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gus gorman takes on the election

Posted on 24 October 20245 November 2024 By antipaucity No Comments on gus gorman takes on the election

Imagine you are Gus Gorman, and you live in the United States – a country which uses the Electoral College for their national election process – while each state or province may award electors based on the popular vote (either an all-or-nothing approach, or proportionally), a pure “most votes” count does not necessarily indicate a…

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ideas, politics

if you do not explain the why, where, and when, the what does not matter

Posted on 31 July 20241 August 2024 By antipaucity No Comments on if you do not explain the why, where, and when, the what does not matter

Any time someone who does not understand the practical outworkings of a given topic tries to “teach” it, you end up with a “presentation” – mostly in the form of propositional statements (dogs are mammals; barges are boats), or key-value pairs (in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; Caracas is the capital of Venezuela). Propositional…

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commentary, education, insights, reprint

when in doubt … learn regular expressions

Posted on 23 February 202423 February 2024 By antipaucity No Comments on when in doubt … learn regular expressions

Because if you don’t know them, you will wish you did. And when you do know them, you will know when to not use them.

insights

bring back boom-and-bust

Posted on 20 January 202424 January 2024 By antipaucity No Comments on bring back boom-and-bust

A dozen years ago, I shared an edited-for-readability chat I had with a friend on the gold standard. In it I stated: I’d think that it would be better to keep the mountains and valleys more stable / less high|deep, so that slowdowns aren’t felt by a disproportionately small community/niche of the economy, and so…

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blih, commentary

syslog for fun (and profit?) – olf 2023 talk

Posted on 8 September 20238 September 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on syslog for fun (and profit?) – olf 2023 talk

I had the privilege of speaking at this year’s Ohio Linux Fest on the topic of syslog Slidedeck PDF – https://antipaucity.com/olf2023-syslog.pdf If you would like me to give this, or any other, talk for your organization, please contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter You can watch the talk from OLF’s live stream of the event…

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lug, news, personal, technical

more great questions (from morgan housel)

Posted on 26 July 202326 July 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on more great questions (from morgan housel)

A few years ago I reposted 35 questions from Inc magazine in 5 parts. Today I ran across another list of great questions to ask yourself via Chris Williamson:

reprint

behind this website – a more-detailed checklist

Posted on 12 June 202312 June 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on behind this website – a more-detailed checklist

Found https://github.com/jonkeegan/behind-this-website today It is a much-expanded and more-detailed version of what I wrote 2 years ago Nice job, guys

technical, update

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