eskatonic

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by eskatonic 3mo ago
Hey, paying for blowing up towns is expensive! PG&E's gotta get the money from somewhere! /s
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by eskatonic 1y ago
I've been using it for a little over a year now, and I just upgraded to the unlimited search subscription. Totally worth it.
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by eskatonic 1y ago
"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.
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by eskatonic 1y ago
The Xeelee would like a word.
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by eskatonic 1y ago
How... how did he think this was going to turn out? You fake your death, then run to mommy & daddy's house, and hope no one finds you? And just keep the cash?
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by eskatonic 1y ago
I feel the same way. "The Tao of Pooh" is a book I come back to a lot. "The Te of Piglet"... is not.
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by eskatonic 2y ago
Jeg byder vores danske overherrer velkommen.
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by eskatonic 2y ago
That was physically painful to read. Brilliant.
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by eskatonic 2y ago
There have already been incidents of people getting frisky in the back of the robo-taxi. Cameras be damned, I suppose. https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...
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by eskatonic 2y ago
I took my first Waymo trip this past weekend. I will be using it every time from now on. I try to take an actual taxi (Flywheel) whenever possible, because Uber and Lyft feel... I dunno, exploitative to me. But my last 3-4 cab rides have
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by eskatonic 2y ago
Is this why Microsoft named it "Bing?"
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by eskatonic 3y ago
"If you can't find a hit on the internet, home-made is fine."
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by eskatonic 3y ago
My Dad worked at Wake Forest University when I was in elementary school. One of my favorite "toys" was an amber-screen terminal in his study, which connected to the HP 3000 mainframe at WFU. I spent untold hours and hours and hou
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by eskatonic 3y ago
"Unity would not be where it is today without the impact of his contributions." something something damning with faint praise...
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by eskatonic 4y ago
As soon as I see the word "learnings" in the title, I know that whoever wrote the article has nothing of value to say.
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by eskatonic 4y ago
I still listen to the soundtrack on repeat when I'm doing work that requires intense concentration, like coding.
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by eskatonic 7y ago
The original was grey. ThinkGeek put out a "remake" a few years ago, which was white.
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by eskatonic 8y ago
There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.
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by eskatonic 8y ago
I got one of those, and let my Chinese coworker listen to it and tell me what it was about. She got the same call, and when she called the number back (which was the Chinese Embassy in San Francisco), they got mad at her.
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by eskatonic 10y ago
South of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.