redshirtrob

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by redshirtrob 1y ago
Ummm, are you saying that C is the grandparent of C, or do you have a typo in your example? Sure, the initial comment is not necessarily the grandparent, but in your ABCDE example, A is the grandparent of C, and C is the grandparent of E. M
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by redshirtrob 3y ago
Here's a fun fact: There's a typo in his article [0]. I only learned about the typo when I asked him to sign my copy at a Christmas Tree lecture years ago. Instead of signing it, he corrected the typo. He had a mnemonic he used to
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
You're correct that the rail needs to continually have its stress managed. This could be cutting the rail and adding a new piece, or removing a bit. This is a fairly labor intensive and costly process so the railroads were very interes
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
This is a fine article. It covers a lot of the decisions one must consider when considering stock options. I just think it's a little abstract for folks who haven't lived the experience. I actually tried to enumerate the scenarios
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
If I'd bought Bitcoin at $1 and it went to $5, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $10 and it went to $20, I would have sold. If I'd bought at $100 and it went to $150, I would have sold. The amount of discipline it would hav
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Read the first "Alex Cross" book. It's...not very good, but it's a pretty good example of Patterson's work. I read the first 3-4 books in the Alex Cross series, but gave up after finding no growth or improvement on
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Windows or RDP. I was just on a developer group call the other day where another developer from another organization was having weird scaling issues RDPing into the vendor's sandbox. The solution was to
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Hello there. That's eerily familiar. For me it was sports (although I was quite good at baseball and soccer) and Turbo Pascal. My parents, especially my Mom, put up a huge resistance to me programming. I had to promise to try out for t
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
> Parenting is a tricky balancing act! Indeed it is. Our rule of thumb is that you have to finish what you start, and generally give it two chances. This worked well for me as a child. I wanted to quit everything after the first go, but
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
I had this happen with a fraudulent charge once. To be clear, I don't know that it was a recurring payment with Stripe, but the behavior was similar. It took me about three years and a half dozen new cards to finally kill it. At one po
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
I don't know if there's comparable data, but I can tell you the mining companies in north west Australia would routinely run 300+ car trains without incident. But these were very much a straight line from the mine to the port with
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
I worked in this industry for many years. The railroads were always hyper-focused on increasing throughput. I left the industry about ten years ago, but back then derailments were considered the most significant risk to average network spee
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Exactly. I've had a bunch of different mortgages over the years. Plenty of them have been passed around, but I've never had to sweat the details. I just set up autopay and forget.
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Yeah, I could not care less about what they do with the loan. I'm not looking for a relationship, just the best deal I can get. Full stop. Do people still think otherwise on loans? All that said, our local CU does in fact keep their ow
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by redshirtrob 4y ago
Has anyone actually used Rocket? Every time I (or a friend) have looked at them they have higher closing costs and wanted multiple points to close the mortgage. I was able to do way, way better by going with a local bank, as did my friends.
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
>>Learning syntax as a filter >Syntax is one of the most universal things about our psychology. The idea that some people have it and others don't seems a little absurd to me. Sheesh. Care to put any more words in my mouth? I
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
It's also harder to learn to program when you keep running into syntax errors. I suspect that's a big part of the allure of these visual languages. I don't know if that's good or bad--maybe a little of both. It seems lik
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
This was one of my favorite books to read to both my children. Others have touched on all the reasons why so I'll throw out another couple books for any aspiring parents: - The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton - The Little Mouse, th
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
I've done exactly what you're saying I should not do and it worked out very well. My point is that these hard and fast rules don't leave any room for nuance. Consider, as I mentioned in another comment, you don't have to
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
There are lots of things I'm close to that I need to think objectively about. Maybe I don't hit your ideal of 100%, but I do my best. Investments is one area. The health and well being of my children is another. You can never have
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
That's certainly not true. You should evaluate the investment just like any other investment and decide if you can afford to lose the money and stomach the risk. Part of your evaluation should be consulting a tax professional to determ
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
And Bill James did a lot of his Sabermetric writing while working night shifts as a security guard.[0] He's not Einstein, but he was way ahead of his time in a particular area and it's fair to say he's been hugely influential
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
Many of my dreams are weird and don't make sense in the cold light of day. So...
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
This. Even if you work in a small shop, SOC 2 Type II Security is starting to become table stakes for any kind of formal business arrangement. This means you have a formal Change Management process which includes peer review and peer testin
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
I've seen a couple mass layoffs. I survived one, but did not survive the next one a few years later. This is very general advice and you need to correlate it with other events, but it's been a pretty strong indicator something was
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
Video calls give me anxiety. Often enough, the other party's camera is off to the side so they appear as though they're not engaged, even though they are. I _know_ they're probably paying attention, but it's reminiscent
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
The Racer at KI originally ran forward on both sides, then switched to one forward, one backward in '82. I have fond memories from the 80's and 90's riding both sides. There was always some good-natured trash talking between
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
One strategy I've used is to bake a raise into the negotiation. This raise should automatically kick in when the company reaches some measurable goal (MRR, ARR, MAU, whatever...not profit, not VC funding) or a certain amount of time ha
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
As a sysadmin in the 90's it was considered malpractice to not have a copy of tomsrtbt[1] available at all times. The idea was, in a pinch, if you brick your internet gateway you'd have a chance of recovery by booting from tomsrtb
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by redshirtrob 5y ago
Hence my question. Per site guidelines I assumed the most generous interpretation of the poster's comment, which to me means they found those sites and do not consider them official. In that light, I was curious what they would conside

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