ggariepy

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by ggariepy 1y ago
I've been writing code since I was 12, and I'm 57 now. I majored in Computer Information Systems back in the 1980s. Honestly, I got a lot more out of the other aspects of going to college than I did from the coursework related t
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by ggariepy 1y ago
I use BackBlaze. Cheap and reliable.
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by ggariepy 1y ago
You can do it on the cheap with CCRs and estate sales. My Kenwood HF unit was bought for $250, I made wire dipole antennas. I'm surrounded by Baofeng equipment as I type this. Total outlay for all of it probably on the order of $1
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by ggariepy 1y ago
Not in the USA. We still have 50,000 watt clear channel stations. On a clear winter night, local lore has it that WJR-760AM Detroit could be heard in Mexico. Crystal radios still work...well, not fine, but as good as they ever did. AM fr
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by ggariepy 1y ago
My take: the people voting for right wing candidates don't believe in "redistribution" which IMO is not a proper function of government. The left really wants to take the nation's wealth and give it to people it deems
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by ggariepy 1y ago
The hell it isn't reasonable.
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by ggariepy 2y ago
Band app: https://band.us
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by ggariepy 2y ago
I spent 15 years with HP in their services division. I liked the work I was doing, even though I was slightly underpaid for it. I would have stayed there but they cut me loose back in 2014 with 50K other employees. They did give me a dec
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by ggariepy 2y ago
I switched from Gmail to Proton last December ('23). So far it has worked okay, but there are some complaints. First, the Android app is simply not as good as Gmail's. It doesn't allow a read message/delete it/mov
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by ggariepy 3y ago
I was laid off in March, 2023, a victim of the startup shakeout after the SVG banking collapse. A year previous, I had a small bidding war for my services. When I was let go this March, it was in the midst of the Facebook and Amazon layof
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by ggariepy 3y ago
I've read The Code Project Insider for at least ten years, possibly quite a few more. It is similar to HN, sometimes but not always sourcing articles from it, with a bit of a .NET focus. It's a really good way to keep up with th
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by ggariepy 3y ago
Some percentage of the population is comprised of violent sociopaths. Those people need to be locked up for the safety of the rest of us. People who have committed victimless crimes, like minor drug use, should almost never be incarcerate
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by ggariepy 4y ago
The self-flagellation is annoying. The author should get a grip and ignore the Twitterverse.
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by ggariepy 4y ago
The problem is the network effect IS the game. Without it, you can have a perfectly functional but essentially useless social media application. MeWe comes to mind for me. I thought it would be a perfect Facebook replacement. I thought
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by ggariepy 4y ago
That site is about as batshit crazy as I've ever seen. The author needs to step away from the keyboard, go find his meds, and take them.
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by ggariepy 4y ago
I recently spent the $700 to become a Certified ScrumMaster. This is within the past month, so any evaluation on how much it has helped my career is premature, but being that I've found myself to be the accidental ScrumMaster at work,
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by ggariepy 4y ago
I'll do it for $950/month!
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by ggariepy 4y ago
I don't think there are any purely communist economies operating in the world today, and even if there are, there is still a market. It's a badly distorted market that performs poorly, but a market nonetheless. If you have human
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by ggariepy 4y ago
I've worked for three different employers and have never left this spare bedroom. Relocate? Where? To my living room? :-)
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by ggariepy 4y ago
The purpose of a union is to create a labor cartel which tends to standardize the price of labor above the rate at which the market would likely set it. IP clauses and non-competes are a small part of the issues plaguing our industry. Put
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by ggariepy 5y ago
I read the linked article, then I read part of the original study the article was based upon. My Statistics 101 interpretation of this is the study is bogus. First of all, you have to properly define the terms of what 'burnout'
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by ggariepy 7y ago
I've had nothing but terrible luck getting progressive lenses for years. I'm in the -7 diopter range, so the correction has to be pretty strong. Usually the script is dead on for some part of the visual range but hardly anything
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by ggariepy 9y ago
I've worked remotely since late 2004 with one six month exception. It's hard to answer questions like "did it hurt my career" because there's no control group to test against. What I can say is that it has worked
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by ggariepy 9y ago
I'd try to take a cellphone video of every room in the house, opening closets and drawers as you go. Move at a deliberate pace; you will need to review the video and write down what you see in it should the house burn down, and sweepi