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bigzaphod

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You may know me from Twitterrific or Frenzic: Overtime or as the ex-galactic president. I'm just this guy, you know?

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bigzaphod, to Ds9
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He’ll be back.

bigzaphod, to Ds9
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Soulless minions of orthodoxy. #ds9

agiletortoise, to random
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The Perot Museum’s new T-Rex exhibit is top notch, and packed with interesting info…but really needed a design editor. Two fonts throughout, with seemingly random decisions about which was for the headings and which body text, and whether heading were underlined…and, Lordy, why do I have to notice stuff like this!

bigzaphod,
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@agiletortoise what mystifies me more is why so many other people apparently don't notice this kind of stuff.

bigzaphod, to Ds9
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Not sure why they suddenly have a holographic communicator in this episode of #ds9.

bigzaphod, to random
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The rest of today is a holiday.

bigzaphod, to random
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Honestly, kinda can't believe it. Not convinced he'll get much in the way it sentencing.. and it's going to be agonizing waiting that long to find out... but damn it still feels right.

bigzaphod, to random
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My wife just discovered entirely by accident that there's a new government thing businesses have to register with: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/us-beneficial-ownership-information-registry-now-accepting-reports

Seems to apply even to tiny businesses that make no money selling books such as https://www.skaeth.com. 😛

Looks like if you have a corp or LLC you're going to have to register for it before the end of the year and there's fines or something if you don't?

Kind of ridiculous she only discovered it by accident. Shouldn't they have at least mailed something?

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@Eggfreckles you'd think so... but apparently that's not good enough by itself anymore for.... reasons?

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@dxzdb @Eggfreckles it took my wife about 10 minutes to file on the official website. For free.

bigzaphod,
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@dxzdb @Eggfreckles yeah I don’t know. That’s my question too. We only found out by accident.

gedeonm, to random
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Well, I finally had enough with MLB‘s blackout restrictions. Signed up for a VPN so I can watch all the blacked out games including them playing the Orioles right now which I can never watch. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it working on the Apple TV.

bigzaphod,
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@gedeonm play ball!

bigzaphod, to random
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Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Raising Arizona (1987)." This is another one none of us has seen for some reason. I guess it's time to remedy that!

bigzaphod,
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Raising Arizona was amazing. It's like a manifestation of a feeling. It's a whole mood. I'm not sure how to mentally classify it, tbh. I think "a Coen brothers movie" is about the best I can do. They really have a gift of inducing déjà vu for experiences I've never had.

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I love how in every Coen movie I've seen, the characters are seemingly dumb simpletons for the most part, but they all have a more varied and interesting vocabulary than I do. They're also all very deeply aware of their motivations in a way that I find almost envious. Everything the characters do makes perfect sense while being simultaneously absurd.

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@gedeonm exactly. Who talks like that? And yet... it sounds perfectly reasonable and poetic!

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When I started CS in college (~1998) the first classes were C++. Of course I already knew some Pascal, C, VisualBasic, C++, Perl, JavaScript, etc. so I was way ahead. I didn't need to learn any of the "how to think in code" stuff so the classes were pretty boring.

Back then, I programmed by typing a few lines, hitting build to make sure it was syntactically good, typing some more, hitting build, etc. This was before IDEs did that for you (at least none I had used) by showing errors as you type.

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This combined with already thinking in code meant I was really fast at finishing the tasks in the computer lab. The prof would come around and by the time she got to me I'd often be done.

Eventually she started taking a close interest and watching how I worked.

And I remember one time she says something like, "I see you're building all the time. The skill you're supposed to be developing is how to write the code correct the first time."

bigzaphod, to random
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Tried 3D printing a simple box-thing for a project yesterday. A 5 hour job. Box-like structures always take forever to print.

It didn't fit quite right.

Dammit!

Slight redesign, printed it again over night.

It still didn't fit quite right.

ARGH!

(I am not an engineer.)

gedeonm, to random
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I could really use a new Kingdom Rush game right about now.

bigzaphod,
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@gedeonm @agiletortoise already preordered. 😁

bigzaphod,
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@gedeonm @agiletortoise I forgot! I get their emails for some reason and saw it announced a bit ago.

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Happy Towel Day to all those who hitchhike across the galaxy!

bigzaphod,
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@jamesthomson don't panic.

bigzaphod, to random
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Sometimes I do things in front of my cat or dog and imagine how I must look like a magician or god or something. "OMG you made water appear out of a tube on the counter?!"

And then I come across some makers on YouTube that make me feel the same way. "OMG you made an entire robot out of a box of wires and a python script?!"

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Public service announcement

I am not paid for this or have any interest in this company

We give our kids debit cards using tillfinancial.com - we give their allowance there, and they get debit cards and Apple Pay integration

Zero fees, or hidden shenanigans.

Love it.

bigzaphod,
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@Migueldeicaza I decided to submit a support question to ask Till what exactly their business model is, and surprisingly they replied already!

(/cc @senj @viniciussalvati)

bigzaphod, to random
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So my sewer pipe (which has been an endless source of fun, let me tell you), runs through the power company's land and whoever cut their grass the other day was clearly daydreaming and mowed right over the pipe AND the bright orange fiberglass stick that was marking its location.

bigzaphod,
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@dxzdb @GeekAndDad my clean outs are 100ft apart (as was required by the code, I guess) and they also installed a metal wire along the length of the pipe which I gather is useful to find the pipe later with a detector. Not sure if the metal wire thing is code here or just a convention, though.

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