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by pugworthy 1mo ago
I would encourage anyone concerned about cameras in their town to explore the DeFlock website map (and app). It allows crowdsourced reporting of camera locations. I also would STRONGLY encourage people to actually go look for any ALPR repo
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by pugworthy 1mo ago
Enjoying retirement. Amazed how fast I was able to just stop thinking about software. It's very liberating.
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by pugworthy 2mo ago
I'm probably not the only person that types math problems into google search because I'm too lazy to open up a calculator (or do the math myself). So yes, given I do that, I probably am susceptible to offloading some of my thinki
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by pugworthy 2mo ago
This might be just the thing for my elderly mother. She's used an iPhone for many many years, but struggles lately with motor dexterity, vision, and a bit of cognitive challenge making phone usage difficult. Lots of things I'd l
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by pugworthy 2mo ago
MMOSS (Massive Multiplayer Online Screen Saver) is what I've always seen it as. Beautiful game. Not for the faint of heart .
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
I have yet to get the page to load, but due to gmail mixups I've been confused with a retired professor of economics in the UK, and also got a pair of tickets for a King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard concert.
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
My elderly mother paying $350/month for Eliquis (in the US) would love this sentiment.
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
My personal model of motion sickness is that either your inner ear is saying, "Hey we are moving" and your eyes are saying "No we're not!" (classic sea sickness/car thing). Or your eyes are saying, "Hey w
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
This brings to mind Neil Rickert's "The Parable of the Two Programmers", which was published in the ACM SIG Software Engineering newsletter, January 1985. https://dl.acm.org/action/showFmPdf?doi=10.1145%2
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
Please re read the start of my comment. I took a contrary position in a debate just to spark a deeper discussion. Which it has. I didn’t say I believed this.
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
I’m not sure if you’re one of the down voters, but I appreciate your comment. I purposely took a contrary position in a debate just to spark a deeper discussion. Glad it has done that.
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
See https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1u0vg28/vim_appeara... This is from the person who wrote the original article on Emacs.
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
Very devils advocate here, but I mean.. what if it actually is the way to use them? We have such a huge mental / moral block on the idea of using nukes, but we're willing to do a lot of other very horrible things to others. Thing
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by pugworthy 3mo ago
> Old people don't have that because they didn't grow up with computers. You realize that someone who was 18 when the Mac was first released would be 60 now?
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
During COVID I started taking almost daily walks as I drank from the firehose of taking over the code base for a mature software product. I started tracked the walks using the CityStrides website which made it into a fun challenge. CityStr
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
Man does this bring back memories of my old Atari 800 and entering or writing games in BASIC for it. Something extremely nostalgic about that kind of development for some of us.
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
I found a Thacher Cylindrical Slide Rule [1] in the garbage once at the university I worked at. I didn't have a holy grail list for such things, but it assumed that role when I found it. [1] https://americanhistory.si.edu&
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
> Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was no proactiv
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
The US states of Oregon and Washington were major exporters of raw logs to Japan as well. The 1962 Columbus Day Storm [1] fell 11.2 billion board feet of timber, which flooded the market and initiated heavy overseas demand. Exports peaked
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
At first I thought you were playing the Ad Hominem card there, but reading the article I'm assuming you mean to point out that the author seems like a rather interesting individual. I like one of the introductory sentences where he say
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
As much as I should really care about this, I have to say... I don't. I should, but I don't. To me it's a little bit like, "I love these new cellphones but I'm keeping it in airplane mode all the time because I don
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
This is probably not the kind of approach to taking out new domain names you should encourage. A lot of other causes might think this is their way to set up an "official" representation of their strongly held political beliefs, a
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
I saw a talk by Brian Merchant ( https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ ) a while back where he talked a lot about the Luddites and their revolts against automation. He's definitely not a fan of AI, but it was very interest
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
Speaking of bullshittery, I don't really appreciate it's little game when it comes to trying to convince me to turn off JavaScript. It knows when you see it and you'll know when you see it.
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
Personally I put the Jonnie Walker The Man Who Walked Around The World ad with Robert Carlyle as the greatest one take shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6aiVg2qVk
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
I'm repeating what others have essentially said, but ask yourself what's on your resume. If it says "Software Engineer" and that's all it talks about, then yea you might not find it's a lifetime career. But if
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
I am always pleased to see any reference to the original Crowther/Woods era Colossal Cave Adventure. Zork gets too much praise in my opinion compared to its ancestor which really defined the genre.
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
For those of you like me who tried to highlight then right click on Marfa Lights and ran into their annoying right click hijack, here's the Wikipedia link... Well now it works. I swear it didn't work before. Oh well anyway here&#
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
As someone who had a tattered copy of Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? back when, this would be a lot of fun to read through. Hate the political implication of my comment all you want but one does at some point seriously have to que
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by pugworthy 4mo ago
Trying this in Lynx I'm surprised it didn't at least get some information from me in the request headers. You don't need JavaScript to pull things out of them.

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