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by spauldo 1y ago
Some of us can't. I can sleep in a tent any time of year (although I'll pass if it's over 90° at night), but my girlfriend needs a CPAP and has back problems that prevent her from sleeping on the ground. We both love nature a
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by spauldo 1y ago
I know I'm just some random guy and I'm hardly representative of the average American vacationer, but I tend to visit national and state parks on family road trips. There's a lot of amazing places in our country and I'm
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by spauldo 1y ago
Calling DEC probably wouldn't have done you any good either, unless you could get ahold of an insider that took interest in you. I did tech support for DEC's Starion line of Windows PCs. I'd get the occasional call from someo
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by spauldo 1y ago
The first thing this puts me in mind of is mcom.bad-attitude, the internal Netscape newsgroup for this sort of thing. jwz wrote about how well that worked out on his blog.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Having a manager that knows how to properly employ you is important, sure. I was talking more about how you work with your teammates to get things done. There's a place for lone wolves at some companies, but in my line of business you
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect the similarity is just a coincidence. There was a lot of social pressure in the past for permanent marriages. That doesn't mean they were happy marriages. With the social changes in the west in the 1960s, divorce became more
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by spauldo 1y ago
I realize my field is kinda special (industrial automation) in that it's really a mix of programming, IT, and electrical engineering, but I can usually tell if someone is knowledgeable with just a few minutes of conversation. You can a
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by spauldo 1y ago
It means a mature tree in an old-growth forest. Trees that grow in the dense shade of other trees grow slower, and their growth rings are much closer together. The result is that a tree takes a lot longer to grow but it's stronger and
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by spauldo 1y ago
A lot of that old software still works. That's one of the benefits of X being so stable over the decades. I'm sure you can still find the old SUNSITE repos archived on the 'net - tons of neat stuff to play with. I'm not
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by spauldo 1y ago
I often wonder how things would have turned out if the Open Group had placed Motif and CDE under the MIT license back in the late 90s. I've always been a fan of the X resource database, and I think it's a shame it never carried ov
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's not surprising, really. Oil companies know green energy is going to supplant oil eventually, so at the same time they lobby against renewables they're also working to make sure they still have a place in the future energy eco
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by spauldo 1y ago
No. My company did some work in that area. It works fine in the lab, but there's a lot of engineering that needs to be done in order to scale it up to industrial levels. Some failures are going to happen along the way, and failures at
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by spauldo 1y ago
Tea party brings up images of little girls and stuffed animals around a table to my American mind, but I get what you mean. My team has a weekly meeting with no management allowed and no agenda. I bring up anything important right at the st
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by spauldo 1y ago
The US doesn't really have any interest in fixing the problem. Both parties benefit from the mess we have now. That's what pisses me off about the whole thing. People buy the crap the politicians are feeding them and the immigrant
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by spauldo 1y ago
CL is like the C++ of the Lisp world. It's standardized, multiparadigm, has a ton of functionality, fast, and built with large codebases in mind. It's also got a lot of cruft and because the standard is old it lacks certain things
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by spauldo 1y ago
SLS is a solution for the problem of the US needing a large launch vehicle. That's not the issue. The issue is that it's taken way more time and money than anticipated and hasn't shown good results. Budget and schedule overru
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by spauldo 1y ago
We've had privatized tag agents in Oklahoma for as long as I can remember. It actually works pretty well. If you need a driver's test or CDL background checks, you need the DPS office (which is very hit-and-miss). For everything e
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by spauldo 1y ago
X still works great for me. I figure I'll give Wayland a try after another decade or so.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Car dealership associations have pretty impressive lobbying capabilities. In many (most?) states you must buy a new vehicle from a dealer - it's against the law to buy direct from the manufacturer.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I like my Honda just fine. Granted, I've never owned an EV, but considering I travel a lot and gas stations are plentiful and fast, it's a better fit for me than an EV would be. I do think a plug-in hybrid would be better for when
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by spauldo 1y ago
I have a .net domain that used to point to the nameserver at my house. It works fine, although if your IP changes you have to update your glue records and whatnot. You can get free secondary DNS service from a several places. All I paid wa
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by spauldo 1y ago
There's also the fact that American towns aren't dense and are poorly walkable. I'd love to be able to catch a train to the next town over, but once I get there I'd have to walk at least a mile or two to get where I want
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by spauldo 1y ago
That was part of the 3rd party app purge. Before then, the 3rd party apps could see NSFW content just fine.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Our language started out as a bad habit shared between French soldiers and English barmaids. And the barmaids were speaking a language that started as a bad habit shared between Viking raiders and Anglo-Saxon villagers. Meanings have shifte
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by spauldo 1y ago
Normally I agree. The only time I ever raised my voice at a subordinate was because they were consistently lax and inaccurate with technical details. Things like mixing up C and C++ in conversations where it mattered. But things like DB9 an
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by spauldo 1y ago
I don't think that counts as intentionally misleading since bits/second is the correct measurement for any serial connection and has been since the days of Baudot. Joe Blow might misunderstand it but that's on Joe. It's
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by spauldo 1y ago
That does you no good in my line of work, where it's just as likely to be a serial port.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I imagine it depends on how you use it. I came to Reddit late and never got into the old interface. I commented a lot on technical subreddits and didn't do much with the doomscrolling ones. I used Boost. Its ads were not intrusive (and
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by spauldo 1y ago
Reddit is one of the cases where a native app makes sense. Some of the 3rd party Reddit apps were great. But I'll eat my hat before I'll install Reddit's own app. Reddit killing off 3rd party apps is why I post here and not t
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by spauldo 1y ago
Who got downvoted? Both of your comments were accurate. The music comparison stuff is subjective, but that's not worth a downvote. (I don't know how to see downvotes in Hacki, hence why I ask.)

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