stirfrykitty

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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Block the ads. You have every right to do so. There is zero obligation to watch ads. If a company like Google can afford to operate a service like YouTube, then putting it up in the first place is the cost of doing business. I happily block
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
If all one wants to do is communicate securely with another person and what your typing is private but not "illegal", then why even send email. Simply use the Drafts in GMail. Compose an email and leave it in Drafts. Each person a
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
These may be true, but yet other countries don't do this. I once worked with an American guy who served 5 years in the French Foreign Legion. This poor guy played hell when he returned to the US after an almost 5.5 year absence. The Le
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I disagree with having to effectively pay twice. I've lived overseas for a total of 8 years and the tax rules suck. I'm back in the US now, but when I did work overseas, taxes were fairly complex. My UK family and friends didn&#x2
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
All courtesy of the Monroe Doctrine. The US thinks it should control the entire hemisphere. Also interesting for American citizens living and working overseas: if you work overseas, even for a completely foreign entity with zero US operatio
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
SUSE was my first distro in college back in the late 90s. My first job was my exposure to Debian, and I've been on it since. Distro hopping is fun. The issue with OpenSUSE is it's huge unless you do a minimalist install. yast is a
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Debian is far and away the most stable distro out there, arguably more stable than RHEL. Many people and organizations, including serious research facilities use Debian for this very reason. It's also free as in freedom/free as in
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
What you say is true, but this is changing. Red Hat became valuable as a set of skills, because they developed a certification system that is provable. Those are not paper tiger certs. They are earned. While I don't personally have one
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Yum has been largely replaced by dnf, which is far and away better. Despite being a Debian/Slackware fan since 1998, I do find dnf quite nice. It's still a fair bit slower than apt or pacman, but it's clean and easy to use. S
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Because Debian is not owned by a corporation. Who knows what IBM will do with Red Hat. We all know that massive corps that buy smaller ones usually don't treat the smaller corps very well. They often buy them for the patent portfolio o
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I'm in a situation similar to the one you describe. It's an interesting world us contract IT folks live in. I'm honest with people even if it could cost me the job, but they like having someone around in case something goes s
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
An old Unix admin mentor of mine always said to "do the simplest thing that works properly". I've always tried to do this and it's great advice.
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Cashless comes with problems that cannot be avoided. It's easy to trace cashless. What with more and more entities interested in an individual's purchases (insurance companies car/health/house), being able to buy things
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Every Asian I know in IT works ridiculous hours compared to their white counterparts. Ditto Indians. Americans in general (IT can be different) want to work their 8 and bail. I also fall into this category. I have a union mentality towards
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. Interesting. Sadly, here in The Woodlands area, last year the O&G industries laid off tons of IT people. Loads of people suddenly found themselves with no jobs or working at Home Depot to make ends meet. My own nei
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I don't get out to your area often unless I'm heading towards SA and the Hill Country. What's the tech scene like out there? Any purely IT companies or is it IT for services, schools, etc?
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I agree with you. For me, it's better than CA. I live near The Woodlands, so the hurricane thing is not so much of a worry. My wife has family down in Montrose, and it can be fun down there, but I would not live in Houston proper due t
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
The Woodlands is a great place in the Houston area. It's north of the city and a fairly varied place as far as Texas goes. There are tons of companies, tech and otherwise here. Housing can be expensive by Texas standards, but would not
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I agree with you. I'm here because this is where my wife is from. She's a Houston native and wants to be near her parents. Mine are dead and she and our children are my family, so it works for me. Socially, Texas is a backwater. T
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Should one wish to work for Google, they have heaps of offices worldwide in much more reasonably-priced locales. I left California years ago and I will never return. My modest home here in Texas would go for over 2M in California, along wit
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
https://www.inquisitr.com/5165845/china-to-give-cash-rewards... https://nextshark.com/china-porn-rewards-citizens/ And official Chinese state report (run translator) http://www.shdf.gov
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
This reminds me of the notion of "samizdat" during the cold war times, but still happening now in various countries, particularly China, Vietnam, North Korea, et al. The people in control want zero accountability despite what they
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
We have one of those Dutch de Jong Duke coffee machines in our office. Thing makes great coffee, and as a consequence, I drink more than I would were I elsewhere. Thing makes lattes, cappuccinos, double/triple shots. The "executiv
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
Much of what we do in the west could fall into the category of unhealthy dependency. I drink 4-6 double espressos daily, plus about 16oz of green tea. I vape. I code. I sort out issues on servers, for which without the caffeine and nicotine
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by stirfrykitty 8y ago
I don't care for the ritual aspects of it. My purpose is caffeine, yet I do want my coffee to be good. I agree with some others who posit that African coffee is some great stuff. It is. I use a French press, as I don't want to &qu