jcd748

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by jcd748 2y ago
I think we agree. I hate it, and I can't stop it, but also I definitely won't participate in it.
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by jcd748 2y ago
Life is short and I like creating things. AI is not part of how I write, or code, or make pixel art, or compose. It's very important to me that whatever I make represents some sort of creative impulse or want, and is reflective of me a
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by jcd748 3y ago
I remember we had an Epson colour printer that we got just after we got married: it was able to print photos, and this was a great feature, except that this would run through ink like nothing else, and ink, well, you know. When it eventuall
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by jcd748 5y ago
I guess it depends what you mean by "working". In addition to being a software developer (my day job), I also write and publish poetry, reviews, and non-fiction. These pay very little, if anything; I find that US literary publicat
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by jcd748 10y ago
You're thinking of Slack. Slackware has been around since the very early days of Linux.
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by jcd748 10y ago
Should have been a .nu domain!
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by jcd748 10y ago
That was how I did it, too. Monthly, I'd archive posts, to allow archive perusal by months. I wasn't tied to any particular software. I got hosting with friends who set up their own blogs at their own domains. All of us were i
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by jcd748 11y ago
I've had to get up very early to deal with production issues at work (sometimes between 2-3 a.m.), and I actually find those hours very peaceful - just the hum of the heating/AC and my dogs' snoring.
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by jcd748 11y ago
I run FreeBSD on my desktop, and I was surprised by how easy it was to get set up, and how quickly it detected everything.
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by jcd748 11y ago
In the late 90s, Sourceforge (and Freshmeat) were really good places to get software. But even in the early 00s, it felt dusty and dated.
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by jcd748 11y ago
To be fair, I had almost eight years of French in school (Canadian), and the best I can do now is read it semi-fluently. Languages have to be used or they're lost. I spent a year learning to read Old English and got up to a decent pro
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by jcd748 12y ago
Dollars do not literally make the world go round. The world literally goes around because it was formed from a disc of swirling matter, and the lack of inertia and forces that would stop it.
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by jcd748 12y ago
I just finished Aurelius' "Meditations" last month - my family has a small, leatherbound copy that was a gift to my great-grandfather for Christmas, 1924. I found it particularly resonant, incredible for a text that's a
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by jcd748 12y ago
There was definitely a feel of do-it-yourself, especially when installing Linux meant either wiping a partition, or trying to resize an existing one with very primitive tools. I remember using a weird variant called DOSLinux for a while, b
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by jcd748 12y ago
The iron ring is a Canadian engineering tradition. The original ones were made from iron from a bridge that collapsed and killed a lot of people. It's worn as a reminder of what a few miscalculations or oversights can do.
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by jcd748 12y ago
Xerox 8086 with QBasic for me. 640k RAM!
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by jcd748 12y ago
You probably don't need std::for_each anymore. With C++11, you can do the following: for (const auto& element : collection) { } What's wrong with <algorithm>? I use it all the time for sort, swap, and random_shuffle co
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by jcd748 12y ago
Still heavily used in games and finance! Though, you're right about MFC.
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by jcd748 13y ago
A quote I've always liked, from "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard: "How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives."
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by jcd748 13y ago
I also do some Gosu coding, besides other stuff. You must also be a Guidewire user.
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by jcd748 13y ago
I used to have an HP with this problem as well. Eventually I managed to get my files off the computer, and then promptly bought a new, not-an-HP laptop. Never again.
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by jcd748 13y ago
It's a conspiracy theory to help out devs in Saskatchewan, Alaska, and Hawaii.
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by jcd748 13y ago
I'm originally from Saskatoon, and remember a day around 2004 or 2005 where it was in the -40s, -62 with the windchill. Once was enough - I can't imagine "more often than not"!
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by jcd748 13y ago
I had an HP laptop that I bought around 2009. It lasted a year before the insane heat issues started; I agree with you completely regarding the engineering issues. In the end, I ended up buying a Lenovo about two years ago, and it's
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by jcd748 13y ago
Me too. I use it daily, and am both amazed and confounded by it. Powerful and frustrating.
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by jcd748 13y ago
SAT is NP-complete, but there are certain properties that allow theorem provers to show that a particular instance is overconstrained (and therefore unsatisfiable), or underconstrained (and many solutions exist). It's at a particular
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by jcd748 14y ago
I'm torn, because while ESR did add a lot of emphasis on Unix/C culture (which is very important in hacker history), the last five or ten years he's really taken it off the rails, adding terms from war blogging and other sources that really
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by jcd748 14y ago
I went from using a webapp exclusively for email, back to a traditional client. The reason was that the webapp didn't expose enough functionality, and I couldn't change the top-posting default value. Joining several email lists where bott
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by jcd748 14y ago
Absolutely. When I was first starting out, I made so many poor design and implementation choices. I like to think I've improved tremendously since then, and I've only done so by putting in thousands upon thousands of hours of programming.
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by jcd748 14y ago
Yes, I've always seen SAT as the canonical example given. Though, when I did some reading into phase transitions in NP-complete problems, 3-SAT was usually the example given (and used).

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