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by pwason 7y ago
I didn't. I have a B.A. Humanities degree, and a week after graduating I saw a small ad in a local newspaper for a Computer Operator. I've been working in IT and Software Development for over 40 years. Luckily, those things are my
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by pwason 7y ago
Depends on where you live, and what sort of lifestyle. Americans make up ~4% of the world population, yet generate ~25% of the world's waste. One American consumes as much energy as ~370 Ethiopians. If every human on the planet lived l
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by pwason 7y ago
Sony Xperia X2A Ultra. $285 new, from a guy in Florida. Sick, sick 23.5MP camera. First thing I did was disable almost everything, and install Firefox. So right now it just does phone, messaging, and web browsing. Battery charge lasts 8 day
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by pwason 7y ago
Well, on the machine I'm reading this on, I use: 404 Bookmarks Auto-Sort Bookmarks CoinJack Ecosia Greasemonkey HTTPS Everywhere IPFS Companion Javascript Toggle Pardus Bookkeeper/Sweetener Privacy Badger Tampermonkey uBlock Origi
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by pwason 7y ago
"in one private place" I think not.
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by pwason 8y ago
93% of random OCR outputs are valid Perl programs. The paint splatters are a distraction.
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by pwason 8y ago
I'm using a Logitech M510 right now.
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by pwason 8y ago
Big Companies Suck (BCS). Go get a job at one, work there until you realize how screwed up it is, then with that added to your resume, find a few hot shit people and start something yourself. Sell it for a profit as soon as you can. Rinse &
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by pwason 8y ago
Not news. I have two working Apple IIe systems sitting in my basement. Anybody want to buy them?
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by pwason 8y ago
The Wasp Factory by Iain (M.) Banks
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by pwason 8y ago
I have never been or said I was bored in my life. Everything is happening all the time, everywhere. Open your eyes. I work in IT, and I'm the IT guy when I go home, and when I'm on vacation. Apparently it's also my hobby, sin
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by pwason 8y ago
Exported VM from XS6.5 on opteron hosts, importing into XCP-ng on EPYC hosts. VM not only fails to boot/BSoDs, but crashes the entire host as well. Ouch.
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by pwason 8y ago
https://processwire.com/
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by pwason 8y ago
Started programming PDP-11 Basic in freshman year of high school, kept going (Applesoft BASIC, 6502 ML, QBasic, a little C, MS-DOS batch) up as a hobby through college, first job out of college was an operations job, but then the programmer
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by pwason 8y ago
King Crimson
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by pwason 8y ago
I don't know about "undercover", but both my work office and my home office are underground, thus, to some, I am known as "codevark".
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by pwason 8y ago
I lost all respect for Apple when they switched to Intel CPUs.
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by pwason 8y ago
Focus+Creativity I can play things on my guitar when I'm stoned that I am completely unable to play when straight. RPGing is quite amusing when stoned, as long as I don't become fascinated with the sparkly dice and drift off into
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by pwason 8y ago
Tunnels & Trolls + Monsters! Monsters! Way simpler than D&D, and has a lot more humor built-in. You can get pretty much all the rules and stuff for free, online.
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by pwason 9y ago
My brain.
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by pwason 9y ago
Make sure you're on Skype with yer Mom. Really kills the moment. For most people.
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by pwason 9y ago
Get rid of as many things as is possible. Imagine that you'll need to grab your closest family and friends, a bunch of survival gear, and the 10 things you value the most, and escape to a remote region. If you can't carry it, don&
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by pwason 9y ago
I got that same error message when I typed my password wrong. Sometimes the simplest answer is most likely the correct one. :)
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by pwason 9y ago
Not really a bug, but.. An early release of our product (not to be named), contained a database that contained a perl script that was written out to a web server. The person who took over maintaining this script looked at the original autho
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by pwason 9y ago
moodring
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by pwason 9y ago
Facebook listening to you talk about the game.
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by pwason 9y ago
I've owned my domain(s) since the '90s. Not sure exactly when I began the yearly ritual of pouring money into the registrars' pockets.. The earliest archive of my main site on the wayback machine is from 2001, but the tradema
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by pwason 9y ago
Runs Linux/variant. Unlocked. No vendor bloat.
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by pwason 9y ago
Not really. It predicts that the amount of ocean carbon will cross a threshold by ~2100 that will likely cause a GMEE sometime afterwards.
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by pwason 9y ago
Mistakes were made.

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