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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I know there is a lot of push back against pay walls but I would rather give money to a business that I know than to have some creepy unknown entity record everything I do.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Two of the things I repeat to my kids: You cannot change your past but can change your future. The success of others is not your failure.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I won't make the case against but I will make the case for declaring them at the top. Think of a recipe letting you know that you need eggs and flour before telling you how to mix it. It lets you get all of your ingredients on the coun
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have memories from my early childhood that I will not share with others because the only logical conclusion they could draw is that I am full of shit. My youngest daughter appears to be the same and I caution her about how it looks to oth
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
As much as people push the more succinct if(x)/if(!x) style of expression, I don't know that it is better. Now if your example was if(is_a_thing) then maybe it reads better. Add to that the possibility of three value logic and I c
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I do the same thing with email. When people put a short sentence or something at the bottom of an email I often ignore it because it looks like a signature.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I am guilty. I wrote this sort for a gnu screen session menu years ago and even named my function bubsort.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Sometimes there really is a "one weird trick" that can help people. I used to get stuck on problems and it would cripple my productivity. A programmer with two decades more experience than me noticed what I was doing and gave me t
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I feel like you missed the context. upsidesinclude wrote: > You find a bunch of people that can't or wouldn't vote and collect their automatically mailed ballots, fill them out and have them dropped off in boxes. >That'
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Let me google that for you: https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2022/02/24/macomb-county-nursin... https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2020/11/12/texas-nursing-home-w... https:/&#
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Dust in the upper atmosphere? That is a solved problem; we can just burn more coal. Of course the world will be dirty and it will get cold everywhere, but hey at least we will be back to where we were in the early 20th century. I have a bet
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Thanks for asking. I typed it all out, erased it and feel a lot better now.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Sure I am reading a bit into this but the reason they moved away from Python was performance. So ditching Python as a given, here are the reasons to select Go instead of something else.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
AOLServer had a lot of defaults that would magnify the performance issues of TCL. The documentation did not cover all of the necessary configuration options to get a system to scale and you had to dig into driver.c to understand how to tune
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
> I have learned that some Americans consider it crucial to arm themselves in case there is a tyrannical government in the future. OK but you realize that some in this case is a small percentage. Most people just want to defend their hom
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Sure, create an environment for black market cartridges. Turn every hunter into a criminal. Forget standards on these black market cartridges so they are blowing up in people's guns.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
They aren’t the only ones using ELT instead of ETL. I hear they are different but I have no motivation to even Wikipedia the topic to find out.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have noticed that a lot of the 80s and 90s computer nostalgia guys on youtube are a lot younger looking than I would expect. I feel like it is just folks geeking out on history somewhat like I could geek out on music culture from five yea
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
This is why a lot of programmers work after 5:00 PM. You can get more done between five and nine than you can get done all day.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
This is why I always write my threats and ransom requests in pure TeX. Seriously though, I thought printers have been using microdots as identifiers for years. Is this just an old wives tale?
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
As a parent in the US, here is how it feels. If I let my young kids roam and something happens to them, there is a high likelihood that some goody-goody-holier-than-thou prosecutor will decide to make an example out of my "neglect&quot
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Yes and I suspect that this is why it was never added to AWK. I,and I am sure most people, have an AWK filter to transform their csv or whatever format to a format that AWK can use with an appropriate FS and RS. Their "but why" se
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Thank you for sharing that and giving me a touch more wisdom today. I can see how saying that I started young could put off someone who just wants to learn. I always mention it because it was a magical time for me but I never considered tha
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
If you ever have to kill a wild animal, the best thing to do is inform the game warden.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I feel like the problem now is the overwhelming number of choices we have. If a new programmer wanted to write a desktop app for windows he would be directed to VB, web app Perl, or games Turbo Pascal. Sure there were plenty of other langua
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
My father's Seiko from the late 70s still keeps time at around 30 seconds per day. It has never been serviced so I am sure it is bone dry and really should not be run. I regularly wear a 2015 Seiko that used to be 8 seconds per day fas
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
For home I get the most bang for the buck (buck is my time here) by just setting up ssh and dynamic DNS. I port forward if I have to but mostly use socks5 to proxy in.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
It still happens at the company where I work. Of course it is a family owned business so they get to apply their own values without answering to outsiders.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have no clue who you are but from reading your answer, I bet your coworkers love working with you and I bet you write nice maintainable code. You are probably better than you think.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
So true. Most physical security is just an illusion. After watching gun safe opening videos, I have been thinking about emptying the gun safe and building a false wall to hide my guns.

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