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oregontechninja

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I'm a small business owner, sysadmin, IT department, and developer. I love all things computer, especially learning new programming languages.

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I was an unbeliever, but we got some M1 Mac Mini's and this is the result. They even beat the dedicated workstation many of our people have set up. I get when people say it won't quite match a new ryzen for compute power, but in all of our tests, the M1 beat out all our workstations.

Apache Arrow 4.0 5 years ago

It's a binary data format, supporting trees, tables, lists, and even blobs. Never used it, I already have sqlite.

Came to comment this. Print debugging makes me so fast at work. Unless you give me an easier and better tool I so no reason to change. Works in every language, exactly how I'd expect, and is exceedingly easy to explain to others.

I started and ran my own company that really ended up being boutique software (custom websites/servers, custom software, enterprise software repair), but I had a hard time figuring out how to market myself, especially in a more rural area. I ended up making a decent sum of change.

I lucked out and found somewhere to hire me full time eventually so I don't work for myself anymore, but I like have other people do the hard paperwork.

I'd recommend specifically knowing how educated your clients are, knowing how to effectively communicate on their grounds, and knowing how to get to them with advertising. Of course being good at what you do is important, but you'll still go nowhere if you can't do the above. (Also, I find that being a nice software designer pays dividends; nobody wants to hire the jerk)

My favorite is to use sibling element selectors and checkboxes to make no JavaScript single page sites. Not the most useful (except maybe for tabs) but a really cool trick non the less. You can really take advantage of the sibling selectors to make no JavaScript modals and menues as well!

I like gimp. I've used it professionaly forever and just use photoshop tutorials to teach myself. I also use "Glimpse" now for work.

Ah my bad, I was under the impression there was no complete ownership or control. I played a bunch of neopets as a kid and had no idea until a few years ago how involved scientology was with the site. I bought a car from a scientologist recently and was blown away by the house they shared with their fellow practitioners. Walls of plastic wrapped Hubbard books, several family units (kids included) living together, dvd strategically left in car for us to watch. My fiance studies religions (she's a mental health worker and doesn't want to be ignorant to other's spirituality) so it was a fun watch and experience for us.

Looks like the glfw library is built for windows as a DLL and then packed as bytes into a go const and loaded at runtime! Cool beans, wish more people could appreciate how fun that is.

I pushed my wedding back to 2021 already, at this point we're probably just going to cut our losses and invest in a house or something. The fact that so many Americans are willing to pick up a gun and lay down their life for this country, but wouldn't wear a simple mask for that very same country is shameful.

This is a meta comment about articles around the subject. Most of them have been laughably bad and lacking in information. But the 'Diabolical Ironclad' beetle makes for a great attention grabbing headline so every major news outlet has put out an article about this. I love the beetle, but actually finding information on it through most of these articles was difficult.

I do think we need better website designers for lay-people. I have a couple key points I would want in a web designer.

-Output accessibility (eg for blind users)

-Clean and efficient output html (every square space site I visit is slow as shit)

-No cdn resources. Allows you to pack your own fonts and assets.

Does this do that?

This comes off as "everybody is an idiot except me" which is always a tempting view. I believe we re-discuss things as a community so often because the world changes so quickly and we have a constant influx of personnel. Noobies will always need to rehash the lessons of the past.

Can't believe people still buy this shit. It's obvious they could release one game per console, then update it yearly. Maybe the yearly update could cost a fraction of full price or you subscribe for player and stat tracking updates. Anything other than the garbage fire coming out here. "AAA" Games have gotten so bad with this shit.

The volatility of the market makes for easy profits. Did an excercise on marketwatch in school one time. I traded random symbols that met my criteria and made a fat virtual profit. I kept it going after the experiment and realized the only reason I did well was because of the variability of that time for the market. I would kill to have some extra cash to invest right now/3 months ago, panicked laymen make investing easy.

I broke my family's tax computer by trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows and instead formatting the whole hard drive. I learned more I. The three days attempting to recover that computer than most my life. I thought everybody had these tech skills until I went to work for a real estate agency and ended up making more money fixing everybodies computers. I then made a series of lateral moves and now I'm managing databases, websites, and networks of a printing company full time. I love not freelancing.