mech422

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   by mech422 5y ago

   I think that will hold them a couple of years... Then something else (possibly NOT FB owned) will take over... like another tik tok. Kids don't want to be on the same social as their parents. Its gonna be a revolving door every 5 or
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   by mech422 5y ago

   Depends on who you work for - I've had plenty of full-time and contract positions that had no restrictions against other work aside from a non-compete. I've also worked plenty of places that only claim ownership of IP created on t
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   by mech422 5y ago

   Personally, I think FB is in trouble because it became 'your grandmothers social media'... the youngsters seem more interested in insta and tiktok
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   by mech422 5y ago

   >>healthcare generally affordable, barring stories about catastrophic bankrupting illnesses I think you're being down voted for the 'generally affordable' and 'bankrupting illnesses' parts. "Middle class
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   by mech422 5y ago

   Personally, Compute! magazine was my goto for games... The fact it autocheck the checksum at the end of each line was a sanity saver! Anyone else remember the hex code dumps they had for entering/checking machine language programs? I
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   by mech422 5y ago

   I'm in a similar situation regarding salary/COL, however I don't travel.. I found SV lost its appeal when I no wanted to take advantage of the meetups, computer clubs, etc. If I wasn't going to take advantage of the uniq
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   by mech422 5y ago

   I've been working remote only for 20 years now, and don't consider any positions that require on-site/travel. Its become MUCH more prevalent in recent years, obviously. However I find a lot of my friends that HAVE jobs alre
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   by mech422 5y ago

   I haven't run a Linux GUI in ages (ssh only for the most part). But I always loved what Rasterman did with Enlightenment. E is still going strong, and if you're looking for a Linux desktop it is worth a look.
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   Enlightenment Desktop(enlightenment.org)

   5 points by mech422 5y ago|1 comments
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I'm over 50 as well, and my last job search took 4 months (being fairly picky about what I wanted..). The key is to 'work the ends' - the demand in tech is in really old tech (COBOL, RPG, CICS) and really new tech ('clou
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    by mech422 5y ago

    Nice to see someone actually put the TL;DR at the top for a change.. Never understood the logic of people putting them at the end of an article.. If I wasn't gonna read the whole thing, what makes you think I'm gonna scroll to the
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    by mech422 5y ago

    Besides 'computer' operator, there used to be 'I/O operator's (tapes) and 'print pool operator' (run printers). Also, in my experience 'computer operators' weren't really 'sysadmins&#x2
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    by mech422 5y ago

    ^^^ - This! You don't 'require' anything on equipment you don't provide. full stop. period.
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I used to work in Operations...there were 2 of us on shift for a 1 man job.. The extra was 'insurance' :-)
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    by mech422 5y ago

    Maybe I'm just cynical, but I tend to think of which party is in 'power' as just a proxy for which party gets the biggest bribes :-P But tbh, if I had the answers, I'd run for govt :-D
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I don't think we _could_ end up with more legislation written by lobbyists. It's pretty much 100% already. I think at the worst, we'd be right where we are now... Plus with term limits, at least we'd be rid of them, ins
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    by mech422 5y ago

    True dat
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    by mech422 5y ago

    >> Do you have valid reasons for thinking corruption of Senators or Representatives would be less with term limits? I like to think people's terms limit would be reached before they get jaded and cynical.. At the very least, it w
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    by mech422 5y ago

    If Senators served 15 year terms, without limits... We'd be right back where we are now - people server 30+ years, so entrenched in serving their own good and not the public good.
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    by mech422 5y ago

    Just a personnel nit: I actually found altavista to be better then any current search engine in terms of query power - what it was missing was the huge index.. Things like the 'near' keyword were awesome: john near doe matched &#x
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    by mech422 5y ago

    >>I think the only way to get drastic action is if a large % of voting population demands it. Sadly the defeatist attitude reinforces the powerless cycle by not voting and not participating, because they think it doesn't matter.
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I think every generation has had their 'dread'... from world wars, to cold wars, to climate... Personally, it seems like what changed was somewhere around Gen-X we lost faith in our ability to change anything. That feeling of help
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    by mech422 5y ago

    >>I feel like I'm being argued with by younger people still in the phase where they're in love with the city, extrapolating my points into general indictments of density. I'm actually an empty nester, and I took my car
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    by mech422 5y ago

    >>Furthermore I'm currently in a quasi-rural area with gigabit muni fiber, so I don't buy that argument either. Whether there is the political will to build out modern Internet access or suffer the extractive oligopoly depen
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    by mech422 5y ago

    For cables, I'd recommend Monoprice... I also find B&H Photo surprisingly good for computer stuff.
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    by mech422 5y ago

    Bummer. Thanks for clarifying that.
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    by mech422 5y ago

    >>1) Multi-account containers - open each tab in an isolated container with its own session cookies etc. I also like having separate profiles for stuff like banking, browsing, shopping, gmail, etc. You can combine this with container
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    by mech422 5y ago

    How does this relate to MIT's mini-cheetah(1)? A quick search didn't turn up any plans/code for the cheetah except some simulator software(2). Is this an open source 'work-alike' ? 1) https://biomimetic
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I'm always a sad enlightenment(1) doesn't seem to get any notice anymore... I used to run E everywhere - Thanks Raster! But I have to admit, lately - I run KDE 1) https://www.enlightenment.org/
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    by mech422 5y ago

    I would amend that to "most big open source projects _eventually_ have a company behind the, _if you're lucky_" Its amazing how much easier its gotten to make a living working _with_ open source code over the years, while it&