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JohnJBurnsIII

@JohnJBurnsIII@kzoo.to

Visual Basic & SQL Server

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Former PT instructor: Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

EN2, CCDG2, CV-66, LCC 20

Be quality outlier for good! Abhor stereotypes.

Abled: for now.
Woke - a long time ago. The word is not the negative a small % of world believes it to be.

Location: 1123 6536 5321

If my postings have issues with grammar, or misspellings - and I recognize that... I will edit. If I miss it: ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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Nature's killing machine...

One of the outside cats watching Luna play ball.

Edent, to FIRE
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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œAn adult gap year?โ€

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be [โ€ฆ]

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/an-adult-gap-year/
โธป

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@Edent

Learning / education opportunities.

It's all how you phrase it.

Don't let someone "fill-in the blank" with their own thoughts.

Hiking, biking, walking, travel -- all have learning opportunities.

Only issue might be outcome as formal documentation. Is that important. Does it directly fit your future employment goals.

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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Contrasting articles

CDC reduces Covid-19 isolation period amid lower virus threat

U.S. going through first increase
In Covid since end of national emergency

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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Adjust your expectations

Adjust your wants

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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If I ever saw/met a Yeti (aka Bigfoot, abominable snowman)...

You can be sure I would never tell anyone!

Why? Because humans are bad, when it comes to this type of interaction.

Too many would want to kill it ("fear")

Too many would want to kill & study it ("science")

The only safe thing to do - is to leave it alone!

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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What do you think of when you hear:

WiiiiiLLLLLsonnnn

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@zakatak

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Davidistooting, to animals French
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Pour , il est fier de me montrer quโ€™il nโ€™a pas de vers.

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@Davidistooting

Hey... how'd our Missy get over to you?

We rescued Missy about 8-9 years ago. She looks just like yours... down to the light shade color coat on chest, etc.

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JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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???
There's usually a pre-cursor leading to main event. Decade prior to WWI and WWII... there was ramp up.

Are we on a similar path?
Future historians will document it. We get to live it. Is this what it was like in 1910-1914? Or 1930's?

๐Ÿค”

World War War III May Already Have Startedโ€”in the Shadows https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-war-war-iii-may-110038870.html

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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Someone associates "top of the world" with the Arctic.

More continent land is in northern hemisphere.

Mass generally sinks to the bottom.

Hence... Antarctica is the Top of the World.


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unclepj, to random
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I decided to make my pancakes more metal by asking Auntie PJ to pass the tree blood.

Auntie PJ: Stop calling the maple syrup that. I canโ€™t believe I married youโ€ฆ

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@unclepj

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danlyke, to random
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I'm so old, I remember when web developers tried to get a page's initial load size under 40k so that readers would see content in less than 30 seconds...

Now "Waiting for www.google-analytics.com..." is up long enough for me to look around a bit, get bored, grab a screenshot, and post snark. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-05-18WaitingForGoogleAnalytics.png

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@danlyke

I had a student doing a system for his work that was delivering a 5mb grid of data, so his boss could check in from home.

His boss connected via modem. ๐Ÿคฏ

He asked me why the page was locking up. ๐Ÿคฏ

I told him it wasn't locking up.

Described the concept of paging the data.

All was well.
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JohnJBurnsIII,
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@danlyke

That 30 second rule changed to 20... then 10 seconds, as bandwidth increased.

Now basic web pages are massive.

Times they be a'changing.

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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The movie: The Conversation... 1974 (50 years ago)

...Doesn't seem so far fetch now... eh?

https://archive.is/2024.05.14-152237/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/05/14/police-car-surveillance-tech-uncovers-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books/?sh=4a3126437861

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If I were a doordash driver, I would bring little snacks for all of the customerโ€™s neighbors so they don't feel left out.

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@StefanThinks

Given the state of society... I'm not sure I would do that. Folks are getting gunned down because they were using a driveway to turn around. ๐Ÿค” โ˜น๏ธ

nora, to random
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are there any good books about the theory of garden design across cultures

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@nora

Rule of odds

1, 3, 5

Don't plant evens
Don't use even number of stones
Don't use even number of fence posts

Odds will look natural.

Look at a lot of pictures.

Less straight lines. Lots of curves. Not flat. Mounds are good. Pathways have corners that reveal something new.

Short bits.

JohnJBurnsIII, to random
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One machine still at Windows 10...

Wake up this morning to it showing something called: EdgeBar - on the desktop right-side.

What a waste! Waste my screen space. Waste my time to get rid of it - because no permanently get rid of it button/setting. NOTE: sidebar is "off" in Edge.

FYI - a few choice words were uttered loudly. I will save your ears.

Here is "removal" option if you want to keep using Windows...

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/203446-enable-disable-microsoft-edge-desktop-search-bar-windows-10-a.html

Meyerweb, to random
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Harrison Butker: โ€œthe highest calling for a woman is to get married and raise childrenโ€

Benedictine nuns: โ€œare we a JOKE to you, Harrison?โ€

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@Meyerweb

Uh Oh... he went and pissed off the Nun's. ๐Ÿ˜‰

mjibrower, to random
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'The power-user way to use Google Search web now takes a lot of clicks. You'd want to click on "more" and then "Web" for actual web results, and then to get Google to actually pay attention to the words you type in, you'd want to click "Tools" and change "all results" to "verbatim." Alternatively, you could also find a more web-focused search engine instead of Google.'

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@mjibrower @thezenlady

Does it remember those settings between browser open/close sessions?

Multiple clicks before the search each time I open the browser - may become habit.... but it feels excessive on first look.

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JohnJBurnsIII,
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@mjibrower

"gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result."

This point to me - would mean it should never have come out of the lab.

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@mjibrower

So learning to search is all that needs to be learned... versus learning to research and formulate a response from the available content.

  • this is why I never used the "canned" test questions from textbooks... I always figured those were an easy find on the web...
DaveMasonDotMe, to random
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Well, at least I never posted anything on Reddit.

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@DaveMasonDotMe

Me 2.
And Stack Overflow/Exchanges...

Guessing next steps are to go dark. ๐Ÿคฌ

cwgrody, to random
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Do they also get the unlimited shrimp?
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/112453466342493534

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@cwgrody
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thezenlady, to random
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Well this is one way to "thin the herd"

As well as allow the virus to mutate & become more viral in humans.

https://gizmodo.com/raw-milk-sales-up-bird-flu-h5n1-tiktok-usda-cdc-fda-1851476916

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@oldguy52 @thezenlady

In the realm of: once you see it, you can't unsee it...

Cat climbing over the fence...

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I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.

JohnJBurnsIII,
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@WearsHats

Thank you.

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