sumtechguy

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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
Then to add to that I see every single day people walking doing silly things and walking into the roads where they should not be. One dude I saw just a few days ago was crossing an interstate (see that about 2-3 times a month in the same p
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
That is exactly where I am. The value prop on synology has fallen off. Esp since they have let their kernel rot. There are tons of perf they are leaving on the table. The default external ports are usually 1g and most others have moved
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Also VDI/VHD was not mentioned which is interesting.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The 94/95 web had no banners. Because most of it was hosted on university servers or some random guy/company just wanted to bear the cost. I remember the big decision on if adverts should even be allowed... Well here we are. Us
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The thing is that VZW could win on appeal with that. They are title II of the telecommunications act not title I. Cell services have a huge carve out in II both for data and communication services. I was surprised by that. It was one of
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I worked for a large company that did just that. They reduced the number of buildings they had to shrink costs, and get rid of employees without 'firing' them. MSFT does not strike me as a company that does not understand cost p
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I did something similar years ago. Couple of drives in an old beige tower case. Setup the sharing wand what not. Not exactly 'hard' but it was one thing. Time consuming. Once you have done it a few times the novelty wears off
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
One guy I know had one of those UFO pics. When I saw it I knew instantly it was an iridium flare. I knew it because I was dead set on seeing a good one with several apps on my phone to track them. I showed him exactly where he was standi
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Would have to read thru Tittle II of the communications act and see what portions they are under. Title I is POTs and Title II is ISPs and Cellphone providers. Title I tends to be much more strict.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The other kind that are insidious are the MLM people. They post a 'job' and it turns out you are about to be sold an MLM. But you can 'be your own boss!!!'
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The thing is most people do not want to mess with computers. They are terrified they are going to break them. Frankly they are not wrong. I spent yesterday just trying to get a div tag to flow correctly with all the objects around it,
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
This will take a few times but... That is when you interact with them, maliciously. Basically cost them time and money. Have them on there for an hour or more. Set phone down come back every 2-3 mins and make sure they are still there.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
is there an http code for 'hey I gave you this already 10 times. This is a you problem not a me problem I refuse to give you another copy'. It also sounds like there is an opportunity to sell scraped data to these companies. Ins
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Always read the docs of your system. All of the xxprintf functions are not the same. They are sneaky and look the same on the surface. Even silly things like what the % items do can vary between platforms, or have different meanings, or
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
For someone doing spamming that low level would work well. As their cost is determinatively low to make it work. For someone doing scraping to get data and feeding it to an AI not so much. The AI groups usually have some pretty heavy hit
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> The hardware you buy for these activities, has still residual value after 1, 2, 3 year. Unlike the streaming service you pay for. With mine I am cracking on 14 years with some of it. It still 'just works'. I ripped all of m
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Then the flip side is 'oh i love what you built' uhh wait a min that was an utter rubish version. 'no no no its great'. now you are kind of stuck with it.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> Most people really cannot tell you what they want in any reasonable way. But build them something and suddenly they know exactly what they want and what you built isnt it.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> Asking the candidate to do an interview with an AI flips this; the company can en masse require high effort from the candidate without matching it. I don't disagree. These systems are already awful to get into. Some have dozens
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> Admitting right off the bat that you're going to waste the time of 90% of your applicants without these stakes is just wildly disrespectful. They were already doing this. Now it is just more automated. You didnt have the right k
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
We had that exact thing. Our target at the time was about 6 different platforms. 2 of them had very picky compilers/ABI. We were trying to keep it to one codebase with minimal if-def callouts. Learned very quickly not all compilers
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
yep exactly that. I had that exact issue. Junk coming in from a tcp/ppp connection then had to unpack it. Tons of garbage moves and byte offsetting and then making sure you keep the endianness correct too. On the platform I was usi
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Also keep in mind that is also all very CPU and compiler specific. Had one compiler where it packed everything at 4/8, usually 8. Not the 1/2/4/8 you would expect. That was because the CPU would just seg fault if you
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
You can divide visual studio into 4 era's. The vs6 (we smashed all of our dev tooling together and its integrated decently) era, the vs2002/vs2003/vs2005 (we broke it all and you will like it and never speak of C++ again), v
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Yes. However, what will happen is most will be 'fail to local only' but if that update server ever comes back to life, you are doomed.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I had that same thing. It was a nice entry level. Still have the 'hot shot' on my wish list on amazon :) After my third set of tires and second set of struts I kinda stopped messing with it as I didnt have the money for that. I
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The thing is that may not have saved them here. They did an update to make it stop working. You would need to be local only and stay there and never use the online features.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The electric bill does not pay for itself. What is also interesting is one of the biggest search companies is using it to steer traffic away from its former 'clients'. The very websites google talked into slathering their adverti
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Like cubic splines, the data will be on the line. Everything in-between the points may or may not be true. But it defiantly conforms to the formula. Wonder if it would be possible to quantify margin of error between different nodes in the
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Finding people is easy. Finding good ones is hard. You basically have to interview them. Even then you can end up with a slick salesman and garbage crew. Needed a moving company. One guy shows up sits in my driveway gives me a quote. T

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