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by pling 12y ago
I get this periodically. I have to walk away and go and do something else for a bit before I go nuts. This is usually after debugging some patternitis rats nest that is completely over-engineered. However occasionally amongst the muck, a be
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by pling 12y ago
That's a pretty scary thing really when you think about it. Thanks for outlining it. Good job I stick adblock on every machine I ship so these things don't even get seen.
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by pling 12y ago
Lets be honest about the problem and this isn't some slashdot-esque rant: a) Windows is a piece of crap when it comes to staying clean. If it wasn't, Microsoft wouldn't have to go after people like this. Not joking but I clea
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by pling 12y ago
Creating a faulty lock mechanism that can be circumvented by anyone, then putting a gate at the end of the street to stop people getting back to their own houses that are now full of crack dealers because of the faulty locks... Yep totally
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by pling 12y ago
10 years is young in industry. I recently saw a VAX 11/780 in the field still operating doing real work. To throw the towel in on an OS which has the same subset API as a recent one yet has many minor incompatibilities through shoddy A
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by pling 12y ago
Which incidentally doesn't let you access all of the source...
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by pling 12y ago
Well its Wikipedia. What do you expect. And as for me, it's purely an anecdote. I think it depends on where you are and who you know. Citation needed.
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by pling 12y ago
I've heard that but primarily with inexperienced users.
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by pling 12y ago
That's why, at least in the UK, we use "dub dub dub".
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by pling 12y ago
Tapes are manually archived off site in a safe deposit box monthly. A month window is an acceptable loss. Agree entirely. T'was an idiot company I worked for at the time that stored their backups in the basement of the World Trade Cent
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by pling 12y ago
I wrote one of them for our support team to stop them asking me questions every two minutes (decision tree engine). Works wonders. I'll eventually automate myself out of the office and then go sit on a beach somewhere.
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by pling 12y ago
Not a chance. Takes too long to upload and download and the 'cloud' data usage and rights assignment stuff is pretty unclear. My father (a pro) has about 3TiB on a NAS and AIT backup.
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by pling 12y ago
Rarely. They want it to get through the European statutory warranty and that is it. I have an oscilloscope built in 1976 by HP and it's showing no sign of any problems yet. I'd like to see more stuff like that on the shelves.
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by pling 12y ago
Well it all depends on the context which is the issue. The context is defined by what you were doing and what they thought you were doing arbitrarily merged together by the better wrangler of words. If you are doing something criminal or so
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by pling 12y ago
Is that modern life? No it's a prescribed vision by a few corporate entities. Modern life isn't dependent on a computer in your hand 24 hours a day. Smart phones are pretty much like cigarettes that don't kill you (well unles
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by pling 12y ago
This is one thing that has always annoyed me about debian. Nice to see there is a solution. I rather prefer the /etc/rc.conf approach of BSD systems though.
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by pling 12y ago
Or you could just stop using the tools that incriminate you? Voting with your feet works pretty well.
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by pling 12y ago
12 years isn't that long. That's less time than XP was around to put it in perspective...
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by pling 12y ago
Ah yes I'd forgotten about that. Good point!
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by pling 12y ago
My TTL book lives in the bathroom so I sort of agree :)
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by pling 12y ago
Both ends equally so. We did a lot of parsing and generation and found a pile of bugs in the SDK plus the thing isn't a deep enough abstraction so you have to break it regularly.
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by pling 12y ago
Cool stuff. Much cooler than doing it with a scope and function generators! I looked at galvos on eBay but I felt like I was cheating. I tried using mirror on a stepper motor shaft initially as a test but the scan rate was abysmal and it wa
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by pling 12y ago
Low cost MCUs have FLASH which has a finite life. Same with FPGAs which need to have their brains filled from something. I worked on a project a few years ago that had a PIC part. They never got the software working right so we looked at th
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by pling 12y ago
I had the same inspiration :) I'll document it when complete and submit to hackaday.com. There have been many dead ends so far so I'll probably just depress myself if I write it up before I'm done :) My objective is a parts c
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by pling 12y ago
Well spotted. I'll leave it in for posterity :) However I expect our Surface 2095 will run Office 2097 and it'll still have VBA jammed in due to some legacy clients moaning that they can't run their financial app in it any mo
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by pling 12y ago
That's basically it yes. Well there's no way to apply aftertouch to a laser harp nor is there velocity so it'll be hard coded velocity (might have a pedal control in future). At the moment it will just sent note on and off do
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by pling 12y ago
Spend some time with VSTO on the client and the OOXML SDK on the server and I assure you that you'll still want to kill yourself. I just spent three months doing this and it was akin to knawing your own limbs off. The Office VSTO API i
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by pling 12y ago
I have the same book and it gets used regularly. Surprisingly not everything involves gate arrays and microprocessors.
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by pling 12y ago
Ive done a fair bit of electronic design over the years (professionally). The classic parts are still going strong. There are even single gate devices now in SMD packages! Outside the world of computing and mainstream consumer tech I expect
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by pling 12y ago
That's actually pretty funny! I'm with Bob Pease at the moment: "My favourite programming language is solder".

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