smackeyacky

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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Exactly. Nobody wants smalltalk programmers or IIS whisperers. You just have to embrace the idea that your skills become worthless every five years and move on.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
This is interesting. I became enamoured of computers in the 8 bit age because those blinking cursors seemed to offer endless possibilities. I don’t think I ever looked at one as obedient, more a willing but strict companion. In a lot of w
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
I’ve had 3 jobs in the last 3 years. What didn’t work: cold applications mostly were a waste of time. LinkedIn has been a complete farce for job seeking. However the last cold application did work, although it was to an agency rather tha
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Embedded programming is still in C for a lot of micro controllers and whatnot. If you’re programming with limited resources it’s essential to understand pointers and arrays. Likely you won’t be doing anything useful without them
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Rolex run a similar scam with watches. It’s supposed to prevent people flipping the objects in question which is important for anything with artificial scarcity.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Yep they do despite it seeming like an anachronism from the 1980s. I have a few car posters in my workshop because grown ups aren’t allowed to have them on their bedroom walls, at least according to my wife.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
It’s a five seat nearly SUV despite Ferrari claiming it isn’t. It makes fake noises in sports mode like the other EVs, it seems to have only two features that come from Ferrari and that’s the quad rear lights and the yellow badge. I’m not
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Safety. If something creeps up hopefully one of you is partly awake to raise the alarm. I sometimes think cats are still like this, they seem to sleep very soundly around people but only snooze and are easily startled when isolated.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Rove and his ilk were enabled by the ultra wealthy. Otherwise he’d be a divorce lawyer.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
It would seem to me that becoming ultra wealthy necessarily disconnects you from ordinary people. You have security concerns for yourself and family, you don’t want to be constantly peppered by requests for financial help. Plus your resour
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
WSL was the first public sign Microsoft had given up on windows.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
This is a great analogy. Jan/Feb this year was when the models crossed from useful to essential.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Not OP but sometimes we all get caught up in the sunken cost fallacy. The product you’re working on might soldier on despite the chaos at the board level. I worked for a company with a micro managing board who forced a series of MDs out a
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
I wonder this too. It’s much harder to back into a cramped parking space than backing out into an open space. So they do it very slowly. Watching people do this is frustrating.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Didn’t we already work out they are similar in their spectral output to the Sun, enough to conclude they are the same kind of thing? And observing their movements makes them far away. Do each of us have to do the experiments again to vali
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
A cat reaching for a cuddle is conscious or not? They recognise individuals and communicate desires well past the bounds of food or other basic needs into affection.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
It is knowable isn’t it? We know our brains play a variety of tricks to get a cohesive view out of two wildly complicated but deeply flawed meat sensors. That fits the definition of a simulation.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Americans are astonishingly conformist. Don’t let the myth making of American exceptionalism blind you to the amazing cult of MAGA or the reach of evangelical churches. It only takes a small minority of violent thugs to make a bigger popul
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
I’ve been trying to get some of my younger colleagues to give both movies a chance without success so far. I think they find it tough to get past the practical effects and old school actor acting.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Rollerball has the central premise that society is outsourcing all decisions to a central computer and everybody just blindly follows, to the point where nobody checks whether it’s functioning properly. First time I watched it I thought it
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Personal computers are still fun for me, although it has waxed and waned over the years since I got my first 8 bit computer in the 1980s. Linux kep it fun. Even during a time when I worked with windows professionally I always had a Linux d
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
I think I’d avoid the Cosmic version of POP!OS for a while for gaming. I mean it works but you do have to get fiddling again unlike the previous not cosmic version. Most egregious problem is that steam games start in a strange window rathe
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Oh 100% agree on Excel - it's no substitute for those dBase/Clipper/Fox systems. Y'know what? It's probably true that niche needs filling again as long as it isn't the dBase file format. I had to deal with on
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
I want to say no. As a way of working those dbms systems were a dead end. Not every problem is database tables and having had a job replacing a dBase III system I never want to see it or its ilk again
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
There is definitely a story to be told in GUI based development environments, from VisualWorks / Digitalk smalltalk to VB to Delphi. Along with the also rans (PowerBuilder, the death of Clipper and dBase systems). GUI interfaces were
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
A lot of 8 bit basics had a RENUM which would even out the line numbers and repoint all the GOTO statements.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
Deliberately reuse their name in that first conversation and trust you can recall it. It takes discipline and practice I.e at the end of the day, picture the new people you met and repeat their names when you get home. That works about 80
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
No doubt there is evil in the corporate world. I do think there is something in that documentary that changed my mind about a few things. It might not be representative o today since we’re talking 1970s UK but thought provoking anyway.
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
https://youtu.be/GbIimta-TJs?si=3Sm-Dgl8DtfubFSt A period documentary about the Meridian Triumph motorcycles co op. Sad, thoughtful take on a particular bit of British manufacturing history. That the co op started with a
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by smackeyacky 5mo ago
How ironic. Reactionary old fart mostly known for writing moralistic children’s novels wants you not to listen to moralistic crusaders. I shall take his advice.

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