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by ctrager 4y ago
I dunno. I myself was pretty clueless about PCs at that time. I owned a Kaypro from the early 1980s that ran CP/M, but I never touched a PC running Windows (or even just DOS) until 1994. They weren't part of the centralized IT dep
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by ctrager 4y ago
I don't know. I speculate: So, like, the consulting company has to sell... something. They develop a... what was it called...a system development life cycle methodology? Maybe partly sincere, maybe partly bullshit, I dunno. I remember
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by ctrager 4y ago
If I had just written the program directly, I could have TYPED, and I could have used the backspace and delete keys to erase instead of an ACTUAL eraser, and I could have used cut and paste instead of ACTUAL scissors and paste. Plus, I coul
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by ctrager 4y ago
Hmmm, what am I trying to say... I guess... as I think about it now, the lines of communication were very hierarchical - up and down the chain. But when it was time for me, a tech guy at the bottom, to talk to a user on the front lines, the
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by ctrager 4y ago
Another golden memory of that project was when I was given the assignment to meet with users - accounting people - on screens for approving tax payments. It was kinda a big deal for me at that stage in my career, to even talk to users. So,
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by ctrager 4y ago
LOL and true to my experience. In the 80's was a United Airlines employee on a project where Arthur Anderson (aka Accenture) was the consultant. The project included approximately 75 entry level AA programmers that were brought to the
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by ctrager 5y ago
I use Linux Mint. I don't think there's much if anything that makes Linux mint harder for a non-tech user. I think it's already the better option. But for non-tech users, I think buying a device with one OS and then wiping it
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by ctrager 5y ago
I'm a retired software developer. I have my computer and my non-techie wife's computer running Linux Mint. For me, doing some hobby coding, yes, I paste some incantations, but for her, I don't have to do anything. A clean ins
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Why copper-bearing rocks here, but not there?(nps.gov)
30 points by ctrager 5y ago|3 comments
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by ctrager 5y ago
I recently did a backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon that included Horseshoe Mesa. There are old copper mines there, and beautiful green and blue copper-bearing rocks visible. I asked (in a facebook forum), why just in that one place and n
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by ctrager 5y ago
My most typical weight on the Sierra portion of the PCT, with a typical amount of water, food, was about 30 lbs. That includes warm clothes, tent, bear canister, microspikes (but no ice axe). And my luxuries: Crocs, Kindle, inflatable pillo
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by ctrager 5y ago
I do get that when there are too many people the experience is different. I do get that being in the wilderness with, like, earbuds in your ears is different than listening to the sounds of nature. I do get that being off trail can be diffe
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by ctrager 5y ago
My hiking boots were good for about 400 miles. Now I use trail runners and I don't trust them after 200 miles - the souls get too smooth. Their combined 14,000 miles divided by 26 means they were getting 540 miles out of each pair.
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by ctrager 5y ago
Maybe, but I think the game ender for older hikers is knee or back trouble. Is that from too little or too much activity? Or just the genetic lottery?
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by ctrager 5y ago
I'm 65, retired. I'm more physically prepared now than when I was younger and busy with work and kids. I have time and money now. I see plenty of other backpackers in their mid 60s, but hardly any backpackers in their 70s. I'
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by ctrager 5y ago
"but that's understandable" - Except it's the opposite of the USA. No right to camp on private land, but usually allowed on public land. There are a lot of different types of public land in the USA. Not just National Par
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by ctrager 5y ago
There's where you can WALK and where you can CAMP . I'm talking about where you can CAMP . The only countries in Western Europe where there's a lot of freedom to camp are Scotland, Norway, and Sweden. In the Alps, where t
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by ctrager 5y ago
I did a section of the PCT. Too early in the year? Too much snow. But if you go later in the year the melting snow makes the streams too high and fast and dangerous - people drown. But if you go later in the year the mosquitoes will drive y
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by ctrager 5y ago
Yes, I should make it clear that the freedom on the PCT, in the Sierra, is limited to people who have a permit. You can't just show up and camp overnight; you need to get a permit in advance and the quantity of permits is limited to pr
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by ctrager 5y ago
There's some irony here, no, that a trail RUNNER is saying that the OTHER guy is going to fast to smell the roses. That's what I - I'm a trail lumberer - think when the trail runners zip by.
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by ctrager 5y ago
This is a quote from the book "The Motion of the Body through Space" by Lionel Shriver. It's about exercise, but it applies to hiking ambition too. "People who exercise less than you are pathetic; people who exercise mor
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by ctrager 5y ago
There's so much bad policy in the USA that sucks, especially when compared to some European countries, but one thing the USA has done relatively well at is creating lots of public land and the creating these trails. I hiked a section o
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by ctrager 5y ago
In 2019 when I was 63 I did a 500 snippet of the Pacific Crest Trail. Because of needing to resupply, my long hike was really a series of 9 trips, each individual trip lasting about 5 days, more or less, like a work week. I started to think
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by ctrager 5y ago
2017 and 2019 were big Sierra snowpack years, double average. I don't mean this to be a comment on long term trends.
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by ctrager 6y ago
Even though I wrote the app, I agree with your teacher about devices, but no conscious thought?.
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by ctrager 6y ago
The code is waaaay over my head, but I see a function called "findAccuratePeakFrequency". Is that using as input something like an array where each occurrence represents a frequency and the value represents the loudness at that fr
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by ctrager 6y ago
Speaking of trauma, may I vent? So, my wife (my target audience for this app) is in the next room practicing even as I write this. It doesn't annoy me that she's out of tune. It annoys me that she doesn't stop, back up, corre
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by ctrager 6y ago
I think you would enjoy this article: https://stringsmagazine.com/perfect-fifths-a-few-thoughts-on...
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by ctrager 6y ago
Both my kids are software developers. I'm always trying to impress them. I copy/pasted your comment into our family WhatsApp channel to see if they would say, "Gee Dad, you are so cool!", but so far crickets.
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by ctrager 6y ago
I've tried it. It's all the good things that you say, but it's kinda hard to use/read. I was aiming at something that would be easy, immediate, fun.

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