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easton_son What American Mental Health Care Is Missing

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easton_son U.S. Seeks 5-Year Prison Sentence for Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser

That's called community service. It exists and is commonly used.

easton_son Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis

After getting covid Pepsi Max tastes off.

easton_son Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid

This is the current LucasFilm Games model. No more artists, only managers and sales who have no true vision for their IP.

easton_son How do you visualize code?

As a series of plumbing pipes.

easton_son NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

A kindergartener today will utilize Kepler data 15 years from now in a novel way we are technologically locked out of today. Technology will always breath new life into a dataset.

easton_son NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

We are still analyzing data from 70 years ago.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/old-plates-new-data-mysteri...

easton_son Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied

Linus Tech Tips has a current video showing this kind if patent "non-obvious"-ness was broken long before the "with a computer" age. A mechanical calculator had to split the "divide" button into two buttons because another company had a patent on a "single button division" patent.

https://youtu.be/axtQvkSpoto?t=470

easton_son NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

JWST will not produce products, only data. In the 10-20 years it will operate, it will ingest enough data for tens of thousands of scientists over hundreds of years to analyze.

easton_son NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

10 years of operation, but hundreds of years of data to analyze. We are still analyzing data captured from terrestrial telescopes that haven't operated in decades.

easton_son Why Zulip will stand the test of time

If you cross any bridges watchout for Liam Neeson.

easton_son There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

I've realized that people who are task oriented lean more towards creative. People who are effort oriented tend to want management positions.

My manger complain, "I was so busy I had six hours of meeting"

My fellow dev would say, "I was nose down. I really wanted to get that status message to stop flickering"

My manager would report that there was 15% more story points completed over last sprint

My dev would report that the new grid view is complete and is ready to go to QA.

People who work together often have fundamental different ideas of what success looks like.

easton_son There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

I've made the analogy many times to various managers, "A tracheotomy is a small incision, the difficult part is where to make it."

I leave out that since I built Frankenstein's monster I may be the only one that knows where to do it :)

easton_son There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

/sensible_chuckle

easton_son Mini Gasoline Engine Build – 1000 Hours in 15 Minutes

Maker B crafts their videos as beautiful and well structured as their machines.

easton_son Disney’s Influence on U.S. Copyright Law

My meta theory of the new movies is that Snoke was a representation of Mickey Mouse and First Order was Disney. The movies was an analogy of how Lucasfilm would survive a corporate takeover.

easton_son Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

The WORST is when you play on a a smart speaker. I asked to play "Despicable Me 2" sound track while my kids and I were cleaning the kitchen. Its starts off a song by a song by Ceelo Green that is on on the album, then another song from the album, then goes into the Fuck You song By Mr. Green. WTF spotify.

The Smart Speaker experience is pure Shite. Play the ENTIRE album I requested.

AND let me choose "Explicit" filtering based on what device I am on.

easton_son Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

Placing table tags beside or below parent tags rendered differently.

easton_son A look at the die of the 8086 processor (2020)

Many of the early software innovators names are known. Who was the team behind the 8086? Superficial googling gives all credit to "Intel" never listing any individuals who designed this thing.

easton_son Magic Login Is Dead

Noticed this type of login on a site I use: A one time password send directly to email. Still deciding if I like it or not...

easton_son Javascript RORO pattern

Heck intellij will give you parameter object property names with plain javascript with no JSDoc.

easton_son Intro to cassette recorder operation, maintenance, and repair

I was hoping for a new episode of Community...

easton_son Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

I like frictionless Fi is. Phone breaks? No prob. Grab a cheap Moto phone from the Fi store listing, get it in the mail the next day, and setup in 5 mins. Go over on data? No prob. Pay a prorated price at the exact same rate.

easton_son Google de-indexes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice

Google did not delete the articles. I found them just fine on duckduckgo.com

easton_son It takes a PhD to develop that

I remember a post Msoft Dev wrote about adding a fairly simple feature to a web api. The code itself could be written by a single dev in a day or two, but the logistics needed for testing, documenting, supporting and communicating this involved hundreds of people with thousands of man hours. It also would bind them to maintaining this feature almost indefinitely. Because of that last point alone it took months to years to get a signoff on features.

easton_son Trump asks U.S. judge to force Twitter to restart his account

Its been a marvelous time not having hundreds of news outlets flooding my feeds with his inane tweets.

easton_son Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

Where does a gang end and a militia begin?

easton_son Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

20 weeks of 52 week year? Even my liberal American brain can't seem make that work.

We have uPTO and never had a manager say no. But still only have taken 12 days this year. We are so brain washed here in the US.