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by michaelmcdonald 5y ago
> The crew being sent to save the Earth blasts off in a big ol' chemical rocket with stages. Yeah, fine. I guess rocket tech hasn't advanced all that much in this future. Then they land a ship on a planet in a gravity well so i
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by michaelmcdonald 5y ago
I think it's rather short-sighted to refer to one application of technology as useful and another as not needed. Is the computer controlling the engine to be more fuel-efficient needed? No. Is the car even needed? No. But we have found
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by michaelmcdonald 5y ago
Obligatory link to the terminal emulator that Kovid also created / maintains that is super nice: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Link goes to a “page not found” error
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
This part stood out to me: > Every weekday - 1 hour post work > Every weekend - 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday each > Done over 4.5 months, so total = 234 hours As an almost-40-year-old that has minor coding experience (but wants t
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Looks interesting, but for a company the size I work at it’s a non-starter. $1 / user / month means we’re paying hundreds of dollars a month for what amounts to a slight automation perk. We already have bots that respond to keywor
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. Wasn't sure if it was the quality of webcams being used, ISPs, or some other factor. It's brutal to watch though.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
This. So much this. I'm sick and tired of subscriptions for software. The fatigue is real.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Care to share the course that helped with the install / setup on a Mac?
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
I'm assuming (based on reading how they performed grouping) that percussion01 didn't exist, but perhaps cymbal01 did (since a cymbal is a type of percussion instrument). Therefore cymbal01 would be a web server of sometime. The be
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Didn't read the full paper, but according to a Reddit comment here they say he survives: https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugNerds/comments/kvmcsb/a_trip_to...
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
The difference: FB is alerted to those posts, they (eventually) take them down / close the communities. Parler was straight up telling AWS to piss off.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
That couldn't be further from the truth. Lots of people are looking for new careers because they may want to move, want to leave their current situation, may have moved as high up as possible in their current company, etc... I know a n
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Classified documents related to what? The investigations into his own criminal conduct?
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
This! So very much, this! He’s not tweeting from the Twitter officially recognized @potus account; he’s doing so from the same account he registered as a regular citizen years ago. This account should receive no special privileges. It’s asi
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Sounds like someone watched the 1997 film “The Jackal”: https://youtu.be/TJ4j7OArO8Q
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
It moves the needle more than $0.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
I thought most of the Jetbrains products were subscriptions? Kaleidoscope is a one-time-purchase app. I paid for it a handful of years ago, one time, and it has worked perfectly for my needs ever since.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
You mentioned a wife. I'm not going to presume that children are for sure in your future, but if that's something you and your wife have considered I would _strongly_ suggest you research the schools for those areas. I can comment
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
For a brief stint I worked at an insurance company that had a training program for COBOL. They would hire individuals that had zero programming experience but showed an aptitude for critical / logical thinking. Over a period of 8-10 we
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Don’t you just love this timeline?
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
For as worthless as this comment will ultimately be: my thoughts go to her family.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
How can you not like Octonauts?! It's so wholesome! Covers great topics about creatures that rarely get the exposure that their land-based comrades do, the characters are unique, funny, strong, and demonstrate all the qualities you wou
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by: > grafana free tier doesn’t allow a cluster of servers getting monitored. Is there a particular aspect of the cluster you're missing? Is it that you don't want individual server metrics?
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Did you not read the part about how they have to fund their retirees health program up through 2054? That's millions to billions of dollars that they have to set aside for potential future costs decades away. No other government progra
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Fear not! I am a ~heathen~ American cousin and would have perfectly understood the reference to sweets. Though I can't speak for all my brethren, I would think most could at least infer what you were talking about.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
A lot depends on the humidity level. 79 with high humidity is brutal.
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by michaelmcdonald 6y ago
Can confirm: Hack is awesome and super customizable. It has become the only way I view HN on my iPhone.
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by michaelmcdonald 7y ago
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"
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by michaelmcdonald 7y ago
Wait....Is this the account of THE Cliff Stoll? Author of “The Cuckoo’s Egg”?

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