joem5636.bsky.social
Retired software engineer — Fortran, PDP-10 assembly, C, C++, HTML, Java, Python (oldest to current); bassoonist — 5 ensembles; NRA Precision Pistol; 3D Modeling (#TinkerCAD mostly) and Printing (Guider 2); birder
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The reverse is far more appealing to me. If Alaska and Hawaii can be states of the US, why not have detached Canadian ‘states’ {provinces}?
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Not Newt Gingrich?
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BTW, Google owns GitHub😉
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“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance“ has a chapter on ‘gumption traps’ — things that slow fixing motorcycles (but …). One is “not reading the manual.”
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If the estimate is based on download times, it will vary wildly depending on your connection speed. I see similar variations in Tor.
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Get her an iPad — add a keyboard?
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I haven’t heard ‘hump day’ since taking a week of skiing lessons at Sugarbush eons ago. Does it have a different connotation with ‘the other guy’ now?
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I keep looking at alternatives to TinkerCAD, but nothing on Linux has felt intuitive so far. I haven’t needed the programmatic features of the heavy-lifter modeling programs and they are definitely not intuitive!
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or the UPS — they seem incredibly unreliable
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Each only works at 50%?