sprior

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by sprior 3y ago
They really should have saved this announcement for April 1, then at least it would have been funny.
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by sprior 3y ago
Get a laser engraver and print your documents on actual stone tablets, that's what the cool kids are doing these days.
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by sprior 3y ago
Well since according to that old ad pasta grows on trees it'll be a really cheap networking media.
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by sprior 3y ago
A long time ago I started leaving a trivial compile error (I was doing C++ at the time) in the code when I left for the day as a little bookmark, so the next day I'd just kick off a compile and see right where I was working.
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by sprior 3y ago
The big controversy in my house is that my Polish grandmother made pierogi with rolled edges and we ate them fried (the edges were my favorite part), but when I married a Polish woman who went to cooking school in Poland she insists that sh
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by sprior 3y ago
In point 1 where Will Smith is quoted reminded me of about the year after I graduated college. I wasn't anywhere close to rich, but I had just achieved every goal I had set for myself: I got hired by the company I was hoping for, was
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by sprior 3y ago
Before the pandemic I had an officemate that didn't take sick days when he was clearly sick, it would be January in the Northeast and he'd say it was just allergies. Then the next week I was sick with the flu and TICK'd! I
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by sprior 3y ago
Is the raw data available anywhere in parseable format? I'd be curious about looking up new license plates recognized by my home automation image recognition system in my driveway.
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by sprior 3y ago
You're just figuring that out now????
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by sprior 3y ago
I build ephemeral data structures inside virtual environments that run in a container in a virtual machine using virtual memory on a processor implemented in microcode. I'm not even sure I exist.
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by sprior 3y ago
You should have held out for college credit.
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by sprior 3y ago
Try watching any movie involving either space or computers...
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by sprior 3y ago
me: smarthome, please turn on the lights. smarthome: you're late. me: smarthome, sorry, please turn on the lights. smarthome: why don't you sit in the dark for a while and think about being late.
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by sprior 3y ago
I once got a call with the callerid "Abe Froman". I was actually tempted to answer and ask if this was really the sausage king of Chicago.
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by sprior 3y ago
Can I be too smug when I follow the story link and all I get is "Error establishing a database connection"?
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by sprior 3y ago
You can even 3D print one: https://www.printables.com/model/180109-fractal-vise
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by sprior 3y ago
Murphy’s Laws About Programming #16. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English.
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by sprior 3y ago
I did it in 2001 and it was one of the most educational things I've ever done. I think there should be a college course which gives you a box of computer parts at the beginning of the semester and at the end you get the grade displaye
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by sprior 3y ago
I buy Computer Shopper for the articles - said no one ever.
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by sprior 3y ago
In Summer 2001 I had been laid off from the failed startup I had left IBM to join the year before and the job market had gone downhill fast. So while the year before I had gotten 3 offers going to interviews wearing jeans I was now suiting
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by sprior 3y ago
I actually took it not as an ad but as a case study in a creative business idea.
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by sprior 4y ago
I didn't know it was a secret.
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by sprior 4y ago
I had the same impression.
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by sprior 4y ago
When I was a freshman in college my girlfriend made fun of me for buying a good and expensive desk stapler instead of a cheap one. I explained that I was buying it once. She went on to become my ex-wife and I still have the stapler and it
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by sprior 4y ago
"Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content." You've never heard of Rule 34, have you...
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by sprior 4y ago
I first followed that book in 2000 and it remains one of the most educational things I've done in my career. For a long time I used LFS as my base server install though I've since switched to Ubuntu Server.
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by sprior 4y ago
He kinda did that (pantorouter, computerized box joint jig, slot mortiser, 3d router pantograph).
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by sprior 4y ago
At one point as a programmer at IBM, me, my manager and his manager were all woodworkers. Same explanation you gave.
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by sprior 4y ago
That's what I meant. One thing I appreciate about a manual transmission car with its clutch pedal is the ability to coast, not accelerating but not slowing down like regenerative braking would.
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by sprior 4y ago
Correct me I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that EV's like Tesla don't really have a transmission as in gears to change, so as much as I'm a diehard manual transmission fan I figured that was where it ends. Now

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