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by mark-r 4y ago
It's not just ls though, the shell hides them too right? echo * won't show them.
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by mark-r 4y ago
That makes sense; power utilities have lots of money, and they're going to build new plants to provide power, that's their job. As solar power becomes cheaper relative to other options and has intangible benefits too, it will inc
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by mark-r 4y ago
That's kind of cool, thanks. How long does it take to do a web scrape versus a DB dump?
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by mark-r 4y ago
The biggest tragedy is good answers to bad questions. The answer might teach you something you never knew before, but if the question is judged harshly it might get deleted or hidden in search results.
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by mark-r 4y ago
It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
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by mark-r 4y ago
"As always, I welcome your feedback." Was that a pun?
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by mark-r 4y ago
>> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary. > This one really frustrates me. Write code to the complexity level needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. The only time I'd break from this is if I know for certa
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by mark-r 4y ago
Version? I assume you got attacked by auto-correct and really meant Verizon.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I think I have a 68HC11 sitting around that I picked up for a project and never used. I wonder if it's worth anything?
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by mark-r 4y ago
I knew a guy who tried to build a multi processor system with 16 6800s. Made a mistake with the power supply and ended up frying all of them.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I never got to use the 6800, but did use both the 6809 and 68000 in assembler. Both were a joy to work with.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I once did a progress dialog for a Windows app. It had a delay so it wouldn't even show until 0.5 seconds had elapsed - if the operation completed in that time, you never saw the pop-up. Once the dialog appeared it would stay on scre
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by mark-r 4y ago
Yes, but at least you'll have charts to tell you how far down the drain you've gone.
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by mark-r 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by mark-r 4y ago
I've had two of those just last week. Like they think I'm scared of spiders? As far as I'm concerned, if a spider is finding enough to eat it's doing me a favor.
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by mark-r 4y ago
This is why I refuse to install apps on my phone. The companies will push and prod you to install their app, but it isn't worth it. I could have had a free hamburger from Burger King recently, but you had to order it through their ap
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by mark-r 4y ago
These days I use GPS as a generic term to apply to any or all of the above, not specifically to the US implementation.
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by mark-r 4y ago
Not quite complete enough for my liking. 3.9 doesn't have any mention of zoneinfo.ZoneInfo for example.
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by mark-r 4y ago
And because of my choice of OS I'm stuck with Python 3.8. Thanks so much Python!
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by mark-r 4y ago
I had almost managed to completely forget about 9 track tapes. Now you've made my head hurt.
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by mark-r 4y ago
As long as they don't lose the Colonel, they can't screw up too bad. And since the actual Colonel Sanders has been dead for years and replaced by a cartoon, he's now immortal.
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by mark-r 4y ago
One of my favorite graphics is this one detailing the evolution of the Pepsi logo vs. the Coca-Cola logo: https://flowingdata.com/2009/08/13/pepsi-and-coca-cola-logo-... Of course it was over-dramatized for e
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by mark-r 4y ago
As soon as I saw the title of this post, I knew it was going to be about this ad. So iconic and well done.
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by mark-r 4y ago
There's definitely a connection between overused and reviled, but I don't think one causes the other. Do people hate on Trajan for example?
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by mark-r 4y ago
I loved the link to the SNL skit. Agree it's a fantastic performance by Ryan Gosling. The funniest part for me though is how it ended with Comic Sans, the only font in the universe more reviled than Papyrus.
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by mark-r 4y ago
Most of us don't have CNC routers sitting around doing nothing.
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by mark-r 4y ago
My parents gave me a new set of cast iron pans shortly after I started living on my own. I noticed they didn't have smooth bottoms like theirs did, so I asked my dad if he could help me smooth it out. He put a grinder attachment on t
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by mark-r 4y ago
Given how long pancakes have been a thing, I suspect they were invented on cast iron.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I was wondering why there were so many Star Wars quotes, then I realized today is May the fourth. Nicely done!
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by mark-r 4y ago
I had a 2007 4Runner; I got the recall notices. I ignored them because I knew they were not getting to the root of the problem and were just trying to wallpaper over it.

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