technofiend

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by technofiend 6mo ago
I view it like the automotive world - lots of people like to buy a car and trick it out in some way. Same with PCs. Just think of it like that.
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by technofiend 7mo ago
I once publicly stated it's understandable that someone would post an ad that says "No YouTubers" because people don't want to be content for others. The reply I got was "but you're being recorded all the time
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by technofiend 8mo ago
The exact opposite is true in some places: being a massive asshole is often rewarded because those people are able to bully others into getting what the assholes want done. Only it's dubbed "influencing". The higher up you g
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by technofiend 8mo ago
>... and you don't have to worry about it. Not to be argumentative, but I have a concern that whomever I buy my solution from will have vibe coded it instead. I guess that means my support contract entitles me to hassling them abou
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by technofiend 8mo ago
The Cray 1-ish machines I had access to at Shell and Chevron were most definitely tucked away in rooms with no visibility into them. In fact the Chevron machine room had pretty stern "no photography" placards, which I took seriou
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by technofiend 8mo ago
I've been beefing about this for decades; X Window didn't do this by default and you could adjust window manager behavior however you liked to prevent windows stealing focus in X, even for newly realized windows. Microsoft Window
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by technofiend 10mo ago
So you don't think Plaid sells customer data? And by extension charging for customer data requests by Plaid and other aggregators isn't in fact charging for it? Plaid does in fact sell your data, but they ask for permission first.
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by technofiend 10mo ago
"...Selling your data would be idiotic...same reason it would be for your bank [to sell your data] in that trust is the entire business model." I'm afraid that ship has sailed and taken your data with it. https://w
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by technofiend 10mo ago
You did say "I'd like this to be the end of my Windows usage." Even so, if you're not ready to move tomorrow, you can give up some privacy for the next year and continue to get patches by logging in to Microsoft. Window
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by technofiend 10mo ago
When I paste code into the native MacOS Teams chat, my peers using Window Teams see a literal black box. I wish it worked! I really do. Or we all had MacBooks or Linux desktops.
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by technofiend 10mo ago
Even Microsoft MacOS apps are second-class citizens next to the ones found on Windows. I personally feel this is $WORKING_AS_INTENDED because honestly why would Microsoft empower people to exit the platform? It would be like creating an ope
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by technofiend 10mo ago
Completely shared experiences with regards to both Forrest's books and Estes' rockets, except after enough losses of the latter I got pretty fatalistic about new rockets. They were assembled and flown same day as soon as the glue
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by technofiend 11mo ago
huh.. maybe publicly communicated recovery was then. I was seeing knock-on effects hours later and didn't see full recovery until late afternoon EST.
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by technofiend 11mo ago
It can be a life changing amount of money but not always in a good way. If you're not careful, your spending expands like a gas to fill all the available volume and you're just marching sideways towards retirement with nothing sa
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by technofiend 11mo ago
The same text is on their M3 page, so at this point you have to assume it really means they haven't gotten to a point where the support page needs updating. Although it would be nice if they updated their page to just say that instead
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by technofiend 11mo ago
It's just anecdotal but when I asked why our Xerox workstations at JSC had dancing Snoopy line art, I was told Charles Schulz himself was a big fan of the space program and he'd drawn art for the program and extended its use to th
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by technofiend 11mo ago
It's happened more than once that people thought $2 bills were fake; here's a recent example: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/houston-school-confuses-2-... I had someone pocket a Susan B. Anthony $1 co
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by technofiend 11mo ago
It's $10,000 worth of tires on a $500 car. IOS is so crippled, it's complete overkill.
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by technofiend 11mo ago
Oh there are myriad online options; I don't want to store my tax returns in the cloud.
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by technofiend 11mo ago
I love everything about this. I've often thought families that wanted to extend their network between trusted friends could set up a literal private branch exchange (aka PBX) with only their friends as fellow members.You have a way fo
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by technofiend 11mo ago
IO on many little files is dramatically faster in Linux on ext4 vs Windows thanks to NTFS' journaling overhead. So if you're doing development, you really want to do it inside wsl2.
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by technofiend 11mo ago
I cancelled Facebook in part due to a tug-of-war over privacy defaults. They kept getting updated with some corporate pablum about how opting in benefited the user. It was just easier to permanently opt out via account deletion rather tha
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by technofiend 1y ago
As a unix sysadmin in the early 90s, I liked to understand as much as I could about the tech that supported the systems I supported. All my clients used NFS so I dug into the guts of RPC until I could write my own services and publish them
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by technofiend 1y ago
My wife was a wedding coordinator for many years and we were both aghast at how anything dubbed "wedding" was magically 10x normal cost. I used to joke that wedding water would be next. Then some crafty bastard ran with the idea
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by technofiend 1y ago
A colleague rejected a candidate this week after said candidate posted ten lines of code into a clipboard all at once and then claimed to have written it one line at a time. When challenged, he further claimed my colleague's zoom sessi
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by technofiend 1y ago
I recently had to argue a junior into leaving the health check frequency alone on an ECS container: the regular log entries annoyed her and she didn't know how to filter logs, so her solution was to take healthchecks down to every five
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by technofiend 1y ago
For a joke between friends I had it take my selfie and make me a bald Catholic priest and then add hair to a friend who is bald. No refusals, although those are pretty tame. In contrast to the quality images nano-banana produced, Copilot r
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by technofiend 1y ago
You do have to wonder how that kind of interview would go. Hopefully it would be actual engineers that created what she reverse engineered instead of some gatekeeper trying to one up her somehow.
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by technofiend 1y ago
I do not.
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by technofiend 1y ago
My personal experience using virtual desktops vs a MacBook aligns with your analysis. This despite the desktop virtual machines having better network connections. A VM with 16 GB of memory and 8 VCPUs can't compete with an M1 Max lapt

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