fphhotchips

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by fphhotchips 3mo ago
> Horrible controls. Interesting! I found them mostly ok, but I was playing with a keyboard. They definitely remind me of the controls of Pacman games I grew up with where (as sibling comment notes), you have to decide where you're
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by fphhotchips 8mo ago
Which, ultimately, is not such a big difference to the reason we split up work for humans, either. Human job specialization is just context management over the course of 30 years.
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by fphhotchips 9mo ago
This is the first time I've ever even heard of unofficial screen upgrades even being _possible_, and I'm at least two standard deviations from the mean on the "likes to tinker" scale. I can't even begin to think abo
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by fphhotchips 10mo ago
One thing I'm confused about in this whole thing is what makes Rebble think they have a right to the data in the first place? They scraped it! "We don't like you scraping the data we scraped" doesn't hold water for
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by fphhotchips 1y ago
I understand there's two versions of requirements for the NVidia 50 series - the higher end 5070Ti and up, and the lower end 5070 and down. What's the chance of releasing a 5070Ti/5080 version?
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by fphhotchips 1y ago
It can be a bit difficult, particularly now that some phones are getting more demanding about re-authorising before it will go through. Tap-try to get fingerprint scanner working-tap again is a much less fluid procedure than tap-go. The pos
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
> There's still plenty of hardware-specific APIs, you still debug assembly when something crashes, you still optimize databases for specific storage technologies and multimedia transcoders for specific CPU architectures... You mig
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
The full featured version doesn't even run on Mac OS. Excel, PowerPoint and Word for Mac are all pale imitations of their Windows counterparts.
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
Certainly "there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to solve a problem" hasn't been the case for a while, or maybe ever. See: tfa. Perhaps it's just because I'm not Dutch.
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
Melbourne is easily the worst city in the country for this. Most of the tech sector is in the very large enterprise space lead by the banks, and as a result it's who you know and whether you went to Melbourne Grammar or Geelong Grammar
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
People look at me funny when I say this, but it's true. I work in performance - a space where we're thinking about threading, parallelism and the like a lot - and I often say "I want to hire who play with trains". What I
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
I feel like it's not the RAT you'll notice from inside the plane, it will be the silence from the engines. That combined with at least a momentary flicker of the lighting (I'm not sure if a RAT on a 787 will run cabin lightin
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
> Former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer says "most people" in Australia do not see Assange as a journalist. The Downer family have recent history in misjudging what "most people" in significant chunks of
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
I've been taking this approach more recently. Something shipped is 100% better than nothing at all, even if it's 25% worse than if I whole-assed it. It's been working, in that the 'leave room for others to step in'
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
Not shipping internationally is a pretty frustrating decision. This device is almost exactly what I want, but I can't buy it because you... can't put it in a DHL box with a different country's name on it? Congrats on the laun
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by fphhotchips 2y ago
I disagree. There's a clear disclaimer of who they are, and they're responding to a specific criticism. Their comment at the top level also has that disclaimer and while it's written in a bit of a marketing tone, it adds subs
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
Let's not pretend that Mac OS is immune to a bit of the old upsell too. Core OS that features only work when paired with iPad/iPhone. iCloud is actively difficult not to use. The sidebar with the Apple shares and news apps.
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
The third party display thing is dead on. I have a $2000 AUD LG monitor that Mac OS just occasionally decides to overdrive (or something) and cause instant but temporary burn in. I'm not the only one - you can find others on Reddit.
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
> budgets exhausted at EOY Nope! Often there's money left over for whatever reason, and in many places if you don't use it this year, you'll lose it next year. Nothing like walking out of a decrepit meeting room in Novembe
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
> A salesperson not selling anything for 3 months was never heard of It's funny that you say this then go on to accuse others of never having had jobs. I've worked around enterprise sales for years and it's entirely possib
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
> Q4 is always the busiest time for sales. Yes, but not if you're still ramping. The sales cycle for Cloudflare is probably 6-24 months. Unless you've stepped in on a deal that's basically about to close, you're not g
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
When I clicked this it took me straight into a page with code and an explanation with a bunch of assumed knowledge. It's not very self-explanatory. When I came back here, it the additional context of your text post made everything make
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
What makes any of those things more or less valuable than playing a video game? Volunteering, sure, but the rest are just as self indulgent as any other pass time. Just because you value them higher doesn't mean you should discount t
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
This just isn't the case for me. I don't wake up when I skip breakfast, and if I don't eat throughout the day, I invariably end up exhausted by 3pm only to wake right up 45 minutes after dinner. I don't doubt your experi
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
The vendor that appears on my Credit Card statement is Amazon. The organisation who sets the commercial terms is Amazon. The website is completely Amazon branded. The goods are usually stored in a big warehouse with "Amazon" writt
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
Not only is AoEII doing really well under Microsoft, it's doing so despite taking a couple of goes to get it right in the modern era. Most other companies would have given up when HD edition got a bit of a middling response.
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
1. Man I hope that's not an employee or they (should be) about to have a terrible Monday. 2. "Do you travel? Potentially to places where it will be hard to get roaming data? Fuck you!" -- Google
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
Excel doesn't do half the Excel things, PowerPoint doesn't have reader mode, the list goes on. Anyone who thinks Office for Mac is any good hasn't used Office for Windows in 10 years.
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
This is the worst answer. Office for Mac is horrible compared to the same for Windows, as is plenty of other very common software - if it runs on Mac at all. It's also much worse to administer from an enterprise perspective, so it&#x
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by fphhotchips 3y ago
Your original comment is somewhat unclear. Are you advocating for leaving old code in because the system works and it's more stable that way, or taking it out to force the necessary refactoring steps and understanding that will bring?

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