skipkey

12 ms·

91.
by skipkey 3y ago
If you have time, or have pre-made it, using clarified butter results in a better final product. I keep some in the fridge all the time. Ghee would probably work similarly, but I have never tried it.
92.
by skipkey 3y ago
One of these days I am going to make a shirt with the text “Font Nerd” in comic sans, just to see how many heads explode…
93.
by skipkey 3y ago
It depends. Admittedly this was 35 years ago or so, but generally a certain percentage would go towards the bar and other staff, but mostly you would keep your own tips. It’s probably due to a difference in culture. The US was still very
94.
by skipkey 3y ago
When doing development for Windows in the early Windows 3 days, if you had a Hercules card and monitor in addition to a VGA one you could run the debugger on the Hercules. This was a much nicer setup than debugging everything on the VGA.
95.
by skipkey 3y ago
> One thing that I've observed is that the more errors there are, the less likely people will look at them It can be even worse than that. At one point I worked on an app that generated north of 500 lines in the PHP error logs per
96.
by skipkey 3y ago
I did enjoy reading his blog though, well mostly the comments. And then it just died a few years ago and never came back. I always wondered if the “database server” issue mentioned was just an excuse to stop blogging.
97.
by skipkey 3y ago
It’s a balancing test. Cooking on electric stoves is a far worse experience than cooking on gas. Induction stovetops are somewhat better than the classical electric tops that generate heat through resistance, but only somewhat. I am stuck
98.
by skipkey 3y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. Nothing more, nothing less. - Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
99.
by skipkey 3y ago
About 10 years ago I was working for a game company. Most folks came in a few minutes before 10am when the daily standup was. I would come in at 6am, and generally get all the productive work I would get done before anyone else got there.
100.
by skipkey 4y ago
My uncle ran a pirate radio station in rural east Texas in the late 60s with a transmitter he built himself. He broadcast music, and I think some sermons on Sunday from the local Baptist church. It was very low power, probably no more than
101.
by skipkey 4y ago
There were a number of us that looked into this at the time, talking on Compuserve. I think the columnist Robert X Cringley (Infoworld maybe, it’s fuzzy) hooked me in with Mark. One of the interesting things about the disassembly was there
102.
by skipkey 4y ago
I haven’t checked, but I suspect the return is less than they would have gotten just sticking the money in an S&P 500 index fund over the same 14 years. Still, the risk is lower.
103.
by skipkey 4y ago
My 2013 F150 periodically asks me if it should upload a “Vehicle health report”. I have always declined. The idea of a vehicle repossessing itself does bother me. In the early 2000s I bought a vehicle from Mitsubishi, financed through them
104.
by skipkey 4y ago
So my last name is Key, and my initials are C D, so in the mid-late 90s any time I was prompted to enter a CD Key I would always try “yes”. It worked at least half a dozen times.
105.
by skipkey 4y ago
Sure it does. It means they have two options. Let you stay remote, or fire you, but not “for cause” so you still can file unemployment. Otherwise you won’t be able to file.
106.
by skipkey 4y ago
What happens if someone doesn’t pay the fee?
107.
by skipkey 4y ago
What many people don’t realize is that some large corporations actively manage for mediocrity. Oh, they won’t say that is what they are doing, but it is the outcome of things like micromanagement, constant meetings interrupting flow, high
108.
by skipkey 4y ago
His blog has been down for a couple of years, I wondered what happened.
109.
by skipkey 4y ago
“Natural flavors” frequently used to mean, “this product has a small amount of MSG in it, but we don’t want to list that”. At least in the US. I am not sure if the FDA regulations still allow that though.
110.
by skipkey 4y ago
Seems ridiculously cheap to me. here in Phoenix, there are 2 restaurants near me that do by the slice, both around $5. Most restaurants don’t offer it. I have only spent a month or so in NYC working a decade back, and at the time every th
111.
by skipkey 4y ago
In rural Texas, we pronounced it “bow-dark” and called them horse apples, which the article mentions. It was very common to hang swings from them.
112.
by skipkey 4y ago
I worked in a building once where the close door button started a 3ish second timer then would close. As a side effect if the door was close to closing already it would sometimes actually lengthen the time the door was open. Drove me nuts
113.
by skipkey 4y ago
We had a Netware 3 server back in the early 90s that at one point had about 18 months of uptime between reboots. I probably still have a picture of the server screen after it passed the 1 year mark. I haven’t had anything since that could
114.
by skipkey 4y ago
During the beta of Windows 95 I was working at a company that had made a DOS extender for Clipper, and we got reports That the apps in 16 bit protected mode did not work. Looking in to it, there was a bug in the 16 bit FAT driver, I think,
115.
by skipkey 4y ago
So I hated the ribbon when it was introduced mostly for Excel. Because I did maybe 6-8 spreadsheets a year, but I had been doing that for at least a decade. It took a long time to build new muscle memory for the location of the small bits
116.
by skipkey 4y ago
So I have a question. FPGA development really interests me, but I really don’t know where to get started. I’ve done a bit of embedded systems work, mostly with WinCE 5 a decade or so back and some work on video slot machines, but nothing
117.
by skipkey 4y ago
The lawsuit is linked in the post. I didn’t read the whole thing, but skimming, the smoking gun seems to be that an implementation of Splunk’s S2S protocol was posted to his personal GitHub while he was still an employee. They claim that
118.
by skipkey 4y ago
The problem with the color balance on most TVs is that the red channel has been turned way up. The reason manufacturers do this is it makes the picture stand out when TVs are displayed in a big line. A properly balanced TV looks bland in
119.
by skipkey 4y ago
For me, the primary evidence of lab origin has always been statistical in nature. I have read that there are thousands of wet markets across Asia. So when Covid shows up at one near an institute studying similar viruses instead of one of