hggigg

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by hggigg 2y ago
It's like the US in a decade. (I have been to both and would rather spend a week in Cape Town than Chicago for example)
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by hggigg 2y ago
My South African colleague tells me he is happy that you have adopted him.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Well exactly. It's not exactly as if there aren't enough well defined archetypes, methodologies and historical outcomes that fit this.
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by hggigg 2y ago
There are plenty of engineers that won't work there because of Musk. Being divisive and unpredictable is not a good characteristic and not how you run a business. Basically there are better ways without making the sacrifices that hav
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by hggigg 2y ago
Err he's South African, probably shouldn't even be in the US if judged by the same standards as any other immigrant, Cybercab is a shit show and the campaign support was the sort of thing we'd expect from a Russian oligarch.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Great to hear of another user :)
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by hggigg 2y ago
Finance
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by hggigg 2y ago
Buying shares in popcorn here. Our company, US based, thinks this is bad enough that we have contingency plans for his presidency.
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by hggigg 2y ago
It’s easy. Lift and shift, then fuck it up by not quite completely migrate everything to numerous badly managed kubernetes clusters. That’s what we did.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Assuming the incumbent doesn't push through legislation to change that. Not sure how enshrined in constitution that is so can't comment on the feasibility of it.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Wise person. Wish we hadn't. Managed to multiply costs 8x (no joke).
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by hggigg 2y ago
Yeah. Well it's CCP or USA and as an outside observer I'm not sure which one is worse at the moment.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Don’t think it’s going to work. Even with 100% tariff on EV imports they will still be financially competitive with locally produced vehicles. Or they build local.
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by hggigg 2y ago
near the end of the thinking yes.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I've used both extensively. I disagree with this. I dislike the HP48 series but I dislike the TI89 more. It's probably because most people don't understand how to use the 50G properly. You really need to go through the HP tra
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by hggigg 2y ago
Some of us (mathematics side) still actually work on paper with calculators. Most of the job is thinking which tooling doesn’t necessarily improve.
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by hggigg 2y ago
You just write the stuff down or translate it to LaTeX. Incidentally the 50G (and Prime) has a decent CAS built in which seems to get stuck less than some other commercial ones.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I never liked the 48 series or the 50G (I own both) that much. I can never remember how to use them half of the time. I always end up back with my 38 year old HP 15c. That has done me through separate engineering and mathematics degrees and
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by hggigg 2y ago
Zero. There are compliance and regulatory requirements that they have to meet for the license. An evil megacorp from hell I worked for had no problems in any of the left states other than their own lawyers being shit.
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by hggigg 2y ago
To be fair he does keep walking into it. Promise stuff, deliver it either 5 years after he said he would or not at all. The beating should continue until the situation improves.
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by hggigg 2y ago
No he used that line to bolster investment interest but he really wanted a platform which he controlled.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I think this only confirms he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. These auto designers really need to spend a few months at the NTSB or an air accident investigation agency before they are allowed to design cars.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Yeah I’m currently using lightroom for my mirrorless. I export that to photos then share / keep the flattened images in there.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Yeah this. Aperture was a mess. Some of the "full" edit tools from Aperture are actually lurking in Photos which is a fairly competent photo editor on macOS surprisingly. I think they have a chance. I know a couple of professional
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by hggigg 2y ago
Great news. Hopefully this will drive enough improvements to finally get me off adobe. Photomator is nearly good enough to replace Lightroom and Pixelmator is much nicer than photoshop for casual users.
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by hggigg 2y ago
> One could also just have a monkey mash keys for a while, and then after removing all the unnecessary letters you'd be left with a Shakespearian play. ChatGPT? Think an actual monkey might do better!
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by hggigg 2y ago
I am mostly worried about the stress of things sticking to that like glue. Stress has physiological consequences. I see people worrying about this shit while walking on cliff edges, honking down cans of energy drinks and puffing away on vap
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by hggigg 2y ago
Account holder migration between two major international banks. Subcontracted out to the lowest bidding outsourcer who operate some major enterprise messaging bespoke piece of crap bought from IBM which is held together with sticky tape, st
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by hggigg 2y ago
I reckon he’s talking bollocks. Same as IBM was when it was about to disguise layoffs as AI uplift and actually just shovelled the existing workload on to other people.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Having seen how this shit works behind the scenes I’d rather do it manually.

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