Tim Hoppen

Engineering manager that knows a thing or two about UEFI

(my crap here does not reflect my employer blah blah)

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TIL:
Whenever I fat finger in IM and write "the" as "teh", I can pretend to be writing in Slovenian.

https://t.co/ksXMOVuE01

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@branthansen I'm in such a weird place. I've been a software developer / manager for 15 years and have always been big tech enthusiast, but I'm a huge "AI" skeptic, both in terms of how we seem to be using it, and in how useful it can actually be.

For now (forever?) I'll write words myself.

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@davepl1968 I'm quite confident that I'm not autistic, but I was (and still am) the "tear it apart" kind of nerd.

Sound board have a broken switch? Just open it up and bridge the connection. We wanted phantom power enabled in any case.

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@theskizzleman You flying today? I hope your flight isn't delayed. I'm flying Alaska Air from PHX back home to Portland, and I'm delayed by the previous flight that is coming here from SEA.

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@davepl1968 The final remark is great and needs to be practiced more often.

I talked with my mom this morning after breakfast - she and my dad wanted some tech advice 😉

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@davepl1968 If you go to central or SE Washington, Spectrum is just the cable company.

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@davepl1968 I wonder if they'll (re)invent a multi-row taskbar.

It's one of my biggest gripes on the daily.

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@davepl1968 @FiniusMcTbag I do, but only as a novelty. My wife and I have considered getting a private room on the train from Portland to Chicago as an alternative to road tripping.

Of course, because we only think about, we're obviously not seriously interested, but it is a neat idea.

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@davepl1968 I don't know all of the details here, but at 17, you may have also been too young to sell those cigarettes at any time of day.

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@davepl1968 I'm a big fan of having a modern radio and EFI (and not just because of the coincidental overload of the acronym with my chosen field), but I'm on board with having far less tech in an automobile.

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@Oceanbreeze473 Would you agree to have a 50% chance of occasional vomiting for 24 hours if someone paid you 25¢ ?

That's the equation you're working with here.

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@davepl1968 Coincidentally, I (a millennial) bought my house, and by extension, my first dishwasher at 25.

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@F_Botha_USA @adafruit "An update from a previous post last month: The University of Utah’s School of Computing found and recovered a magnetic tape with the only known copy of Unix v4, the first version of the operating system ..."

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It is not isolated to this store or city, either. I saw the exact same issue near Portland a week ago. When my wife brought the bad drink to one of the employees, they even argued with her and told her that she ordered it wrong.

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It's a shame that you have to double check a mobile order at @Starbucks because their printers are so terrible (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming it isn't deliberate).

This 1 is supposed to be a 4.

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@Nicolai_DeF Also, XP was pretty amazing

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@HillsboroPolice Unrelated to the medical emergency near the same intersection?

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@idlehandsdev Nah, that would be cheating. Points are for putting the ball in 😄

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@Frenck This my office at work. Waving my hands around doesn't reliably turn it back on.

What does turn it back on is someone walking past my open door.

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@GTWScar I just spent all afternoon at the beach... I don't like sand.