podunkPDX

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by podunkPDX 4mo ago
I'd say your sense is not wrong: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
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by podunkPDX 4mo ago
> I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone) I'm not the only one‽
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by podunkPDX 1y ago
My best mentors in the tech field (software QA, sysadmin) have almost all been women.
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by podunkPDX 1y ago
My strategy of dumping various notes in a semicoherently-named directory tree and then grepping through them makes me feel like a caveman, but it works for me. I feel that tools like this are overcomplicating things.
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by podunkPDX 1y ago
A few years back I discovered that the Ethiopian run minimart up the street sells unroasted coffee beans, $6/lb. I bought a pound and followed the proprietor’s advice, roasting small quantities in a cast iron pan on medium high and agi
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
These AI tools are also not good at answering PagerDuty to fix a production problem that is a result of the code they imagined.
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
Uh… no? I replicate my community where I find it. Some of it is at a brunch spot I go to regularly. Some of it is a bar that I frequent. Some of it is in annual activities with my neighbors. I don’t need to believe in a made up Sky Daddy
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
PHP: an attack surface with a side effect of hosting blogs.
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
The McDonalds in Rome near Termini had an amazing desert bar!
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
I have! BIND 9.11.x, as pairs of caching recursive resolvers advertised over BGP. We have a pair in every data center (12 dcs at last count) Each with one of two IPs (anycasting). Every time I get hit up for a “problem” with this it turns
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by podunkPDX 2y ago
They also stream on their PBS app, and if you donate to your local affiliate you can unlock access to most (all?) of their content. https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/
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by podunkPDX 3y ago
Apparently those businesses have positions that could be charitably called “Elon handlers,” to keep him from doing to them what he has done to Twitter.
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
Tell me when meta can do legs. #tooSoon
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
Please post links, I’ve never truly understood the systemd/init conflict, unlike the emacs/vim conflict. I’d like to learn more!
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
Damn, do I enjoy ediscovery.
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
I’m presuming Domain Specific Language, as the context refers to a “target domain.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
I know a life of typing has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame autocarrot.
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
‘Sailor’ seems to have confused it, no results, just infinite(?) progress spinner.
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
http://etymonline.com , maybe?
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by podunkPDX 4y ago
The meetings will continue until morale improves.
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by podunkPDX 5y ago
I have so many irritants in the experience of using windows professionally, that I’m not going to waste time discussing it. I will leave you with one observation though. For any given text box in Windows, I have found that CTRL-A may or may
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by podunkPDX 5y ago
I can’t speak to the actual act of Java development, but I can speak to Java applications from a sysadmin perspective (15 yr Sr. QA Engineer to a 3 yr Linux admin (don’t ask)) — I’ve got no real beef with Java from the development side, but
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by podunkPDX 7y ago
The issue is a drone, or debris from a drone, getting sucked into the engine intake. This debris can effectively turn the engine into a large amount of shrapnel, crippling the aircraft and its mission. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by podunkPDX 7y ago
Living here in Portland, though, my fear is that it won’t be developers taking a flyer to build these homes, it will be the investor class bankrolling the developers to build permanent rental properties. Hoping I’m wrong, but the last few d
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by podunkPDX 7y ago
They have! Problem is that our zoning is about detached single family homes. When we bought our current home (2015) it was zoned R2.5 (residential, min. 2500sqft lot). We are now zoned as R2. All that means is shrinking the required lot siz
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by podunkPDX 7y ago
I’m not certain that this will create any affordable housing in any of the metro areas (Portland, Eugene, Bend). I suspect that this will end up opening the doors for the investor class to fund massive amounts of development in anything res