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by marpstar 3y ago
I’ve been frustrated by this, too. Trying to ask for ways to support a close family member who experienced sexual trauma. ChatGPT won’t touch the topic.
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by marpstar 3y ago
I grew up listening to my dad's record/CD collection, all 60s-80s rock. When we drove in the car, we listened to music on the radio. My father in law likes 1950s big band music; it's not really on broadcast radio much. He lis
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by marpstar 3y ago
My family and I drove through the Ports of LA/Long Beach on vacation last summer. A port is basically an entire city dedicated to getting things in/out of the water. Takes 15-20 minutes to drive through. You can't imagine the
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by marpstar 3y ago
I'd think that a place like an international shipping port would have equipment in relatively close proximity for handling (albeit much smaller) tasks like wreckage removal and the like. I have no idea what a practical timeline would b
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by marpstar 3y ago
My original eBay account (which is now in possession of my mother -- who "borrowed" it one day to list some trinket she found at a garage sale, got hooked, sold a few more things, and didn't want to give it back after she had
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by marpstar 3y ago
I worked at Best Buy circa 2005 and we had a single Mac Mini on the floor that had the fish wallpaper and it always drew me in. I had no interest in Macs at the time, but there was something alluring behind that wallpaper.
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by marpstar 3y ago
This is why the price of "Enterprise" level of SaaS is always "Contact Us". Contract deals (i.e. "lock-in") are negotiated behind the scenes.
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by marpstar 3y ago
You check CNN, you check Fox News... same story, different spin. Who's correct? Probably neither.
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by marpstar 3y ago
Agreed. It's "fun" to start breaking your code down into small bits; more interchangeable "pieces" -- until you have to maintain it for 10 years (or worse yet, explain it to a new junior dev) and the extensibility y
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by marpstar 3y ago
You sure it wasn't PRNG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
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by marpstar 3y ago
Not everyone is willing to uproot their life on a whim, even for a theoretically great job and a theoretically great company.
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by marpstar 3y ago
Skimming the track list, Tendering was first to grab me. The mood changes are so fluid... love it. Thanks for sharing.
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by marpstar 3y ago
I don't turn mine on for every meeting, and neither do the other devs on my team. The Product Managers almost always have theirs on. Larger meetings (more than, say, 10 people) I keep mine off but will turn on if I'm speaking or i
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by marpstar 3y ago
To add to this, it's not like a mailing list, either. Marketing opt-in is lower because it's annoying. A lot of people don't want emails. Anonymized stats from your machine? Most normal people (who don't use computers li
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by marpstar 3y ago
You don't provide health insurance to vendors.
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by marpstar 3y ago
I'm reading it right now and really appreciate the short chapters, which really helped grabbed me and keep me reading. The whole backstory of founders of the original semiconductor companies is stranger than fiction.
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by marpstar 3y ago
It felt weird at the time, but I think the reach of COBOL is underestimated by just about everyone. I just checked the university's website and they still have their introductory Programming in COBOL course as well as a 400-level &quot
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by marpstar 3y ago
None of those things are what most in the GIS space would consider "complex", so you could go with any of the options you selected. For lightweight maps, I like Leaflet https://leafletjs.com
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by marpstar 3y ago
Oops. 2010*
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by marpstar 3y ago
I did an internship in 2009-2010 with a company who used MicroFocus “AcuCOBOL” to modernize a green-screen automotive dealership management system into a Windows GUI. I wouldn’t say I did it for fun, but I did do it for the learning experie
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by marpstar 3y ago
Define "complex maps". I haven't seen anything that offers as much functionality as Esri's SDKs, but that's biased by the fact that I've been working with their SDKs for over a decade.
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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business(cnbc.com)
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by marpstar 3y ago
I've been using MJML for a few years now, I can't imagine even trying to build a responsive email without it. I don't even have to think about it. You may still have to slice images, but it's grid/column support has
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by marpstar 3y ago
https://brutalist.report
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by marpstar 3y ago
This is one school board, not the state. With that said -- I'm in Iowa, my fiancé works in public libraries and for the Iowa Library Association and the ALA as a resource for those facing book challenges, and it's a shit show here
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by marpstar 3y ago
Right, but the bigger the organization, the larger those costs. Think of a city of Los Angeles switching to a new system for tracking their public works department versus a township of 3,000 people. Smaller orgs are much more tolerant to th
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by marpstar 3y ago
Accurate. The licensing (and the "kill switch") at a previous job were controlled entirely via Salesforce. Our app would "phone home" regularly to check which features are being paid for and we'd toggle them on and
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by marpstar 3y ago
In my experience, it's the residual sugar (in everything that comes in a box/wrapper/bag) that keeps this "sweetness sensitivity" high. I've done strict keto off and on for 10+ years and drank Diet Coke like it
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by marpstar 3y ago
On greenfield projects, even at the Fortune 500 level, there is almost always a greater concern about execution than stack. Especially for smaller projects. They care about results, not fine details behind the means of getting them.
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by marpstar 3y ago
At that point it's not his problem unless they're paying him for it to be. I've had clients specifically ask for certain platforms (WordPress, Shopify, etc) but still assemble my own solutions regularly when it'll make m

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