klingon78

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by klingon78 6y ago
My biggest problem is thinking instead of building. I’ve had and still have some great ideas, and that’s all they amounted to thus far. When I’ve started to build, I get stuck spending a lot of time to produce very little, because I try to
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by klingon78 6y ago
Removing or anonymizing PII in a large system not already designed for PII removal or one you don’t have resources to manage can be painful. Companies of all sizes can have a lot of PII and code that’s not GDPR compliant, and it’s non-trivi
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by klingon78 6y ago
If it’s about releasing information on schedule that’s verifiably created with a datetime stamp and maybe also by user, then it’s not really about predictions, it’s more than that. It could be used for any info, and then verification is ava
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by klingon78 6y ago
The US has a similar privacy law in California they must support, and many companies have presence globally, so they are having to deal with this in the following ways, like many others. GDPR has given a 50M EUR handslap to Google and simil
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by klingon78 6y ago
What did you use for programming games? I wrote games for the Apple ][ in basic and created some with The Arcade Machine, but my Apple Machine Language book was largely unread, due to my impatience. Someone at the time that did have the pat
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by klingon78 6y ago
I used to have the original version on a 3.5” floppy that I kept even when I could no longer play it. I also got to play Beyond Dark Castle[1] at one point- also a great game. (Tangential: I was in a user group that may have tended to sha
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by klingon78 6y ago
The goal in football/soccer is a bit larger than in hockey. If you’re going to bring that up, we could talk about the hows and whys of the NBA not allowing goaltending. Have you ever noticed that one player just can’t jump up and sit i
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by klingon78 6y ago
When and how do you transition from thinking/marketing/etc. to building? And how do you handle situations where: (1) you know you must ship, but it’s not good enough? (2) you know you must think/market/etc., but you’re b
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by klingon78 6y ago
Is this how Mickey Mouse is so freaking big IRL and has been around since the early 20th century? Nevermind; that’s probably not the type of mouse model you were talking about.
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by klingon78 6y ago
I took a poll with a kid who said they thought an emoji email domain wasn’t smart. Up until that point, I’d been sold on it also.
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by klingon78 6y ago
No, like an XXL bedsheet, perhaps made of dark matter, maybe 1800 thread count.
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by klingon78 6y ago
It might not be as empty as it looks. Maybe it’s just got a really big dark sheet over it. Astronomers don’t consider the possibility of ginormous dark sheets in space.
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by klingon78 6y ago
Reading the title makes me think of “Who does number two work for?”[1] which in turn sums up my work in development; I yell at the data and push it into the toilet, while the guy in the other stall encourages me to do whatever it is he thin
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by klingon78 6y ago
And I know Wifi is electromagnetic radiation, so there must be some phonon interaction somehow.
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by klingon78 6y ago
CDs do emit music over higher frequencies stronger than vinyl. That is not a lie. The lies about lies are lies. Some people can’t hear it. I can. I can hear a TV when it’s on, and I can hear harmonics of Wifi, so when I say I know it’s true
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by klingon78 6y ago
See: Analog vs Digital[1]. I said there were differences. A lot of people putting words into my mouth. I was actually alive and aware listening to pre-1980s vinyls, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, etc. unlike some of you. CDs added additional fre
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by klingon78 6y ago
What I said was true. Whether it was digital or not can be a subtle difference. I never said that vinyl is only analog or that that is the reason for the difference in sound between vinyl and other formats, because it’s not. The “warmth” is
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by klingon78 6y ago
Cassettes have good bass and midrange. Vinyl is great and more defined. CDs have too much treble and anything digital can’t really produce the same waveforms exactly.
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by klingon78 6y ago
Backups are a reliability tool, yes. A backup on its own is of little worth if unused. When a backup is used to re-enable something, then the amount of time disabled may be decreased. When it is, this is reliability- we keep things usable a
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by klingon78 6y ago
Does “Craft using an inertial mass reduction device”[1] use the same concept as described?: I don’t know if there’s a difference between this and the Alcubierre drive. Perhaps the tic-tacs were prototypes, given the patent and claims made b
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by klingon78 6y ago
MOVA stands for “multiple object versionless architecture”, which is something I’d imagine any experienced full-stack developer should be able to handle- if it were real.
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by klingon78 6y ago
I wonder about Cloudflare. It seems like the Windows Vista of its genre. It’s big, pretty, and possibly doomed to be replaced. Tesla is fine. It may as well have been a publicity stunt for them. “For a limited time, you can tour the Tesla f
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by klingon78 6y ago
You don’t have to quit to travel the world.
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by klingon78 6y ago
I was sure this post would be about SPARQL; the web as a distributed DB is genius, but a new query language with tuples and specialized servers weren’t the answer I’d imagined.
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by klingon78 6y ago
I have a reliability and risk avoidance mindset, but I’ve had to stand back because my mental gas tank for trying to keep things going is near empty. I’ve really struggled working with others that either are both ignorant and apathetic abou
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by klingon78 6y ago
Not so fast. I’ve not yet seen a broken bridge with two cars suspended by chains.
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by klingon78 6y ago
Not on purpose at least. In early evolution of Drive when I was using Google for backups with their client, which was called something else that I’ve forgotten, one day when I tried to delete or overwrite something, it corrupted all of the
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by klingon78 6y ago
> 99.99% of the people buying cryptocurrencies today are driven by greed instead of innovation. Greed or fear. More fear than greed at this point.
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by klingon78 6y ago
In Microsoft’s defense, most organizations have security vulnerabilities in their code that all may or may not be aware of. Just because Microsoft has software powering very important things globally doesn’t exclude them.
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by klingon78 6y ago
This is great. Another thing is that sometimes leaving things as-is can be better than making changes. The problem you might be avoiding is change. Things that are bad should probably be fixed, though.

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