codevark

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by codevark 14d ago
<tiny violins> He was whisked away to the UK practically overnight. Our neighbors and their children have been in detention for over 5 months. Money talks, regardless of what scummy pocket it comes from.
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by codevark 2mo ago
Rick Beato's. If you are not a musician now, you will be one soon. Entertaining, informative, and packed with actual human content. Dr. Chris Edward's. Guy repairs retro computers mostly for free. Brilliant work, and quite funny.
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by codevark 5mo ago
They've been watching us and what we do to each other.
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by codevark 7mo ago
I'm tired of working in tech but fortunately (or not) it's my hobby so even if I retired I would still be doing all the techy things at home on my 17 'puters (loose count). Plus being the IT Guy for several extended families.
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by codevark 7mo ago
Years ago, before Web 3.0, my Mom decided she wanted a computer to do email and genealogy. I bought her one. In one of her first sessions she held the mouse about 8 inches above the mousepad and asked why nothing was happening (shades of St
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by codevark 1y ago
I thought it said "If anyone builds IT, everyone dies". Maybe I take my job too seriously.
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by codevark 1y ago
Run your own mail server. Or several of them. No more expensive than running your own website(s).
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by codevark 2y ago
I haven't eaten cottage cheese in decades. It's a thing now?
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by codevark 2y ago
When I was six my parents got me a 26" Schwinn single-speed bike. It was as tall as I was. I rode it until college, doing things that were heretofore unknown to science. IT WAS GREAT.
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by codevark 2y ago
Odd. This and other PF audio figured in a dream last night. Then I came downstairs and saw this.
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by codevark 2y ago
At one point in the nineties, while furiously coding a seminal eCommerce app, my friend/boss walked up behind me and said, "Mr. Zoon, you're typing wildly on the keyboard with nothing happening on the screen." I had lost
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by codevark 2y ago
For $49/year, I'd rather vote for Cthulhu.
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by codevark 2y ago
You're babbling again.
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by codevark 2y ago
Form vs Function, all over again. Work the function aspect until it is beyond reproach. Then look at form and tweak things until the neighbors don't complain. Or move somewhere where there are no neighbors, and skip the second step. Hi
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by codevark 2y ago
HTML+CSS, as little JS as is possible if any at all. Notepad++ I have a (currently offline) site that uses REBOL+Vanilla for self-modification. Why complicate your life any more than it needs?
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by codevark 3y ago
news? https://www.taigamotors.com/en/snowmobiles/
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by codevark 3y ago
It's not inflation, it's price gouging.
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by codevark 3y ago
And they should always respect user focus. Something I got used to on the Amiga, but (Windows) is horrible at this. I'm constantly typing into the wrong window when focus changes in the middle of something. WTF?
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by codevark 3y ago
I wanted to be an astronaut, or the next Jacques Cousteau, or a rockstar guitarist, or a race car driver. None of these things happened. But I can play guitar pretty well. I work in software and IT. 63yo.
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by codevark 3y ago
It's time to end work, mofo. There's no shortage of money, we could all live happily ever after, never working a day in our lives, but bossman has other ideas.
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by codevark 3y ago
I usually start out with, "Have you ever heard of SCSI?"
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by codevark 3y ago
Frilliant. You are having the fun so many people miss today. Good luck! I've done great stuff with DPaint and Pagestream. Also PageRender3D controlled by Arexx scripts is fantastic. I did a lot of work in CanDo, Helm, and a bunch of ot
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by codevark 3y ago
"Asking which Amiga I like best is like asking which of your children is your favourite...I love them all." Right with ya!
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by codevark 3y ago
Homelessness has causes. Fix those. Most homeless people do NOT want to be homeless. Is it the wages lagging inflation? Fix it. Is it housing rates skyrocketing? Fix it. Is it our broken physical and mental health systems? Fix them. Fix all
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by codevark 3y ago
I do that on a regular basis. Our production file storage is at just under 50% of almost 1 PB capacity. What are you saying? (The best part is that if someone got in and stole our stuff, they would have no idea what to do with it, it being
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by codevark 3y ago
I'm almost 63. I started playing SpaceWar and Chase on my high school's PDP-11 in 1974, never looked back lol. Wrote some games for the Apple II in the early '80s, spent almost a year playing Ultima III. Bought an Amiga 500 i
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by codevark 3y ago
In the late '90s, we were Amazon before Amazon knew what it was doing. Now I work in IT for a private college. Pay sucks, benefits are great. I tell a lot of stories to the young folks.
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by codevark 4y ago
Many developers have no concept of efficient use of hardware resources (or what hardware resources even are), figuring they can just ask for more of whatever they need and the system will take care of the rest. When your program and anythin
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by codevark 4y ago
The Village People. Oh, wait..
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by codevark 4y ago
Quite oddly, none of these explanations comes close to the meaning of the phrase as I have encountered it in my life.

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