makr17

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by makr17 29d ago
I remember being in Tel Aviv for work, and pulling up maps to plot out a bike route from the hotel to the office. Only to find that the entire route is blurred out online. Turns out our office was a few 100 meters from something important
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by makr17 29d ago
I still remember being "invited" to a meet-and-greet with the VP of Tech at my college after a fork bomb run amok. 17yo me was sure my academic career was at an end. He let me sweat for a few of minutes and then smiled and offer
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by makr17 1mo ago
I'm working on something similar. My biggest annoyance is that the overly-helpful LLM was making every die roll succeed. I ended up building some tooling around rolling dice. Also some tooling around character stats and inventory ma
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by makr17 2mo ago
Presumably stack depth and overflow.
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by makr17 2mo ago
I used to work somewhere that did that. Several of us in Eng pointed out that it was likely impossible to sell anything to DoD personnel since the reply would route internally. But I don't know if it was _fixed_, was still an issue w
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by makr17 3mo ago
I remember in jazz class the instructor had a stack of jingles that showcased particular "weird" intervals. The only one I really remember now is the "Alway Coca Cola" jingle and a M6, but this was a _long_ time ago.
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by makr17 5mo ago
In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green.&q
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by makr17 5mo ago
Coming up on 20 years ago I was building a system that was going to be deployed at various locations throughout a very large country. All locations had internet access; but the throughput, latency, and quality (e.g. packet drops) were all
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by makr17 5mo ago
California has a low-double-digit percentage of the US population, and mandates organic waste separation/collection. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/
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by makr17 7mo ago
Years ago I worked for a company that bought another company. Our QA folks were asked to give their site a once-over. What they found is still the butt of jokes in my circle of friends/former coworkers. * account ids are numeric, and
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by makr17 7mo ago
My favorite example of this sort of thing has been In My Tribe by 10000 Maniacs. The UPC/Catalog Number remained the same between the 1987 release and the removal of Peace Train (track 7) in 1989. I have this memory of sifting throug
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by makr17 10mo ago
> it was a good decade before they even admitted Perl 6 might take longer than expected I was there at OSCon when Larry announced Perl6, and that it would be "out by Christmas". And I was there the next year, when he was asked
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by makr17 11mo ago
I feel like Bezos has well more than $10M, $1B/100 (centi). Perhaps you were looking for "hecto" (SI prefix for 100)?
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by makr17 11mo ago
A former manager once told me > If you get fired, and didn't see it coming, that's a failure in management. You should have _plenty_ of explicit signs of where things are heading, starting in 1:1 and culminating in a PIP.
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by makr17 11mo ago
We have the Enhanced Games ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games ), so we already have an alternative Olympics that definitely includes medical companies.
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by makr17 1y ago
All of them? It's gotten so bad that I remapped the Netflix button on the Shield remote to mute the receiver. The remote has volume up/down buttons, but no mute, and ads are _so_ loud now.
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by makr17 1y ago
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious
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by makr17 1y ago
This. "Scam resistance", in my mind, maps to critical thinking and a bit of pattern matching. Could definitely be taught, but critical thinking seems to be out of favor in (American) education at the moment (and has been for a w
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by makr17 1y ago
As with most things, it depends. If you truly do understand something, then you can derive a required result from first principles. _Given sufficient time_. Often in an exam situation you are time-constrained, and having memorized a shor
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by makr17 1y ago
Better than one company I was at. Wednesday-evening meeting to announce that there will be layoffs. "If you are affected you will receive an email by 7am EST tomorrow." Which I summarized in slack as "Sleep well Wesley, I&
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by makr17 1y ago
At the start of Covid lockdown my group at work started having a daily "drinking alone together" afternoon Google Meet. When that job ended, our household started drinking on our front porch in the afternoons. Soon a few neighbor
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by makr17 2y ago
I remember my junior high maths well enough, allowing division by zero is an essential step in proving that 1 == 2, which we _definitely_ don't want.
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by makr17 2y ago
Interesting, I would have said Boyce-Codd unless you have a good reason to vary in either direction.
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by makr17 2y ago
I haven't worked with sqlplus in forever, and I'm much happier for it. But back in the day we would wrap sqlplus with socat to add readline behaviors.
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by makr17 2y ago
Reminds me of one of my Maths professors in college, Ben Freedman. He was a writer and an engineer until his son Michael started asking math questions that dad couldn't answer. So he went back for his PhD in his 40s. Michael ultimat
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by makr17 2y ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9of84w/ne... Rings true for me. In my younger days I was
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by makr17 2y ago
The last three jobs I've held, I've had to state up front in writing that I will continue to act as the paid IT support for my spouse's one-person consulting firm. Hasn't been an issue yet. Three jobs ago I also had a v
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by makr17 3y ago
Watching that, I couldn't help but remember my father (who hasn't worked for Boeing since before I was born) saying in the mid-90s: > McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money, which is a great trick if you can p
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by makr17 3y ago
I don't have an automated garage door opener. The only "garage" is as old as our historic house, and is a glorified shed. I would never put a car I cared about in it. That said, I _do_ have an automated gate controller. Th
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by makr17 3y ago
92%, 2 perfect.

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