Andrew Thompson

sysadmin turned functional programmer -- the eternal quest to make the mysterious side effects stop

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I've decided to log off Elon's wild ride. I wasn't using it actively but it will suck to lose my timeline. I just don't want to even be a passive part of whatever the hell he's doing over there.

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In case you needed to see the inside of a Texas Instruments LISP machine today: https://t.co/9RNa0wINyA

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https://t.co/INrXNDherp
https://t.co/AiaUA9K6Lx
https://t.co/CbZMknL6in

It does, remarkably, fit. Now to pull it all out again to finish the welding and paint everything I can get access to.

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Might do a thing this weekend:

https://t.co/p1W9BNgO9c
https://t.co/nPQUqhtkdN

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@cheeseplus Nature is healing.

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Saturday was 1 year to the day that my family and I moved to Maine, never having visited the state before. It has been a great success and we love it here. Here's some random pictures of stuff I did over the last year:
https://t.co/bEXr48V9kB

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@cheeseplus See also: Mass Effect (3)

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@cheeseplus The thing that annoyed me was the *appearance* of agency, but then being forced down a path irregardless. The other "choice", at the very end of the game, ends up being more or less meaningless. I think it would have been better to just avoid pretending you can choose.

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@tsantero @williamsjoe Eve is tapping the phone lines for some reason.

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@cheeseplus Finish the install yourself and claim you saw one of their trucks doing it and decided to call back to ask about service again.

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@tsantero VB (and also Visual Basic, apparently) still considered harmful, I guess.

It's pretty telling they think its cool to filter people based on what technology their previous job probably TOLD them to use.

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@cheeseplus In NY they used to mark something as delivered at 9pm and then sneak back at 6am to actually deliver it. I assume they couldn't complete their route on time and needed an escape hatch. Most people would not call until the next day at which point it would have magically arrived.

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@old_sound @cmeik @aramallo @frescosecco @mononcqc @t_sloughter @benoitc @rvirding @redrapids @uwiger @basho The basho approach where we had a ton of small libraries was a real development nightmare sometimes but it made it a lot easier for people to use the piece they needed.

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@old_sound @cmeik @aramallo @frescosecco @mononcqc @t_sloughter @benoitc @rvirding @redrapids @uwiger @basho It's definitely good that Rabbit is less monolithic these days, it makes it a lot easier to use components but yes, historically it was quite hard which is why I suspect a lot of people forget about it.

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@cmeik @old_sound @aramallo @frescosecco @mononcqc @t_sloughter @benoitc @rvirding @redrapids @uwiger @basho gen_server2, the one we used, had some inbox receive magic, we only used it in MDC and then imported it to core with the wonderful "connection manager" stuff.

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@old_sound @aramallo @frescosecco @mononcqc @t_sloughter @benoitc @rvirding @redrapids @cmeik @uwiger @basho We used the LSHIFT version which I think predated the rabbit one?

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@bdha This bug is what drove me off systemd like 5 years ago, how is it still a thing?

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@davetapley @helium This is great, would suggest setting target=_blank on the "find it here" link so it doesn't replace the current page.

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@tweets_so_fresh The newer ARM-based Arduinos are a lot less frustrating than the very dated 8-bit AVR ones IMO. If you want WiFi you might want to look at the ESP8266 stuff.

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@cmeik I swear every printer connection other than using a literal old school printer port is byzantine.