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Re:Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:45PM (#41450592)
professional engineer license is required in addition to graduating and other prerequisites to be called "professional engineer" tho, no? school alone is not enough to be designated a "professional engineer", right?
smell test says there would be legal implications for the owner of the platform if they were to feature the automation of the circumvention of something about copyrights or what's the word I'm looking for?
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:06AM (#41366212)
Richard G was HEAVY into time bandits (1981) and Ultima 2 (1982) on were heavily influenced and easter eggs for the movie are spread all over. The airplane in New San Antonio for example...
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Monday August 26, 2024 @05:09AM (#41355291)
I worked with db2 people back in 98 and they talked about shards. They worked down in some cave in the basement that smelled like folgers coffee, feet, and camel filter bbq sauce. I would offer them a roll of TP each and every time they said the word. Their office chairs had seat-cushions that looked like they were pulled out of a dumpster fire, worn out and melty looking. With all the red meat, nicotine, and caffeine, Im assuming someone sharded there at least once. Maybe that is what got those seat cushions all worn out.
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Monday August 26, 2024 @05:04AM (#41355264)
sometimes I dream I am in the game, and its pretty awesome to taste the food and smell the air
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:57AM (#41355236)
since Ultima deals with time travel, I accept your "history altering" claim. Long live Lord British! (RG has been to the deepest sea and the space station, so who can say he doesnt also have a time machine. He is a real adventurer who made Ultima- one of the best adventure rpg lines ever)
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:04AM (#41354977)
as you approach "infinity", only custom approaches will be useful, due to the custom optimization required to meet all requirements for your specific situation. if we talk more about generality and not relativity , well thats a different question with a different answer
Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:49AM (#41354896)
I signed up for beta testing of UO and beta of roadrunner cable modem and I still have the Beta cd and cable modem. I bet you can narrow down what city I was in from that but oh well. I might still even have that old acer pentium 75 in the attic that was delivered damaged to my employer and was comped by ups insurance and taken to my personal dumpster and fixed by yours truly. my first very own computer. I learned to program on that thing and got a bank job just a few months later. gradually this has taken me around the world in 8 different countries for long on-site implementations. I even have dual citizenship now and live by the sea in a nice hot place. I was 19 years old when it kicked off. I blame the video games for all this. Btw did you know Time Bandits movie was a heavy influence on Ultima? And is Marvel's multiverse concept inspired by Ultima sharding also? I would bet a dollar. Well everytime I think about portability and scalability problems I am sure UO is back there somewhere influencing my work.
Re:Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:38AM (#41159514)
Its a lifestyle that glorifies plastic and results in the mass production of it. Its marketed so well that many just refuse to see it. Its like the tobacco of plastics. One brick can last 1300 years. Do you REALLY need your toys to last 1300 years?

True creativity can use a responsible sustainable medium.

Take a look at this mess:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-66187273.amp

Re:Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:52AM (#41159002)
I appreciate creativity but boycott anything at all related to a medium which is mass-marketed mass-produced plastic
in this case a satellite enabled candybar. the disaster recovery policy and budget should be applicable here. make sure its able to share xg and satellite tunnel for maximum value. ensure the reporting system is satellite enabled also. added points if its sending alerts 2 your handy byod. Disaster recovery is a big deal in 2024. All sorts of factors make satellite redundancy valuable in todays reality: Coworkers on a hike or a boat, random 0-day stuff, and war can cut your normal internet.. i have experienced all of these and only in the last 4 years and more than 1 time on each topic. Train your users to destroy it in case of war as its trackable by military tech. Put a sticker on it. Check out stackexchange for questions like this tho?
This is how Bell dies in "Old Yeller"
Re:Panic at the Job Market on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:08AM (#40993188)
some companies do know how to hire and how to train. its rare- not zero.
Re:How to Mail an SD Card with Gummy Glue on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:58PM (#40971824)
its sometimes called booger glue or snot glue. Apple uses cut flaps to hold their sim tools without the need for chemical glue. same concept will work fine here. I buy all my sd cards directly from a manufacturers site, only from the manufacturer, such as samsung or westerndigital dot com, avoiding any affiliate or 3rd party vendors that can sneak onto sites like which do on the apple store. 0 fake cards this way
Re:How to Mail an SD Card with Gummy Glue on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:52PM (#40971791)
You can do it without tape if the correct sized corner or edge flaps are cut into the card stock. Think "apple sim tool unboxing card stock flaps". could cut some cool design also or note that professional vinyl cutting shops have expanded so they can print and cut same time on cardstock to make a cool card- super cheap and likely with near-on-demand turnaround
Re:For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (2016) on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:56PM (#40957513)
Relatively true in that they all became relatives.

"One guy I know got the title for filing a patent that hasn't even been commercially used"

Make him sing the song for you. Also, who do you think would win in a cage-match? The Colonel or Ray Croc?

Re:For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (2016) on Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:55PM (#40957188)
the other details are also relatively true. The Colonels employees were armed and yelled at Stewart. Stewart was killed by a cop and rumors say he was paid to inflict retribution. Sanders married Claudia, who was Stewarts-daughter's-husband's-sister (Ona May Stewart married one of Claudia's brothers) and Sanders later co-owned a business with Stewarts daughter , Ona May. Straight shooter quote is true. KFC was born in the gas station near where it all shot off. Many do not know- To become a Kentucky Colonel, the Governor of Kentucky needs to sign off on it. They have a handshake and a song.
Re:For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (2016) on Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:25PM (#40957014)
ahh my bad, all these years I was wrong- I see now that The Colonel rode up with two of his armed employees and got one of them killed and his competitor (Stewart) jailed who died by gunshot about 2 years later. Some say the cop that shot him was payed off with white buckets full of cash. Soon after the Colonel's gas station started selling white buckets full of addictive fried chicken infused with herb and spice and the Colonel married Stewart's daughter-in-law. Later, Stewarts daughter became the Colonel's right hand, and managed a big operation for him. She is quoted as calling the Colonel "a straight shooter". One big happy family style story. Someone should make a movie
Re:For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (2016) on Saturday July 13, 2024 @12:16PM (#40954896)
Sanders shot and killed a man over a turf war and beat up one of his legal clients. Should have called it Gangster Chicken. The original recipe bucket in Spain and Copenhagen is still alright but its nasty in Germany. Popeyes sandwiches are much better in Spain than kfc's imho.

"As Sanders tells it, "One man was killed, and in self-defense, I shot a man who killed the other fellow." He calls this a "shootin' scrape" and explains that since relatives of the affected were still alive, he preferred not to talk too much about it.

Read More: https://www.thetakeout.com/1613490/shady-things-colonel-sand..."

Re:Spot the Drowning Child on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:05AM (#40925041)
send a drone that can also be used as a flotation device or use a pneumatic cannon to send a flotation device
looks nice and would take some custom vinyl side-art and marquee nicely.. some states tax these things or have other oddball laws for them when put in certain public places
the outcome was that tobacco kills, and the surgeon general lee agrees
about 50% of the population wont believe its on the moon
ms personal computing revenue was 13.9 billion usd in 2023
wait wait wait- Are they going to do a recall on Recall? What a crappy name for anything sold in the history of all the things
Microsoft Surface
Re:Quake in 13kb (2021) on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:09AM (#40559807)
open your mouse and flip the y-axis sensors like a marine
Re:Parable of the Sofa on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:25AM (#40552701)
you can also have the leather refinished instead of replacing it. they fill the cracks etc and touch up the "paint". I like this look more but ymmv depending what is available near you

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