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by arnmac 8mo ago
I worked with a few customers on implementing this for some of our products. The customers never went live due to the eventual cost of the individual devices being more than they wanted to incur.
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by arnmac 3y ago
I love these USGS publications. So much history in them.
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by arnmac 3y ago
You can now get it again with an additional $75 subscription addon to your membership.
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by arnmac 4y ago
I am not sure there is anything else on the Internet worth reading today.
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by arnmac 4y ago
All depends on when it was put in. $40 in 1999 is now about $70 in today's money.
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by arnmac 4y ago
Not going to lie. If you submitted a resume for a job I was hiring for and you 1. Pass the HR check 2. Had some of what I was looking in skills 3. Had Eagle Scout on your resume You are going to get an interview. Might not get the job but
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by arnmac 4y ago
This made me laugh. Many a scout has been 1 merit badge away.
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by arnmac 4y ago
I am already a part of several Mastadon instances. Each with several thousand users. The great thing is you can create your own environment where just your own users can communicate with each other or you can federate with other mastadon sy
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by arnmac 5y ago
This is not true. My father normally crushed my forces in about 5 hours.
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by arnmac 5y ago
Our economy was roaring not to long ago because everyone had more money and there was stuff to buy. Now I have less money and less stuff to buy. Good bye economy.
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by arnmac 5y ago
What a world we live in! Just read how shoplifting isn't worth prosecuting so it isn't a "crime" anymore. Now using a VPN is. Yeah!
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by arnmac 5y ago
Of course this article on microfocus.com is going to talk about how great Cobol is. Microfocus is one of the major Cobol vendors. That said I had a professor that made lots of retirement money off his Cobol abilities. He laughed and said he
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by arnmac 5y ago
The USPS from time to time does do testing on delivery. I was part of a test program a few years ago where the USPS was testing the delivery of mail. They would send me addresses and postage and I was to send them from a drop box or at some
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by arnmac 6y ago
Other is the South Texas Nuclear Plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generating...
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by arnmac 6y ago
I had tons of problems with my TB16 and one prior Dell dock but the WD19 has been working flawlessly all year. I have used it with my XPS 7550 and 7590 and had no problems. I also have had good experience using it with a MacBook Pro 15.
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by arnmac 6y ago
And they also supposedly only have 93k confirmed COVID cases. Not sure I believe this.
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by arnmac 6y ago
I remember spending hours with ResEdit exploring what I could do by flipping bits and changing resources. So much fun and so many good memories.
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by arnmac 6y ago
My company just had a lay-off. Lots of good people gone not because they did anything but because the market we are in tanked. Went from a we are going to crush it this year and hiring like crazy to WTF in a matter of weeks. I feel extremel
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by arnmac 7y ago
Nice
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by arnmac 7y ago
Had a coworker that found that out the hard way. Got a DUI and didn't tell anyone. Then one day a few months later had a work trip in Canada. They stopped him at customs in Canada and shipped him back. Company had to fly someone else o
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by arnmac 7y ago
The current court is often rejecting cases that they feel are more the responsibility of the legislature to resolve. I had heard an opinion on this that the court thought it was the problem of Congress to fix this NOT the court.
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by arnmac 7y ago
I spent a decade of at least 1 hour in and 1.5 hours back every day. That is a lot of time I wish I could get back in my life. When you work 8 hours + 2.5 hours commute it all adds up. Plus 8 hours wasn't really the amount it was more.
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by arnmac 7y ago
I was a subscriber for 15 years. When they went digital it lost a lot of value for me. However when my subscription came up for renewal in June I realized I had not even read an issue in a few months.
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by arnmac 7y ago
Yeah when I saw the email I was kind of sad. kind of because I saw it coming. When my subscription ran out in June I didn't renew. So i guess I am partially to blame.
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by arnmac 7y ago
As I tell my children it doesn't matter what you actually do or intended your action to be. It is all in what is perceived and interpreted by the other person. This is the problem that everyone's perception and interpretation can
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by arnmac 8y ago
I loved HyperCard is got me interested in development and I spent HOURS working on the perfect stack.
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by arnmac 9y ago
If you have ever worked at walmart before you know they already have walmarts. Work there long enough and you become like one.
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by arnmac 9y ago
Glad I saw this. I had missed their email telling me so. That would have sucked.