The style guide notes that documentation will probably be read by people who speak English as a second language and/or translated into a foreign language. It make sense to simplify the usage of English to make reading and translating easier for non-English speakers. Documentation isn't literature.
I went over to Whole Foods to check out not the prices (which haven't changed that much) but the Amazon Echo/Dot display. I heard a rumor that Amazon took their entire inventory offline to stock Whole Food stores with towering pyramids of Echos and Dots for shoppers to worship Alexa. Not at my local store. They had a small table tucked off to the side of the entrance. I then went over to the Amazon Bookstore and their Echo/Dot display was even smaller. So much for a flagship product.
When I had to change my password for a credit card website, I got prompted for my full Social Security number. When I called up customer service, the rep was disturbed that I had to enter my Social Security number into the website. A supervisor got looped into the call and informed us that, yes, you need to put your in full Social Security number on the website to reset your password. A password reset over the phone require confirmation of my street address and the last four numbers of my Social Security number. Go figure...
In a fit of butt-hurt pique, he renamed his old account, creimer -- history now available at https://slashdot.org/~__aaclcg
Uh, no. Just upholding my end of the deal with Slashdot management to have the "creimer" account deleted. Hence, the placeholder value ("~__aaclcg"). It's been a wild six months playing with my merry band of wanker trolls.
Good book. Sheds a light on the pre-Apple computing scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not just the drug culture, but also nudist culture. When I stayed at my best friend's family ranch in the Morgan Hill mountains for a weekend in 1984, I was told that it used to be a nudist colony. The property was littered with old playground equipment and wooden outhouses from that time.
My brother was in the Guardian Angels in the early 1980's, doing neighborhood patrols in San Jose and finding himself in more trouble with the police than protecting citizens from criminals. He quit after a month or two. The police then and probably today would discouraged people from getting involved beyond calling 911.
I just paid off the lease balance on my iPhone 6s and cancelled the insurance to free up $30 in my budget. Since I have an older five-line plan at Sprint that cost $10 per month for each additional line, I added a new iPad (5th gen) to replace my five-year-old iPad 2. With a promotional service credit, no service activation fee and a AAA discount, the iPad will cost $30 per month. In short, my monthly bill isn't changing for the next two years.
I got an email earlier this week that SparkFun started selling the MicroPython pyboard (no headers or with headers), running an optimized version of Python 3.4. Looks interesting. This one is on my wish list.
Of the two columns I looked forward to in each issue of Byte in the early 1980's, it was Circuit Cellar and Chaos Manor. I met Jerry Pournelle at BayCon 2006. He was on a panel to debate whether or not the Founding Fathers would support data encryption. Pournelle's believe they would even though the U.S. Constitution doesn't mention encryption, as they were using ciphers to write coded messages to avoid having their communications intercepted by the British government. I didn't start reading Pournelle's science fiction until last year.
The paywalled article was quoted in the summary. The alternative source may not have been available at submission and added later by the editor. Sometimes the alternative source is completely different (i.e., a summary about the paywalled article), or identical with sister publications like The Wall Street Journal (paywalled) and Fox News (non-paywalled) sharing content.
One year I pulled my annual credit report to see if there was any unusual activity and discovered that I had a three-year-old delinquent utility bill from a previous residence. I called up the utility company and found out that I owed a princely sum of $3.75. Even though they had my current address on record, I never got the final final bill. They also refused to remove the item from my credit report since their reporting of my account being delinquent was accurate. So I paid the bill off, filed statements with the credit bureaus, and waited for the item to fall off my credit report.
I called to cancel my subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I was rearranging my budget. Not only did I get an $8 per month discount for six months, I also got Amazon Prime for free.
Slashdot Mirror
I heard that Google uses two spaces rather four spaces for Python code.
The style guide notes that documentation will probably be read by people who speak English as a second language and/or translated into a foreign language. It make sense to simplify the usage of English to make reading and translating easier for non-English speakers. Documentation isn't literature.
I went over to Whole Foods to check out not the prices (which haven't changed that much) but the Amazon Echo/Dot display. I heard a rumor that Amazon took their entire inventory offline to stock Whole Food stores with towering pyramids of Echos and Dots for shoppers to worship Alexa. Not at my local store. They had a small table tucked off to the side of the entrance. I then went over to the Amazon Bookstore and their Echo/Dot display was even smaller. So much for a flagship product.
Another brilliant business idea up in smoke!
When I had to change my password for a credit card website, I got prompted for my full Social Security number. When I called up customer service, the rep was disturbed that I had to enter my Social Security number into the website. A supervisor got looped into the call and informed us that, yes, you need to put your in full Social Security number on the website to reset your password. A password reset over the phone require confirmation of my street address and the last four numbers of my Social Security number. Go figure...
What is the nature of this deal with Slashdot management?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, five fake accounts for my real account.
In a fit of butt-hurt pique, he renamed his old account, creimer -- history now available at https://slashdot.org/~__aaclcg
Uh, no. Just upholding my end of the deal with Slashdot management to have the "creimer" account deleted. Hence, the placeholder value ("~__aaclcg"). It's been a wild six months playing with my merry band of wanker trolls.
Who are you? Kary Mullis?
I'm just a noob being followed around by a band of wanker trolls. No wonder Slashdot is failing.
Good book. Sheds a light on the pre-Apple computing scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not just the drug culture, but also nudist culture. When I stayed at my best friend's family ranch in the Morgan Hill mountains for a weekend in 1984, I was told that it used to be a nudist colony. The property was littered with old playground equipment and wooden outhouses from that time.
If you were offline for more than a day, you're going to miss out on whatever was before that.
Although not as convenient as an RSS feed, there is the Slashdot daily email with links to the previous day's stories.
My brother was in the Guardian Angels in the early 1980's, doing neighborhood patrols in San Jose and finding himself in more trouble with the police than protecting citizens from criminals. He quit after a month or two. The police then and probably today would discouraged people from getting involved beyond calling 911.
You're a totally different and completely new person?
creimer got started on Slashdot, posted 25 to 50 comments per day, and got run off by the trolls.
cdreimer came kicking and screaming to Slashdot, post a few comments per day, and too busy to pay attention to trolls.
If you can't tell the difference, you're probably a troll.
Are you new here?
Yes.
This is a tech website, not a personal musings and diary blog.
You mean Slashdot isn't the new Reddit?
I just paid off the lease balance on my iPhone 6s and cancelled the insurance to free up $30 in my budget. Since I have an older five-line plan at Sprint that cost $10 per month for each additional line, I added a new iPad (5th gen) to replace my five-year-old iPad 2. With a promotional service credit, no service activation fee and a AAA discount, the iPad will cost $30 per month. In short, my monthly bill isn't changing for the next two years.
I got an email earlier this week that SparkFun started selling the MicroPython pyboard (no headers or with headers), running an optimized version of Python 3.4. Looks interesting. This one is on my wish list.
Of the two columns I looked forward to in each issue of Byte in the early 1980's, it was Circuit Cellar and Chaos Manor. I met Jerry Pournelle at BayCon 2006. He was on a panel to debate whether or not the Founding Fathers would support data encryption. Pournelle's believe they would even though the U.S. Constitution doesn't mention encryption, as they were using ciphers to write coded messages to avoid having their communications intercepted by the British government. I didn't start reading Pournelle's science fiction until last year.
The same thing happened to me. Those bastards!
This is how your credit report gets fucked up, creimer [...]
Sorry, you're confusing me with someone else.
The paywalled article was quoted in the summary. The alternative source may not have been available at submission and added later by the editor. Sometimes the alternative source is completely different (i.e., a summary about the paywalled article), or identical with sister publications like The Wall Street Journal (paywalled) and Fox News (non-paywalled) sharing content.
Good to see you back on your meds, Chris, hopefully this time it will work for you!
You're confusing me with someone else.
Re-arranging your budget? You mean going broke?
When I added a $10 item to my budget, I had to reduce $10 elsewhere to balance my budget.
One year I pulled my annual credit report to see if there was any unusual activity and discovered that I had a three-year-old delinquent utility bill from a previous residence. I called up the utility company and found out that I owed a princely sum of $3.75. Even though they had my current address on record, I never got the final final bill. They also refused to remove the item from my credit report since their reporting of my account being delinquent was accurate. So I paid the bill off, filed statements with the credit bureaus, and waited for the item to fall off my credit report.
I called to cancel my subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I was rearranging my budget. Not only did I get an $8 per month discount for six months, I also got Amazon Prime for free.
You're confusing me with someone else.
I'm the guy who signed up the "cdreimer" account.
Uh, no.