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by rsayers 2y ago
I used Vuze for a bit back in the day, it was a resource hog on whatever I was running it on. I think I mostly stuck with uTorrent until switching to the open source alternatives. I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts
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by rsayers 3y ago
In 2003 or so, I was really amused by the ORLY owl memes, so I collected them and stuck them in a public directory on my webserver. I have no idea how it was found, but at some point my open directory got indexed by google. I found out bec
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by rsayers 3y ago
I booted this on my 486 back in the day. That machine had a combo soundcard/modem which gave me fits when I upgraded to a 33.6 later on (Plug and Play, haha. At least I learned how to deal with IRQ conflicts). QNX booted and recogni
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by rsayers 3y ago
Yup, the infotainment system in 2016+ Fords runs QNX.
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by rsayers 3y ago
This one was one of those weird experiments I tried as a teen and was pretty surprised that it worked. A buddy was staying over and we both had our PCs setup on our dining room table. I don't recall the exact year, but 95-96 probably
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by rsayers 3y ago
I got my own apartment while I was still in HS, my apartment become sort of a perpetual lan party. Friends would often just leave their machines setup at my place while they went to work or school. All machines were initially connected via
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by rsayers 3y ago
Absolutely. Before I was WFH full time, I tended to buy whatever chair seemed nice enough, but never spent over $200 USD. About a week after our companies WFH order I realized it was really causing discomfort after long work session. I w
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by rsayers 3y ago
I let it write the boring stuff. Needed a python class to take an example dict, and generate a class that creates all the properties that map to the keys in said dict (I have a constraint preventing me from using something like json_datacl
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by rsayers 4y ago
First initial, last name. I was assigned this as a Unix username in 2000, and just kept using it.
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by rsayers 4y ago
I prefer it. I will go out of my way to go to a store with self checkout vs one without. Probably due to anxiety/autism, but being able to remove the human element makes things much easier for me.
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by rsayers 5y ago
Thanks, that's fantastic. I'm also autistic, and yes, this just looked like a transcript of a normal conversation, so I wasn't sure what the draw was. Your explanation cleared that up for me.
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by rsayers 5y ago
In the Squeak/Pharo world, a built in tool called Iceberg handles VCS integration and is pretty slick. You can also easily load packages from external sources. In practice most packages are installed from their GitHub repo. Deployment
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by rsayers 5y ago
Where you are in your career also matters. For my last job, I took a pay cut to work at an interesting startup, and of course went into it knowing it might not last. I'm more interested in stability now. On my last job hunt i was avoi
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by rsayers 10y ago
My # was 522621, I registered in the spring of 1998. My password was hacked well over 10 years ago and I've never been able to recover the account. Not that I would ever need it, but it would be nice to have it back. IM seems like su
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by rsayers 10y ago
Oh the memories. My first "lan" party was in my parents garage right after Quake 1 came out. We had two computers connected with a null modem adapter, since neither of us could afford network cards. Everyone took turns playing 1
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by rsayers 13y ago
I just got back from Europe where I used my mag stripe card quite a bit. In the UK I was asked for an ID almost 100% of the time and merchants seemed do a good job of actually matching data, and then matching my photo id to me. In France i
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by rsayers 13y ago
I've been fighting with various modes trying to find a usable solution for php/html/js for some time. This is a godsend.
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by rsayers 15y ago
I've used various drugs for various reasons. I no longer use illegal drugs because of my job, but I've used quite a bit in the past. Cannabis is great for unwinding when you just cant force yourself to stop thinking about work or other wor
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by rsayers 16y ago
My guess is that the correlation is with poverty rather than voting preferences. As a former Mississippi resident (and one who did not have a passport until the age of 26) I can tell you I personally knew very few people who could afford to
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by rsayers 16y ago
Agreed. When I finally went to college after years of programming, I picked religion as my major. It's a great jack of all trades major in humanities. You get history, language, philosophy, and more. I even got a trip to India out of it
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by rsayers 16y ago
Vim or Emacs, it doesn't really matter. Users of both will tell you that their editor is best, but if one was really better, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion after so many years. I personally picked emacs for a number of reas
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by rsayers 16y ago
I also did this for a year. Not really by choice, but simply because I lived in a developing country (Curacao) and my house didn't have hot water. It really was not that big of a deal after the first week.
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by rsayers 17y ago
The best client to use on a graphical system Firefox with the Overbite extension: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/d?ff3 For console use Lynx is what I prefer and seems to be popular for that. Shameless Plug: gopher://gopher.robsayers.
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by rsayers 17y ago
I moved to Curacao. Picked up papiamentu (local creole language), Spanish, and a little dutch (The official state langauge) pretty quick. That is hardly practical for most people though. Take the classes, but supplement that learning. Wa
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by rsayers 17y ago
I live in Mississippi, and every time I leave the South I see a very noticeable difference in how people look. It has gotten much worse in the past 10 years. I recall growing up and going to the store, the electric carts were always parke
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by rsayers 17y ago
16, Dominos pizza, taking orders and making them at $4.75 per hour. Quit that job to become an asp developer :(
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by rsayers 17y ago
I will second this. Since I've been commuting by bike, all nighters are much easier on me the next day as I get my second (or third) wind on my way to work. Another trick I've found is don't hit the coffee or energy drinks until you absolu
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by rsayers 17y ago
I was 12, and it was an Apple II+. Now this was 91 or so, so it was really old even then.
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by rsayers 17y ago
I signed up a few minutes ago, have yet to receive my email with the root passwd. Looks like it comes with Ubuntu 8.04 and no option to change it. I have 2 linodes currently, I plan to run some benchmarks vs Chunkhost to see how it stacks u
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by rsayers 17y ago
Thanks, that was actually extremely helpful.

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