mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> But, I don’t think the idea of just stopping charging works. You don't stop CHARGING. You stop providing the service that is accumulating charges in excess of what limit I set. And you give some short period of time to settle th
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
That assumes that you can, in fact, install that software in the first place. "Developers" sometimes get a bit of a pass, but I've been inside more than a few companies where... no one could install anything at all, regard
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Every single developer is running 'uncontrolled source code' on corporate hardware every single day.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-737A1.txt doc with list of the removed company names.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Worked in a mall in the 90s and thought a store that let people 'shop' but not actually pay money for things might be fun/useful. Or... sort of like a membership. $10/month, come in to some luxury type store - browse,
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> but it's laser focused on education and has zero agenda. I totally support public broadcasting of all stripes, and do not advocate for this POV at all, but ... there are people who claim the opposite. Sesame Street is 'full
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I can't reply to the previous post now, but the 'bailout' to Central States Pension Fund. $36b to deal with a pension fund serving 350k people. Yes, seems high. Yes, was an 'unusual' move, done during 2021 - heig
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Thank you. I feel this frustration about the 'both sides'ing of every political argument. There is a huge difference in the quality and quantity of the basic political/social norms (and laws) being broken under this admi
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> Instead I keep on because my wife is going back to school and such, so everything relies on me. This has been so apparent to me over the last 20 years. I've seen so many people who wanted to switch jobs - perhaps a move to othe
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
What's been copied? I see some overlap/homage to rails and some .net, but not django.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
That was also in the back of my mind. Even back in the 80s, I remember those bricks being a source of heat and... shock sometimes. I'm just not a hardware guy, so gave it to someone who I think loves tinkering with that sort of stuff
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Was at a friend's place a few years ago. He had an original c64, tape drive, disk drive, okidata printer, and a trove of disks. We'd been friends since high school, but I think he'd stopped using his by then, and I was more
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
My inlaws ran a rural UK post office for a time (70s, maybe early 80s?). I'm not sure how they got in to it, but seemed to enjoy it while they did it. Small village, low volume of foot traffic, etc. I got a sense it almost felt like
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> You can't find me a single example of two competing services, one with click to cancel and the other without, in the same industry. It's not click to cancel, but... airlines will charge extra for the right to cancel with a re
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I've seen it too - not uncommon. A frustrating angle is vendor lockin. You are required to only use the internal IT team for everything, even if they're far more expensive and less skilled. They can 'charge' whatever
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> ... I'm going to let my server keep running PHP. Please get it running at least PHP 8.3. Running PHP 5 or 7 on servers available to the public is negligent in 2025.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> they mindlessly decided to use Kubernetes for tasks and purposes that made no sense... Or... were instructed that they had to use it, regardless of the appropriateness of it, because a company was 'standardizing' all their in
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Good points.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I've always been intrigued with him - had hoped to meet him at a concert years ago, but didn't happen. To be complete, I guess David Marks was an outsider too, although living across the street(?) he was probably 'closer&#x2
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I can if you really want... I do think Mike contributed over the years, possibly more in the early days just through enthusiasm and perhaps helping to focus. I think he was probably more willing to go along with some corny showbiz stuff th
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Carl and Dennis both grew in to good songwriters, in different ways, but neither were close to being able to work with Brian in those early years. By the time they could , Brian seemed to be largely gone. Had they had all that combined t
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Even when you know it's coming, it's hard to process. Met Mikeal at oscon in ... 2007 I think, where he was presenting windmill as a testing tool for js/ajax. We kept in touch for a few years, and he was kind enough to meet
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Amen.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
"... then applied to software development in an effort to juice hiring." How does it 'juice hiring' by removing the ability to deduct 100% of an employee's cost in one year? Who would be incentivized to hire more
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
neat implementation! i often use the 'me' channel in slack, but not every device has that. similarly, between myself on apple devices, I might use 'notes' - which is fine (and long lasting) but I like this approach. i d
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
If there's two beds, maybe. If one bed, doesn't matter how many people sleep in it. Maybe twice the towels? I'll say over the years most places do not respect the "if the towel is not on the floor don't replace it
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> ... a database is overkill... I have a reminder in my todoist app ... So you have a database, it's just someone else's and it's called todoist.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> What's the value of saying you were blocked but now you aren't? Going in to huge detail about it, not much, really. A quick "hey, hit an issue yesterday with ABC, Kris helped me out - thanks Kris!" does a few things
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
It's odd, because I've known folks who 'wait', but most of the time, when I hear someone voice a blocker in a standup, it's notice that "this is already something I've tried unblocking by ABC, and have tal
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
thanks for info. i've had 'auto update apps and security responses', just not full macos. will review.

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