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by patwolf 6y ago
My late uncle was born with down syndrome in the '40s. I saw a letter written by the doctors after he was born saying that he was a "mongolian idiot" (apparently a common term back then) and suggesting he be institutionalized
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by patwolf 6y ago
I usually use Google for quick calculations but get annoyed when it only returns large results in scientific notation. WolframAlpha gives results in just about every conceivable way, e.g. "7 trillion" or "7 000 000 000 000&qu
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by patwolf 6y ago
At some point in grade school I was home sick for a few days and ended up watching C-SPAN for several hours on end. I don't recall exactly what was going on politically during that time, but many congresspersons were standing up and gi
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by patwolf 6y ago
Not from the UK, but I grew up watching the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances". Reading this reminded me a lot of the main character on the show who was constantly doing things like that to try to signal her class. I always w
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by patwolf 6y ago
The regional grocery chain I regularly shop at has two generic grocery brands. One is the traditional cheap generic in bland packaging and a funny name, e.g. "Crisp 6" cereal instead of Crispix. The other is an upscale brand. I ac
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by patwolf 6y ago
In my experience MQTT works well for telemetry and one-way messaging, but it's not good at doing request-response flow like you typically do in an application using HTTP. You can certainly come up with a mechanism for doing that, but y
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by patwolf 6y ago
I've been trying out the side tabs for a week now and cannot get used to it. So many sites I use have left hand menus, e.g. JIRA, AWS, that is seems like cognitive overload to see both menus butted up against each other. With top tabs
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by patwolf 6y ago
I recently started playing it on the Switch, and my first thought was that I hope the Japanese court system isn't really like this. It makes me appreciate the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" in the US. Ace Attorney fee
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by patwolf 6y ago
I recently started the process of digitizing some old 8mm home movies from my late grandfather. I lament not knowing most of the stories and people shown in the films. It's gotten me thinking about the best way to preserve details of m
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by patwolf 6y ago
I've been using i3 exclusively for about 5 years. I pretty much only use a single tabbed-mode window because I prefer my apps to take up the whole screen. I also use workspaces to keep things organized (browser in one, IDE in another),
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by patwolf 6y ago
I've switched newer projects from app engine flexible to cloud run. I do think the underlying infrastructure is slightly different but for the better. If I remember correctly, app engine was using VMs vs pure containers. Deploys to app
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by patwolf 6y ago
That was my first flight sim as well. I remember playing it on an amber monochrome monitor. I then recall watching a TV show where they were playing the game in color and thinking "wow, that game has colors?!".
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by patwolf 6y ago
I've been using reddit since the big Digg 2.0 migration. It is disappointing to see the popular/frontpage subreddits become such a bubble. In r/pics, for example, most of the top pics have a clear political slant. I'm no
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by patwolf 6y ago
When I think about the cultural impact of youtube, 168 billion seems cheap. For my kids youtube is TV. I got Disney+ for my kids, but they'd much rather watch youtube. It also makes a company like Zoom seem overvalued considering they
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by patwolf 6y ago
I have a friend that owns a small mom and pop instrument store. He had to finally stop selling guitars because too many people would use his store to try them out before buying online. I can only imagine Guitar Center experiences the same p
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It doesn't always work like that. It's clear to some folks that ZM will decline based on the fact that a COVID vaccine was virtually inevitable. However, there are lots of investors, mostly retail investors, that are willing to bu
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by patwolf 6y ago
As a kid we had an HP DeskJet Plus. It was built like a tank and cost close to $1000 (in 1989). It worked flawlessly for many years, and we only eventually upgraded to get color. Part of me is nostalgic for the days when printers were built
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by patwolf 6y ago
I don't necessarily think the Google graveyard is that much bigger than other companies, it's just more visible to the public. Any large software company is going to have a lot of projects that were sunset early or canceled before
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by patwolf 6y ago
I was happy when yarn first came onto the scene and gave npm the kick in the butt it needed to improve. Now I wish yarn could be deprecated and we could go back to a single package manager. There's unfortunately segmentation in differe
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by patwolf 6y ago
I'm not surprised. A few years back IBM started a "back to the lab" initiative to dissuade workers from working remotely. Workers that were unable to commute to a physical office were forced to leave the company. My impressio
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by patwolf 6y ago
My child is in awe when he sees me use the Minecraft CLI. He was excited to start kindergarten specifically to learn to read and write enough to use the CLI. I'm hoping that will eventually be his entree into programming. It does give
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by patwolf 6y ago
I've had to toss out/donate a number of inherited antique items (furniture, silver, china). It was sad to see something that once held value to someone no longer be worth anything. However, it does give me some perspective that ju
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by patwolf 6y ago
One thing I've noticed is that the app periodically switches my preference from "Latest tweets" back to "Top tweets". I'm not sure if it's just a bug, but I wouldn't be surprised if that behavior was
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I used to work on software with a lot of international customers. On every release we had to go through rigorous testing to ensure our product could be installed off of CD-ROMs solely for use by the Japanese market. This was 10 years ago, b
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by patwolf 6y ago
> #4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs. I used to work for a company that produced an app server. They sold the app server as well as applications that ran on the app server. Other companies also sold competing applicatio
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by patwolf 6y ago
I bought a Fuji x100s back in 2013. I rarely use it any more as cell phone cameras have gotten so good. However, when one of the x100s photos comes on the slideshow on our living room TV, I'm blown away at how good it looks. Having had
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by patwolf 6y ago
I met a SoftLayer employee soon after the acquisition at an IBM conference. He complained that previously getting new hardware wasn't a problem. Once IBM took over they had to go through IBM's bureaucratic procurement processes wh
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by patwolf 7y ago
I've been using JetBrain's DataGrip. So it's not free, but if I weren't already grandfathered into a good JetBrains package, I'd probably be willing to subscribe to it à la carte and pay for it out of pocket. It&#x2
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by patwolf 7y ago
I've used ancestry off and on over the past decade. I don't think any family tree could ever be considered 100% complete. It's a bit addicting to see how far back you can go. And the fact that the number of ancestors increase
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by patwolf 7y ago
Having built an app that was used for a one time event by a group of people that weren't necessarily tech savvy, I do empathize with the situation. However, If I had $63,000 to build a solution (a price mentioned in a wsj article), I t

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