northwest66

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by northwest66 8y ago
This year I'm going to build a small CNC mill and learn to operate it correctly. That and dance cha to at least a competent social level.
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by northwest66 8y ago
I must admit I had a little chuckle. I suppose there is a term for it when the correct answer is right there on the tip of your tounge but you just can't quite put pen to paper.
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by northwest66 8y ago
Do you mean one of those things they write on paper slips when you say check? Which country are you from?
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by northwest66 8y ago
When I was about 10 there was nothing I wanted more than to have a program that took minutes to build into an .EXE. In my mind that implied complexity and 'real' programming. Of course, as a professional 30 years later, waiting fo
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by northwest66 8y ago
I never hear yanny. I do however hear a drunk guy slurring Gary, which sounds like yarry, though.
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by northwest66 8y ago
Yes, very important when working on decades old Japanese motorcycles. Hozan make some nice sets if anybody is looking.
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by northwest66 9y ago
I had to duck a few LCDs and drop ceiling tiles in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, 60 seconds would've been handy to hide under my desk.
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by northwest66 9y ago
Yep you got it. My first actual PCs (I don't count the Apricot PCs haha) were DOS 3.3, and I still remember the transition away from 33MB partitions although it's so long ago I can't remember if that came in with DOS 4.0 (abo
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by northwest66 9y ago
I've never met a good programmer that wasn't (at least initially) self taught. Presumably they exist, but I've never met one. I do agree though, I find when I'm teaching my juniors I sometimes have to give a little histo
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by northwest66 9y ago
I mean free as in if I chop my arm off, no worries, no bills, I get fixed up. I mean free as in my wife is pregnant, no worries, no bills, my baby is delivered in a hospital. I mean free as in my kids gets cancer, no worries, no bills, they
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by northwest66 9y ago
Pssst, I heard the last country to land people there laughable still hasn't even made it to the level of free health care for all! They still might, of course, it's not like any of these goals are mutually exclusive.