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Comment · 8 months ago
I no longer smoke as a habit, but when I have to travel solo (like for work) I sometimes will buy a pack just so I have an excuse to strike up a conversation with other humans without being called a creep or weirdo. "Hey, you got a light? What brand you smoking? How are you liking the conference so far?"
Comment · 1 year ago
But you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.
Comment · 2 years ago
Awesome advice and a great way to prepare for unexpected death or incapacitation (if you are the one in your family who usually handles all this stuff). I only would add that if you do go ahead with this, use tools or a medium that mere mortals are familiar with. Assume the person who needs to read it only knows git as a Larry the Cable Guy reference ("git 'er done!").
Comment · 3 years ago
This is great stuff. I’ve had this bookmarked in my browser for almost 20 years!

I should see what else I have in there…

Comment · 3 years ago
But… Hawaiian pizza?
Comment · 3 years ago
But with 600% more smug.

This doesn’t even really need reporting when every rando-vegan out there is running up to people they don’t know to announce shit like this.

Downvote me, but you know it’s true.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ah yes, the “they were asking for it” defense.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not an expert, but I did recently upgrade the pickups in an older guitar. I learned that not all pickups are wired to the guitar the same way. Seymour Duncan HotRails had to be connected differently than Seymour Duncan VintageRails, for example. This would be a complicating factor to any hot-swapping system.
Comment · 5 years ago
Like the old Cauzin Strip Reader.
Comment · 6 years ago
Man I wish 9-5 were acceptable here in the midwest. I wish I could move (I'm in my sandwich years now, caring for parents and teens in high school). Everyone here works farmer's hours and suggesting otherwise is equivalent to admitting you are a slacker.
Comment · 6 years ago
WFH orders during COVID19 have been a kind of blessing, with regard to my DSPD. I can sleep in an extra hour or two and hit that 8AM meeting 5 minutes after I wake up. When we have to go back to the office in June, I'm going to have a problem though.

I work in tech, but I live in Michigan and work for the auto industry where the norm seems to be to wake up at 4 and start work with the farmers at 6 AM. I'm a "late" morning person since I prefer to start at 8 or 9.

This has been held against me my entire 25 year career. 15 more to go and then I can sleep how the hell I want.

Comment · 7 years ago
This is how to learn to mimic a new language and avoid actually learning it. It’s the difference between carrying around a French phrase book and being able to converse like a native.
Comment · 7 years ago
Credit is due the executive assistant who informed the CEO of the call instead of triage-ing it to the bit bucket.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yet some products are clearly, specifically designed and marketed to addicts. Consider fortified wines (aka “bum wines”). Night train. MD2020. Thunderbird. I think it's possible to do the same with any product, including video games.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Scientist". "Architect". "Engineer". Even "Developer".

Bah!

All borrowed titles that try to make what we do sound more important to those who really do those things.

Coder. Programmer. You're either encoding logic or data into something a computer program can use. Even if all you do is draw fancy diagrams.

Off-topic whining. Downvote to oblivion.

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