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by vidanay 5y ago
>“Ham radio is really a social hobby...Here in Mississippi, you get to 5 or 6 o' clock and you have a big network going on and on—some of them are half-drunk chattin' with you." Is this supposed to be an endorsement?
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by vidanay 5y ago
Just because you drop the "?" from the end of the headline doesn't mean it's not still subject to Betteridge's Law.
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by vidanay 5y ago
As a developer at a company that produces industrial equipment, our licensing picture is very nearly inverted from your description. Until about 10 years ago, probably 99% of our systems were connectionless. Today, I'd say about 75% ar
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by vidanay 5y ago
Unless it's by sail-boat, I don't think the emissions per passenger mile of a boat is better than an airplane.
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by vidanay 5y ago
If I remember rightly, this incident was the motivating factor for adding "save failing images" capability to our software.
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by vidanay 5y ago
If I remember rightly, this incident was the motivating factor for adding "save failing images" capability to our software.
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by vidanay 5y ago
We once had a customer who would call us in a panic a couple of times a year saying our inspection equipment was experiencing unusually high false rejects and they were generating very high scrap rate. By the time we got a technician on sit
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by vidanay 5y ago
You're not wrong. I was researching this exact topic just this afternoon. We are creating new clients using .NET 5 and talking to legacy services via gRPC. Unfortunately, the legacy services are .NET Framework 4.8 or 4.6, so there is n
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by vidanay 5y ago
It transmits torque from one axis to another axis, so....yeah it's a transmission.
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by vidanay 5y ago
I'm waiting for the day (not in a good way) when they announce the Star Wars/MCU crossover trilogy movies.
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by vidanay 5y ago
This reminds me that I should log back in and do a full delete on my FB account. I deactivated it sometime last summer. Luckily, I never got any of those spontaneous re-activations you did.
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by vidanay 5y ago
Do they have electricity? I'm betting "yes". This means there are either above ground poles that fiber can be hung from, or if it was constructed in the last 30 years, the ground was opened for trenching, and a fiber should h
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by vidanay 5y ago
A closer analogy might be that all of the banana growers were told they should grow mangos, so the plowed under the banana trees and planted mangos.
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by vidanay 5y ago
If you're into rainy days, you might also want to try Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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by vidanay 5y ago
This is largely because "modern" design has such poor information density, it requires 15 different screens for a single screen of a "legacy" UI.
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by vidanay 5y ago
You should write for Grey's Anatomy. That sounds like one of their ridiculous plot lines.
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by vidanay 5y ago
Honestly, these are the reasons I don't look for a new position.I make "good" money, but by no means great. I have the benefit of 20 years tenure and apparent stability in my current role. Trading that for more stress in hiri
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by vidanay 5y ago
8 years would only be 40% of my current job tenure.
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by vidanay 5y ago
I think this is derivative of humans inability to comprehend large numbers. Do I have enough water for me and my family? Yes, I'm not thirsty and my crops look fine. Do we have enough water for 10 billion people for the next 150 years?
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by vidanay 5y ago
I've been in a retailer within the last two years that still used paper and and imprint machine to process credit cards.
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by vidanay 5y ago
The Zurich building looks like mega sized shipping containers. (I know - that is the intended design look). My aunt worked for Zuirich for almost 20 years (in the towers), never heard anything extraordinarily bad other than normal employee
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by vidanay 5y ago
Grew up in Arlington Heights a few years ahead of you. (RMHS '89). Heady days indeed.
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by vidanay 5y ago
Humans have dogs as companions. Cats have humans as companions.
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by vidanay 5y ago
Uhhh, no. I've never seen a CRT take more than 10-15 seconds to "warm up", and I've been looking at CRTs since the early 70's.
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by vidanay 5y ago
Sylvester Stallone was one of the first actors to negotiate a fraction of gross revenue and rights (for Rocky). edit: I heared the above several times over the years, but it appears it may not be true: https://www.businessinsider
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by vidanay 5y ago
Society has been going to collapse in 50 years for the last 500 years.
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by vidanay 5y ago
20 years at a division of a F500 company here. Luckily, we have not been sidelined into the ceremony and incantations of "modern" software development. Our most formalized process is a very strong PLM (Product Lifecycle Management
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by vidanay 5y ago
Do they not sell rakes in Russia? /s
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by vidanay 5y ago
Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_SE5O28pM
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by vidanay 5y ago
And that's on top of the fact that the original problems were the epitome of "That's a hardware problem, not a software problem."

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