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No, I actually like this reply, because it's true in its essentials. You can find someone to tell you what you want to hear, but it's not going to pay the rent. And actual help nee…

Boring old programmer. Honestly I gave up rules-lawyering in D&D some time ago, because it just makes things a slog. Which, while fun for me sometimes (I play Dwarf Fortress), isn'…

In grade school I kept meticulous, tedious logbooks of ships entering and leaving an imaginary port for tax purposes.

Not to sound like a codger, but we even said in the 90s that computers are just very fast idiots.

This is smart but also hilarious.

Imagine if we did this for countries.

I dunno. Is AI less than forty years old?

Huge second to zachtronics.

I have worked in tech in many different cities and when I worked for a startup in San Diego, we were surrounded by health tech companies of all sizes. I've never worked in Boston, …

That's fair. It would have been a weird reunion anyway.

Weird side question, but any chance you use(d) the same name on Playstation Network?

100% this. Hetzner has no problems completely blowing away whatever you've got running for arbitrary reasons. And their support is incresibly bad.

Sure, the kinda go-to for this is rtl-sdr.com's device (just search amazon). They have a great and comprehensive site, too: https://www.rtl-sdr.com

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Yeah, the ancient stoics made a whole philosophy about it.

make me a truly flat surface

I noticed this also, and ever since, I've made it a point to always have memorized my SO's number and my best friend's number.

No, it is not feasible to run modem signals over VOIP, as the various codecs all compress signals and cut frequencies and all manner of things to reduce bandwidth consumption, whic…

I have no horse in that race but just to see people talking about XML like this a quarter of a century after the first time I saw similar comments is just funny, I don't care who y…

I think this is normal for most people, but I've found that one-on-one's are a way more effective tool for revealing these sorts of situations. A good manager, though, is very rare…

I interviewed at DoorDash way back when, could've been about employee #12 or something. But when I sat down to interview with a couple of the cofounders, it seemed to me they were …

It's interesting to note that stoicism -- in my experience perhaps the most difficult thing I've ever done and still fight hard every day to follow -- could be said at its core to …

That's what I've been using for some years and it's never been a problem for me. You are right that you have to have at least a basic understanding of how a mail server works, and …

But that is exactly what happens: Human civilization is a generational loop of genocide and treachery. All of these wonderful things we enjoy exist in spite of everything we are.

Once upon a time in Germany, I was put on several special duty assignments to guard documents overnight (with a machine gun!) prior to their destruction by companies like this.