gw98

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by gw98 4y ago
I've dealt with pretty much everything from steaming nightmare creeping Cthulhu desktop applications right into back end fintech stuff written in the dark ages over the last 30 years. At no point have I found this solution being applie
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by gw98 4y ago
You missed the two entire toolchains and the third tool required to stick them together? It's pretty difficult and expensive to build one stack, let alone three and onboard another tool.
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by gw98 4y ago
> And what _we_ have here is unfounded indignation over a perfectly fine way to solve a problem Absolutely no way is this a fine way to solve the problem. That is crazy talk. 1. It introduces additional toolchains into the solution when
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by gw98 4y ago
Buy AMD
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by gw98 4y ago
This. I'd rather have to defend all my ideas than have the bad ones blindly promoted.
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by gw98 4y ago
The person is a salaried employee. They are getting paid by their employer. The web site is a personal portfolio / blog /resume site. Traditionally you're paid in attention on that sort of thing and use it to bolster salary v
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by gw98 4y ago
Definitely agree with this. You get that confirmation with siri. I mostly use my watch for it and it will show me what it did on the screen without having to touch anything. Confirmation is required when dealing with humans as well ... htt
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by gw98 4y ago
Yeah it doesn't always work well. I say "hey siri add green milk to the shopping list" . I want "green milk" added to the shopping list which in the UK is semi-skimmed milk. What does it do? Adds "green&quo
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by gw98 4y ago
I don't want that to happen because the price variation in toilet paper is huge based on deals and offers available, and Amazon is rarely the cheapest provider these days, so it's actually worth me spending a few minutes on it to
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by gw98 4y ago
It's useful for trivial unambiguous tasks where you have your hands full or don't want to touch your device or it's dangerous to. That's all I can muster mine for. "Hey Siri, add more toilet paper to the shopping li
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by gw98 4y ago
I know the point of this article is to demonstrate how to solve a problem but the premise is a bad one and must not be confused with sound software architecture at all. In fact it's slightly painful reading it and I really wish people
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by gw98 4y ago
I will fix it later. My colleagues probably won't. This is a common failure mode I've seen of development teams. There is no time to fix it later.
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by gw98 4y ago
Conversely one of my children has a complex medical condition which would have bankrupted me several times over in the US. And the service has been second to none.
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by gw98 4y ago
You can make the money in the UK if you know what you're doing.
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by gw98 4y ago
For now. I know someone who was "doing waaay better in the US", took 3 weeks of leave and came back to a huge series of lay offs, market saturation, unemployment with no healthcare then his visa renewal was declined. So he had to
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by gw98 4y ago
So you traded our bananas republic for a gun toting corporatocracy with low employment protection and comedy healthcare and no food standards. I'm not sure who's worse off.
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by gw98 4y ago
I specified and architected an internal ERP system (PLM/SRM side) to replace a paper system. This was a big Oracle/web thing in the early 00's at the peak of Six Sigma. This was resisted by the engineering teams who had been
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by gw98 4y ago
Ah I just invoiced my ex wife's uncle last time I was expected to help for free at my usual hourly rate. No one asks me for help now.
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by gw98 4y ago
At least it's not goatse :)
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by gw98 4y ago
Just like to say a big thank you for this. When ActiveX was no longer acceptable I wrote some desktop integration technology which replaced it for web apps with an http based background messaging protocol and activation via URL handler. Thi
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by gw98 4y ago
Yes indeed massively impressed with this machine. Cost bugger all as well (Lenovo Neo 50S gen3)
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by gw98 4y ago
i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen o
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by gw98 4y ago
This is the general feeling of what I see from AWS support as well as a consumer of the platform. I'm battling something for weeks now which is a completely broken ass piece of shit inside AWS. I spent the first 3 weeks trying to get a
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by gw98 4y ago
That’s terrible. My library is 100GB and works fine so may be worth trashing the machine and trying again when freshly installed.
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by gw98 4y ago
I get the feeling that local regulators will eat them alive for this when the complaints start rolling in.
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by gw98 4y ago
Indeed. My mother actually said that only fresh blood keeps the thoughts of war at bay. She wasn't wrong. I really hate this about our culture.
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by gw98 4y ago
I have a 14" M1 MacBook Pro. The keyboard is "ok" but not great. It occasionally misses keypresses when I'm typing fast or hit the edge of a key. Also I never really got on with the keyboard layout. Some things are just
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by gw98 4y ago
Yeah I have owned a few thinkpads. I went for a desktop because I am totally fucking done with owning laptops now. I don't need one so I'm not bothering any more.
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by gw98 4y ago
I just spent the evening turning mine into text files. Turns out I don't have any pictures worth keeping in them.
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by gw98 4y ago
I already have a Mac. I'm trying to get rid of it. You can download icloud for windows as well. And slowly download shit off the web UI.

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