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I'm an engineered developer. Seemed like a good place to hide from the rest of society's social engineering.
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I'm a computer engineer, as it says on my B.S. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Engineer is (or was) a protected term in Australia, so I am a software developer because I do not have an engineering degree.
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i am a trained pigeon who can make flow charts, and mumble "design pattern ... " a software architect.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Both, and throw in any other IT related roles that go into running a small software company such as server/hw management, asset management, security, customer support, etc.. 
When someone asks, I just say that I 'do software'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Figuring out when humans began to count systematically, with purpose, is not easy. How we got to 2
Or, "Anna-wun, anna-two" for those old enough.
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I thought those were the names of the band director's daughters.
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How many were there?
two, not more than two[^]
Reference to: Flint, the King[^]
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It's possible the notched bone was to measure, well you know...
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One, two, many, lots!
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Somewhere, long ago (in the b.u. ages, Before URLs) I read that crows can count to 4, 5+ is 'many'.
The way they learned this: This farmer was so much plagued by crows eating his cherries off the trees that he wanted to shoot them. But as soon as he arrived with his shotgun, the crows flew away, but returned once he disappeared.
He had this shed in his cherry orchard, and could shoot the crows from a small window. But the birds saw the man enter the shed, not coming out, so the danger was still there: They did not return to the fruit until the man had left the shed and gone away.
So the farmer got help from his friends: Two guys entered the shed, one left. The crows kept count: There is still one guy left, the danger is not over. Three guys in, two out: Still dangerous. Four in, three out: Same. Five (/many) in, four out: More than four had entered, only four left, so return to the trees is still dangerous.
Not until six (i.e. "many") guys entered the shed and five ("many") left the shed did the crows loose count: Many had entered, many had left, then we are safe! The fruit farmer got within shooting range of the range, and managed to get the crows off his farm.
(I am sorry that I cannot provide even a reference to a printed version of this story; I don't remember where I read it. It fascinated me enough for it to stick in my memory even without a reference  )
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I think it was this[^] guy, way before he was on TV.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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In an image recently taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a proliferation of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 12 shine through interstellar gas and dust, making the entire image glow with activity. "My God, it's full of stars"
I'm so glad they included the context image, so you can look at it yourself
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Should we replace the "find a needle in a haystack" with "find the A3u49eT star in the cluster Terzan 12" ?
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Mojo is now available for local download – beginning with Linux systems, and adding Mac and Windows in coming releases. Now you can get their mojo on
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I'm really glad I don't do anything that requires that level of complexity. 
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Microsoft has published a new document detailing the end of servicing of third-party printer drivers on Windows. Coming soon: multiple hacks via outdated and unsupported printer drivers
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Well... looking at what has happened with the printers and video cards during so much time after every windows update... 
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Excellent, now maybe HP printers will just install.
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Several things that shouldn’t have happened did, allowing hackers to take advantage and get data they shouldn’t have ever been able to access. We live and work in a house of cards
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Several things that shouldn’t have happened
Murphy's law is a b1tch, isn't it?
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State of WebAssembly 2023 study finds mostly optimism among software developers about future adoption of Wasm, but also doubts and challenges. It's almost like they've been promised this stuff before
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like they've been promised this stuff before
More than the promise land to ?Moses?
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And he never got there either
TTFN - Kent
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