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by pling 12y ago
The problem I have is that in the space of a year I've had to return and get refunded: 1. A sofa that the frame broke on (their own brand one at £2600). 2. Two pairs of own brand children's shoes which didn't even last a day
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by pling 12y ago
This is great news. Particularly as John Lewis has a supposedly trustworthy brand but in reality they're an importer and shit shoveler with an insane markup and abysmal service. So many problems with them over the years that I'd r
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by pling 12y ago
I get 5 hours on a 5 year old ThinkPad with a 5 year old battery on Debian 7. I reckon it can be done.
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by pling 12y ago
Same with mine and audio. coreaudiod just shits itself 5 times a day. I'm now on Debian 7 with XFCE on an old Think Pad. Life is better here.
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by pling 12y ago
Oh how blessed are we that the landlords allow such mischief... Seriously people are pissing themselves all over with these announcements as if they weren't possible before.
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by pling 12y ago
Because the CPU has 32k of cache in this case (ARM) so the memcpy was evicting the entire cache several times in the loop as a side effect of doing the work. The actual function of the loop had good cache locality as the data was 6 stack va
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by pling 12y ago
Yes it was entirely covered by that :) I think it was covered by "naive memory management" and "shitty outsourcing". I'm paid to fix their stuff.
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by pling 12y ago
This. In my case a 1Mbyte memcpy in the middle of a loop this morning. Enough to blow the CPU cache out of the water... 300x improvement instantly by moving it out of the loop.
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by pling 12y ago
I think the lawyers decided that they didn't need to care...
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by pling 12y ago
Very impressive. A friend of mine tried to build something similar with some old flat bed scanners he managed to get from the local tip. Inevitably though, there is cost involved in the extruder head, electronics and software which killed t
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by pling 12y ago
It's pretty easy to lose one. A company I worked for had a SPARC LX (similar chassis) as the internal primary DNS server. It stopped working one day and they couldn't find it. Turns out someone had pulled a cable hard inside the b
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by pling 12y ago
It's pretty big and heavy so this is probably understandable.
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by pling 12y ago
I think it's mainly aimed at distributors who decide to sell affordable edition copies to the wrong markets. You can sell it quite happily second-hand. I've seen in many books here in the UK, in the front covers usually, a minimum
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by pling 12y ago
The hardware is not that great. It's got switchable graphics so I've had to disable the Radeon portion and stick with Intel graphics. Managed with powertop to get 10.9W of power usage and 4.5 hours of battery. Not bad for a 5 year
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by pling 12y ago
This doesn't surprise me. The whole academic publishing side of things is a royal pile of shit. Glad someone is calling them up on it. Recently I snagged a copy of "The Art of Electronics" for reference. This has a retail wha
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by pling 12y ago
I'm using Debian 7 and XFCE. It's pretty much the same regarding UI latency. And everything works on my T400 out of the box. Never been happier. I've just migrated from Windows 7 (today after clinging on for about 3 years) an
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by pling 12y ago
The pencil I use comes in 0.5, 0.7 and 2mm lead holder variants. The 0.5 doesn't need sharpening, which is the main reason I use one. Plus I'm an engineer, not a pencil collector :) http://www.rotring.com/en/m
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by pling 12y ago
2mm one of these works pretty well. Doesn't have the wood bit so doesn't make as much of a mess: http://www.rotring.com/en/mechanical-pencils/265-rapid-pro-m... I use a 0.5mm one for everything.
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by pling 12y ago
This, although I use a Rotring Rapid Pro mechanical pencil. I only use that because it's less messy and much heavier than a normal pencil so it's easier to write with, plus the end doesn't break off in your pocket. I have a p
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by pling 12y ago
Funny but this sort of annoyance is actually why I use a mechanical pencil. ...which incidentally I was laughed at when I started at my current company as everyone had IBM X60 tablets apart from me. I have the same pencil after 8 years thou
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by pling 12y ago
You're probably right. However there is a big market for quality through hole LEDs in non-mass produced consumer crap (read industrial electronics and test gear for example) so some of the big guys still produce. However when someone p
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by pling 12y ago
It is to me too. There are ways to make everyone a winner than the asshat though. Karma was served here. The individual in question got a referral from me to another position, got a call and a job with a golden handshake and I got a £500 re
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by pling 12y ago
I'm connecting to a Windows machine from my Linux host rather than the other way round. I can connect to the Linux machine quite happily with SSH as everything I do on them is on the terminal anyway (apart from a few things which I don
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by pling 12y ago
We have an RDP gateway which is an awful pile of shit to deal with as it uses HTTPS initiated MSRPC as the transport layer. FreeRDP doesn't work properly with that yet as there are all sorts of odd configuration and encryption things t
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by pling 12y ago
Well this is good for me. I currently use a TrueCyrypt encrypted exFAT volume for backups. My motivation is now to move this to an open source system (probably dm-crypt). This and RDP is the only reason I'm hanging onto windows and tha
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by pling 12y ago
Not downs, but we had a guy with a pretty bad speech impediment interview with us a while back. He had a well controlled stutter which resulted in pauses of 10s+. The guy was awesome (better than the average across our team) and had wonderf
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by pling 12y ago
100%. Its called efferent coupling.
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by pling 12y ago
Not joking but we're moving our Linux-based stuff to FreeBSD (mainly operations stuff, mail, dev systems, cache and monitoring). We've done a lot of recent work and FreeBSD scales down better to smaller systems. Systemd isn't
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by pling 12y ago
Assume that when you have N consumers of an interface then your coupling is N. Mocks consume an interface as does your codebase so your coupling is at least N=2 whereas your codebase alone was N=1. By using mocks, programmers cause coupling
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by pling 12y ago
I can only give you an anecdote as our product is closed source. Mocks went like this, in a bell curve fashion: 1. Mocks are great, we'll use them everywhere. 2. Mocks are preventing our tests from being refactored. 3. Mocks are preven

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