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by mdip 5y ago
I think more than a few of us are familiar with the mess of bad capacitors that made their way into products throughout the early 00s. I still see this from time to time, but I remember the first time I encountered it -- I had purchased a
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by mdip 5y ago
I've read a bit about this story over the years -- perhaps it's a little more popular given that about half of my (very large) graduating class attended Michigan State University. I was the "computer geek" growing up and
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by mdip 5y ago
Interesting ... I wonder what other animals and what capacity they have to learn to mimick language. Anecdotally, we have a small poodle. She's an unusually vocal dog -- not a guard dog; she rarely barks at people, but we noticed earl
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by mdip 5y ago
I found the advertisement that contained the software to be interesting. For instance, why is Simons' Basic "Rated PG"? I thought, maybe, this was a silly marketing bit, but some of the other software in the list has ages li
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by mdip 5y ago
I'm surprised I've never heard of this, but looking back,... it fits. Back in the late 90s, myself and a few friends popped on our first pair of inlines[0]. I think years of attending "skating parties" as school events
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by mdip 5y ago
Echoed my thoughts pretty closely here. My thinking has always been "it's a language and a runtime". I found your bullet points interesting and realized it's been a really long time since I've done any serious s
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by mdip 5y ago
> Definitely most cases are what you describe but doesn't being pessimistic about every announcement kill innovation in the long run? Perhaps. That , however, is probably not a solvable problem. It's trivial to come up with
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by mdip 5y ago
I tend to agree with the statement "There is no alternative", as it relates to a few of their products and certain fields/companies. Adobe makes a lot of stuff [0] As in, there's going to be a lot of places/work w
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by mdip 5y ago
Well presented and right in line with my thinking. These "Are you sure you want to leave? You'll be giving up all this . . .". They come off like the kinds of things you have yelled at you after you break up with someone. A
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by mdip 5y ago
> Fonts should not be copyrightable. Print fonts are not, it makes no sense that digital ones are. I agree with your first statement, except that I'm stuck re-wording it to "I wish fonts weren't copyrightable" becau
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by mdip 5y ago
The author is a little more gracious than I would have been: Bikeshedding -- in a past large enterprise that I worked, bikeshedding was most frequently employed in staff meetings that involved multiple levels of management. Middle-manage
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by mdip 5y ago
> Sometimes a solution evolves in a way Yeah, forgot all about that detail -- reminded me of one the other day. I had finished up a really painful feature add, involving altering code in like 7 different classes due to a data mo
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by mdip 5y ago
Both very good points -- I hadn't originally assumed it was a joke, mostly because I don't write `rust` code and I don't know how unlikely it would be to come to that solution. I know I've seen examples at least as odd a
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by mdip 5y ago
I learned these operators in a college course I took while in High School[0]. I remember I had to make flash cards with examples and memorize throughout the semester. I kept mixing up & and | in comparison/setting. It's st
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by mdip 5y ago
> which is still potentially troubling but very different I'm having a really difficult time remembering the last time I had to even use a bit operator at work[0]. For a lot of developers, the need to keep that operator in
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by mdip 5y ago
Completely agree, and it's really complicated to do right. I've been blessed to work for some great bosses and great organizations in my life. I've worked at one or two lousy ones along the way, too, but one thing I've
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by mdip 5y ago
Some of my memory is coming back -- I recall a somewhat true-sounding explanation as to why the RAM was setup with a $5.00 cost value and why it was specific with branded, "Designed For", memory. I remember hearing that the reaso
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by mdip 5y ago
What you're describing sounds awfully familiar, except for the "loot the place", our store was in Madison Heights, MI, which had/has a large Korean population nearby so it wasn't unusual to have days where it felt l
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by mdip 5y ago
The way you describe and the way this process actually works , in my experience, are two different things. I'll take the "reason I only buy razor blades online" as an example. I knew my Gillette was really dull and that
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by mdip 5y ago
... feeling badly for picking on F-Bomb guy and I remembered a story about him that I thought I'd share as context when I say he never landed in harassment territory. He worked at an office in a different state, but I worked closely wi
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by mdip 5y ago
Good for them. Though, I wonder how this ever was allowed to get this bad in the first place[0]. Perhaps it's how I was raised, my employment history, or I've just "gotten lucky" with (larger) employers[1], but it blow
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by mdip 5y ago
We used to attach the little tags to people's clothing, especially customers who were very difficult[0]. I'm not sure who pointed it out, but we learned that simply pushing on the top of the "tag" would keep it from trig
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by mdip 5y ago
That's funny when putting it through the lens of the store I worked at. Our door greeter was a 70 year old frail woman who was a little out-spoken. I can actually see her running out the door after a shop-lifter, but I can't see
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by mdip 5y ago
I couldn't help while reading this thinking 'Security is in charge of Customer Experience'. Obviously theft is a serious problem for the likes of retail -- and shoplifting is something that isn't 100% preventable. You
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by mdip 5y ago
I have a thousand similar stories (my comment history will turn up several of them). For context, in the late 90s, I started at "the first iteration of" Frontier Communications, not long after it transformed from Rochester Telep
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by mdip 5y ago
The tape system was really interesting to me during the short time that it was there (upgraded shortly after I started); I didn't expect to be able to find any useful information on it but surprisingly, an old IBM Promo video exists on
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by mdip 5y ago
I wanted to include a link directly to it on the last post but couldn't find it after a few searches. I had originally read about it in the context of Tesla's automation failures (or, possibly, some of the issues around auto-pilo
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by mdip 5y ago
Worth mentioning: I never worked with the mainframe in my previous job but was located in the datacenter. Most of my knowledge came from asking why the suite had 20 or so "big red stop buttons". Apparently someone was hospitalize
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by mdip 5y ago
This isn't an area that I study, directly, but I've had some experience with other robotic automation systems on a small/medium scale. Maybe this is common and my experience is at issue, but I found the grid design with the &
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by mdip 5y ago
Seriously fascinating, thank you for sharing. I had taken a skeptical gaze at the article, not because I professionally study the subject, but because this particular area of science has recently come under fire for issues of researches att

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