nathan_douglas

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by nathan_douglas 2y ago
Funny, I was just gonna comment and say that I learned this One Weird Trick… and then realized I’d learned it from you. (Hi, Bob! I was actually just using your recursive shadowcasting algorithm as a reference yesterday.) I feel like I just
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
This was great! Fun little adventure :)
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Let’s see how much scrutiny my professional development budget gets…
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I unironically said 2001 in a presentation I gave yesterday when I meant 2021. It hurts a little, sometimes.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I definitely try to pick jobs based on vibe, but that's still not 100% safe. I adore my current employer. Best place I've ever worked. But we're contractors, and my team's contract just ended unexpectedly. I trust they r
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
What sort of shock? Were you working full-time on a single application or suite of applications for that period?
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Provides extra protein; leads to more productive squats.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
It's more focused on security than just networking, and I don't believe it's quite what you're looking for, but https://tryhackme.com/ might be enjoyable.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
It's been many years since Obj-C was relevant to my life, but I remember reading about some of the implementation details in the runtime and just absolutely boggling. Not in a bad way, a "wow, they've really done about as muc
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I've experienced a ton of issues, but it's likely because almost every aspect of our operation depends in someway on GitHub -- the repo itself and basic push/pull, or PRs, or webhooks, or actions, or some aspect of status upd
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Sun had a similar thing! >According to Sun documentation the "... coprocessor card is not just PC-compatible, it is an actual PC that is constructed from real PC components and follows the de facto and emerging PC hardware design st
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Yeah, I came to the accordion via Tom Waits. But I know what you mean. I think it's a... bit narrow instrument, at least nowadays. I got into some Scandinavian folk music, too, so I'm slowly broadening my expressive range. I try t
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
To be fair, Dennis says: >The priorities of && || vs. == etc. came about in the following way. I think it takes some serious concentration to tease out that he is indeed trying to explain what you indicated. Either that, or my br
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Ooh, this is super cool! I love this sort of miniaturization in virtualization. In college, I did an independent study where I created a stack-based VM in C -- designed the ISA, wrote an assembler, etc. It wasn't very good, but I was a
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
>Second time I called with a question (by this point, I had learned enough to know to ask the question “how do I create a non-root user account?”), they suggested I hop onto their IRC channel and ask the community. I logged on to IRC and
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Banjo and accordion are my two favorite instruments. Can't stand piccolo, though.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I've started probably thirty blogs over the years and never made a 3rd/4th/5th post. I started one again recently, then promptly caught COVID again and was knocked down for a week, then got some bad job news and have since fo
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Oh, if _only_ I stuck with, say, 1% of the hobbies that I paid a non-trivial amount of money to start...
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Not exactly the same, but something that got me a couple weird looks at the time was paying almost $100 for RedHat Linux (6.1, Cartman) in 1999. I'd wanted to use Linux for a couple years (I thought it looked hacker-ish and had watched
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Location: Ohio/Eastern Time Remote: Yes; I've been remote for eleven years and counting. Willing to Relocate: Nope, sorry. Technologies: DevOps-as-a-subject (Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
My thirteen-year-old got tangled up in his dress shirt the other day.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I experimentally verified that years in the past, when I was shacked up with some dolphins and a flexible assistant. I’m able to continually confirm the existence of a near infinite number of a-holes, though.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
That’s… what I was afraid of. I’m hiring too, but few of my applicants include a GH link. I’ve never seen a GL link, much less Gitea, etc. And mind you, I’m looking. Hard. I’ll often Google the person to see if I can find a GH account for t
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Sid Vicious was obviously inept, but the rest of the band (including the original bassist) knew what they were doing.
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
Agile Six | $138-$145 K + ESOP + Benefits | Remote only (but pretty much US only because federal contractor) | Full-time Agile Six is hiring a Software Quality Engineer! Agile Six (or A6) is a federal contractor. This specific position is f
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
This is really cool! I had some of the same points of confusion as others did, e.g. what do times mean, does “I was in $place from $time to $time” imply being somewhere else before and after, etc. I think being more explicit with what you _
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by nathan_douglas 3y ago
I self-host code-server and I haven't had _many_ issues, but I'm also using a keyboard -- Magic Keyboard? Yeah, I think that's what it's called. For background, I have a bunch of VMs on a Proxmox server and I set up code