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by seanvk 4mo ago
My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.
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by seanvk 4mo ago
The Welsh language getting LLM training with Nemotron https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09-15-reaching-across-the...
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by seanvk 1y ago
Surprised that there was a lack of mention of Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: The Archimedes Engine" - video game "Exodus" https://www.exodusgame.com/en-US/news/agreement-with-random-...
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by seanvk 3y ago
Remind me of how in modern Irish, a prefixed t- appears before vowels in masculine nominative singular nouns. It relates to Proto-Celtic masculine nominative singular article *sindos. The t- is what remains of the d and s from Proto-Celtic
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by seanvk 4y ago
I follow a runner on YouTube who just posted his channel's earnings as well: https://youtu.be/QfkUM4hBge8
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by seanvk 4y ago
I've a 18 year old and a 20 year old. Both boys in college. Despite my being an electrical engineer and they're having grown up in an environment where I've always had computers and electronics of various kinds about, they r
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by seanvk 4y ago
Calibre has supported this for some time now. Calibre is also available on Linux.
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by seanvk 5y ago
Overland Park is a part of Johnson County, KS which has a part in the history of segregation in the greater Kansas City area. [0] [0]: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2020/08/18/johnson-countys-re...
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Colin Ian King relates why he left Canonical(twitter.com)
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by seanvk 5y ago
I turned down a job offer in a principal engineering role at Microsoft because they were not allowing long term remote work.
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by seanvk 5y ago
At Garmin, we ran PalmOS as a process on top of our RTOS. Fun times.
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by seanvk 5y ago
One interesting side effect of the Great Vowel Shift occurred when the word Uisce Beatha (Whisk(e)y) was anglicized twice. It was first brought in during the Elizabethan period from Ireland as "Whiskey" and later re-brought in as
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by seanvk 6y ago
I wonder if this can also interfere with Ant+?
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by seanvk 6y ago
I drink 4 shots of espresso in a latte each morning. It calms me and helps me focus on my coding tasks as I sip it through the morning. I’ve never had issues stopping or from prolonged use. It’s a net benefit for me.
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by seanvk 6y ago
This is the way.
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by seanvk 7y ago
My concern would stem from them attempting to replace the firmware with Android Wear. Because Android Wear is licenced they may feel pressure to use the same os so as not to upset licensees such that any improvements to AW on Fitbit gets sh
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by seanvk 7y ago
The difference in spelling is due to the fact the word for Uisce Beatha was brought into the English language twice. Once from Irish Gaelic before the Great Vowel shift in English and a second time from Scots Gaelic after the shift.
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by seanvk 7y ago
I'm 51, an electrical engineer who has migrated over time from ASIC design, to board design, to ASIC validation, to embedded software development, to team lead, development manager, back to IC as architect and enventually principal eng
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by seanvk 7y ago
BeOS is another one that comes to mind.
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by seanvk 8y ago
Hosted our family email server and Wordpress blog running OpenBSD on an Old World Mac using DynamiC DNS from home back in 2003. Specifically, I ranOpenBSD 3.4 on my G3 Blue & White with a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 PCI Card. That was about
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by seanvk 8y ago
I think it starts with ensuring that you have staff that actually review an action before it takes place. Relying on automation can be catastrophic for someone like OP.
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by seanvk 8y ago
I must confess the title made me think about Monty Python skits: Philosopher Competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04
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by seanvk 9y ago
Spotify is available via Discord, Xbox, and Playstation. The diversity of clients is key for me. Apple Music has at most what an Android App?
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by seanvk 9y ago
Thanks to my trusty Atari 800 in 1981 I learned to program through magazine articles and books and experimenting with code at home. It was a great experience.
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by seanvk 9y ago
I taught myself to program in Atari Basic on an Atari 800 in 1981. I still remember the book and the way it described a for loop as an Oreo cookie. I remember subscribing to Byte magazine and typing in code snippets. Later had a 1050 dis
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by seanvk 10y ago
I find this ironic that all the comments (both for and against) are in English.