paulrpotts

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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Truly it was a different world. I learned so much investigating and modifying resource forks!
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
However old it is exactly, I've used this editor for decades and I love it. Most recently, I use the Worksheet feature to execute a series of scripts that do all the file conversion and make the RSS feed entries for my podcasts. It&#x2
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Read this again: > the only conclusion you've let me make is you're difficult and unpleasant. Is it, though? The _only_ conclusion? Really? And not that I’ve often had terrible managers and worked in stressful, toxic workplaces
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
Fair enough - I’m 55 and describing the bulk on my career to date. Lately the culture of a couple companies I’ve been in have been much more welcoming to neurodivergent folks but this is post-COVID. I’m not planning to do in-person work in
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I had a boss order me to take down a whiteboard I set up in a common area so we couldn’t discuss code during work.
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
It’s the normal, default state of affairs when you have seniors and managers who feel they are competing with each other and so hoard knowledge and techniques, and assign themselves all the interesting work while juniors are left bored doin
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by paulrpotts 3y ago
I'm 55 years old and I have _never_ been mentored in person by a co-worker, despite having spent most of my career working on teams, and despite _trying_ in many different workplaces to set up mentoring relationships. For neurodivergen
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Circumstances: I have long COVID and can't exercise much without a PEMS crash; I also need whatever extra sleep I can get. I used to always get up well before work and go for a long walk in my neighborhood, sometimes up to 4 miles. Aft
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
No, because I couldn't afford to meet my family's basic monthly expenses after that much of a pay cut. If the pay cut and insurance were not an issue, I'd do it in a heartbeat. For a while in 2000 I went to six hours a day, p
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Michigan pays a maximum of $362 a week. Earlier in the pandemic, they waived the job application reporting requirements, _and_ I got the enhanced unemployment, which made it much more worthwhile - enough to cover at least my mortgage, espec
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
This is my biggest barrier to finding decent bulbs. The search engines on sites like homedepot.com offer very little help, especially since they always show promoted items higher in the results, even if they don't match any keywords I
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
My family has a home library and we treat it like a regular library. My kids pull anything off the shelves they want, and read it, and then it goes in a box to be re-shelved (since otherwise some of the younger kids will put them back in se
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
This was part of our routine in Junior High and High School in Pennsylvania 1979-85. We would make book covers for our hardcover textbooks out of paper grocery bags.
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Thanks - we're going to first see if our homeowner's insurance will do something for us, at least enough to cover some kind of authorized repair.
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Did I miss the news that they have a new 3nm process working, even badly? Or have they just defined a variation on their 4nm process and are calling it 3nm?
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Thank you for explaining "aperiodic" in a way that makes sense to non-geometers!
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
I mostly agree with this, with a few caveats. My personal blogs/newsletters over the years have sometimes really just been rambling journal entries. That content, I just look over for web typography, grammar, spelling and things like c
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
It's "fundamental CS," sure, if what you mean by that is: only a very small number of the people who actually design, implement, build, optimize, and debug databases know anything about it at all, have read the foundational t
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
These things aren't necessarily considered Computer Science per se. Database systems generally are, which would include some projects on database design and optimization, but those things could be elective and not required for a major.
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
None, unfortunately, suitable for home use. I looked into these a couple years ago because I also really wanted tabloid size. The only printers I could find it were huge and had huge prices. I wound up buying a LaserJet with an extra high-c
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
I think the concept is good, but the name is pretty bad - I mean, we have "green threads," "POSIX threads," "kernel threads," "user threads," etc. Given that this concept from software engineering has
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Alternate view: perhaps you could learn something from people who try to apply ethics and responsibility to their life choices?
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
It will be interesting to see whether Apple can continue with M3s, etc. I think they are facing pretty hard process limitations and I'm not sure that adding parallelism will get them huge gains on normal workloads, so they may be stuck
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Just to take on one of your points: the RAM you are talking about is not truly comparable. Sure, you can add DIMMs to a PC motherboard. M2 "unified" memory bandwidth to the on-chip RAM, LPDDR5-6400, exceeds 100Gb/sec. That&#x
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Are you talking about chip errata/issues that rise to the level of interfering with getting a kernel working? There have been some issues including security issues, but from what I've read to date, no real deal-breakers; and it&#x
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
I've used a lot of laptops over the last 30 years going back through generations of ThinkPads running Linux and Windows, some HP boxes, PowerBook Duo and G4, and probably some I've forgotten. I now have a "midnight" M2 M
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
This is strange. I've had an eBay account since 1999. I've used it very irregularly over the years - sometimes I'm buying things regularly, occasionally I'll do a "burst" of selling for a few months, then go fo
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
It's not very similar. It snaps firmly into place, and the contacts are quite a bit larger, which makes it less likely to short to adjacent contacts.
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
I don't like USB C. Just recently I bought a couple of dual-ported flash drives that fail dangerously on my new MacBook Air M2. When connected via the USB C port they get extremely hot, almost hot enough to burn my hand, and they someh
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by paulrpotts 4y ago
Bonus points for the King Crimson reference!

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