NGRhodes

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by NGRhodes 4y ago
> Manufacturing costs and margins on LED-LCDs were far better for manufacturers and likely what killed Plasma. Yes, LEDs are hugely cheaper to manufacturer, allowing them to be priced at a point more suitable for mass markets, where peop
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
My most interesting jobs have been found via word of mouth where I have ended up speaking to one of the team before I even get to see a job advert or job spec.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
I feel most features in teams are worse than others or have major issues. These are issues I currently have with Teams: Search results that don't allow you to go to the specific part of long conversations. Wiki that doesn't ev
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Unless its an explicit mention of the exact feature in the contract (usually things like a fixed % annual price increase), its considered a change in terms of the contract that you can choose to continue with the changed terms or exit.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Linus Torvalds likes the fact Kernel debugging is not user friendly so that it does not detract from good programming practice, making sure you really understand your code and what it should do before having to resort to a debugger. https:
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Would loved him to go into more detail about his approach to coding and how debugging fits into the picture. I personally treat debugging as a last resort for when unit testing and verbose logging are insufficient. I can't remember
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Maybe it stems from Linux Torvald's hate of debuggers ? https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65
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Ownership of debian.community domain(debian.org)
44 points by NGRhodes 4y ago|9 comments
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Merlin firmware is special in a good way. Merlin has a good relationship with the Asus firmware dev team, he gets early access to official firmware, they sometimes ship him unreleased routers. He often finds and fixes bugs and creates/
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Could this be a ruse, a distraction, part of a plan ?
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
> Not really. Just look at windows. I press the windows key, type reboot and it gives me a link for the movie ReBoot. The Windows design is a joke. There must be something else going on, OP. FYI in Windows lingo you want to "restart
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
> the problem is open-source is kryptonite to capitalist enterprise. Giving things away for free is a poor way to make money. Open source is free as in freedom, not as in beer. It does not have to be given away for zero monies.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
And also Microsoft have historically (currently ?) just given access to user data of various products of theirs.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
By that logic they are not your emails, they are Google's.
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FossAbility, Making Accessibility Central to Free and Open Source Software(git.sr.ht)
2 points by NGRhodes 4y ago|0 comments
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Google maps is useless for local results form me, I live in a village on the edge of a small town with a few dozen local businesses and 4 chain businesses and all my search results are polluted by 2 cities 30 minutes and 45 minutes away by
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Magic Earth is a good map/navigation app that uses OSM data and has a decent search tool. IMHO it does car navigation well, but I prefer Organic Maps for hiking/walking, so I keep both on my phone.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Yes, complete opposite for me, loads of single track roads and whole 4sq miles of woods/Forrest missing, including numerous public paths .
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Pioneer Space Sim - https://pioneerspacesim.net/ This is an Open-Source remake of Frontier Elite 2 AND Frontier First Encounters. I only discovered this game a few months ago and only put of a couple of hours into the g
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
It make sense for Google to steer their products, not for generalised mapping.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Like Google search and maps, Street View quality seems focused on large towns, cities and areas of high population. I only live a few miles into a large rural area from one of UKs largest conurbations and our village is 13 years out of date
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Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback (Mark Rober)(youtube.com)
2 points by NGRhodes 4y ago|0 comments
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Confused European here, I thought "America" was the same as "The Americas"
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A comprehensive overview of Windows 11 22H2(arstechnica.com)
3 points by NGRhodes 4y ago|0 comments
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
It's a new market for Jiffylube.
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
I pay a small amount extra a month for my host to manage upgrades of my own WordPress sites and common plugins, I keep things simple on purpose to minimise the plugin hell you mention. As much as I can do this myself, I can't guarante
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
I'm continuing to use my own blogs/websites (not as much as social media, as much as an information store for myself as for my tiny audiences, not monetised) as an insurance; we have zero control over the data we post on any popul
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
I know off the top of my head 2 examples where code can be stored for research: Zenodo: https://about.zenodo.org/ OSF: https://osf.io/
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by NGRhodes 4y ago
Underrated comment, very factual. I skimmed through the reddit thread that this comment came from and its full of the usual arguments based on ideological belives and/or extensive reconfiguration possibilities way beyond the out of the
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
That would be Geany.

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