stevbov

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by stevbov 5y ago
Yes, identity theft includes things as basic as using someone else's credit card. I learned that when I reported that someone rifled through our car, took a credit card, and tried to use it at a gas station. It kinda surprised me.
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by stevbov 5y ago
We sync a shared folder with dropbox. Backup with backblaze. Our local "copy" is basically our personal laptops. This has required manually upgrading our SSDs over the years though because we have around 1TB of photos and videos
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by stevbov 5y ago
This is for California, not sure about other states: Note that whether you have a solid green or a green arrow matters. A solid green means you can turn left, but you might have cross traffic. A green arrow means you're protected and
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by stevbov 5y ago
I had this problem when I first got a 30" monitor - I was constantly losing my mouse cursor, it took forever to move over to things, etc. To solve it I wrote a program for storing and restoring mouse cursor positions (along with focusi
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by stevbov 6y ago
This reminds me - a Java language architect was asked what his favorite non-Java JVM language is. He said Clojure because it's not trying to just be a "better Java". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTH8uCziI
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by stevbov 6y ago
I took a look at ExVenture when I first started working on this. A lot seems to have changed since then, but from what I could tell at the time there were some potential races. For example, movement processing seemed like it allowed for
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by stevbov 6y ago
It does help. Any given action will modify a fairly small part of the overall state (at most around .01% of it). But what part of the state it can modify is fairly arbitrary based upon the action. Your dependency could be dataA, dataB,
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by stevbov 6y ago
Do you use it for server side game logic too? It's not as ambitious as an MMO, but I like to use MUDs to learn new languages. I've been (slowly) working on one to learn Elixir and I'm actually finding the concurrency model s
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by stevbov 7y ago
Why would any Linux shop use SQL Server anyways? Why would they use .NET Core? The only people I know pushing .NET Core are .NET people, not Linux people. My general rule is to never use a technology where your primary platform is a seco
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by stevbov 7y ago
I've put certain family members on CentOS. It kinda depends upon what you're doing with your computer. E.g. if I weren't into gaming I would be using CentOS over Fedora (or Ubuntu).
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by stevbov 7y ago
I made 52k fresh out of college 16 years ago. Seems really low today.
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by stevbov 8y ago
Reminds me of what my brother in law says: I don't want to be stuck doing tech support for my family. With my luck, it would catastrophically fail while out of town, leaving the wife and kids without internet. My dad set up a lot of co
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by stevbov 9y ago
Yeah, our 6 year old niece plays with our 2 year old's Duplos. Duplos we got for free from a mommy group on Facebook. Also, I'm pretty sure our toddler would have a breakdown if a Duplo broke.
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by stevbov 9y ago
Last year I had two products I bought on Amazon arrive that were obviously previously opened. No warning at all when making the purchase. They didn't appear to be counterfeit but I still returned them. Now I avoid Amazon whenever I
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by stevbov 9y ago
Isn't this part of what most software engineering degrees teach though? Particularly surrounding project planning and requirements gathering?