FartinMowler

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by FartinMowler 13d ago
Wow, that activated a long dormant neuron. IIRC 3.11 main purpose was to make the 3.1 in OS/2 incompatible.
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by FartinMowler 19d ago
Or HAGS (HTMX, AlpineJS, Go, SQLite).
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by FartinMowler 25d ago
Canada needs to create an "Economic Reparations Fund" to help those workers and companies harmed by trump's tariffs. Its initial funding should come from selling $10B of US bonds (Canada is ~5th largest holder) and a 5% surch
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by FartinMowler 27d ago
Interesting interpretation given the the 2nd Amendment gives the right to "a well regulated militia" and not to individuals including crazed yahoos and criminals. Sadly for millions of butchered Americans, US courts have agreed wi
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by FartinMowler 2mo ago
My namesake, er, not quite ;).
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by FartinMowler 4mo ago
With that for the rest of the day I won't get the Tragically Hip song "New Orleans is Sinking" out of my head. https://youtu.be/LAZUsCONjIQ?si=QIvXOppHk3X1UuQ0
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by FartinMowler 4mo ago
But at least JS now has a built-in leftpad function ;) (called padStart).
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by FartinMowler 4mo ago
I'm reminded of the Polish proverb that it's better to be rich & healthy than sick & poor.
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by FartinMowler 4mo ago
What?!?! I was an IBM Systems Engineer in the late 1980s / early 1990s and that was nothing like my job description.
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by FartinMowler 5mo ago
Yup, impossible to read. I was a paid APL coder in the early 80's. We called it WORN: Write Once, Read Never.
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by FartinMowler 6mo ago
Lol, on my trip up Pikes Peak I was blissfully unaware that altitude sickness could be a thing. So I can't recall if I felt any different. I do recall the carburetor on my motorcycle was acting a little strange, however.
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by FartinMowler 6mo ago
Finally, some deshitification news on HN!
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by FartinMowler 6mo ago
Luge too :)
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by FartinMowler 6mo ago
Brilliant. But be prepared for failure. Some days instead of the rejection you're expecting you'll be accepted instead!
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by FartinMowler 7mo ago
It's not really a promised or conscious boycott. It's after weighing the pros and cons, many of them intangible, the feeling is visiting the US right now could result in unpleasantness ... and if there is anything Canadians are ad
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by FartinMowler 8mo ago
Although the probability is closer to 0% than 100%, it is far enough away from 0% to have many Canadians concerned. As the midterm elections approach and things start looking like he's drowning, Trump will grasp for any convenient dist
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by FartinMowler 8mo ago
They could monitor the midterm elections /s
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by FartinMowler 9mo ago
Lol, reminds me of a story: at his workplace my brother was invited to join a lottery ticket pool where each got to pick the numbers for a ticket. The numbers he picked were 1-2-3-4-5-6. Although the others, mostly fellow engineers, relucta
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by FartinMowler 10mo ago
Especially with template partials now in the core of Django 6.
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by FartinMowler 10mo ago
By the end of Trump's third term the US will be isolated from almost all global trade anyways.
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by FartinMowler 10mo ago
OOP is like alcohol: enjoyable in moderation but dangerous in excess. In moderation, an object is a data structure with associated functions (methods) that acts as a kind of namespace. If your data structure and functions are separate, you
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by FartinMowler 10mo ago
Yup. And Toronto in Canada is closer to the equator than to the north Pole.
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
I've been doing IT for decades. Many times I've come across something that seems stupid yet also has a non-trivial number of supporters. When this happens (and it will many times), don't just continue to think it's stupi
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
Lot's of comments here at the "micro" level: about the comfort of an individual pedestrian. There's also the "macro" view: how best to quickly and safely move a large number of pedestrians in a short window of
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
There are those like me who eat meat, like the taste of meat, but think for health reasons they should be eating less meat.
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
> ,,, we're now on the cusp ... Would that be the same cusp self-driving cars were on 5 years ago? I think the benefits of LLMs are farther in the future but the (massive) costs are here today. Folks, invest your retirement savings
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
Yup, lots of Y2K work shipped offshore in the 90s while onshore worked on the web boom. After Jan 1, 2000, mgmt thought, hey, how can I use these cheap guys elsewhere.
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
Be sure to clean the ceiling too if said guest was a bum gun noob.
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by FartinMowler 1y ago
Hot showers too! And 1-800 phone numbers. In my motorcycle touring days, at 3pm or so I'd figure out where I would be at 7-8pm, lookup the nearest KOA in the KOA directory booklet, and call the 1-800 to make a reservation. Often when
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by FartinMowler 2y ago
It's the Biden sell-off. /s

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