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by nullserver 6y ago
Lol. 20k. I was a competent programmer and a Linux user, but system stuff always seemed like black magic. With this book I was able to tackle much harder problems
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by nullserver 6y ago
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Read through it, worked many of the examples. Had a 20 bump in salary.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Parents city decided to rent control all the mobile home parks. They changed there mind after thousands of people received eviction notices. Owners would rather let the land sit empty then deal with the nightmare it would create.
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by nullserver 6y ago
HAML and coffeescript.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Browser support and consistency got a lot better. JavaScript was a minefield of compatibility problems. Many intentional, cough: Microsoft. Jquery was awesome because it dealt with most of that
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by nullserver 6y ago
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles Email can’t go father then 500 miles
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by nullserver 6y ago
Mine is prepaid. One day I got a text that my balance was low. As I picked up my phone I got another saying balance was 0. While I was opening the app to add funds I got another text saying my service would be turned off if I didn’t pay. W
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by nullserver 6y ago
Victim blaming? So you think any of the resized how absurdly high market rates can get.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Flew to another country once, with a newborn baby. Flight attendant was having some trouble then declared it all good. What I didn’t realize was she canceling and redoing the tickets over and over again, each charging me for them. A gran
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by nullserver 6y ago
Bunch of people in Texas just got surprise massive electric bills.
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by nullserver 6y ago
A surprise 17,000 electric Bill? I don’t hear about it much anymore but for years was terrified of making a cell data mistake and ending up with a 40k+ bill.
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by nullserver 6y ago
If you can get on disability. I was in bed 16 hours a day nearly blind and extreme agony for nearly a year. Disability laughed at me. Said I had a desk job so it was fine, all I had to do was sit their.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Back in the day I used to tweak my Linux box, win3.1/95, vim, android phone, etc. endlessly. After awhile they would all become unusable, and I would reinstall everything back to default and try again. Great for leaning, lousy for day
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by nullserver 6y ago
During gold rush a Mug of beer was a pinch of gold. Bartenders would favor employees with big hands. Government came in and printed gold coins to solve the currency problem. However it turns out that a 50 dollar gold coin is not useful in
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by nullserver 6y ago
In other news there has been an unusual spike of unlicensed micro nuclear plants found in peoples back yards.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Always assume others have the sense of humor of a 99 year old stick of tnt. Had someone at work mention they needed to drop off a dog at grooming on the way to pick up Chinese. I had to walk away for a bit, as I couldn’t hold it in, but did
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by nullserver 6y ago
String. Used as factory test for populating objects in tests. It certainly caught my attention.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Was new guy at a startup. Soon noticed that chuck Norris was in our compiled JavaScript. Turned out Someone had included the entire test suite in production deploy. Had been like that for nearly a year. A few minutes of work brought out cl
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by nullserver 6y ago
When I was a teen I worked a few months in an office where people chain smoked constantly. My computer kept dying, and I started ranting about how much old these computers were. Based on how much yellow gunk was inside it. Like quarter inc
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by nullserver 6y ago
Article awhile back talked about how about 8% of the population avoids crimes only out of fear of punishment. Remove that fear and a significant segment of the population will go on a rampage.
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by nullserver 6y ago
So we want government setting pay rates for anime artist? How about quotas. Government pays on a per episode completed. More content created the more is paid.
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by nullserver 6y ago
What would life look like if we tried to be 100% prepared for all contingencies? Probably similar to people living in a cave and refusing to leave it out of fear. Rebuilding after disasters is a tried and true method.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Was in adtech for awhile. Targeted ads work really well for many scenarios, b2b software.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Gig work and Airbnb saved my life and kept family off street. I got injured and disability decided to play hard ball. Working whatever hours I could be functional and being able to stop and rest, or wait for medication side effects to ease
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by nullserver 6y ago
Appreciate the thoughts. I did find studies, doctors had no interest in reading them.
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by nullserver 6y ago
Tried. Neurologist ran an MRI then suggested I sleep more. Then they tested me for epilepsy. Weird experience
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by nullserver 6y ago
Vague symptoms. I was a confused mess for a long time. No one believed me. Kept shoving anti-depressants at me. Took better then 2 years to find out what the stroke like symptoms were. They were strokes, go figure. Toxic exposure activated
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Tried. You have to have a doctor verify that gas caused injuries. Doctors did not want anything to do with a lawsuit. Plus they had no idea what 3 months of natural gas exposure would do to body. Turns out most cases of being exposed to
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by nullserver 6y ago
I’ll call out directly. Life and health got ruined. Rented a house from Invitation Homes. Show up. All windows open. House looks great, sign paperwork. Agent leaves. Closed up windows, notice a chemical smell. Call, and told it’s just