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Generally curious, but how do you (and everyone else) know when the game drops to a certain framerate, and how do you know exactly what framerate it's running at? Are you actually measuring it somehow, or do you just "feel" it?

Most definitely. The interview-style podcast I listen to the most is Odd Lots [1]. I'll listen to any Odd Lots episode regardless of the guest because of the personalities of Tracy and Joe. I also listen to re-runs of Car Talk [2] (which, I guess maybe isn't a podcast?) because of the hosts.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots

2. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk

Auto-generated masked emails using Fastmail and 1Password has worked very well for me when I'm using Firefox, with the 1Password extension installed, on my laptop.

I can't for the life of me, however, figure out how to get 1Password to auto-gen a masked email from their iPhone app or desktop app.

Is this possible?

+1 for Paprika

It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list.

I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app.

We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable.

Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment

Neat page from David Fowler. I didn't know about that one. Thank you.

To further explain why you want to use an AsyncLazy (or Lazy for synchronous programming) when working with ConcurrentDictionary I find this article to be helpful: https://andrewlock.net/making-getoradd-on-concurrentdictiona...

Indeed, this guide is very informative and easy to digest. It's practically required reading for anyone taking CS 6200: Introduction to Operating Systems [1] in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science Computer Science program.

Thank you, Beej. Looking forward to reading this again today.

1. https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6200-introduction-operating-syst...

What exactly did you do during that block of time? As someone in a similar situation to you I'd like to begin getting some practice, but I'm not sure where to start. Are there any resources or websites that stood out as being particularly helpful?

Invoke Web Request is another good one, considering iwr is just an alias for the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest.

My dad worked for a division of Motorola that was bought by Google and it sure felt like, during that time, if you were working for Motorola you could be laid off at a moment's notice.

Google stock was eventually included in his compensation package, though. I can imagine that eased some of the worry.

So, I graduated college this past June and have since started working as a software engineer for a large financial institution. For now, I've been placed on a team of developers where the majority of work is done on mainframes and where most software is written in COBOL.

Today is the last of a 7 week-long "Mainframe Bootcamp" during which I've been introduced to COBOL as well as TSO, JCL, DB2, CICS and MQ. Thus far, I'd say the class has picked up the language fairly quickly, however we've yet to fully grasp the intricacies of development using our company's heavily customized mainframe tools. Generally mundane processes, such as compilation and promotion between environments have been, IMO, rendered tantalizingly complex. It's all really quite tedious and boring. IBM's documentation monopoly hasn't helped, either.

To the point - I question whether COBOL's seemingly polarizing reputation can be somewhat attributed to the environment in which it's usually developed/deployed more-so than the semantic's of the language itself.