smackeyacky

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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
I bought a Honda Civic toy from an auto parts store recently. I thought it was purely static but it has a spring pull back motion and also flashes the lights and honks the horn when you open the doors. Then I leaned on it and discovered it
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
It’s an odd change though. The rate of homicide per 100,000 for men goes down in they’re in the army (9.3 per 100,000 in the US general population) but for women their rate doubles.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Me too apparently. Trying to stay employed after my startup failed has been 3 years of shit. I’ve had 3 jobs in that time. The first one I was managed out, admittedly my fault as I was a poor fit for the culture of that place and had cla
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Convenience. I don’t buy many movies digitally but it’s usually because the family is over and they want to watch something new. Of course I may then pirate it afterwards so I can keep a backup of my purchased movie.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
I did read somewhere that Gen X are the last gen in modern societies to see anything real. Everything is just a simulation of older things. All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Did Hotz hit his head or something? Atheistic hedonists oh my!
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Exactly. The pascal I used had no way to dynamically allocate a string they were all fixed at compile time. That really sucked.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Looking native has long left the station as an objection about a UI. Like 25 years ago. Nobody gives a damn since Microsoft stopped giving a damn.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6114142/ Recommended for victims of sexual assault. Rather revoltingly one conservative objection to giving it to 9 years olds was that it would “increase risky behaviour”
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Men raping children is why they wanted to start at 9.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
I had Claude write a bit of stupid C# the other day that had an off by one string truncate. Surprised the hell out of me.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Zero terminated strings were the basis for an awful lot of useful software. Calling them the biggest mistake in computing is a bit OTT. I haven’t programmed anything Pascal related for 30+ years but I dimly remember thinking at the time th
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
It’s funny to me that a lot of the initial dismissal of Swing was “it isn’t native widgets”. Now that’s seen as a positive.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
It has been interesting. The good guys got better with AI. The C grade guys mostly get confused, or follow hallucinations for a lot longer before they realise it’s a dead end. If anything AI seems to make it easier to see who is good and
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
I work at a place that is actively hiring juniors. While they don’t have an explicit rating system I feel like we unconsciously follow a similar pattern with new coders and it’s unfortunate. Given that older staff generally have a legacy o
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
They aren’t going away. They are an obvious answer to Microsoft GUI development being in the wilderness for 20 years.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Power adjacent losers. Pathetic.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
When did evidence ever change the minds of the incredulous? The whole debate has become so polluted by the forces who want no action on climate change we can’t even use the original description any more.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Why is it better than the Google TV (new Chromecast). We’ve bought every iteration of these and had no issues whatsoever with them. I don’t notice advertising unless it’s within Prime streams. The latest Google TV even has an Ethernet por
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Perhaps they should consider leaving the US. Pretty clearly the descent into a corrupt autocracy is having real consequences.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
It didn’t have to be that way but badge engineering a VW wasn’t a great idea. Then again I know nothing because they sell a ton of those things.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Bit of a shame what has happened to classic Porsche prices. They used to be “car guy” cars. Now the prices went wackadoodle they’ve become cars for people who…aren’t car guys and can’t even pronounce it properly. Interesting history on th
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
It’s wood. You put it in your fireplace and set fire to it for heat
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
My grandfather was like this, and not with soft wood. We try to burn Australian hardwoods and that takes quite a bit of force to split. He could pound through it like a knife through butter. There’s a definite art to hardwood, looking wh
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Especially since the books in question are older and likely aged out.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Last hackathon I went to our team was beaten by a group that produced a PowerPoint presentation. I have no interest in doing that any more
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Making peace with the lived ones might be harder. Chasing the startup dream ended in bitterness, disappointment and debt. It forever damaged my marriage and my mental health. Be careful what you wish for.
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by smackeyacky 4mo ago
Or people don’t want to be trained in it because while you’re doing it the industry keeps on inventing new things you’re supposed to know. I’ve been offered a job doing cobol and another legacy language on core banking systems and I’m going
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
One thing that tripped me up with Heidi was the default collation for tables is Swedish. Makes sense for them I guess. I stopped using it when I ditched windows. The older versions did crash a bit for me but they probably sorted that out
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Why is this fact awkward?

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