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by waltbosz 4y ago
I'm leaving a role where I've been the sole supporter for 5 years of a Windows app written by amateurs. Every antipattern you can imagine if in there. I compare it to a maze that I've traveled many times. I know my way around
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by waltbosz 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb Japanese balloon bombs from WWII
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by waltbosz 4y ago
It's funny, when I saw the picture of the dodo on their website, I almost immediately thought, that bird looks tasty. Also, there is a fun movie by Aardman Animations about Charles Darwin and a band of pirates whose captain keeps the l
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I apologize for making you feel offended. That was not my intent. I wasn't trying to make light of the service of military members. I agree that it is wrong to try to obtain fake respect. I was just recounting two specific tales from m
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by waltbosz 4y ago
When I win the lottery and purchase my decommissioned lighthouse to put it on top of my decommissions missile silo, I'm going to wallpaper my new home with uncut sheets of $2-bills.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Reminds me of a time in 7th grade when I wore a band t-shirt that I had received as a gift. A kid in my class took exception because he doubted that I even owned any of their albums. The kid called me a "poser". It also makes me t
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I have a children's book of illustrated story versions of Shakespeare's plays. After seeing how much my kids enjoyed the book, and how much they enjoy watching Minecraft role play videos on youtube, I wondered if there would be a
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by waltbosz 4y ago
> training the bottom quartile of men in the basics .... I always thought schools should teach children "how to date". I went through sex-ed in Delaware public schools in the mid 1990s, and it was all the clinical physical aspe
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Semi-related, this is an excellent song about the woman who invented the pizza table to prevent flimsy pizza box lids from falling into the cheese: https://soundcloud.com/otterintheflightdeck/carmela-vitale originally
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I've taken a few physics classes that covered such topics. Just today I was winding some copper wire into a coil and then winding another wire into coils around every couple of loops of the original wire. I don't know enough physi
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Next: feed the dithered picture into Conway's game of life, then create animation of game played in reverse starting from final generation.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Off topic: I feel like magnets are the closest tangible thing to magic that exists in our universe.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Since they are a former employee, what if you were to propose your revenge plan to them and see what they thought of it. They can't fire you at this point. What would the ramifications of your plan be if you were you to execute it wit
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I was wondering if anyone would mention "Reason". The power station is just the setting for the story, the plot is about a humorous argument between the two humans running the station and a robot who they are training to take over
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I wish the UX of streaming services wasn't so horrible. That is what makes me most want to go back to a Kodi box. I want a personal collection of movies, imagine a bookshelf of my favorites. But all the streaming services are like havi
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by waltbosz 4y ago
How does the source code for an old video game get leaked? And why aren't more old video games open sourced like Doom?
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by waltbosz 4y ago
What's the use case for the app? Is it to remind the user to go outside and look up to see something interesting? Or does it serve as a warning system so that one is not spooked by mysterious loud noises?
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I keep notebooks. I feel like manually writing them down is the best way to strengthen the memory of the idea. Plus information flows from my brain more easily with pen and paper than with computer typing or even talking into a recorder. So
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I was at an outdoor party on the same night that a Starlink satellite deploy mission occurred over my area. I was able to see, with my naked eye, as the rocket fired off some sort of burn. It looked like an airplane with headlights pointing
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Thank you.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I have this idea for a Perry Bible Fellowship-esque comic that presents an epilogue to the Velveteen Rabbit in which after being transformed to a real rabbit he is found by a little girl who bring him home to become a family pet. The final
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by waltbosz 4y ago
> we all have times when we feel sad, depressed, lonely, in a rut, overwhelmed, or other negative emotions I'm in one of those states right now. Unhappy with work. Uncertain about money. Poor health. It really piles up. > If you
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Did anyone else notice that when HBO adapted that snow intro to wide screen, it looks like they just cloned an existing chunk of snow onto the left and right borders. Maybe it's just an illusion. But I swear I can see the seams where t
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Hmm, I doubt it was a design decision. The only time I've experience this was from bargain bin screwdriver sets.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
My ironic favorite are the cheap screw drivers that destroy themselves instead of stripping the mildly tight screw.
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The wrench in the article reminds me of that class of products engineered to maximize sales, not utility. I teach my children that dollar store products are all junk. But I still let them shop there because it's an inexpensive way for
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by waltbosz 4y ago
One automated human verification process that I've seen in the wild: The Bumble dating app has you verify accounts by taking a photo of yourself making a pose. Your account gets verified almost instantly. I'm not sure how it works
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Wasn't there a book exactly like this? A guy took over some business and made all these perplexing business decisions. Some of the decisions were designed to simply draw attention to the company, others were actual changes to improve t
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What happens if you run one of the spectrogram pictures through an upscaler for images like ESRGAN ?
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by waltbosz 4y ago
After Pandora started blocking adblock users, I wrote a userscript to mute the Pandora volume when ads started and unmute when the music comes back.

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