Mark Betz

Programmer, system architect, husband, father of three smart kids, two unruly dogs, and a resentful cat or two. Hack musician, sailor, follower of old roads.

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@dickssportingss this is an amazing bug: over $9k in duplicate transactions for a jacket purchase. The image captures less than half of them. All sorted now, thanks, but I hope you woke the CTO up.

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@MarleysGotham Loved the remodel, and loved bellying up to the bar again for some wings and a chop chop. But you need to bring back the crispy prosciutto!

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Lol @Garmin really? Can't use a 64 GB because it's too big? Android Auto/Google Maps for the win.

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@rjhwinner @rjhwinner I managed to find a copy of the code at https://t.co/yTUMtTHdOD ... and yeah the two fade functions look like my code. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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@rjhwinner @rjhwinner hmm it's not ringing a bell. I did write some pretty early effects code for mode 13 and other VGA modes back in the day, including various fades and transitions, and shared much of it on Compuserve so it's possible there's some connection.

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@comcastcares Turns out that the number he called probably doesn't connect to Comcast. Working through it with your agents. Thanks for responding.

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@comcastcares my 86 year-old father called your support line at 800 266 2278 to deal with an Outlook problem and during the conversation your tech asked for his password. How can this be a thing in 2021?

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How hard could it be to get Windows 10 to display 24-hour time? https://t.co/JudTGejbbx

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@SamsungMobileUS I'm on my third or fourth Galaxy but it will be my last if you continue trying to shove your ecosystem down my throat. I buy these phones for your hardware and Google's ecosystem. Don't try to make us choose.

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My friend Nick MacInnis gave a presentation at San Diego Python August 27th on the same incident I wrote about recently.

https://t.co/E8f8y1MWdH

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In the trenches tail of a Tuesday morning when an operator sent a single Amazon link to a page visitor and came close to burning down production.

https://t.co/WwWa4mxaQK

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Taking a look at the CPU cost of tailing log files in kubernetes
https://t.co/CZJZBeS7Iz

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Joe Biden's Philadelphia speech calls for unity https://t.co/bkehSc4Y1Z via @YouTube

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@onethirdzero You're welcome, Jordan! Glad you found it useful and thanks for letting me know.

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@JAdiaheno That's awesome Jonathan :). Thanks for letting me know!

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This nurse is an actual hero https://t.co/FPsSp6Jul2

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@ShopRiteStores @NationalGrocers @TJoesOfficial do your stores have touchless hand sanitizer stations at the entrances? Cruise ships have done this for a long time and it seems to work. Should be a cost-effective way to minimize risk for your patrons?