actually worked closely with one of the two programmers who worked with Madoff and was part of the "Madoff Five" the year before he started with Madoff. I feel the judge went too easy on the progra
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
yeah nearly every developer I encounter does not want to pay for anything. Yet they love to get paid to program. An odd disconnect there for me.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I feel like I'm living the dream currently. I have AT&T fiber with gigabit up and down that runs through my backyard and Google Fiber with gigabit up and down running along the street in front of my house. But many other homes even
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
People can justify all kinds of things if they are making money. I knew one of the programmers who was caught up in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. He went along with it for a long time and enriched himself. He had to have known what was going on.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I had an issue like this with Power Automate Desktop yesterday and today. It was trying to retrieve my automation script from their servers I'm sure and there was no response.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
After a study with the same findings came out the school district my son was in changed it's start time. To an earlier start time. This is in Texas so not surprising.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
strcpy is a coding challenge where I work for interviews. I typically ask them to write it as the standard version and ask them why they might not want to use it to see if they are aware of the risks. After that I ask them to modify the cod
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Something isn't quite right with Florida. The majority of it just disappears once there is a break due to melting.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I thought that one of those book covers looked familiar so I went over to my vintage computer books shelf and found the "more" edition. I think it's a 10th printing and in nearly perfect condition. Not sure I could handle typ
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
It will make you want the cancel process to be just as easy as the subscription. Instead you have to chat with a person who will try to retain you as a customer.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
And it is relatively inexpensive.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I used to have a, I believe, three processor Alpha computer when I worked at Microsoft. I had a MIPs, PPC and X86 based computers as well and all were top end and the Alpha always seemed to outpace them all. I was sad when it was discontinu
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
It's quite different to switch between tasks when one task doesn't need your attention for a moment but quite another to switch in the middle of the tasks.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
The customer/product is always wrong!
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I think part of the appeal of the retro computers is learning to work within their limitations from memory, sound capability, etc. Sometimes having boundaries can fuel ingenuity.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
The only downside to this approach is that you have to use a modern computer to do anything with that retro like hardware. Not that that is a horrible thing but it's another layer.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
What is even more interesting once you know how it works at that level is to learn how electricity works at a more fundamental level.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Some of the benefits of retro computing is learning how computers work on a lower level than you might with a modern computer. While modern computers are far more complex than any retro and there isn't a one-to-one analog for how they
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
My wife and I were out driving looking at Christmas lights a few weeks ago and I tried to reverse the car with no other cars around but the car did an emergency stop because the lights confused the system into thinking someone was behind me
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I'm happy to lead as long as I also am allowed to work on the code itself from design to actually writing code. I have been doing this full time for 35 years and I would be miserable had I switch to a pure management role at any point
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I have the full size Model-M I would use a Model-M Space Saver as my daily driver but the full size is too big for my desk while also using a mouse.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I priced Amazon's prescription drug service and it estimated I would be paying my co-pay on each of the drugs. Sounds good if you usually go to CVS but at Walmart I get the four prescriptions I get for $26-30.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Likely if it ain't broke don't fix it.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I have used it to graph large python projects and c++ projects. It is great for visualizing the classes and relationship of classes and functions along with references to all the program elements. The hardest part for me has been setting up

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