qz2

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by qz2 6y ago
Well you won’t have to next time :)
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by qz2 6y ago
I don’t get the charger whining from people. If you add the price of the charger and the wired earphones to the price of the phone then with inflation it’s cheaper than the handsets were in 2018. I’ve got 7 Apple chargers here as well. This
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by qz2 6y ago
I never factored them into my plans before. I have eliminated them now :) I drive a tiny little french thing with a chainsaw engine so probably not my market anyway.
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by qz2 6y ago
Added BMW to my vendor shitlist.
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by qz2 6y ago
Neither did I, until I did.
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by qz2 6y ago
WSL distributions and Windows Terminal are both exclusive to the store. Wait until you try mixed mode windows and Linux containers. That’s the definition of a shitshow.
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by qz2 6y ago
Or just don’t bother clicking it.
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by qz2 6y ago
That’s even worse. File system performance is so terrible that it’s unusable for anything past trivial operations. AFAIK it maps the Linux ABI/syscalls to NT and that’s it. So you get the dire small file performance of NTFS to contend
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by qz2 6y ago
Grass is not greener on the windows and WSL side. It’s yellowed and littered with turds to stand in. I run both platforms side by side and the Mac is by far the least painful. Windows 10 on an average day is like gargling sand. I mean for t
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by qz2 6y ago
Alt+tab has been thoroughly broken on Windows 10 20H2 for over two months now. It randomly switches between the second and third window. No fix in customer facing versions yet either. They are slow and incompetent.
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by qz2 6y ago
Can you please get a different job?
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by qz2 6y ago
This is the most HN article I have ever seen.
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by qz2 6y ago
Absolutely not. I was merely an engineer telling truth to the management staff. This taught me a rather large lesson that it’s more about the person’s integrity passing the facts on than the convenience of the facts or the reality of the fa
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by qz2 6y ago
My house was paid for by someone who was that arrogant :)
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by qz2 6y ago
I worked for an online gambling startup that got owned on launch day and the investors pulled out the day after. Thank fuck I was just a contractor and not a founder or shareholder.
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by qz2 6y ago
Annoying because over here in the UK everyone shrugs if you mention it now.
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by qz2 6y ago
To be fair it was a bit early technology-wise and they would have had to rip the entire thing out and start again three times since. We did pretty good out of copper in the end.
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by qz2 6y ago
There’s at least two layers of indirection and yes I probably could fool you or just blatantly lie.
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by qz2 6y ago
I don't believe in anything past 100% portable IaaS platforms. Within those bounds, careful application of AWS is fine.
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by qz2 6y ago
There are a lot of religious followers of the one true AWS way of thinking. I dared bitch too loudly about SES delivery policy once and said to look elsewhere and earned the ire of the architectural elite. This is insane because I'm ce
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by qz2 6y ago
Problem with investors is that they pay third parties to do audits and third parties are filled with box tickers who ask a load of questions. You can strategically answer any question. So the game becomes how to answer the audit questions e
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by qz2 6y ago
What I find frustrating is that if you are in a high stake environment it’s increasingly fashion driven too. I am in one of those environments where we can get prosecuted, big time. I tend to opt for a conservative engineering approach with
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by qz2 6y ago
I get the feeling those issues are over on the Mac now. Over the years I’ve had issues that are shockingly similar to my PC stuff on the Mac. I have concluded this is possibly the underlying architecture complexity. Most of the PC architect
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by qz2 6y ago
I just spent all week on an 8gb mini with slack and about 50 JIRA tabs open. Works fine.
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by qz2 6y ago
Yeah this is why I spent my saved ryzen money on a Mac mini. And found out it was good enough!
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by qz2 6y ago
True and I certainly agree with that side of things.
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by qz2 6y ago
The one that makes me laugh is the people who get on the bus and then put their mask on. And the people outside the supermarket who grab the dirty spray bottle handled by 500 people already, clean their trolley handle but not their hands, t
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by qz2 6y ago
This was also a bad solution. A high number of false positives. Sensible legislation never rushed but forward thinking is the only option, not running kangaroo legal system suddenly.
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by qz2 6y ago
Until we actually hear evidence that it is, then it’s not. But we still have to sleep with one eye open.
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by qz2 6y ago
I think the problem is that people don’t want to enforce it because 1 in 50 people you try this on are likely to go batshit insane almost instantly. No one wants to deal with that. At the end of the day this whole thing is dependent on the

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