GianFabien

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by GianFabien 15d ago
After I read the first paragraph, I could guess the rest. It is typical for the legacy enterprise system space. My diagnosis is that you care too much . The enterprise IT space is kabuki theatre. So what if it takes 6 months to accomplis
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by GianFabien 22d ago
Technology and automation have never gotten in the way of people pursuing and enjoying hobbies. Painters still paint, woodworkers still make bespoke furniture, etc, etc.
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by GianFabien 22d ago
Isn't getting a good night's sleep essential for health reasons?
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by GianFabien 1mo ago
Every "wasted $" ended up in some parasitical grifter's pocket. Whilst these sorts of analyses are informative, they lack answers to the who profits? question.
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by GianFabien 1mo ago
There is an interesting tell, they sent the old presidential plane. But then Trump flew onwards from England on the new one. The two planes are sufficiently different that they can't be mistaken for one another.
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by GianFabien 2mo ago
Nah, all those defaults are features . Of course, there are contexts where those defaults are unsuitable which means: Use a Different RDBMS!
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by GianFabien 2mo ago
I have easily read thousands of personal development books and blog posts. Alex's post is easily the most revealing, inspiring to date. Thank you Alex. I'm a textbook case introvert. Yet at some (only very few) networking events
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by GianFabien 2mo ago
I have worked in environments where as the day wore on, my performance plummeted. After a lot of investigation, I suspect that air quality, lighting, ergonomics can have adverse effects. Only recently I read an article that said that in a r
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by GianFabien 2mo ago
Like all engineering answers: It depends If you want money, status symbols and no life = Amazon. Oh, you might gain some experience that is near useless in a non-FAANG org. If you value life, freedom, keeping your mind active, living up
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by GianFabien 3mo ago
Have worked with Sabre and early GUI interfaces for travel agents. It has only taken 30 years for WebJet to deliver something consumers could use and has displaced swathes of travel agents.
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by GianFabien 3mo ago
It would be more useful to determine why insurance premiums are rising faster than almost every other homeowner expense. At the same time noting that insurance companies are making massive profits and squandering millions on executive sala
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by GianFabien 3mo ago
I think the more critical question is how well compiler writers can update the heuristics which identify the instruction sequences that benefit from the architectural features. Last I looked, Intel has several thousand intrinsics which mu
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by GianFabien 4mo ago
I get the impression you are not technically challenged at your work. Not an uncommon dynamic when working for a company for which software is a means to an end. In order to dig deep into one area, you might need to take on a "hobby&qu
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by GianFabien 4mo ago
My jaded view is that many over-enthusiastic people are surrendering their autonomy technology. We've seen the impact of delegating our self-esteem to social media. Now having a machine think for us? Yank out the power cord. Go outside
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by GianFabien 4mo ago
My move? Get the f** out of the office, away from keyboards, screens and cubicles, take up tools and get apprenticed in a trade.
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by GianFabien 5mo ago
Here we go again ... Company A buys company B. A's management decrees the henceforth B's aqcuihired team must comply with company A's standards. Second system effect kicks in. Bugs multiply. Half of original company B devs
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by GianFabien 5mo ago
An amazing effort and result. Shame watching the video gave me motion sickness.
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by GianFabien 5mo ago
Yes, tenants can be a pain. The laws have increasingly become less investor friendly. In my experience having a good managing agents provides a valuable buffer. The real money is made when you cash out and collect the capital gains. Of co
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by GianFabien 5mo ago
I think it is due to the wide disparity between potential members. For example, consider an agricultural co-op, e.g. wheat growers. The members of the co-op have farms of differing sizes, use similar techniques, have more or less comparable
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by GianFabien 5mo ago
Not in SV, not even in the USA. So my experience is probably different. Whilst I was pulling down a good salary, invested in apartments to rent out. Banks are happy to lend if you have a steady income from a job. When I reached critical mas
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
Keeping it simple usually saves the day.
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
Back in the day when I replaced the battery in my MBP, I recall the battery was a significant part of the total weight. To build an all day running ultra-light would probably require a magnesium case, but magnesium and lithium are both flam
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
Smart doorbells and thermostats that upgraded in the night often became a nuisance or an expensive brick. But a faulty software upgrade on a car can kill you and others. Car company execs need to take a chill pill followed by a reality seru
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
The Gaslighter in Chief wants to abolish the First Amendment.
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
... again Didn't work too well last time. Will be amazingly effective this time </snark>
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
If it's anything like the "negotiations" where the other party gets bombed before even leaving the venue, it could be a trap.
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
What's the point? No matter how detailed and comprehensive the instructions and steps by the AI, you still don't get a PBJ sandwich to eat. You have to go to the kitchen and do it yourself.
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
Good on you for rising up to the ranks of Linux/BSD. You just need to recognize that not everybody aspires to be competent with lower-levels of hardware and software that Apple makes that much more difficult. Most Apple users are conte
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
I spent a part of my career supporting IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and then Compaq and the many PC clones. Microsoft, as its name implies, started out and cuturally was always a software company. By the time Microsoft started dabbling in har
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by GianFabien 6mo ago
I don't use WASM as a replacement for JS. I never have a need to manipulate DOM, etc from WASM. JS is perfectly fine and performant for those purposes. As I see it, WASM is used to augment the JS/WebAPI ecosystem. For example, w

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