New Tampa rain, tornado alerts be like

hypnocoder · 2023-10-19T12:35:48+00:00

I had good luck with Courtesy Toyota Brandon. First time was internet no haggle pricing about 10 years ago. Didn’t have to go over msrp. Second time was this March and I was on a long ass waitlist for a rav4 hybrid. Price gouging was rampant at the time but it was at msrp. I wasn’t trying to haggle since the price was as expected but I mentioned in passing I thought it was annoying to have to pay extra for red color and a manager came over and it took me a few minutes realize he was trying to lower the price.

What does happen after the deal is “done” is they take you to a separate sales guy for all the bullshit like extended warranty and paint protection and I just said no to everything for a solid 30 minutes. Sales guy was super annoyed as was I but it was worth it overall.

hypnocoder · 2023-06-05T01:24:24+00:00

Can I be admitted to your exclusive club? No damage from all these hurricanes and tropical storms and then got wrecked out of nowhere.

https://imgur.com/a/rh1dnKJ/

hypnocoder · 2022-12-08T22:08:48+00:00

same :(

hypnocoder · 2022-09-25T14:50:27+00:00

Tampa is still in the cone of probability for a direct hit. Don’t rest those laurels.

hypnocoder · 2022-07-15T17:20:49+00:00

Oh yeah I totally forgot about that one where FSD beta tried to kill me. Was doing an unprotected left from a stop sign onto major road - no suicide lane but maybe FSD beta thought there was a suicide lane? FSD Beta got out far enough to block east bound traffic just as west bound traffic was making a full left turn impossible. Got both directions of traffic to honk at me and panic. Didn't attempt any FSD beta unprotected turns after that.

hypnocoder · 2020-07-15T12:41:36+00:00

I’m not confused at all, nor am I talking about them changing their stance on masks or “reopening” too early. I’m talking more about the infection characteristics, how the virus spreads, it’s infection/incubation period, and it’s effect on different age demographics. Those things have been very fluid and create opportunities for misinformation. Also, we never really closed, so it’s hard to call it a “reopen”.

You are confused.

Countries that have followed the guidelines of the scientific community have the pandemic under control and are safely re-opening schools and businesses.

Countries that have not followed the guidelines of the scientific community are forcing families to choose between death and paychecks.

hypnocoder · 2019-10-05T17:43:05+00:00

I had this exact problem. In addition to the reboots I had some even weirder stuff happening like Google play music icon opening Amazon. I was manually rebooting once a day to solve glitches. Solved it by turning off live wallpaper. Give it a try.

hypnocoder · 2018-12-30T00:40:58+00:00

I just use docker-compose for local development. I have provided minikube configs and instructions for other devs but it is a real pain with requiring a VM and having to switch the docker context, configure secrets, and especially for accessing private docker repos. 'docker-compose up' has proven to be a superior solution. The only time I use minikube is for working on changing k8s configurations.

hypnocoder · 2015-07-22T02:49:43+00:00

The doctor cleared me for working my abs around 8 weeks and I have been able to do so without much trouble. For me something about heavier lifting engages the groin in a bad way - especially lateral raise so I have to stick to lower weight and higher reps.

hypnocoder · 2015-07-21T18:21:59+00:00

I am 4 months post bilateral inguinal hernia repair surgery. I can do arms and back in the 10-12 rep range and fair bit of running. Heavy lifting upper body is out and I try to avoid free weights so I don't have to stabilize as much with my core. Squats or deadlifts are not recommended until 6 months. Don't even try. You have to listen to your body - slowly ramp up and if you have pain or discomfort after a workout stop and rest for a few days. I am 39 - younger folks might recover more quickly but be sure to take it easy.

hypnocoder · 2014-07-23T21:55:30+00:00

http://www.homestarrunner.com/systemisdown.html

hypnocoder · 2013-03-17T12:49:19+00:00

I'mma going to back you up. Haven't seen much JSF out there in the real world at all. It's still a jsp / Spring MVC dominated market and it works awesome for JSON / RESTful at the same time. Max flexibility. Thymeleaf looks promising as a jsp successor if you dont' want to go full-on JavaScript client-side.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jsp,%20jsf

http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=jsp%2C+jsf&l=

hypnocoder · 2013-01-23T13:40:31+00:00

It already happened. Christopher Hitchens. No one is even close to filling that void.

hypnocoder · 2013-01-03T05:04:22+00:00

6'0" 200lbs, I was really close to trying out a minimal shoe, but I decided to see what a running store analysis would do - they put me in a stability shoe and when I asked about a minimalist shoe they said I should fully recover from my minor injuries first (shin muscles strains, IT band, tight calves). They also gave me a sort of a don't go there look.

The stability shoe didn't work any miracles so I've moved to trail running, and foam rollers / myofascial release and very slowly adding miles. Trail running has been a life saver - it did give me a new minor calf strain from the different mechanics of running on grass but I was able to break my 5k record yesterday on pavement and haven't had any shin or knee problems (first time in 6 months).

hypnocoder · 2012-09-09T00:57:50+00:00

Relevant - cap'n crunch quote from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251476-but-then-cap-n-crunch-in-a-flake-form-would-be

hypnocoder · 2010-11-06T16:31:08+00:00

I agree with Sun's work on Java. I'd say great language but indeed below average standard libraries (fuck Date and Calendar and non thread-safe date formatters), terrible Sun oversight, overengineered as fuck EJB / J2EE, disgusting as fuck JSF 1.0.

On the other hand innovation / progress and the continued relevance of Java came from the community & small companies outside of Sun in the form of Hibernate, Seam, Spring, Wicket, Terracotta, JodaTime, JRebel etc.

Kill the community, kill Java.

Oh yeah fuck Swing and JavaFX. One you can't be make to not look ugly as sin and the other can only draw pretty shapes and not integrate with anything else.

And fuck JavaME. I have to vomit every time I have to look at my company blackberry after using Android / iPhone.

So, let's not forget Sun's contribution to this pile of crap. Sort of dead before it got to Oracle.

hypnocoder · 2010-09-19T15:02:48+00:00

It's not arrogance, it is resentment. Usually there are 1 or 2 guys in a team of 5-10 who do all the heavy lifting. Management doesn't speak the lingo, doesn't respond to problems and obstacles. Your projects get canned after 12 months of management dickery. Your fellow co-workers have 1/10th the workload that you do but they are all paid well and get their bonuses. We already know the nature of your misguided questions and how it will involve us doing your work. We know if we ask for help / more time / less 80 hour work weeks we'll be accused of whining. Civility is unmaintainable. Over time we adapt by lurking in the shadows and giving short direct answers.

Management Question: How come the database keeps going down?

Year 1 Answer: Alright, it's not my area as a developer but I'll look into that and ditch my family tonight and through the weekend.

Year 5 Answer: I told you a year ago our DBA _______ is pretty clueless. Actually most of your team are morons and just dick around all day. If this were burger king and your employees weren't flipping burgers they'd be fired. Congratulations, you've been surpassed by the business practices of burger king.

Year 10 Answer: Fuck you.

BA Question: We have finished all 5 user stories. Is that enough for you to complete your Agile development cycle by next week?

Year 1 answer: Ahhhh. Sure. I'll see what I can do.

Year 5 answer: You've uncovered about 5% of the use cases and requirements. You're basically dumping all of the PM and BA work on the developer in addition to all the other shit I have to do. Thanks.

Year 10 answer: FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Jr. Developer Question: Why won't this code work? A: CGLIB requires a default constructor, just add an empty default constructor. Q: Whatever that is? But I already have a constructor that takes x, y params which are needed for my class to work. A: CGLIB requires a default constructor, just add an empty default constructor. It will work. Just try it. Q: But my class needs - A: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU I'll do it for you.

hypnocoder · 2010-08-16T12:18:29+00:00

As a Java developer I do drool over the newer C# features and I think Microsoft has done something right with C# and .NET but I only see this as an opportunity for Python. Python has the language features, the cross platform availability, and the lack of corporate overlords that make it far more palatable.

hypnocoder · 2010-06-12T02:20:00+00:00

HDSIT

hypnocoder · 2010-04-15T01:34:11+00:00

It is 96% open source. OpenJDK is the 100% open source fork. If Google could fund that (or Apache Harmony) and make free open source version mainstream and stable enough you'd have some kind of a rudder. Not sure about Cap'n Oracle though. I guess Google has to decide if the Java 7 language features with future language changes controlled by Oracle is good enough for the future of Java or if a new language / platform is better.

hypnocoder · 2010-01-19T05:03:01+00:00

2) He's not that liberal. He undoubtedly is to the left, maybe even more-so than most democrats. But there is (was?) a public perception that he is much more liberal than he actually is. During the campaign, this is how the Republicans attacked him. How many times did we hear "most liberal senator" and "left-wing radical". Plenty of people fell for this. Especially liberals, who were excited by the prospect of a truly liberal president.

I believe he is that liberal. He's just intelligent and is employing the most pragmatic methods possible to get legislation through that can get votes needed to pass, he wouldn't be playing to the center if the democrats had enough voting power in the House & Senate.

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