Froedlich

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by Froedlich 2mo ago
Managers might want solutions, but to get to them you have to go through HR, which wants checkboxes ticked. That's two entirely different screening processes.
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by Froedlich 3mo ago
Borland Quattro.
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by Froedlich 5mo ago
Yep. Boston Dynamics has been dependent on military contracts since their founding in 1992. The "no more military weapons" statement seems to have been after they were acquired by Hyundai. Boston Dynamics' business is, basic
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by Froedlich 6mo ago
We had two broadcast TV channels where we lived when I was growing up in the 1970s. My Dad signed up for cable TV. It ran 24/7 instead of 6AM-to-midnight (yes, broadcast TV went off the air at midnight in many areas) and it had no com
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by Froedlich 6mo ago
Sage Accounting is prone to various connectivity gollywobbles between the server and workstations. The first troubleshooting recommendation is to turn off IPv6. About 75% of that time, the problem then goes away.
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by Froedlich 7mo ago
I don't own anything with a fingerprint scanner. My phone has a camera, but I don't use a phone for internet.
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by Froedlich 7mo ago
If the AI does spelling and grammar fixups, I'll root for the AI. When I was in corporate IT, I got way too much internal email that looked like it had been pecked out by an autistic second-grader, with random spelling, capitalizatio
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by Froedlich 8mo ago
Back in the (early 1960s?) Isaac Asimov wrote a book on how to do arithmetic calculations in your head. He pointed out that someone who developed that skill could solve problems faster in their head than by reaching for a slide rule, and t
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by Froedlich 9mo ago
I'm another who never stopped. I still use matchbox-sized MP3 players, replacing them when they die. Wifi is sparse in my area, and even cellular signals are unreliable (and expensive), so I stayed local-only. The little players also
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by Froedlich 9mo ago
I understand the "everybody does it that way" aspect of the cloud, but the old way of subscribing to a dynamic DNS and hosting locally still works just fine and you have full control of things. Later, once you have more traffic an
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by Froedlich 9mo ago
A friend of mine is getting ready to retire after 30-odd years in IT. He has already tooled up and trained for his retirement profession: farrier; the guy who makes and installs horse shoes. It's more profitable than it used to be sin
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by Froedlich 9mo ago
The pool of tech jobs in my area was sparse, but the local employers were fully on board with the big-city "use them for a while and toss them out" system. So when times were good in IT, I bought a machine shop, and in between ti
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by Froedlich 9mo ago
I'm mostly retired now, and my paying work involves maintenance on proprietary inventory and billing software written in a 1960s language in a dialect that became unsupported in the mid-1980s. And it runs in MS-DOS. I've mostly s
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by Froedlich 10mo ago
My development is on Linux. Some of my work has to run on Windows as well; VirtualBox has several Windows VMs, a ReactOS VM, and Wine for testing. I've never had to deal with the BSDs or Macs. If a customer was willing to pay for me
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by Froedlich 10mo ago
> Just speak clearly. --- I finally got (very expensive) hearing aids, and made several trips back to the audiologist to have them tuned. Then I wound up not wearing them, because most people think they're speaking English, but it&
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by Froedlich 10mo ago
Please don't inflict Gnome upon them.
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
If it was local - implanted, or on my body, it might be a useful tool with the correct training. If it was networked, it would need to have much tighter security than the current internet. If it was just a terminal to some corporate server
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
Sounds like Jeff Duntmann's "jiminy", which he wrote about in PC Techniques magazine back in 1992. A matchbox-sized general purpose computer and life log, infrared connections to peripherals as needed, with a mesh network to
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
Windows Phone's UI is still with us, from Windows 8 onwards. Everything on 8, 10, and 11 is optimized for a touch interface on a small screen, which is ridiculous on a modern desktop with a 32" or so monitor and a trackball or mo
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
DESQview/X sucked the wind out of DESQview's sails. It was, on paper, a massive upgrade. I had been running DESQview for years, with a dial-up BBS in the background. But you couldn't actually buy /X. After trying to
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
Wine predates ReactOS. It was basically a FOSS duplicate of Sun's WABI. I wrote a bunch of software in Borland Delphi, which ran in Windows, Wine, and ReactOS with no problems. Well, except for ReactOS' lack of printing support.
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by Froedlich 11mo ago
As a Linux user, I hated Flash with a passion. It mostly didn't work despite several Linux implementations. About the time they sorted all the bugs out, it went away. Good riddance.
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by Froedlich 1y ago
I tried several "information management" and "knowlege management" programs over the years, but none of them worked the way I wanted. My original method was a directory full of plain text files arranged by subject, that
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by Froedlich 1y ago
LLMs remind me of the children's game "Telephone."
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by Froedlich 2y ago
The only true "system programming" I've done was in Microsoft Macro Assembler, a product I grew to hate with a passion. A non-answer, but tangentially relevant: I once fiddled with Forth, but never actually accomplished anyth
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by Froedlich 2y ago
On the other hand, the Ultibo OS for the Raspberry Pi is written in FreePascal.
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by Froedlich 2y ago
That happened to me six years ago. After a few weeks I quit beating my head against the wall, created an email account elsewhere, and eventually got most correspondents to use the new address. And I quit using Google services for anything
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by Froedlich 2y ago
Cloudflare challenges seem to be becoming more and more frequent on my general internet use. Yep, "Cloudflare loop" is a thing. No, I'm not going to download and install a different web browser, dump all my cookies, or what
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by Froedlich 2y ago
For me, "wrong" as in "blue glare." It only takes a few minutes for a glare headache to start forming. Some of it could be because I have defective red/green color vision, but so do about 15% of all males.

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