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by devnullbrain 1y ago
In my experience building PCs this is not so curious. There are just a lot of duds, from individual SKUs to entire generations, and both manufacturers and retailers will do anything to prevent you RMAing them. I also find that, as performan
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
I like the warning not to buy a motherboard from a manufacturer that has been defunct for 17 years
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
If you're buying a car as an investment then you're only marginly more foolish than if you're buying a car without considering varying levels of depreciation as part of the running costs.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Some repos merge/pull changes by rebasing them on main and want eventual history not actual history.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Intel followed this strategy with the mobile market to what is apparently terminal fucking.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Well hold on, we're going in circles here >In the scenario you've described, the technology is not working, in the complete sense including business requirements of reasonable operating costs. In the parent comment's reasa
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Then the title just means 'do the right thing' and has no value.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Having spent time in the embedded mines, I think the onus is on embedded to vocally differentiate itself from normal software development, not for it to be assumed that general software advice applies to embedded. If embedded projects start
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Despite being the target of a lot of schadenfreude, most software developers aren't working on automation.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
On Earth, in the grand scheme of things, it took a very short time for colonies to a) diverge politically or b) fail. It's not something that stopped happening (much) because we became more cuddly. It's just boring old economics.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Most people need a job to live. Other marketplaces for things people need to live are heavily regulated from seed to stomach.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Older, bigger plants have roots that go deeper and have access to more water. You can see the same effect in gardens, where new plants wilt sooner than established plants (and the care instructions advise frequent watering for the first cou
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
I spent months working out all the kinks of a C++ codebase to make up for decades of assumptions about paths and strings and locales that failed to stand up to reality. The 'difficulty' of Rust would have been preferable, in hinds
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
That is not compatible with what I took from reading the article.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
I can't square your understanding of this with what is said in the article.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
This is not true. Here's a page from Collective Shout, the group mentioned in the article: https://www.collectiveshout.org/steam_campaign_history
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Red tried the same without success. I'm not convinced the differentiators for photography consumers are the same as the differentiators of cameras for smartphone consumers.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
It puts a UK user in a weird situation. On one hand, the more countries that join in (and I've heard of US states too), the more likely it is that age verification becomes well supported and I continue having access to the wider world&
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Also, one of her final acts was paying off her son's legal battle with Virginia Giuffre. She was fighting the war on unsafety on the side of unsafety.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
You're describing the thought process behind Hack-a-Shaq
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
There is no 60 minute test for months of malingering
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
Me. Because, for about 2 weeks during lay-off gardening leave, I did study it. On one hand this demonstrates that it isn't useful for testing innate skill. On the other hand, it was the best paid work I've ever done. It was an ess
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
>What's better, a menu where I'm presented with all my options? You get neither
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
> Sessions, tabs, windows, tiling . All done in GUIs and done better. Sorry but no, really no. Windows: - Has two ways of swapping between windows, taking up 2/3 of my modifier keys for use with Tab - Loves to offset windows by on
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
This is a false interpretation, you've put "compile" in quotes when it doesn't appear in the parent comment and the actual phrasing used is more correct.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-... Required reading for internet comedians.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
>If you are in the middle of typing a comment and switch to another app, when you come back, it will reload the display, losing your comment. This is the rule for a lot of apps and mobile websites now. I don't understand why - we ha
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
And 4chan is only introducing the Captcha until the spam stops
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
>nobody loves the constant repeat rattle of space indented code. It's hard to view your opinion as unbiased when you think this is how people indent with spaces.
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by devnullbrain 1y ago
“Oh no, I’ve gone into labour prematurely”

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