stunthamsterio

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by stunthamsterio 10mo ago
Good catch - I should have expanded on the acronym, especially as was referring to my hearing loss being Single Sided Hearing Loss, so already easy to confuse (Although as you point out, SSHL often presents as single sided deafness). In my
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by stunthamsterio 10mo ago
I've got moderate to severe SSHL and use an Oticon intent 1 miniRite. For my use it's been very good - long last battery, relatively robust. It also has excellent bluetooth connectivity, so I often use it to stream audiobooks in t
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by stunthamsterio 2y ago
FWIW that appears to be soon deprecated according to MacOS 15.2: WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil c
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by stunthamsterio 7y ago
That's one of my enduring memories of VMS, and something that came as a shock when I came to different OS - the lack of clustering. We had (As far as I remember) two vast servers called Alpha and Beta (With Gamma as a dev server). They
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by stunthamsterio 7y ago
Oh nice tip, I didn't know that - Now I'll have to see if I can run a VMS VM inside my Windows VM... Turtles all the way down.
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by stunthamsterio 7y ago
I'm genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90's and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised. It'd be nice to be able to run it
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by stunthamsterio 7y ago
Completely this. I'm currently working on a novel with a view to publishing, but under no illusions that it's going to make any worthwhile money. For that, I have my day job and technical books (Which as far as I can make out are
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by stunthamsterio 7y ago
Well, I'm forty and sadly not yet able to retire and spent some considerable time working on VMS clusters. I even run one at home for fun, very civilised operating system.
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by stunthamsterio 8y ago
I heartily recommend trying one. I ride a ZeroSR and it's just a different experience, riding sedately along country lanes allows you to appreciate things in a whole new way. It takes some getting used to though, first few times I stop
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by stunthamsterio 8y ago
Me and you both. OpenVMS got so much right back in the day. Good error conventions, versioned file system... I still fondly run an OpenVMS workstation under my desk so I can revisit the good old days sometimes. Then realise my skills have a
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by stunthamsterio 8y ago
Why not? I was programming on a Commodore Plus/4 at the age of five. I got my teeth into this industry by hand typing from magazine articles programs that done nothing more then making the sound of bird tweets, but it taught me A: the
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by stunthamsterio 9y ago
I quite like feedbin.com. Simple, straightforward and reasonably priced.
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by stunthamsterio 9y ago
Interestingly, I used to work for a company that worked with the London Black cab manufacture to developer ride-hailing from a mobile phone. This was back in the early 00's. I always wondered if there was any patent portfolio that is r
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by stunthamsterio 9y ago
I don't believe so. Alarms etc are (I suspect) stored locally, but to enact a change on the device I believe it has to send it upstream via the phone app and the device then retrieves the changes. So when the service is shut down my ex
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by stunthamsterio 9y ago
This is a bit of a blow - I love my sense, both for the insights into my sleep pattern, but also for the alarm. It's also nicely designed and unobtrusive on my bedside table. I'm with you on hoping that they open it up to allow fo
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
HostBuddy is the perfect example of an app I didn't realise I needed until I tried it. My hat goes off to you sir.
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
I'd say the big difference here is running costs. I've worked with automotive clients (Ford, GM, Renault etc) for a while, and that's a big factor for them, especially in the lease market. Also given that a car is not a &#x27
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
I spend a lot of time picking up existing and 'legacy' platforms, and it consistently seems to impress my clients when I'm able to implement automation, even on so called 'un-automatable' platforms. I also think it&
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
The two technical manuals are Puppet Reporting and Monitoring, and the DevOps automation cookbook. I had fun writing the puppet book, but the second was for various reasons not as fun to write. That being said, it was still more enjoyable t
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
Writing. I love writing, I've published a couple of technical manuals and I'm currently submitting to various short story anthologies whilst working on another (Self published) manual. Writing leaves me happy and fulfilled and gen
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
I've used it on occasion to check hosts on an ad hoc basis, but never got around to putting in a more automated/permanent fix.
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
I can't agree with this more. Apathy and clock watching has done more to damage our industry than many other things. It shocks me when developers are willing to do the bare minimum, scrape by and avoid arguing to make things better. Mu
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by stunthamsterio 10y ago
This to me is one of it's benefits - uncommented, unused variables shouldn't be in code, and I like that the compiler is actively preventing me from being lazy and creating cruft that's simple to remove.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
Makes sense... I'll have a play with the generics, but my hat goes off to you - great looking tool.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
That's all kind of awesome - I'd pay some good money for a more generic version of the tool allowing me to draw out infrastructure for my clients that self host.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
I'll chime in; for me this is a god send. I currently work with a client who specialises in working with automotive companies (Ford, Renault, Peugeot etc), and it turns out that automotive companies love MS SQL. The stack I'm work
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
Having read the actual missive they sent, they come out looking worse in my eyes; not only was the threat still at the end, but it was crowned by a complete unfocused display of management babble.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
In terms of user configuration in containers, Tiller ( https://github.com/markround/tiller ) is very much worth a look.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
'read what you have written OUT LOUD' This right here. Anything I've written is read out load, and it's astonishing how many unclear sentences, head smashing obtuseness and general rubbish this picks up.
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by stunthamsterio 11y ago
I wouldn't trust either the Conservatives or Labour with this element of policy; Labour were pushing the Communications Data Bill back in 2008 which had much of the same language in it.

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