drankinatty.bsky.social
Attorney, Registered Professional Engineer (Aero/Mechanical), Pilot (AMEL-Instrument), Husband, Father -- in no particular order.
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Is this a qualification for the new Republican party? Is Gaetz doing the vetting?
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For all we have given up, our allies, position on supporting democracies, our leadership role in world-heath, climate, humanity, our relationship with our neighbors and trading partners, and more, answer me this: What have we gotten in return? What has been received? Where has any benefit gone?
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Here is to hope... The Linux desktop was ready in 2005. Then in 2007 both KDE and Gnome decided to spend 15 years in a developmental circular-firing-squad. The "Linux desktop" as a concept is just now recovering from that misstep. The hope is that there were actual lessons learned...
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Kudos to the gimp devs! The port to Gtk+3/4 is no picnic. If you don't use Single Window Mode, you may find a few issues with the traditional toolbox and the eternal Gnome'ized Gtk+3 CSS spacing and icon size problems - I did. This will need solving for laptop use where space is limited.
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It has been sad to watch. The stark doubling again by '89 reflects in large part in the US the impact of "Reganomics" and is a good indication of just how much of "trickle down economics" actually trickled down. None. "Deregulation", "Privatization" are all just a rebranding of the same concept.
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Downward thrust-vectoring is one way to get a bird in the air -- and clean a runway in no time. Just think what the F-15 VSTOL trials could have done with that!
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There is something about the east side of the pond that just produces priceless, clarifying satire. Thank you.
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Incredibly apropos. Something I wish would have hung above the doors of each polling place last November, something to cause a moment of quite reflection before exercising the awesome responsibility of self-governance. Our children will pay for that lack of quite reflection for decades.
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Good on my northern friends! But why beat around the bush? A simple statement that the acts of the owner have served to undermine the common welfare of both Canada and the US and Telsa is simply no longer welcome at the show. (then the subtitled reason to protect safety to keep the lawyers happy :)
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I see the argument for both sides. As codebases have grown from tens of thousands to tens of millions of lines, you no longer have one hand or a small group of programmers involved. A failure to validate some bound in a struct member can surface years later. Memory safety has promise there.
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Deeply. One of the axioms I lived by is "to err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer..." (choose your favorite 'f' adjective) And, admittedly, that is something almost always used in jest.
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“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. ... " (Samuel Adams letter to James Warren - October 24, 1780) I have faith in our experienced patriots.
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I've got one unanswered question. As we discard our allies, side with dictators and destroy everything I learned was "Truth, Justice, The American Way", what are we getting in return? What is the national interest being served here? To whom does the benefit of this insanity inure?
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The rust fad will fade like the 20 before it. C/C++ were never the problem, it was C/C++ programmers that can't count or can't protect allocation bounds. A rewrite is never as good as the original. A 5MB rust "Hello World" does little to impress. C/C++ will be better for the focus on memory safety.
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Load Linux. As long as you have a Core2Duo and 4G RAM, it will run fine. As a server or desktop. The utter tech waste created by the Win11 TPM2 requirement ridiculous. Any distro will do from Arch to Ubuntu and everything in between (my preference is Arch or Tumbleweed). Never look back.
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What the judge should do is make an immediate referral to the State Bars for each of the lawyers that failed to abide by the Court's order. Each bar has model rules of professional conduct detailing the ethical standards lawyers must meet. Pam can join Rudy.
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Decided Win10 would be the last windows. While I've always kept it around for the kids gaming, I've used a Linux desktop since 2002. Kids are gone. Accounting was the only lingering need. When Win10 dies in September, we will wave goodbye. (oh I'll still have my VMs if needed)
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With 3 avid gamers, now having flown the nest, I look back at 20 years of building and upgrading and the bone-pile of parts and stack of 3 each of just about every Nvidia card from the 280GTX to the GTR2070s.
Lessons learned. Cases matter, quite matters. Artic 5 silver is all you need. RAM is cheap
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While every fiber of my being wants to yell and scream that Schumer is a turncoat, setting emotions aside, I think he made the right call. Not because I'm anti-opposition or shutdown, but to deny the president the increased power he could exercise during shutdown. A true Hobson's choice that sucks.
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You have to wonder if telescopes within one of those two galaxies are looking at the Milky Way and Andromeda posing the same question.
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vim myscript, #!/bin/bash; pathname="$1"; sep="/"; fname="$2"; rm -rf "${pathname}${sep}${fname} ... what could possibly go wrong? :)
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I was a late comer. I got in right as DOS 4.0.1 hit and got to use the entire 120MB drive as a single partition feeding bytes to the 80386DX (with separate 80387 math co-processor) and 4MB RAM. Purchased from Computer Warehouse on Westheimer in Houston. Photo next time it is out of the attic.