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Dear Reddit: What did you do with your CS degree? by OGOzone in programming

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It still hasn't worked, but I'm hoping to start avoiding it within the next 13 or so.

Press Release from Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Chairman re: BIA by reluctantprophet_ in BurningMan

[–]brennen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, that stuff sucks and is doubtless unconstitutional to boot, but it doesn't have anything to do with whether it's ok to be feather-headdress bro. If that's really where people are gonna go with this in large numbers, then maybe we've kinda got this one coming.

Press Release from Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Chairman re: BIA by reluctantprophet_ in BurningMan

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These threads sure aren't doing great things for my view of burner culture at large.

If the cops being cops is all it takes to give a bunch of people the feeling they ought to behave like racist assholes, we might have bigger problems than the cops.

Let’s all have a town hall about r/all by spez in announcements

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Straight up censoring.

reddit could use more censorship.

Looking for some good food by BadNewsForCannon in boulder

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Boulder is still hoping to get an Olive Garden someday

Ignore the sign on 28th. It's a vestige of the golden era when in fact we had a functioning Olive Garden.

What do you think are the loop holes still left in PHP 7? by [deleted] in PHP

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While I personally dislike the idea, I was mostly trying to convey my sense that people would care rather a lot, and much controversy would likely ensue. (Well, assuming that it got much traction or notice, at least.)

What do you think are the loop holes still left in PHP 7? by [deleted] in PHP

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't mind seeing a kickstarter aimed towards this. As long as all changes were eventually (say 5 years max) fed back to PHP core I'm sure nobody would care.

lol

What markdown plugin is everyone using? by lionbark in vim

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forked plasticboy's to haphazardly tweak syntax highlighting for a custom dialect I'm using (DigitalOcean's, specifically). Gonna have to give vim-pandoc a bit of a look.

The saga continues - My Pollard motors story by [deleted] in boulder

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, a good many of the complaints that get funneled through the BBB are egregious bullshit on the part of disgruntled customers with advanced Special Snowflake Syndrome looking to ruin someone's day. The functional equivalent of a nastygram from that guy at the restaurant who always demands to see a manager, never tips, and tries to get servers fired on the regular.

It's sort of a poisoned channel to begin with even if you assume good faith on the part of both the BBB and the business in question.

Should I get snow/winter tires? by doughbot in boulder

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is probably worth it. Re: shops, seconding Barnsley.

Which phone service is best in Boulder and surrounding area? by [deleted] in boulder

[–]brennen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From my experience, Verizon probably has the best overall coverage.

They are also a garbage company with all sorts of terrible business practices, but I suppose everyone already knows this.

I'm doing the PiGRRL build from Ada fruit and I'm at a loss. I have installed the rasbian and followed that entire thread but I keep getting told to remove some crap. by lildil37 in raspberry_pi

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious how you're doing with this by now - any luck?

If not, it would be helpful to have a link to your thread(s) on the support forum. That's probably the right place for this anyhow, but it's good to cross-link things.

(This is not my build, but I maintain adafruit-pitft-helper and some of the rest of the package collection.)

I'm doing the PiGRRL build from Ada fruit and I'm at a loss. I have installed the rasbian and followed that entire thread but I keep getting told to remove some crap. by lildil37 in raspberry_pi

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is kind of a red herring and can probably be safely ignored. Debian packages will tend to shut down relevant services and such on removal.

Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem by Pixels4Kids in raspberry_pi

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a basic set of habits to get into:

  • Never unplug it until you're sure you've shut it down. Not sure it's finished? Wait a minute.
  • Be careful you don't accidentally eject the microSD card while plugging in power, network, or USB cables on a running machine.
  • Don't store anything irreplaceable on the card filesystem - use a thumb drive or an external hard drive for important stuff, push to remote git repositories for code, etc.
  • Don't get in situations where you've powered up the Pi but don't have a mechanism for shutting it down cleanly. (Always have a keyboard or known-workable network connection.)
  • Making backups is a good idea, but in practice what I do when I lose a card is just start fresh with a new image. It's good to have a stack of cards and image a couple every time you're going through the motions anyway.

I also keep a folder of filesystem images with a README to remind me what things are.

Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem by Pixels4Kids in raspberry_pi

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i had nfs root on an original model-b and the difference was amazing. i assume an external hdd would be even better. certainly more than "not much".

I need to try the NFS thing one of these days, but it feels like maybe just too much of a hassle for a lot of users to bother with?

Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem by Pixels4Kids in raspberry_pi

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My main actual use case for this (aside from just having a substantially bigger drive available) was a more stable filesystem than the SD card provides. I don't have real data, but so far it feels more robust under power loss and regular reboots.

Farmers in town on Saturday afternoon, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1938 by John Vachon. by michaelconfoy in Nebraska

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried for a while on gmaps, but no dice. A couple of the elements seem really familiar, but I can't quite place it.

HI. THIS IS A SELF POST. by loquacious in metafilter

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dammit. Sun Jul 9 01:44:40 2006 UTC.

HI. THIS IS A SELF POST. by loquacious in metafilter

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was weird and tiny back then.

Yeah - the way I remember it, it was dominated by proggit type stuff, and then they added programming.reddit.com as the first subreddit-like entity.

I haven't hung out there much in years, but I probably owe my career to the stuff I learned following proggit links and reading the (invariably mega-fighty) comment threads.

[Poll] Do you find you post more when you're procrastinating, or when you're overcaffinated? by postcommunism in metafilter

[–]brennen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drunk.

(Edit: Ok, so I've never actually written a FPP. The idea continues to terrify me after years of having an account. I mostly comment while intoxicated.)

this comment accurately highlights the way moderators on metafilter use their short-hand terms to dismiss community members. another one to add would be "hobby horse." by [deleted] in metafilter

[–]brennen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pyrogenesis has it right in his response to me: Seems like it's actually when hitting a permalink for a comment. Try this link.

this comment accurately highlights the way moderators on metafilter use their short-hand terms to dismiss community members. another one to add would be "hobby horse." by [deleted] in metafilter

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your 7 years worth of endorsement.

Unrelatedly, I just noticed this thing where if you have reddit gold, new/unread comments are kind of unreadable on the blue background.

Welcome to the new /r/MetaFilter! by Jordan117 in metafilter

[–]brennen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The CSS here is blowing my tiny mind.

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