gryf

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by gryf 4y ago
This. I already started using ChatGPT to solve problems because I can’t be arsed to read through ten vendors worth of documentation. It wrote me a fairly complete and accurate chunk of code the other day to solve a problem.
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by gryf 4y ago
Sitting on Zoom with a permanent facepalm wondering how the outsourcers delivered a monkey when we carefully specified a lion.
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by gryf 4y ago
I’ve had more critical OneDrive failures in the last two years than hard disk failures in the last 30 years. I’ve experienced actual data loss on OneDrive three times since 2020. It’s not a backup and it’s a shitty safety net for trivial ca
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by gryf 4y ago
Mid 2020 I was asked to port an app away from Silverlight before it hit EOL in Oct 2021. I wrote the original app in WinForms in 2003. Having experienced Win32, MFC, ATL, WinForms, WPF, WinRT and looked into WinUI I decided to pass on it. A
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by gryf 4y ago
It's really fast so you can fuck the crapware off in record time. That point is in jest but it really annoys the hell out of me that the excellent work the core windows guys have been doing is being compromised by the veneer of diarrhe
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by gryf 4y ago
Despite writing tomes of scathing bitching about Windows 11, I have to say that the direction it's going in is the correct one. All they have to do is kill off the mandatory cloud sign in everywhere, the telemetry, the crapware bundled
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by gryf 4y ago
No they don’t exist my side of the pond.
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by gryf 4y ago
All the creatives I know use macs and iPads. Incidentally I’ve got an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil and use that for digital art and photography.
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by gryf 4y ago
I’ve got an iPad for that. And all the detritus doesn’t fall out of the keyboard down my trousers.
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by gryf 4y ago
Touch screen on a laptop increases my productivity 0%. It just makes my arms hurt and decreases my accuracy.
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by gryf 4y ago
What particularly did you get screwed by with Big Sur? The only problem I had was with a Qt app that would not run on it and that turned out to be a problem with Qt rather than macOS.
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by gryf 4y ago
I've had 20 years of anxiety about closing the lid, hibernating, sleeping. Numerous working configurations became non working configurations after kernel updates and distribution upgrades. And that doesn't include some of the prob
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by gryf 4y ago
There is no such thing as a macbook replacement at the moment IMHO. There is literally nothing with the same quality, battery life, thermals, audio, display, keyboard and reliability on the market. Not even the most expensive machines can g
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by gryf 4y ago
Yeah this. I pay for the WHOLE THING to work, not just bits of it, depending on the whim of the QA job someone did at a distro vendor. Been burned too many times. And now we have the M1, sorry but I don't want to know on the hardware f
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by gryf 4y ago
Yeah this. Their managed services were absolute dog shit. It required me emailing a filled in word document template to someone to get a firewall change done and then they would fuck it up. Eventually I'd get whichever engineer they ha
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by gryf 4y ago
It’s a desktop and I’ve got a MacBook Pro already. I quite frankly despise Linux on the desktop after trying to use it yearly for the last 25 years. Server fine. Desktop no thanks.
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by gryf 4y ago
I recently bought a Lenovo windows PC to run some software I needed that was windows only. It shipped with windows 11 Pro. Figured it wasn't going to be any worse than the win 10 Pro I have to eat on my corp laptop. So I fired it up an
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by gryf 4y ago
I've done a wide variety of things. I try to keep two disparate things on the go. Visual Basic between 1992-2000. C# between 2002 and 2015. SunOS/Solaris admin 1995-2002. SQL Server 1999-2010. Linux admin 1998-present. Python 2005
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by gryf 4y ago
I'm not really cashing in on it. It has become my sidearm. I think that's the best way to describe it. When I want to solve a problem it's just there, trustworthy, reliable and efficient. What it does is allow me to circumven
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by gryf 4y ago
All our engineers cost more than the DC engineers we had before.
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by gryf 4y ago
My only superpower is knowing what fad is going to make a stack of cash and riding it. The only thing I've actually honestly believed in and honed recently was Go programming.
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by gryf 4y ago
We have many more people running our cloud that we had infra. It's far more complex.
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by gryf 4y ago
Argos here in the UK can. Same day delivery which is reliable (unlike amazon!) or you can actually go and pick stuff up usually immediately at actual retail stores. And it's mostly the same price as Amazon now as well.
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by gryf 4y ago
Oh it was dead easy. I just wrote something in selenium python which ran the search daily and went through each item, checked the seller was China based, checked for a missing keyword in the text body and opened the report item form and fil
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by gryf 4y ago
You're right. It's still not as good quality as the pile of HPE and Cisco kit we replaced with it and it's more expensive at the TCO level.
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by gryf 4y ago
Just before COVID I did some lowish volume selling on eBay of an imported official product. They are "second sourced" aka "badly cloned" by a couple of Chinese crap shifters as well. I had to fend off various counterfeit
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by gryf 4y ago
Nikon do very well with the Z series. I have a Z50 and it's closer to smartphone than DLSR. BT and WiFi work, decent quality viewfinder and articulated multi-touch screen. Also with the 16-50 lens it still goes in your pocket but is a
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by gryf 4y ago
The Simpsons got it right: https://youtu.be/eU2Or5rCN_Y
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by gryf 4y ago
I think it’s more an orbital dung beetle.
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by gryf 4y ago
Investors would fire the board for doing that.

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