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by unxdfa 4y ago
That’s the best description I’ve heard for instagram.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I’d more expect the revolt to be along the lines of calling Microsoft out for being a dick. More an intervention than a revolt.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
The academic side is less bananas I will give you that. And your comment about 80m is spot on. The problem we have here in the UK, is that it's pretty easy to get a 2m HT and a license to use it. Huge swathes of amateurs never progress
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Having met a lot of people I think the license gives some kind officialdom and status which they are otherwise lacking and desire. This is an attribute demanded by a large number of people with defective personalities. Granted a chunk of pe
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by unxdfa 4y ago
No one does this or cares. They care about delivery and keeping ROI high and costs down, not demanding platforms. I wouldn't draw any assumption that higher quality software is portable. I've seen monocultural genius (Keysight Gen
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Fintech here. Also large. We have no Macs. We will probably never have any. We have a lot of software which will most likely never work on them. None of our clients have them as well. Also another company we are related to tried a roll out
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Windows doesn't matter to Microsoft now. The big sellers are Azure and Office 365 and they work on Macs. As for market share in the US, I very much doubt it's that high really. There are huge unimaginable swathes of windows boxes
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I would really love ReactOS to replace windows. Genuinely would. But it's not there yet. I've tracked their development for years. As for VirtualBox and VMware, that means I have two operating systems instead of one :(
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by unxdfa 4y ago
The ratio of cranks and weirdos to normal people is 9:1 with ham radio. It’s usually the other way round with other hobbies. The thing that gets me with ham radio is some see it as a social responsibility even here in the UK where its total
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Yep. I’m in the middle of switching from macOS back to windows because I need to do things I can’t do on macOS. I’ve had to build out a locked down windows 10 LTSC build to get anywhere near a sensible outcome for me. I think we should star
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I had ham radio passed down to me. This turned out, ironically considering it’s a communications hobby, to be isolating and a rather nasty bubble. Sort of like an aether 4chan full of bigots, racists and status chasing money spenders. Expla
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I cried a little when I read this :(
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Completely agree with this. Having ported a lot of old non async c# to async, even mixing the notions for a moment is a disaster. This was a world of pain in the late .net classic lifecycle (4.5-4.8) where Microsoft kept fucking it up as we
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by unxdfa 4y ago
The video basically points the finger at you.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
They do that in London too. Strangely they seem to actually know where they are going.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I had a fairly extensive personal web site for a number of years used as a professional profile. Unfortunately someone I met on a dating app turned out to be a bit of a psychopath and I had to pretty much cut her off. She managed to find th
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I’m convinced the only thing Wi-Fi doesn’t fuck out on at the moment is windows. Had problems with Linux, macs and android for the last few years. Just works on windows! Shame about all the other problems with it.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Fair but I wanted to be a fighter pilot because the money was better than driving a bus. So I learned c#. The company I worked for, a software dev house, said that they were VB only be they wouldn’t bring in c#. They died within 6 months of
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Oh I have exactly the same trouble. I’m in the middle of moving back to windows
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by unxdfa 4y ago
That’s pretty funny. I just bought a pixel 6a with the intent of replacing my iPhone. About an hour of “how the hell do people put up with this shit” and it’s going. Then I wake up to this.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. These models, by nature, can only produce derivative mimicry. Humans are capable of generating spontaneous concepts and employing meta-qualities like craftmanship and labour in the output. From
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by unxdfa 4y ago
We don’t track issues in GitHub. PRs are considered disposable.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Yes: memory ceiling is huge, WinRM is buggy and unreliable, performance is "variable", totally inconsistent handling of dates and times, being .Net it's UTF-16 internally so streams are painful to work with, escape characters
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Last month here in UK. After a package was stolen from my doorstep but the delivery driver said it was handed to receptionist. We don't have a receptionist, or a reception! I'm a "high hitter" customer. I have prime and
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I much prefer this approach as you only have to parse stuff once during the processing pipeline rather than at every step. Unfortunately after working with it for a few years I utterly despise PowerShell for many other reasons.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Have you tried getting through to a human recently on Amazon retail support? It's quite difficult. First you have to negotiate with a bot with an IQ and service level of an angry wasp, then you get filtered through to someone who usual
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by unxdfa 4y ago
We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Knowing Amazon retail / services support, their data is gone and they'll be lucky if they raise anyone at all. If you pay $15k a month for AWS enterprise support, you will find someone who may or may not be able to help you within
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Smells like everyone in github I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Not going to solve any problems by getting stressed at them. Have to approach them with a level head and detachment or you end up with emotional outcomes.

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