mech422

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by mech422 2y ago
There was some research after the Vietnam war to provide blind veterans with a device on their back that used a matrix of 'pins' to 'draw' the output of a video camera on the users back.. Supposedly, it worked quite well
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by mech422 2y ago
EDIT: Hmm - I'm actually having a problem finding anything saying ROSS actually passed the bar. Maybe my memory is faulty... IBM had an AI (Ross) pass the bar years ago...I believe it was actually 'hired' as an attorney at a
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by mech422 2y ago
I always loved the Commodore bus...simple, daisy chainable, standard connector, etc. I remember being quite disappointed by the initial PC hard drive controller cards..
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by mech422 2y ago
check out the DES babies (0) or Thalidomide if you want to see how little we understand long term effects...My mom was a nanny and one of the girls she raised was born sterile due to DES her mom was given _to support pregnancy_ ! 0) https:
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by mech422 2y ago
"Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers" LOL...keep dreaming...I'll be long retired before that happens... I'm excited to see where the tech goes, but right now - I put it ri
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by mech422 2y ago
Odroid has an H4 now ? I missed that... I have multiple H2+s boards and love them!
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by mech422 2y ago
Heh - I misspoke...I use WSL2, but I don't use the graphics stuff (WSL2+ ?). Oh! In regards to your docker comment - Docker desktop kept choking on creating containers for ARM64 platforms (a libc version mismatch I think)...Long story
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by mech422 2y ago
Yeah - I have family in both countries (parents: mom & family from Leeds, dad and family from London cousins: I don't actually know where in Canada they are now) Obviously, there is a lot of good stuff we can copy/learn from b
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by mech422 2y ago
I agree, single payer/universal health should be a table stakes. And I wasn't picking on Canada - it seems to be a better system all around. But all systems can be improved (as you mentioned). If we're going to this from scra
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by mech422 2y ago
WSL is awesome - I haven't bothered with WSL2 as I don't need the graphics... Still a nice tabbed SSH/Everything(tm) client is nice to have :-) PS VS code + WSL is awesome for most stuff :-) Very lil I need from work env. th
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by mech422 2y ago
while I agree we need some sort of nationalized health care and should learn from the countries that have implemented it, I'm not sure thats the strong success you think it is? Just recently we had a bunch of comments here on HN about
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by mech422 3y ago
thats usually called a 'profit share' (though I've only seen it based on net profit and not gross revenue). It was quite nice on Wall Street back in the 80s...Especially since everyone got an equal share rather then the mana
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by mech422 3y ago
Ross Perot/EDS and I think IBM used to do the cheers.. EDS would also interview you wife (if you had one) to make sure she fit in with the EDS family.
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by mech422 3y ago
ross perot - EDS and I think IBM did the same...
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by mech422 3y ago
I second Moba - its awesome :-) On top of all the protocols, you get an X server - all in a nice tabbed interface.
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by mech422 3y ago
Also, COBOL is basically a special purpose language...It's designed for accounting apps. and reports. Its really not bad for them either. Verbose, but not bad...
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by mech422 3y ago
Personally, I'd prefer not to get a shiny new UI every update... I do the same things with my phone I always did, I don't want to relearn the UI/Workflow just to get back to where I started.
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by mech422 3y ago
I've gotta agree - the flat monotone crap ("material design" ??) makes it harder to figure out whats what, and (IMHO) looks worse (even though I love dark themes, I like dark themes with 3D) Also, trying to minimize chrome to
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - social engineering seems a common/likely approach. I'd assume their machines are on different (private) networks for each tournament/location. So, it would much easier to have a pre-installed exploit phone out to the
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by mech422 3y ago
I would have expected the tournament to be behind NAT, so the the client machines would have unroutable ips, and the server would just get the IP of the router - not the individual clients ?
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by mech422 3y ago
I sometimes think FAANGs select for that group... Basically, all they have to offer is the paycheck. Outside of a few 'interesting' departments, most FAANG stuff seems to be the same sort of work you'd get in any other indus
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by mech422 3y ago
Curious how they got the players/clients IPs to begin with ?
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by mech422 3y ago
I've wondered a few times if Uganda had been chosen instead, if Idi Amin ever would have rose to power...
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by mech422 3y ago
The killer for me was requiring a FB/Meta login... No way I'm going to buy a piece of equipment Zuck can brick at any minute... Apple seems to have a bit better reputation in this regard, but I'm still not sure I'd risk
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by mech422 3y ago
I've been programming professionally since the mid-80s and the career ladder ended up in CTO/Dir. Eng roles... I went back to IC - the politics and managerial stuff just wasn't as interesting as the technical stuff.
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by mech422 3y ago
Oh nice! that must be it then.. I don't remember seeing it negative before - thanks! the stack overflow survey is a bit depressing though - we seem to lose everyone early... Seems like only 30% of people make it past 15 years. Which s
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by mech422 3y ago
Oh - I replied above with some anecdata from stack overflow, also surprised that BLS is predicting negative job growth for programmers (first time in my life, I think)
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by mech422 3y ago
Hmm - I can't find anything except anecdata atm (0) based on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023, but it appears that the numbers drop off pretty sharply starting at the 10-14 year mark. Wish I could find the original article I saw
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by mech422 3y ago
I didn't think it meant that... this was probably a 5-10 year old stat...lemme see if I can find it.
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by mech422 3y ago
It used to be most programmers change to other careers within 10 years. Not sure if that's still true, but if so - I think it means most won't have to worry about being around long enough for ageism to be a problem...

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