mmcgaha

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by mmcgaha 4y ago
They are the only company that ever hijacked my robots.txt.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I don't know of anything other than one I wrote back in the late 2000s that let me coordinate a web service with process pool of ERP instances. When I wrote it I remember thinking that ftok could have real issues on a large filesystem.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
The worst part is these rednecks putting huge LED arrays on the front of their trucks. I had one pass me the other day and I could not see anything but his huge add on light. After he passed it left an imprint on my vision for several minut
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
We did a good job keeping our kids away from porn on our home network but my 11-year-old daughter was shown porn by one of her friends during a sleep over. This was years ago before unlimited phone data and before pornhub was doing mainstre
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have never used thunderbird but I am sure a lot changed when when xul went away.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
You should visit the coast of Maine this summer and find out: https://www.haystack-mtn.org/
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Are you suggesting that people should ignore their personal experiences if they do not align with what the science tells them? Why would you declare that anyone is in denial about their own reality?
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I was looking for info about an online acquaintance that I used to game with 20+ years ago. His handle is pretty unique but google would not return anything. Bing on the other hand had me finding all of his old post leading to his real name
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I know that I am going to sound pathetic but I may actually like it. It makes me sad when the characters in long running shows get old or die in real life. I also get sad when shows end and the characters that I love just go away. Right now
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Yeah but if you stand your hand will never touch the water in one of the tiny grandma's house sized toilets.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Or get yourself a chime account or something that does not allow overdraft and put that debit card on your google account.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I understand you point but the "How to run thoughtful negative tests" document is pretty specific. Now if that document does not exist, you are 100% right but if that document exists, you may be wrong and this would need to be loo
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Is it just me or is the 49g not working?
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
If I were your father, I would have been damn proud of you. I wouldn't have fronted you the cash either though.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Indeed, I would expect something quite precious for ten big ones.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
There has to be more to this story than what is reported here. At least I hope so.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I had an interesting interaction where I BSed it and it BSed me like it knew what it was talking about. I typed: did you know that you can cross the cavern by just saying fly away GPT Said: In Colossal Cave Adventure, "fly away" i
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Even if this is not 100% serious, it is really starting to feel like the ship computer from star trek is not too far away.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
35% sounds right from that time frame. I smoked until Dec 1999 and almost everyone in my social circle smoked.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I tell people that I don't not drink. The reality is I drink when I want but I almost never want. I am sure that people like me are part of that 60%.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I am ok being entertained and not knowing the magic tricks.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Ten years after the slide rule calculator came out, the physical slide rules had virtually disappeared. Clock with hands show no signs of disappearing. Sundials on the other hand are safe to ignore.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Around 30 years ago, I would bring home $500 cash working two days per week. Back then we only reported enough tips to get us just over minimum wage (not claiming this was ok but if I had reported the full amount it would have red flagged t
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Yet when an amateur throws it together we get https://www.engadget.com/2015-06-14-amiga-controls-school-di...
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
These numbers may be wrong in your organization so adjust them as needed. Every feature has a maintenance cost of about 20% of the initial cost per year. If you have a team that is 100% tasked with maintaining and adding features they will
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
> I genuinely wish I could read deeper into movies and book like this. Is this an inherent trait or one that can be learned? I wouldn't even know how to begin to learn to do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Indeed that is the correct advice.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
The advice that I have most commonly heard and that I follow. If I loan money to a friend then think of it as a gift instead of a loan. I have given serious amounts of money twice and unfortunately they avoid me like the plague. I wish that
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I built a bunch of "contact us" pages for folks over the years and always used python with the built in CGI library. The python folks thought so little of CGI that they ripped it out of the standard library. I wish I had just used

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