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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Dropping out in the last year of a 4 year Physics degree to study Computer Science, because that was even more engaging. After that just following interesting, "niche" work; not chasing the dollar. Retired now and programming mi
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
There is a probably outdated page of python success stories: https://www.python.org/about/success/ One example not mentioned in the above page is reddit which is written in python. I once helped maintain the ANUG
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
I can't recreate this when trying to make a new account, they said they sent a validation email to "a-b@example.com". Maybe they have broken email validation when logging in to an existing account? If you think they have a
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
A worrying thoughtcrime trend [0]. Doubleplusungood [1]. [0] https://pen.org/banned-words-list/ [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
At that time I didn't care what hiring managers thought. I had been working in my country and overseas and got jobs through reputation.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Must have: * cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Apple, Android. * handle great majority of HTML/CSS "features" handled by the mainstream browsers. * easy to use bookmarks, allowing sub-folders within folders (see below). * allow
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
I moved off github in 2016. Moving because Microsoft bought them sounds like a lame reason, true, but as a software engineer I find my life is less "exciting" if I minimize Microsoft's presence in my life.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
First Linux installation I ever got working. I had tried those "pile of floppies" installations with 30 or more disks but could never get them to work. After Yggdrasil I used Slackware for years. Truly pioneering times.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Ditto. I'm on my twelfth account in nine months, and at three weeks old it's due to be banned, on past experience.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
So if you owned a small shop and a bunch of hoods came in and said "nice shop, pity if it should catch fire accidentally" you would do whatever they told you to do? > You can't defeat a country that has an arsenal of megad
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
To which the answer should be: We hope that the need to defeat Russia because it used nuclear weapons in Ukraine will not be required.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Why not? Just stay away from anything that may allocate/free memory after system initialization, like "String".
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Nations have lost their freedom while preparing to defend it, and if we in this country confuse dissent with disloyalty, we deny the right to be wrong. -- Edward R Murrow, The Ford 50th Anniversary Show https://www.newspapers.com
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Not the Messiah (He's a Naughty Boy)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by rzzzwilson 1y ago|0 comments
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Sorry, a brain-computer interface is a different thing than a EEG device. Ask Musk.
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Learn what you can from your current situation, even if it's what NOT to do. If you have a safety net you can change jobs earlier. But if you don't change you can get invaluable experience by trying to motivate the team and de
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by rzzzwilson 1y ago
Repeating an untruth hoping people will believe it is not a new technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
First man-made fission reactor, yes. But Nature beat us by around 1.7 billion years. Fusion reactors predate even that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reac...
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US will abandon Ukraine peace push if no progress soon(reuters.com)
17 points by rzzzwilson 2y ago|2 comments
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
Interesting negotiation technique: show one side of the argument a path to what they want by doing nothing. Masterful.
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
First the war was to be easily solved in a day, then a month, and now forgotten after three months. Trump treats it like a real estate deal that went bad, rather than a major upset of the international rule-based order that has held since
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US will 'move on' from Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon(bbc.com)
5 points by rzzzwilson 2y ago|2 comments
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
The actions of a bully who must have the last say.
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The Big Lie(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by rzzzwilson 2y ago|2 comments
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Trump blames Zelensky for starting war(bbc.com)
15 points by rzzzwilson 2y ago|2 comments
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
The president seems unaware that the war started back in February 2014 and was a smaller war during his first term as president.
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
It's getting to the point where you should ignore what he says and ignore most of what he does. Because that changes daily. There's an old military maxim: order, counterorder, disorder.
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
I've experimented with a few things but haven't looked at my public IP. I don't think it changes that often and I don't access reddit through a VPN. I'll have to write some code to check my public IP address and s
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Ask HN: Is Reddit shadow-banning broken or is it just me
2 points by rzzzwilson 2y ago|3 comments
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by rzzzwilson 2y ago
Wanting and getting are different things.

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