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JakeStone

246 karmajoined 13 jaar geleden

Transplant from Texas now living in the SF Bay area. Overall lurker, but I find 2-3 articles a year where I feel like responding.

I do a little bit of many languages in the backend, but I love my C#, but I don't disparage my roots of PHP, Perl, Shell scripts, etc. especially since they currently keep the bills paid. I also collected some of the trading cards for Lua, Python, x86 Assembler, F# and such, but never got into them that far.

If you've got something going on, I'm generally open to hearing about it.

If someone wants to play with hexagons in C#, or just criticize my code, checkout:

https://github.com/RichardVasquez/h3net

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17 dagen geledendiscuss

I am working on a tinymush equivalent server in C#. I'm nearly at version 4 compliance.

20 dagen geledendiscuss

Yeah... No.

I can get some useful results from codex at work, because I have to, except for when I don't. I accept that risk factor and compensate by reviewing _everything_ it spits out.

But we all know what coding is, in a very broad stroke manner, sure.

What does an end of month report mean? I automatically increase the font size when I send the spreadsheet to Paul. I review tickets and provide a meta write-up on Friday. Or maybe Monday, because Fred didn't get back to me until 5:30 Friday, and I closed my laptop at 4.

These are just little things, and they're repetitive, but each time, there's some little idiosyncracy. I have reservations regarding any piece of software being able to finesse that.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

If Claude ends up grabbing my C# TOML library, in my defense, I wrote it when the TOML format first came out over a dozen years ago, and never did anything more with it Sorry.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Not unexpected, but it looks the oldest kid, Ingress, is being ignored again. IIRC, there was some badge you could earn by doing a number of those scans.

Or is Ingress even still around?

5 maanden geledendiscuss

It'll get cleared up.

TACO

6 maanden geledendiscuss

I've got big monitors, that I hook up to my work laptop and my own laptop. I make it work with a kvm hub. It's really sweet, for my use.

I keep a browser, an IDE, and a terminal pretty much side by side on the bottom one. I keep slack, email, and a clock on the top monitor. I also place pullout tabs from my IDEs on the top one.

Thing is, no matter the cost range, I generally have to replace the KVM hub about once a year. I've just come to accept that as a part replacement cost. <shrug> This thing has its own KVM hub internally. Maybe I'm just rough on my KVM, but if someone puts significant wear and tear on this monitor, I'd imagine that part would wear out, which seems like a potential money sink if you have to keep calling the warranty folks.

For me, it's too much of a risk, but YMMV.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

It's ridiculous that this has to be done.

I'm honestly speechless. But thanks for the magnet link.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I agree with never deploying a .git folder to prod.

Part of our deployment script for sites has something like:

  git clone -d 1 -b $BRANCH https://blahblah.tld/project
  rm -rf .git*

So no .git directory, .gitignore, and so on.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I've not had that kind of experience in over 30 years. I'm a bit older now, and I would hope that my response would be something similar to:

Me: "Am I under arrest?"

No: "I would like my attorney present before starting this discussion. Please provide me some contact information so we can schedule this."

Yes: "I wish to have my attorney present. I will not be answering any questions or discussing this matter."

Now, I don't know if I'm actually that brave, but I've at least got a plan.

vorig jaardiscuss

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vorig jaardiscuss

I should be getting my physical copy on Tuesday. Physical so that Bezos can't have it edited or deleted from my Kindle.

Good job, Zuck! I didn't even know this book existed, and likely wouldn't have cared, until you decided to drop the hammer on her.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Anyone else having an issue with it not showing anything in Firefox mobile?

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I didn't know that, but I'm glad I have my MacBook in clamshell mode with an external camera with a physical cover.

I mean, I appreciated the little green light, but the fact that it seemed necessary indicates to me that humanity still needs some evolving.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I have a regular prescription I have gotten refilled at Kaiser Permanente for years. I use their online site and get my meds mailed to me.

It may have been 2 years ago or so, but the process stopped working and wouldn't accept my confirmation after giving my credit card info. I've got a handful of privacy tools on my browser. I finally gave in and temporarily white listed the pharmacy and still cleared out any trackers. Sent the web admin a basic, "WTF, folks?" and got a BS non answer.

Fast forward to maybe November or December last year. Refill time, and the trackers were even worse. I kind of need my meds though. So I created a new account on my computer, and ordered my meds.

Then I filed a complaint of a possible HIPAA violation, starting at https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/index.html and was polite, factual, and provided some non hysterical examples of how a prescription could indicate a specific health issue with resulting advertising or PII release to parties not needing it.

I received an email at the end of February. I was probably not the only person that sent a complaint, but the end result is that KP is being investigated.

Yay.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

That was fun. Got it by 2:00, but also played a few hunches with a cowboy move here and there that may have saved time.

Still not going to convince me to respond to Slack that quickly, though.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

No verifiable sources cited, just large amounts of scary percentages.

If everybody is pirating, then everything will go away. We've heard this since cassette tapes, video tapes, decss, torrents, and we'll continue hearing it with new tech.

I say to the streaming companies and the content creators, stop bluffing. Shut it down since pirates are apparently chatting you billions.

Cash in your options, go to your private island retreat and never darken our door again. I have physical books, and walks are usually nice.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

To grok is to drink.

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Get a load of this clown.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

They just immediately receive the delete button.

Maybe 5 years ago or so, I got an email that sounded good in terms of domain and tech stack, and with good detail on tasks and responsibilities.

As I reached the bottom, I saw a salary heading and assumed it would have a good range. It said something like $80k - $2 million.

Immediately deleted and a filter placed in my email to never hear from them again.

4 jaar geledendiscuss

I call it the "flower" key, mainly due to the response I got from a couple other devs when I switched from years of Windows to doing some Mac stuff, and didn't know that it was called "command".