Raineer

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by Raineer 3y ago
Sometimes wrong... I have the role of "chief troubleshooter" in my engineering group. I have a bit of a nervous tic that forms when I hear absolutes like this. Don't assume the customer is always an idiot. Don't assume
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by Raineer 3y ago
I was commenting on this just last week. Gaming on Linux has exploded since the Steam Deck was released (just as all Linux users were hoping it would). All the effort which went into Proton to get games working on Steam Deck has done wonder
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by Raineer 3y ago
I have loved programming (literally) my entire life. Some of the books I learned to read on was TS-2068 BASIC program listings in kindergarten. Luckily for me, before I got too far down the road into choosing a major, it became clear to me
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by Raineer 3y ago
If you're going to blame NIST for what NSA did in this case - you might as well say "don't even trust anyone for digital privacy" since the NSA already collects literally everything from everyone. I think the implication
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by Raineer 4y ago
Meh, except it's not available.
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by Raineer 4y ago
My hunch is we will get exactly zero new features, but Musk will be able to ensure any and all of his rich buddies will be back on the platform. I don't think he gives a damn about the product or how it functions.
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by Raineer 4y ago
Such a desperate, veiled attempt.
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by Raineer 4y ago
Stephen Hackett worked at Apple. And the cost of the material has nothing to do with the argument. I don't know why you'd imply that it "costs precisely the same", as no two materials would ever be exactly the same. But
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by Raineer 4y ago
"This is why things like 'evidence based' medicine is so dangerous -- we don't have evidence for the vast majority of impactful conditions, simply ignoring patients with these conditions is not a workable solution."
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by Raineer 5y ago
Yeah this was my thought, too. I was using PowerDNS to do this sort of thing within a basic home environment. But I have no idea if it has the necessary features to keep a production environment happy. It was fun to play with.
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by Raineer 5y ago
Erie, CO lost $1M to a phishing attack. It was very well timed and targeted toward a major project which had been in the works for a decade. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/30/erie-victim-financial-...
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by Raineer 5y ago
Open-source has nothing to do with preventing people from making money. This is like a Microsoft argument from the 90s.
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by Raineer 5y ago
Yeah, just gotta echo this. That was a whole lot of noise to really not make any point. Like - I even agree with most of what was typed, but I don't see it's relevance to anything here.
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by Raineer 5y ago
<3 Mitch I just love the delivery on "where did you get that camera??"
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by Raineer 5y ago
The fact that previous salary has anything to do with future salary comes from the same swamp of misinformation like "it's illegal to discuss your salary with your peers." My approach when dealing with future salary is to tel
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by Raineer 5y ago
To add to that, Github reads Arduino code as C++. I know it's not truly this simple, but if the file extension is ".ino", I feel like your detection algorithm should be free to use that as a massive indication it is Arduino c
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by Raineer 5y ago
The boot-up time is really a killer. I also just can not get used to the input/keyboard of the nSpire. My actual workflow is to use DM42/HP-35s for anything I can do with those, and if it's more complicated, I'd rather l
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by Raineer 5y ago
Yeah I pay the same. Sure I hate Google and yada yada... But if the call for money is "we will show you no ads, and your money will go to creators", and it is a realistic amount, yes I will pay it. I run ad-blockers everywhere (an
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by Raineer 5y ago
When I encounter it, I feel it's often a hatred of the "doers vs the thinkers" My career path was 25 years engineering, before migrating into a hybrid EE/PM role as sort of a natural progression from being "the engi
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by Raineer 5y ago
I feel this is an overly optimistic view. There's not many situations in the last 50 years where "businesses being able to charge less" have led to them actually charging less. It reeks of Telcos telling congress how much new
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by Raineer 5y ago
In my work, today's date would be 21K11, to save space over the longer date.
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by Raineer 5y ago
I worked for IBM during these times. I loved OS/2 2.1, it was so great to use for work at the time. Warp was too little, too late, and not as stable as the earlier releases.
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by Raineer 5y ago
This is so awesome. I'm thrilled to see work progressing at the other end of the bandwidth spectrum.
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by Raineer 5y ago
Just finished up a Python class as part of my EE this summer. I had no idea this wasn't the default way everyone did Python GUIs. This was the main library we used throughout - it was very approachable and easy to configure.
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by Raineer 5y ago
They have supported ad blocking extensions for literally years. Though, these days, I'm 100% Wireguarded to my house when away and everything goes through Pihole anyways.
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by Raineer 5y ago
As a Boulderite and a huge fan of NIST, I am bummed out that the misleading headline does come from NIST itself and not an overzealous contributor. Exciting results, all the same.
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by Raineer 5y ago
I've had a Pi GPS clock running for 6 years now, it's fantastic. It's not only an NTP server for my house but it's been contributing to pool.ntp.org for the duration as well. I adore it. Mine was built with a much older
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by Raineer 5y ago
I don't know how we affect major change on this sort of issue, besides a vote with the wallet. I tend to encounter it most in areas which are already underserved - therefore you can choose not to pay but you're likely punishing yo
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by Raineer 5y ago
Thank you for the quote, I hadn't seen that. I certainly didn't mean to trivialize their work (obviously? since I've voted with my wallet 3 times) Their work on both the firmware front and with Pop!_OS should not be overlooke
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by Raineer 5y ago
My only gut reaction to this is a bit of surprise. There are almost limitless variations of the "Linux Desktop", but Windows still wins out in your mind as the correct way to run a desktop. No judgment, just bemusement. I will alw

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