hmrr

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by hmrr 5y ago
“Hey siri navigate home” Pretty simple.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I don’t use it when I’m actually driving. Before to set the destination.
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by hmrr 5y ago
No it’s absolutely fine. I have an iPhone with a basic Bluetooth connection to the car. I have a stalk for audio control and I use Siri to tell it to do stuff. The audio is entirely hands free. You just get in the car and it works. You don’
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by hmrr 5y ago
Very good point. My mother in law totalled her car when she dropped a cigarette on the floor when she was driving. Fortunately no one else involved.
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by hmrr 5y ago
Ah yes I remember that. It’s horrible. Every day I see people still doing it though here in London. There is no excuse. Not one. Actually two weeks ago there was a huge Jewsons truck blocking an entire junction while driver was on his phone
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by hmrr 5y ago
My father used to import clone PC stuff from Taiwan. The guys running these ops were surprisingly small usually. Some of the original ISA graphics cards including the weird CEG (anti aliasing ones) had 3 guys running the entire outfit. The
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by hmrr 5y ago
I think they should offset all of these things against the probability that the IDE you have to use has its own ozone hole. That stab is mostly aimed in the direction of C# and Java
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by hmrr 5y ago
Runtime footprint and CPU is pretty tiny for Go. It’s shockingly low cost to run it. I am frequently surprised.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I suspect it’s easier knowing that they aren’t coming back than having to explain that you don’t know when they will come back and what mood they will be in when they do get back. This was my ex wife for several years until I kicked her ass
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by hmrr 5y ago
That’s a sure way of ending up with several old men yielding yagis like swords descend upon your house.
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by hmrr 5y ago
Nailed it. It wasn’t and still isn’t useful or interesting because of the technical overhead of APRS reporting. Much prefer delving into the weak signal modes. JS8Call is interesting http://js8call.com/ I wanted to write an
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by hmrr 5y ago
It’s dangerous to compare any cost to trust. The two concepts are independent and do not overlap from experience. But at least do yourself a favour and find another merit to sell your product on that isn’t ”cheaper than the usual guys”
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by hmrr 5y ago
It’s really cheap when you add the risks. Apple replaced the battery in my 6s about three years back and it didn’t work afterwards. If this was an independent phone shop they’d give it back and make an excuse or try and sell you another hoo
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by hmrr 5y ago
This is the joy of working for a large company. I was there a number of years ago. I just started ignoring people and doing what I think is right. No one appeared to notice. I suspect this was because everyone was chasing useless metrics o
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by hmrr 5y ago
I wonder if this is why my bank (Santander) is switching everyone to Mastercard.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I call Microsoft’s implementation improper. Will block them from my purchasing in future.
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by hmrr 5y ago
Got to be honest I tended to use the distribution packages for Perl back in the day. That would have been Debian or FreeBSD ports back then. If the module was missing I would shrug it and make do. This cultural approach came from a place I
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by hmrr 5y ago
Genuine question as I quite frankly stay the hell away from it: Can malicious NPM packages compromise your build infrastructure?
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by hmrr 5y ago
Unfortunately that left them with the motivation to write their own bus sized holes instead!
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by hmrr 5y ago
Your cynicism is justified and clearly based on the same experience I have :)
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by hmrr 5y ago
I think the assertion (sorry for the pun) is that JavaScript is a completely unholy creation and should be chucked off the edge of the disc. I can’t imagine trying to get some of our fintech business logic in there without arming a nuclear
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by hmrr 5y ago
I suspect it’s dying slowly. All the functional sysadmin stuff is being rolled into devops and cloud operations these days and all the old school folk, me included, are being pushed into management. It’s sad really as it’s part of my life I
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by hmrr 5y ago
Yes exactly that. Usually resulting in me having to scrape the gore out of the inside of the washing machine! :)
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by hmrr 5y ago
Just that it represents a roll of the dice and hardware configuration.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I did the same. I disagree. It required two rounds of reboots even though it was the latest iso and the Ethernet didn’t work (i219). Then whenever the thing goes to sleep all the windows move to the top left of the screen when it wakes up.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I’m not sure I want to get into a pocket logistics discussion. I have kids. There are never enough pockets.
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by hmrr 5y ago
Quite possibly. I don’t disagree with that. But that doesn’t give me much confidence when it comes to finding out how to fix things that go wrong.
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by hmrr 5y ago
I have. With no problems. At Heathrow.
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by hmrr 5y ago
That’s basically why I went full Apple. I value my time.
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by hmrr 5y ago
Python is just as horrible. It’s ok for a bit of automation with system packages but the moment you end up with a venv it starts getting painful. I have seen much criminality rammed into AWS Lambda for example. The c# language is now like a

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