mech422

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by mech422 5y ago
Thanks! the speech was interesting
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - I think I was confusing India and China...And wheat and rice. Sad that people that have had such a profound impact on the world, in such good ways, are relatively unknown.
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by mech422 5y ago
Wow - Dr. Longping sounds like incredible individual. Does anyone have any recomendations for good articles/books about him?
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by mech422 5y ago
forgive my ignorance...but I thought a guy at the USDA developed the hybrid rice used in a lot of asia? Ahh - Dr. Borlaug did wheat it appears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
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by mech422 5y ago
slack has to be the worst 'end user experience' I've had with messaging. The threading is horrible, the client is huge and regularly 'stalls' (garbage collection?), and the voice chat is laggy as all get out. Basi
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by mech422 5y ago
Interesting...I wasn't even aware they had moved to the UK. It does seem anything more then 10 years old now is forgotten as 'ancient history' :-P The whole purpose of the original freenode organization seems to have been lo
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by mech422 5y ago
I tend to think this is an issue with 'designing' systems vs 'evolving' them. When you build something to 'scratch your own itch' and it suddenly becomes popular, lots of stuff you didn't think of tends t
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by mech422 5y ago
The part I don't get is there was the same drama when freenode was founded... The org structure (wasn't it a non-profit at one point?), the donation drives, etc. There was a lot of "much larger irc networks don't need a
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by mech422 5y ago
sounds like your team is in good shape... so move on to things that can keep them that way.. tools, training, etc. Maybe schedule time to talk about long term project goals.. the big refactor that everyone knows needs to be done, but can ne
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by mech422 5y ago
I haven't written cobol since late 90s-early 2k... But my experiences were just the opposite. If you need to write accounting software, COBOL is a pretty painless way to do it. Add in something like automatic copybooks from DDL in fil
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by mech422 5y ago
Kudos on the perserverance :-) Hope you didn't burn too many fingers! :-D
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by mech422 5y ago
I thought the idea there was a lot of the big tech companies had offices in Ireland for tax bennies... and that was part of the EU ? Anyway, be interesting to see how it all plays out...
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by mech422 5y ago
oh - didn't know that... I suppose they'd have to stop taking advertising from Florida based entities as well, to be truly 'not doing business' in Florida.
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by mech422 5y ago
Figured I'd leave this here, since there seems to be some interest in keyboard stuff... Quick overview of teardown/rebuild of Cypher (Pok3r board).
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Vortex Cypher Keyboard Rebuild(imgur.com)
1 points by mech422 5y ago|1 comments
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - my vortex rebuild (1) has south facing LEDs, so they're basically useless. The only thing I really liked about shine thru's was the ability to occasionally change up the legend colors (ohh - maybe amber or yellow legends t
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by mech422 5y ago
heh - yeah, I rebuilt a Vortext Cypher (1) including adding SMT leds to unused pads on the board... What I learned about soldering was worth the cost of the board :-) I like heavy switches so I put kaihl box navies in it. Its probably just
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by mech422 5y ago
sorry - I've got ducky, durgod, rebuilt frankenboards, and ergo's... no keychron. I will say, I use it but not the ducky, or durgods...
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by mech422 5y ago
I'm actually curious what makes anyone think Florida has any jurisdiction? Are any social media companies based in florida, have offices in Florida or 'do business' in Florida? I thought at least one of those had to be true
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by mech422 6y ago
GMMK boards are surprisingly nice for the money... the new 'elite' looks to have taken it up a notch too. I originally got one, as it was hotswap and almost as cheap as a switch tester. But it compares well with say my Ducky.
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by mech422 6y ago
same here - as I got older, I really started to notice the stress typing put on my hands. Even though I use ultra heavy switches now (kailh box navies, cherry greens, etc) I still feel better at the end of the day. And switches don't
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by mech422 6y ago
I'm just the opposite...Kaihl box navies and Cherry greens.. I learned to touch type on a manual typewriter, so 'soft' switches tend register if my fingers twitch.
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by mech422 6y ago
I'm wanting to a 'tracktly' with a track ball on the right thumb cluster. Gotta admit - the DM cases look like a bear to solder in.
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by mech422 6y ago
When I opened up my board to swap the switches, I realized it had unused RGB pads...soo of course I hand solder 60 2-3mm surface mount LEDs to it. Yep, last time I do that :-P But it worked, which was the fun part... the sad part is, I do
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by mech422 6y ago
Oh wow... thats a blast from the past.. Wonder what he's up to? /me runs off to google
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by mech422 6y ago
Hey Neighbor! I'm in Mesa :-) There's dozens of us...dozens :-D
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by mech422 6y ago
I've been doing this for 20 years now... Surprisingly, the recruiters are starting to answer "sure - no problem..." :-)
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by mech422 6y ago
Yeah - Its interesting, you can refuse to serve gay people a wedding cake, but cut people off from their phoney internet points and all hell breaks loose. Personally, I think if govts consider social media so vital and a matter of 'the
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by mech422 6y ago
Awww man, that window is gonna be closed to me ... :-P Even 2038 would be pushing it...I need like a "2030 issue" Maybe we could do a major tax code change? move to metric system ?
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by mech422 6y ago
I figure in another 10 years or so, COBOL could be funding a large part of my retirement.. Just need another y2k :-) Maybe 2038...

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