Random_Person

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by Random_Person 3y ago
I'm 44 and have only achieved savings within the past year and a half. I live a very modest life and have always TRIED to live below my means, but living off of my government salary was challenging. I received a ~18k raise 2 years ago
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by Random_Person 3y ago
Yeah, some of them have been hilarious.
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by Random_Person 3y ago
I've been rather unimpressed with Bard when asking it "common sense" type of information. It's limited memory is also a problem when trying to have a meaningful conversation with depth. I spent a few hours last night try
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I'm glad you pointed out the tags issue. I've been using Daylio for a while now because I like doing little entries throughout my day and I initially set up a bunch of tags. Lately those tags have started to feel like a burden bec
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by Random_Person 4y ago
No, that was more coincidental than anything. We had been living as roommates for years before that year.
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by Random_Person 4y ago
Twice. At 31 I left the Automotive field to start working in IT. It was a low paying government job without a lot of applicants. I started college at 32 and got an AA in IT. At 38 my state legislature shut down my agency and my wife and kid
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I've published almost 1,800 video diaries and this is a game changer for me. I've been wanting to do more with the back catalog, but don't have transcripts.
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I keep a brown noise generator on my phone for reading. It helps me a great deal, especially in noisy environments when my brain is trying to pay attention to something else in my surroundings. Oddly, however, it doesn't help me at wo
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I was a warehouseman in the Marine Corps in the late 90s. Our warehouse was absolute garbage. we couldn't fill something like 30% of our orders because we couldn't find the items or the inventory was off. We were also still runnin
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by Random_Person 4y ago
We sound similar, except for the 12 pack in a weekend thing. I don't drink much, but I enjoy it when I do. When I drink, it's one drink. Maybe two if I'm feeling extra spicy that day. I enjoy the ritual of the drink. I enjoy
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I was a parts department manager in the early 00's when Mercedes USA decided to switch all their systems over to SAP. It was an absolute nightmare for 6 months. The entire UX (at that time) was unfathomable. Even our regional represent
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I've been on KeePass + Dropbox since Dropbox first became a thing and I have yet to find a reason to do it any other way.
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I've got one. I use it only for writing. It's been great for that because it's terrible at everything else. It is essentially a modern-day word processor for me. I can work for hours and hours unplugged and if I need to do a
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I built a tool for educators ~7 years ago at my previous employer. That employer shut down and I bought the tool then sold it to my current employer. This year, my employer decided to pivot and we are no longer serving software services. I
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by Random_Person 4y ago
Yep, I had the BASIC cartridge and used the tape drive almost exclusively for that. Coded up all sorts of little projects on that machine. I hated the membrane keyboard, but it worked!
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by Random_Person 4y ago
I still have my Atari 400 and tape drive!
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by Random_Person 4y ago
How about the third position (which I find myself in in): Staff->Line engineer. I work primarily on an internal support product which the company decided to license to other entities... at a ridiculously low price. We support dozens of i
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by Random_Person 4y ago
This pretty much describes my day job and I love it. Is our codebase a hot mess? Yeah, we have lots of debt from previous devs, but we're working on it!
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by Random_Person 5y ago
The opposite actually. I used to get hangry and be irritable all the time. I would also have blood sugar crashes if I ate carbs (hypoglycemic). Switching to 18:6 completely eliminated blood sugar issues and I am generally more docile.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
I live in Northern WV and I'm fully aware that our rivers flow North, but for some reason, when I clicked on my area and saw the route run up to Pittsburgh before traveling South to the Gulf, I was taken aback.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
Ah, you are right. My memory sucks. It's been in storage for many many years.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
Oh, I forgot all about those little drawings! Seeing this now brings back a flood of memories. Thanks!
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by Random_Person 5y ago
I'll have to dig it out. I don't remember the illustrations. I remember working on a blackjack program forever. Debugging line by line. Finding my typos and getting it to work. That was one of my proudest moments.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
I remember really struggling to get the tape drive to work. Sans internet, it was quite a challenge to figure out how to get it going. That was quite likely the spark that made me want to learn anything and everything about hardware.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
I still have my 800. It was given to me sometime in the 80s when my cousin passed. It came with the BASIC cart, a tape drive, and a book called something like 101 BASIC GAMES that were just copies of source code. That machine started me on
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by Random_Person 5y ago
Last year, I started working on a randomly generated, text-based adventure game. I made random equipment and room generators. Started working on enemies, and lost steam. I turned it into a Mad-Libs style dungeon room/loot generator, an
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by Random_Person 5y ago
I love my paperwhite, EXCEPT for the ridiculous place they put the power button. It's right where the device rests on my finger and I inadvertently turn the unit off quite frequently.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
Just Google Docs. I made a template for novel writing and copy it when I start something new.
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by Random_Person 5y ago
My girlfriend got me a refurb Paperwhite last fall and I didn't put it down for about 4 months. It's been great for my reading habits!
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by Random_Person 5y ago
Chromebook C423NA - for writing. I intentionally bought the lowest end model I could find at Walmart. I wanted it for a single task - writing - and it's perfect for that. It is terrible at most everything else. Softball glove - my kid

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