stirfrykitty

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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
But isn't this the beauty of programming to begin with. Barring certain things like medical devices, cars, etc., where it has to be very orthodox, for stuff like Web back/frontends, and even gaming, this is how people learn, I gue
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
That's not bad, actually. It's one reason why I hated leaving Perl for Python. Python is a little too orthodox sometimes. What I'm seeing is where frameworks are becoming the new "programming languages". People now
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I never said it wasn't useful. Obviously there are people who need it. I just won't pay for it when I already do by paying for house water. Our tap water is clean here in Texas.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
The picture in the article shows they still have the very old school Taco Bell sign from way back. I guess if it still works...
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
My cousin lives up in East Anglia in a house built in the mid 1300s. They have bought box fans for every room otherwise they cannot even sleep. No aircon, obviously. The local council will not allow the house to be retrofitted since it&#x27
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I only drink water during/after lawn work. That amounts to maybe 32oz. Other "water" would include the half gallon or so of green tea I drink daily, along with my 4-5 double espressos during working hours.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Yet companies build plants on the Great Lakes, hoover up all the water, filter it, bottle it, and sell it to the unsuspecting, who happily buy it. I never ever saw bottled water as a kid in Europe. It wasn't until I moved to the US whe
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Slashdot-esque post: 1. Set up AC company in Europe 2. Wait for panicked calls from sweltering people 3. Profit!!
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Not really acclimation, but willingness to suffer through it. I hate it when my children want to play outside because I'm out there for less than five minutes and my shirt is soaked through with sweat, it's unbearably hot, and the
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Appreciate the comments. My brother lived in Denver for a few years. It's not really my cup of tea when I visited. Too much sun, and too high in altitude. I could barely breathe when I was there and my nose bled every day for the first
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Good comment. I loathe Texas, but I'm here because of the wife and her family. I would prefer to live someplace where it's overcast 90% of the time, and where it rains at least twice a week. I also prefer snow on the ground for a
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
And I mentioned same in my statement above. The entire lower half of the US would be largely unlivable without aircon. Even Alaska get 90+ in the summer, albeit for short bursts.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Meanwhile here in Texas, that level of heat is business as usual. I get that most places in the EU don't have aircon, as they rarely need it, barring southern EU, which I have spent considerable amounts of time in. I far prefer the mis
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Cats don't have owners, they have staff. Cats are far more independent than dogs, which is one reason why I like them. Certain cat breeds can be very dog-like, particularly Arabian Mau, Abyssinian, and Norwegian Forest. All are ridicul
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Does that work in all shells?
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Been using vim since 1998 and rarely stray unless I'm typing notes for something unimportant and them I use Nano. Back in the day when I was a Unix admin, we often worked in full screen terminals and when editing a config file didn&#x2
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Let's say they make it mandatory. Would it be possible for a group of people with one having unfettered access because, say, they cross the border all the time to a place that has full Internet, and they use wget to tar/gzip entir
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Andrew Zimmern would surely eat them and maybe has done. He's eaten everything else. I recall him saying the only things he will not eat are Durian and oatmeal (texture thing). Editing to say he did eat grubs on one episode and said so
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
That episode when Bear killed and "ate" the skunk was hilarious. I recall him saying that cooking it "smelled like burning tires". Hilarious.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Or the "portions" that Rey was buying from the trading post in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Back in the early 2000s, our company phased out the huge 21" Sun boat anchor monitors for another smaller unit also with a 21" screen. They were put on the loading dock and we were told they were up for grabs. A colleague and I to
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Personally, I think rsync.net is the best if you're in IT, particularly if you're a *nix user. Nothing better yet unless you wanted to roll your own. And the fact they use ZFS makes it great. You can choose where your data resides
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
In the olden days you would be right, but today's drives are fair. Everyone takes turns driving and shooting. Everyone in the clubhouse after the hunt. It would be anathema to leave someone out and that would not be my scene.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
OneDrive is an abomination. We use it at work and I have to manage it for everyone on top of my other duties (medium non-profit). It's not the panacea everyone thought it would be. I inherited it upon coming here. I've tried to se
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
My church has tons of social offerings with tons of attendance. Men's groups, women's groups, teen groups. I recently went hunting with some men from my church for an entire weekend. A couple of weekends later, my wife went with t
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
That was a fantastic post. I feel exactly the same way. My kids sometimes feel too needy. Oftentimes I never get the desired downtime. My wife got mad at me one day and said "You need to listen to Harry Chapin's Cat's in the
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
A sort of paid-worker panopticon situation is how I see it. I did the cube farm thing back when I worked for UUNet, and it sucked. Everyone talking, prairie dogging talking to the guy in the next cube, people farting out loud, the stinky fo
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I cannot work in an open office. I was forced to when I began my career in NOVA as a young Unix nerd, but now that I'm over 20 years into it, I won't work where I don't have my own office. I have one now that I share with one
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Hunting is a very social exercise. My sons are not yet old enough to go without prattling on about this or that, spooking any game worth taking. I'm planning on next season taking one at a time and teaching them the craft and all that
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
When I get home Saturday afternoons, I'm mobbed by my sons who are looking forward to riding on the mower. :) It's one of the things we all look forward to: lawn work. I pay my sons to pick up and rake. I pay them to use the blowe

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