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I have an almost identical story. I wrote a few games: snake and a choose your own adventure fantasy thing. And likely others that I can't remember, but yeah, I had a teacher tell …

I totally agree with this! I've spent a career learning and making software of all types. I started with DOS 4, worked through VB6, and so on. Now I think more broadly and my mind …

reticulating splines

I agree with your thought process. Factoring in antenna type and reflections also causes difficulties when explaining concepts like super position. The sinusoid is a good illustrat…

I really enjoy posts like this one because I always learn something. Sure the whole program can be written using bitwise comparison or modulus, but that's not the point. The thing …

I don't understand how to use this, but it does touch on an interesting topic. I want to create interactive and animated diagrams. I normally use either Draw.io or plantuml. My goa…

Honestly, if it ran Affinity photo and SilverFast, I'd be happy to pay that. Same goes for Linux, whatever can run those!

This brought back a lot of memories!

YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!

I agree with the comments, that's a pretty lame excuse. But I've gotta understand where others are coming from here. I just don't see why Apple is in such hot water here - they cre…

This is awesome! About a year ago, I switched to a Moonlander keyboard. At that time, I figured why not try a different layout while I'm at it, how hard could it be? I compared a b…

For ham operators, there's Winlink, which is an email system that uses ham frequencies to exchange messages. And yep, there are rules where you need to say your call sign periodica…

Neat, but I wish there were more information. I'm an active ham but curious about how much space I get, are my emails encrypted or readable on the server, etc.

Baud rate and symbol rate often refer to the same thing, especially in the context of digital communications. However, they don't necessarily equate to the bit rate. In the digital…

Really interesting reading both sides of this argument, but I do see something missing from the entire conversation (unless someone snuck it in and I missed it): Independent from t…

There's always Gitea [1]. I've been using that for personal projects and it's perfect. [1]: https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison

"That's right! Every file you've ever created, or anyone else has created or will create! Copyright infringement? It's just a few digits of π! They were always there!" I didn't thi…

My personal setup is: /home/eric/repos/ All git repos end up in that folder - it's basically my project folder. Before explaining more, I should specify that this setup works well …

This took me down memory lane but in a weird way. One of the first languages I really took to was vb6. I was absolutely convinced I could write an OS with that language... I tried …

I don't think companies are black and white like that. Even the big ones. Sure management focuses on profit and loss and they keep an eye on legal hurdles. When I hire someone, I w…

I agree with that. When I've interviewed in the past I approached it from two ways. First, I asked them to throw out a number - normally that didn't work and they threw it back to …

No. I really think that people aren't taught to do this, or they feel that they're not allowed to. If someone brought this concern to me, I'd tell say: it's your life, define your …

Yeah that's a good question and like most things in life, things aren't black and white. In terms of unconscious bias, I'm not sure how to answer that. I look for talent, professio…

Think what you will, but like I said, it's served me and my company well over the years. We're still in business, employees are happy, morale is high, I give bonuses/raises when po…

I actually disagree with this on the premise that all aspects of hiring are a two-way street. I've worked at quite a few different companies in different roles, and now I'm in a se…