voluntary difficulty
I have been dealing with stage four colorectal cancer for about eighteen months now. I have held full-time jobs during that entire time and I did not take fmla, choosing instead to burn my pto on surg
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the old graybeard
my first professional gig was in the late 1900s (as the youts would say) working in a government lab with a wide range of hardware and Operating Systems. mostly Solaris and HP-UX, some IRIX for graphi
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have you ever
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in the beginning
are those original UNIX manuals? dr stewart, or billy as he preferred to be called, was a fixture at the university long before i started working there. for those that aren’t familiar with them, UNIX
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gascity and kubernetes?
I was introduced to gastown earlier this year via someone sending me a post on medium. yegge is an engaging writer/persona and like many people I was interested in the idea. but not in a "work on it"
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the consistent gaslighting from ai
like most people in the industry I would say I've been thinking a lot about ai lately. I'll sheepishly admit that for a while I was definitively on the hater train. no matter what model you used it ju
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i’m begging you to stop doing grep | awk
i get it, pet peeves are inherently irrational. i would even go so far as to say that’s why we have that phrase for the concept, to illustrate to everyone involved that the thing we are about to rant
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freebsd 15 on a dell latitude e6410
I recently decided to install FreeBSD on a laptop that is now itself a late teenager, a dell latitude e6410 (specs). I am indeed a masochist. this was one of my father's old work computers that I redi
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end to end testing with Task and kind
intro it's one of those things you find yourself doing reasonably frequently, building some custom container and helm chart and foisting it out onto your production systems to fit some need. maybe you
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