Publius_Enigma

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by Publius_Enigma 9mo ago
I’ve used both wired and wireless headphones and earbuds for about the past ten years. I really enjoy many aspects of wireless earbuds, one of which principally is that I don’t need to carry a player on my person, and cords can easily get i
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by Publius_Enigma 1y ago
I’ve been using NFS in various environments since my first introduction to it in my university’s Solaris and Linux labs. I’ve run it at home, on and off, since 2005. I’ve recently started using it again after consistent issues with SMB on A
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by Publius_Enigma 1y ago
Still performs better than SMB on macOS for many workloads!
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by Publius_Enigma 2y ago
I'm sure the architecture and scale of NetFlix's operations is truly impressive, but stories like this make me further appreciate the elegant simplicity of scalability of analogue terrestrial TV, and to a similar extent, digital t
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by Publius_Enigma 2y ago
This spoke to me. I see it as putting tools before ideas.
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by Publius_Enigma 2y ago
Australian Aboriginal people, have very advanced social and cultural structure. Australia is comprised of several thousand different aboriginal groups and territories. Acceptance into another community relied on endorsement from the elders
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by Publius_Enigma 2y ago
These are all problems that shouldn’t exist. You have succinctly described the problems with modern IT. Software doesn’t need to have an expiration date. It doesn’t decay or expire. But because of our endless need to change things, rather t
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by Publius_Enigma 2y ago
This. Furthermore, this posture has percolated down to home computing environments (because it is all Windows or Linux) so even my home computer has to receive constant updates as if it’s controlling a Luna lander.
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by Publius_Enigma 3y ago
Latency of text entry, as one example. In an application like Teams, the delay between striking a key on the keyboard and the corresponding glyph appearing on screen is comically bad - two orders of magnitude higher than performing the equi
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by Publius_Enigma 3y ago
I too am nostalgic for a simpler web, and also an increasingly of the view that the modern web was a severe wrong turn for software engineering and computing generally. I also run my own gopherd and httpd servers. Despite the severe shortco
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by Publius_Enigma 4y ago
Yes, but only because of the way Musk went about changing the WFH Policy. Musk is quoted as saying "If you can physically make it to an office and you don't show up, resignation accepted". He was placing the onus onto employe
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by Publius_Enigma 4y ago
I find it curious that Musk has simultaneously demanded that all employees cease working from home and return to the office whilst also locking them out of the office.