markbnj

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by markbnj 3y ago
Agree with you about loud pipes, but I am not sure why you had to throw high-vis clothing in there, unless the point is simply not to rely on any one advantage and to assume every driver is going to try to kill you. I do and heartily encour
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by markbnj 3y ago
We're almost exactly 10 miles north of the epicenter near Oldwick, NJ. We experienced several sharp jolts that sent some items tumbling off shelves and shook my ember full of coffee off its charging coaster (or I spilled it in reacting
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by markbnj 3y ago
Clicked on the first Bell Labs link hoping to read the original and ended up on some VPN service's landing page. Sigh. :(
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by markbnj 3y ago
>> It's worth reading, perhaps unless you're going to be flying on a Boeing plane anytime soon. Just returned from Miami yesterday aboard a B757-200. I was intrigued because it has been so long since I've flown on one.
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by markbnj 3y ago
I way pre-date the web, so I guess I'm older than the author. I typed my first line of code into a teletype terminal connected to an HP3000 mainframe at my high school in 197... something... 6 I think. Also I kind of think we old peopl
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by markbnj 3y ago
I'm proud to have published a few pieces in DDJ back in the day, when Jon Erickson was at the helm. It was sad to see it fade away over the years. It definitely felt special to have your name appear in those pages, and writing for DDJ
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by markbnj 3y ago
>> I don't even know enough superlatives to express how irrelevant it is that "it seems to you" that an LLM behaves this way or that. It is both irrelevant and the underlying foundation for the whole hype train.
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by markbnj 3y ago
Being ready to retire at 50 would be a good thing, but getting laid off in your 40's is not a death sentence. I'm 63 now, still working as an engineer, and I was laid off in my 40's, twice. In addition to the emergency fund,
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by markbnj 3y ago
Eh, I grant your point but it's probably higher than you might think. I was an early and devoted (and thus usually broke) Compuserve user, and visited the now-preserved building back in the mid-90s. The CIS user base skewed, I would sa
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by markbnj 3y ago
Years ago, mid-90's, I visited Compuserve in Ohio. The web was just getting going and one of the engineers I met there showed off a music store he was building by returning html from SQL stored procedures :).
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by markbnj 3y ago
The model is base yaml with patches applied to it results in final yaml that get sent to the api, so the typical structure for us is to have the base yaml live with the service source, be maintained by the service owners and include all env
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by markbnj 3y ago
Over seven years of using a variety of deployment tooling including helm (2 and 3), kustomize and our own scripting we concluded that helm's strength is as a package manager, akin to dpkg. Writing good packages is complex, but the tool
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by markbnj 3y ago
Thumbs up for gron. Been using it for a couple of years to get the jsonpath to a property I need. It's super handy with kubectl and other ctls of the sort.
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by markbnj 3y ago
What's your personal experience with it? We've been on the platform for almost eight years. Three clusters, hundreds of compute VMs, four or five public and private DNS zones, 10+ cloud sql dbs, about the same number of memorystor
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by markbnj 3y ago
I don't know if anyone can prescribe "ideal" hip/knee/lean angles for you. In general you can lay bike ergonomics out on a spectrum from sport bikes on the one end, with aggressive, crouched, forward leaning rider p
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by markbnj 3y ago
Yeah this is me. I've been using Windows since version 3, and was a windows dev for many years before focusing on linux and open source. Now Windows is basically for steam games, media consumption and displaying my work laptop using No
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by markbnj 3y ago
I did a recent full playthrough of Morrowind and all the expansions on OpenMW, using one of the available curated mod lists as a starting point. It was rock solid throughout, looked much better than the original, and was at least as much fu
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by markbnj 3y ago
This is awesome :). On page 8 I found the "Peronal Computer Toolkit" that my daughter gave me many years ago, and that I still have sitting in my desk drawer (minus about half the tools).
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by markbnj 3y ago
Came here to say this. My Dad also built our stereo, as well as our first color television, from Heathkit kits. He built some other stuff too... an aircraft radio receiver I think. He was a mechanical engineer (now retired). I remember hang
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by markbnj 4y ago
I wrote a ton of C++ back in the early 90's. Should I dust off my chops and spend the last few years of my career consulting like the Cobol and Fortran people? [Only half kidding]
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by markbnj 4y ago
Up in Vermont over the weekend a local gardener I met at a bar told me over the last couple of decades all his planting has moved up a month. Later that night I read an article by a ski industry analyst that revealed that the ski season is
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by markbnj 4y ago
>> I can totally see a post-code development experience that mirrors how programs work I can't, because how programs work is a projection of how computers work and how computers work is by doing math. The whole reason why we have
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by markbnj 4y ago
Sure. I was 32 and freshly married, working as a field sales rep for an optical inspection equipment oem and programming for fun in my off time. Hated the day job, loved the hobby, and when the oem was acquired I took the opportunity to bai
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by markbnj 4y ago
Programming requires deep thought and concentration. Are you sure the issue isn't simple distraction? I'm 62 and I feel like the major thing that has changed in 35 years for me is the crazy amount of unrelated things (youtube, HN,
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by markbnj 4y ago
I'm already paying a little more than that per year for 100GB of Drive storage. It gives me a highly durable backup that's accessible from anywhere. I would happily pay a similar amount for gmail.
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by markbnj 4y ago
When I was in my 40s I asked my Dad when I would stop being constantly worried about my kids, and he said that he still worried about me :).
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by markbnj 4y ago
Probably everyone with a job they like better than the actual work of caring for a child has felt the same way. I've been an engineer for 30 years and a parent of three daughters for the same period, so those are my bona fides in this
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by markbnj 4y ago
I rarely have to return things, but when I do have to return something purchased on Amazon it's basically: couple of clicks, get a QR in email, walk into the local UPS store with the item and hand it over, quick scan of the QR and done
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by markbnj 4y ago
I wrote my first code in BASIC on an HP3000 in 1975. There were a couple of CRTs in the computing room but they were hotly competed for by Star Trek players so for the most part we worked on teletypes and stored our code on paper tape. When
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by markbnj 4y ago
I haven't bought a Dell computer in many years, but I love their monitors. I started with the first 1920x1200 they offered probably fifteen years ago now, and have been through a series of them culminating in the two 27" 4k panels

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