mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I'm tired of hearing this "we have no margins". You still hold a monopoly-like position in many areas simply because... people have to eat. I can buy a car once every few years. I can rent or buy a house. I can't ren
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Amen. You want to come in to my business and give me money? Upgrade your phone! Then scroll through a 4" version of the 18" menu we scanned in and then threw away.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Most Android phones do this automatically - and it's not too hard to write up a quick app for it to scan automatically when it detects a QR code You just 'write up a quick app' in the middle of a restaurant?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
maybe heroku and fly and others could start shelling books and shoes to help out... it's been 12 years, but they had a decade of other business units helping to fund their service, and can afford loss leaders like few other businesses.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Agreed. Got it as a gift a couple years back. Ended up being a pretty fast read as I was engrossed the whole time :)
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Sounds pretty clear and clean to me. Shame we couldn't have gotten as nice a recording of the Beatles at the Star Club just bit earlier :) FWIW, it's a nice live album, but doesn't strike me as one of the great live albums o
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I set up something for someone in 2003/2004. It was largely PHP4 code that got a bit upgraded to 5.0. We lost touch. I got a call at end of 2017 saying "this isn't working". Someone else had taken over hosting and bee
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Yes, it was partially an answer, and it's not saying Python isn't high up. But still wanted to know by what metrics the GP was making their claim.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Your comment in PHP src here https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy/blob/master/php/run.sh says # opcache in 8.1 gives a nice speedup (25s to 10s) Is the 23.7 seconds above using the 8.1 opcache?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
100% not shocked at all. I recall a couple of times over the past 15-20 years where a current python significantly outperformed a current php version, but my recollection is that php was usually a bit faster, or sometimes a lot faster. PHP
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Python is the first or second most popular language. By what metrics? Redmond quarterly from June shows Python at #2, and PHP at #4. https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/10/20/language-rankings-6-2...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Will we get to "hide <secret info x> in 3 red balloons floating over a waterfall"?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I've taken at least 5 over the course of my life. Possibly a 6th that I didn't know about (possibly age 5 or 6?), but I know of taking multiple between ages 9 through mid 30s. Regardless of the test, the percentile numbers didn&#
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I think my HS GPA was... 2.9 or perhaps 3 (out of 4), yet I had a 29 on the ACT. The ACT score was in the 80s before some scoring model change. It's probably changed multiple times since then, but I'd learned there was a model ch
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I was having to deal with token ring in '96-'97, and have not touched it since. Seems like it went away quite quickly. Cue up someone replying that they're still maintaining a token ring system in 2022... :)
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
OT, but when I search for "the bud is off the blossom" the only references I get from google are 2 links to hacker news comments... There's 0 in bing for that phrase. Never heard it before ever.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I got an Apple Watch in mid 2021. I was a casual runner before then. By the first week, I was watching the 3 rings on the watch, and by the second week I had a streak going. I hit my rings every day for a week. Then 2. Then 3. The only
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I remember getting some tax notification, and attached was some 2 page doc indicating "we've spent a lot of time working on making our documents more understandable, let us know how we're doing"... and... the notice they
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Personally, my experience with page count assignments were... loose. The goal was never "write 8 pages" but "write about idea ABC" (book just read, subject we just studied). '5 pages' or 8 or whatever was a g
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I'll go further and ask "what if their 'voice' is just bad"? Just because I have a 'voice' doesn't mean it's necessarily good. Teaching students to be able to switch voices - some voices/s
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Huh? Happened to us and our neighbors - bought end of 2005. 2015... house estimated for... about the same as we paid for it. It wasn't "steady sideways"... it was 'crash and recover'. But it's certainly happ
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Perhaps I'm just... thick, but if a goal is to have someone write, say, 8 pages of thinking and ideas about a topic... I'm not sure there's 'better' ways than to have the person write 8 pages of thinking and ideas a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Seems like 'learning' and 'producing something with that learned information' are two different things. I can 'learn' all day long from copyrighted materials. I'm not violating anything, because I'v
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Similar here. 2000/2001(?), I was talking about the bus factor with a client, indicating that I'd brought on a couple more folks on my team - one part time, one full time, to avoid the bus factor. "what do you mean?" &q
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
This may not help immediately, and I know the landscape has changed in many areas, but years ago, I went to multiple different tech groups and conferences - java, ruby, perl, ms/.net. I introduced myself as a PHP person. Beyond the s
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
why didn't any of these experiences end up on Chatroulette years ago? Is it just the size of the user base? Or because it's all mobile now?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
She does say 'sod that' but she's not 103...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Dunno exactly, but there's gotta be some original camera feeds from on the ground that don't have those. The ads we saw years ago were overlayed at the top of the screen, taking up around 20% of the vertical space. And... every
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Yeah, we paid for an extra sports package so my wife could watch her UK football. "WTF? There's huge ads taking up 20% of the screen? And every time we start (or restart) watching, we have to watch a minute of ads? Fuck that&qu
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I get it - have been there. Work with project/team X, and... with tools I know, I'm X productive. "We need to switch to tool Y". There's usually a host of reasons I may not want to move to tool Y, but in most cases

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