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distrowatch is my pusher

all are welcome to follow at their own risk. my computing, economic, political and social views are cynic with a smidge of carmudgen

Another dividend hits the ground on my stock market.

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Found along a Farm to Market road near my home.

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The newest member of our humble, little ranch. He's a full littermate to the previous new member. You can really see the Anatolian in him. With those beautiful blue eyes we've named him Frank. https://mastodon.rocks/media/Rzx_k4Fz2zVJ6osu0Bc

Are you based in #London (or willing to relocate)?

It turns out the company I work for is aggressively #hiring software testers to fill our #QA ranks.

Get in touch for details!

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My spouse is a physical trainer and teaches yoga, spin, weight lifting and cross training classes. She wants to teach pole dancing classes along the lines of this video. They'll be clothes on but given the history of pole dancing, some, especially in very conservative Texas, will not like it. Not sure where I stand on it. I do recognize that one must be tremendously fit to pull this off. What do you think?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=waIuhfoTMv8

My son was cleaning out a closet this evening and found my old tool box that I used to take in the road with me. I had to explain what an EEPROM was/is and how I used to write assembler and copy my programs to them. He was amazed that had to do that and couldn't just transfer the files on the internet or on a think drive.
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Work is freaking demanding today. Worked til 1am this morning, back at at 7am and it doesn't look like it's gonna let up anytime soon.
Thanks for tolerating my rants. Maybe I can sleep now. It's only 3:30am. I should have been in bed 4 or 5 hours ago.
I don't understand how someone can get a CS degree and have no troubleshooting/debugging sense. After all, programmers spend more time debugging than programming. Schools should have courses in debugging, version control and standard commenting practices. I'm very frustrated right now. Ughh!
Any time you make a change to a system, you should have an expected result. IMO, if you don't know what the expected result should be, you really have no business making the change. In a simple example, if I change the on/off switch from the on state to the off state, my expected result is that the system powers down. If I don't know what the switch does, I have no business flipping it. I cannot seem the get that point across to coworkers. I very frustrated and tired right now.