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Post by mgtarheel on Apr 29, 2024 21:34:39 GMT -5
Douglas Preston "Extinction"
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 29, 2024 22:14:54 GMT -5
Douglas Preston "Extinction" I just picked up another Child/Preston on Chirp for 2 bucks. Mount Dragon.
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Post by instymp on Apr 30, 2024 17:56:17 GMT -5
Books that are entertaining and brain free..
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 30, 2024 18:00:41 GMT -5
Actually reading a paper book. The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother Echoes, by Sarah Adelman
It was written by the daughter of our murdered friend.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 30, 2024 18:03:08 GMT -5
Books that are entertaining and brain free.. We need to escape reality these days. The paper book is too real. My current nighttime audio book is about dragons.
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Post by instymp on May 1, 2024 7:04:46 GMT -5
Yes Sir. Enough reality, history & culture for now at my age and mental capacity. From here on out fun stuff.
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Post by mgtarheel on May 1, 2024 9:06:25 GMT -5
"Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child
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Post by Ronv69 on May 1, 2024 10:18:12 GMT -5
I hate when authors use words they don't understand,like decimate when they mean destroy.
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Post by toshtego on May 1, 2024 11:46:44 GMT -5
"Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child Enjoyed that one years back. Might have to read it again.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 1, 2024 12:14:42 GMT -5
"Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child Enjoyed that one years back. Might have to read it again. Yep, that's one of the ones I have read too.
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Post by turbocat on May 2, 2024 15:58:38 GMT -5
Just boning up on a few things.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 2, 2024 17:57:45 GMT -5
Just boning up on a few things. I always wanted to know how to use a lathe. I was offered a couple of good ones for free, and all my nephews know how to use them and offered to teach me. Alas, the timing was never right.
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Post by turbocat on May 2, 2024 18:43:35 GMT -5
Just boning up on a few things. I always wanted to know how to use a lathe. I was offered a couple of good ones for free, and all my nephews know how to use them and offered to teach me. Alas, the timing was never right. I took machinist classes when I was a teenager and was just trying out anything that seemed interesting, it didn’t take, but I have ended up using a jeweler’s lathe (a slightly different concept) in my business occasionally, but until recently I didn’t think too much about them. Now I have some ideas and an Atlas lathe I just finished refurbishing. I realized those classes I took were a long time ago 🙂.
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 18:56:04 GMT -5
I've always tended to think of programmers as the digital economy's machinists. And now, like machinists, programmers are getting replaced by [another generation of] automation.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 2, 2024 21:04:42 GMT -5
I've always tended to think of programmers as the digital economy's machinists. And now, like machinists, programmers are getting replaced by [another generation of] automation. Some machinists can't be automated. Or some programmers. My brother in laws and nephews all made the transition to CNC, but there was always something that had to be set up manually. And a lot of CNC that was off enough to need further machining. Same with programmers. There are programmers that can write code as easy as English and picture in their minds eye the end result. Then there are the "programmers" that buy the cheap little programs for drag and drop programming. The results usually suck with obviously mismatched parts, like calanders that make you scroll through 876 months to enter your birthdate. I had to go through that just last week. No place for direct entry. And he probably got paid for it. The software my old company uses is all hand built and it's a work of art. The programmer is getting $500k plus profit sharing and anything else he wants just to keep him.
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 22:40:49 GMT -5
I've always tended to think of programmers as the digital economy's machinists. And now, like machinists, programmers are getting replaced by [another generation of] automation. Some machinists can't be automated. Or some programmers. My brother in laws and nephews all made the transition to CNC, but there was always something that had to be set up manually. And a lot of CNC that was off enough to need further machining. Same with programmers. There are programmers that can write code as easy as English and picture in their minds eye the end result. Then there are the "programmers" that buy the cheap little programs for drag and drop programming. The results usually suck with obviously mismatched parts, like calanders that make you scroll through 876 months to enter your birthdate. I had to go through that just last week. No place for direct entry. And he probably got paid for it. The software my old company uses is all hand built and it's a work of art. The programmer is getting $500k plus profit sharing and anything else he wants just to keep him. And there's a whole lot of folks in the middle who lost or are losing their jobs. It's not as bad as people feared it would be, but it ain't great.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 3, 2024 0:06:28 GMT -5
Some machinists can't be automated. Or some programmers. My brother in laws and nephews all made the transition to CNC, but there was always something that had to be set up manually. And a lot of CNC that was off enough to need further machining. Same with programmers. There are programmers that can write code as easy as English and picture in their minds eye the end result. Then there are the "programmers" that buy the cheap little programs for drag and drop programming. The results usually suck with obviously mismatched parts, like calanders that make you scroll through 876 months to enter your birthdate. I had to go through that just last week. No place for direct entry. And he probably got paid for it. The software my old company uses is all hand built and it's a work of art. The programmer is getting $500k plus profit sharing and anything else he wants just to keep him. And there's a whole lot of folks in the middle who lost or are losing their jobs. It's not as bad as people feared it would be, but it ain't great. Yeah, a lot of that going around. I hope your job is safe.
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Post by urbino on May 3, 2024 1:29:10 GMT -5
And there's a whole lot of folks in the middle who lost or are losing their jobs. It's not as bad as people feared it would be, but it ain't great. Yeah, a lot of that going around. I hope your job is safe. I'm pretty safe, relatively speaking. My current role requires many years of attentive experience, which AI doesn't have just yet (though it's working on it), and my company doesn't like to fire/cut people.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 3, 2024 11:57:41 GMT -5
Yeah, a lot of that going around. I hope your job is safe. I'm pretty safe, relatively speaking. My current role requires many years of attentive experience, which AI doesn't have just yet (though it's working on it), and my company doesn't like to fire/cut people. 👍 Very few jobs are secure these days. Most of my friends dads went to work for companies right out of the army and most stayed with the same company until they died. I worked for 8 companies in 3 completely different fields.
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Post by mgtarheel on May 3, 2024 18:28:25 GMT -5
"Nothing To Lose" by Lee Child
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 12:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by mgtarheel on May 7, 2024 18:25:08 GMT -5
"Gone Tomorrow" by Lee Child
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Post by Sketch on May 7, 2024 20:04:31 GMT -5
Reading "Marley" by Jon Cinch. Listening to "Chernobyl" by Serhii Plokhy on Chirp.
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Post by urbino on May 7, 2024 20:07:24 GMT -5
Reading "Marley" by Jon Cinch. Listening to "Chernobyl" by Serhii Plokhy on Chirp. I've had that Plokhy book on my list for a while. How is it?
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Post by Ronv69 on May 7, 2024 22:28:41 GMT -5
"Gone Tomorrow" by Lee Child Man, you are knocking those out at record speed!
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Post by mgtarheel on May 8, 2024 8:47:27 GMT -5
"Gone Tomorrow" by Lee Child Man, you are knocking those out at record speed! One every 3 or 4 days most of the time.
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Post by Sketch on May 8, 2024 9:32:22 GMT -5
Reading "Marley" by Jon Cinch. Listening to "Chernobyl" by Serhii Plokhy on Chirp. I've had that Plokhy book on my list for a while. How is it? I'm not very far into it yet, but so far it is very interesting. I like the narrator.
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Post by urbino on May 8, 2024 17:36:32 GMT -5
I've had that Plokhy book on my list for a while. How is it? I'm not very far into it yet, but so far it is very interesting. I like the narrator. Cool. Thanks.
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