notriskfree

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by notriskfree 4y ago
There is a big poster at the end of my road, that is trying to recruit drivers, with a starting bonus, and reasonable hours and conditions. So all the drivers leaving the industry seem to have at least got their point across to someone.
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by notriskfree 4y ago
People working in labs today must be speeding up nature significantly on a daily basis. Perform lots of concurrent experiments, apply different environmental stresses, provide different nutrition, cross different variants you find useful, a
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by notriskfree 4y ago
The other problem with "Public companies are inherently evil by default" is that saying that "the whole system is wrong", is just providing leaders with an excuse. Public Companies can serve their customers, shareholders
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by notriskfree 4y ago
Waiting longer is ok, it is waiting a random time in a unplanned way with a missed date that is very annoying and becomes expensive, not keeping to schedule will make consumers look elsewhere.
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by notriskfree 4y ago
We can clearly see that the current generation of tank the Russians have are useless. We will spend lots of money on very expensive equally redundant tanks. We can clearly see that the Russians were unable to gain air superiority. We will s
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Especially annoying when reams of nonsense also gets 'unexpectedly' sprayed into the web browser of some poor sod using an enterprise app, just because Java is having a bad day. This seems to happen less than it used to a few year
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Interestingly it is the base M1 that is still the most interesting device, lower cost, lower heat, good single core performance, capable of most tasks, and reasonable graphics for a lower power device. Other fast laptops are all about the h
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Reading is a great deal faster than watching videos. Presumably doubling the speed must also make the presenters sound like chipmunks or voles or something. Perhaps just fiddling with the sound frequency also works.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
There is something different or odd about it though. I don't think anyone is arguing that the low number of Women in tech is not a problem, understanding the root cause is presumably important or we will continue to miss out on a signi
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by notriskfree 5y ago
I am not a rust fan, but `ever` is a long time, and if operating systems are re-written in rust (which is preferable by far than writing them in C), that is going to be a lot of very widely used code.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Never thought of an MBA as technical, that is an interesting perspective to think about.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
If you mainly use Linux that would be a reasonable point of view to take. However it runs in many environments so it is more like 'a cross platform framework' It is native code, so in that sense it also native.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
I think other operating systems could also benefit from this reverse engineering work as it shows how to create the drivers needed. If Apple had provided a bunch of binary blobs for Linux, that would have been great - for Linux only. It wil
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by notriskfree 5y ago
The 68k was certainly great fun after 8bit systems, and the x86 was almost just more of the same. ARM32 is also nice, apart from some corner cases. I think everything has corner cases, apart from x86 where the whole thing is an ugly mess.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Makes sense if Intel was planning on manufacturing the processors for a regional market rather than for global export.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Macron stamps his feet and this happens. You better watch out down there.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Makes sense, It is also easier to read and understand a book than it was for the author to write it. You can also think you understand something while you read it and later realize that you misunderstood it.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived. How this ends up filed under Camel art is a mystery.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Boom Boom
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by notriskfree 5y ago
If people were the same back then:- Most people hung out and watched the Camels being carved, many watched others `reacting` to the Camel carvings, and a few critiqued the Carvings. Only a few did the carving.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Smalltalk famously let you code inside the debugger. You can run code with methods that don't exist yet and add them in the debugger when it notices they are missing.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
I suspect you are right. Rebinding an inner function inside another function that contains variables probably will not work. But you could still alter and rebind the entire thing. And that is still flexible; you can still change a running p
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Acorn (early ARM personal computers) had a hardware sprite mouse cursor; because moving the mouse in software was expensive. A fun thing is you can have a monochrome graphics mode and the mouse cursor will still be blue.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Those would be our Europan visitors :) Explains why they care more about the sea as well.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
We will be getting tasty Kangaroo steaks soon from Australia. Be jealous.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
The thing I have never really understood; is why countries outside of the EU; pay the slightest bit of attention to these EU directives.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
I always think that as well. Except, there is a large air show that takes place up the road from me; and I get a ticket some years. The aircraft are literally displaying themselves. Getting a decent picture of them whizzing past is far from
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by notriskfree 5y ago
The Mac finder always drives me nuts for the same reason. Both the finder and explorer are tedious to use. I drag the explorer to the task bar and open it by right clicking File Explorer. Both seem to prefer creating new folders to creating
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Right, I agree with you completely on Covid.
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by notriskfree 5y ago
Setting the actual tragic pandemic to one side. It is not true that there are never going to be reasonable motivations to deploy a virus:- It could be viewed as a tool to alter population demographics in an ageing society. It might be deplo

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