theturtle

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by theturtle 6d ago
I use a white paint pen. DATA and NO DATA.
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by theturtle 4mo ago
The last "fun" I had related to "work" computing may have been as long ago as 2000. Writing something cool or clever that I was proud to show off. By 2010 pretty much everything sucked and by 2015 I left IT entirely, no
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by theturtle 5mo ago
This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago. Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.
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by theturtle 6mo ago
We have solar. It so happens the people next door also do, but we didn't know that when we started. In the almost two years since we added ours, no one has asked about them, possibly because our house is on the highest hill in the neig
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by theturtle 6mo ago
Fuck CAPTCHAs.
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by theturtle 8mo ago
Sure, I have http://www.whatstupidshitdidhedotoday.com
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by theturtle 8mo ago
Yeah. This. In 42 years in IT, i saw way too many situations where the last thing engineers need is a "team" or "management," or even worse, an outside "team leader," which usually resulted in the engineer&#x27
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by theturtle 8mo ago
Didn't Carl Sagan (no stranger to selling books) pretty much stomp von Däniken's "theory" into cornmeal well before the turn of the century?
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by theturtle 9mo ago
I searched for it, and did not find, the word "backhoe." Big fail. I have said for years, never ascribe to terrorism what can be attributed to some backhoe operator in Ashburn, Virginia. We got a lotta backhoes in northern Virgini
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by theturtle 9mo ago
I actually used Hot Dog Stand as the inspiration for the color combination on a big internal website years ago. A "committee" was still flapping its gums about the color choice a week before a hard launch, so I simply... decided.
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by theturtle 11mo ago
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by theturtle 1y ago
What else is there to do in Dayton?
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by theturtle 1y ago
No.
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by theturtle 1y ago
In other news, the army thinks someone in the Army could afford one of those bizarre things. If you remember Atari "Battlezone," one of the targets for your tank looks remarkably like a Cybertruck. In 1980.
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by theturtle 1y ago
I like making young bros' heads spin by explaining how little intrinsic value gold actually has. They all start out with "if the shit comes down, gold will --" and I cut them off by saying "-- still have almost zero intr
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by theturtle 1y ago
Is there an "or else?" Apple can't afford to just pack up and leave a market larger than the USA. While Apple has no particular interest in or loyalty to the past, without the EU Apple wouldn't have lived into this centu
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by theturtle 1y ago
ICE is probably all "we want our stuff back!!!"
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by theturtle 1y ago
Short answer: yeah.
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by theturtle 1y ago
He probably gets a commission on every freeloading, unneeded, parasitic billionaire he recruits. A million bucks? Should have made it a billion.
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by theturtle 1y ago
iPhoto still works just fine, and I refused to move. And I never have it or anything else be the only place an image exists. Storage is cheap.
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by theturtle 1y ago
Please do not turn NameCheap to shit, CVC. It was a lot of effort to make the move when NameSecure... turned to shit.
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by theturtle 1y ago
For decades, I've said You don't go to college to get a job You don't go to college to get a degree You don't go to college to learn things You go to college to LEARN HOW TO LEARN If you do that, all the other things wil
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by theturtle 1y ago
Find a way that is costs trump money or prevents him from making money, and this stuff will vanish instantly.
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by theturtle 1y ago
I only read the headline, so my reaction was "they can't even drive cars right yet!!! Now AI is flying airplanes???"
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by theturtle 1y ago
The problem is, even as you ignore the internet, it goes on without you, and yet your ignoring it doesn't make you immune to it. I suppose you can ignore the Ohio River, but it keeps on flowing and every once in a while it'll rise
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by theturtle 1y ago
I forgot I enabled the cloud-to-butt plugin for Firefox.
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by theturtle 1y ago
Well, yeah. But some of us were there before the beginning. Wordpress? Huh? You wrote your own code or you just wrote raw HTML. 1997 also was mostly in the books before the word "blog" ever appeared. The number of us writing on th
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by theturtle 1y ago
This is what blogging was, should be, and maybe will be again some day. Fuck some companies and their opaque, convoluted and too-precious hiring processes.
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by theturtle 1y ago
This is how shitwords like "impactful" sneak into speech. Say it around me and I can see your credibility flow away like piss down your leg.
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by theturtle 1y ago
There's still a few more months of 2025 left.

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