TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I don't disagree with that but some OS re-installs also correspond with buying an entirely new machine. And I'm the kind of paranoid person which burns instal DVDs and then checks the DVD's checksums from an offline computer
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
Coming from the author of ripgrep, which is a tool I use daily, I've got to say it's an honor to see you answering my silly comment! Office at home certainly beats datacenter hosted but by 5x? Not sure... ; )
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I always reinstall from scratch although I could just Debian "dist upgrade". My thinking is this: if, ten years ago, I somehow missed a security patch or some 0-day owned my machine before it was patched, then I'd potentiall
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> (as seen by the other replies on this thread of people spending multiple hundreds to repair their screens) I'd rather buy a 500 EUR non Apple laptop than pay the 490 EUR I was quoted to repair my M1 MacBook Air's screen. I m
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
How comes this thread with 420 votes just jumped from 2nd (?) to 23th position?
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I think it's more plausible that people are surprise that their really expensive super thin and sleek computer breaks when it's physically damaged. Oh common: I've got four laptops here. They all work fine, including two
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
My two MacBook Air, both from 2013, are still working. They both have battery issues but I plan to replace the battery. My MacBook Air M1 had that very screen defect thing happen for no reason after... 10 months. So, basically: ten years v
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon. Yeah well, my M1 MacBook Air just friggin' screen-died overnight ten days ago. On the other hand
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> My 14" M1 MacBook Pro screen repair cost was $809. I was quoted, for the MacBook Air screen repair (it died overnight), 490 EUR VAT included in Belgium. Paid the M1 MacBook Air 1020 EUR or so 10 months ago. In addition to the pric
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I had it happen to me ten days ago, just before going on vacation. I'm going to the shop where I bought it tomorrow to see if any warranty is available. The first quote I had (from a close by shop) was half the price of the brand new
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I'm not sure if that's more or less than I'd expect. Most people "owning" gold in the world hold paper gold that isn't backed by physical gold. And the paper gold volume traded on a daily basis is several
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> It's fully deterministic, multiplayer works by only sending user input around (at a reduced tick rate) and the unit movements get calculated locally from that. That's interesting. I wonder why the other poster say the replay
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I had no idea StarCraft still saved the entire game state: what a gigantic waste! I wonder if the game engine was deterministic or not (if it wasn't there was no choice for save files: you had to save the full game state if you wanted
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
Is this an attack on PoW or PoS? For Ethereum, since quite a while, is already mining blocks on both the PoW and the PoS chain.
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> More interesting: in the future with gpt5 and image generation tech, how will we know if anything is real ever again online? Actual question Another question... Say we discover a new planet in 2030. Countless low quality, click/a
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
"Excel" became a synonym for spreadsheets. There are millions of SMEs, today, running on spreadsheets that aren't Excel. My wife runs her little SME with her paid-for Google Workspace / G Suite: she and her employees a
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> Alternatively, are there any laptops which have such keyboards with extra modifier keys? 3 days old thread but in case you read this... Simply buy a japanese laptop and remap it as you fancy. The advantage is you'll get a tiny (
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> If developers could make a small mistake that caused this, imagine what could happen when The Merge goes through. I don't get your comment: Ethereum itself has worked without any issue since it came out, in 2015 (?) or so. Many s
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
The Mediterranean sea is, to me, the most beautiful place on earth. Be it mainland Spain (with, sadly, way too many concrete all along the coast), France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, ... It's just beautiful. Then the islands: Corsica,
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> This isn’t so much a critique of Git, it’s a critique of the way Kubernetes-the-project uses it. I'd hope so: the Linux codebase is an order of magnitude bigger than the K8s one and it's not breaking Git.
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I'm very lazy so although I've several machines (drip coffee, french/moka press, nespresso) the one I use all the time is my full auto. Input: grains, water Output: coffee Buy a JURA coffee machine (pricey but worth it) and c
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
Don't know how reliable this is but you can try "buildwith": https://builtwith.com/fnac.com (obviously won't tell much about the server side of things)
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> Then why the hell all wannabe successful people are on LinkedIn aka the directory of professionals. They keep signing up every single day because they want to be looked up and found by their fellow professionals and potential employers
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
Yup that's a good solution. I want to make sure the wife can reach me or my kid's school or other parents when my kid is at a friend' place. But I hate notifications with a passion. Now I have a landline phone again (it came
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> At the same time in Europe you go to a nude beach and there are whole families with kids and literally nobody has problems with it. Well ok: if you specifically go to a nude beach, I'd expect you'd see naked people and nobody
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> in the clearest of skies the naked eye can barely see the milky way unless it's a new moon and you're hundreds of miles from any town That's a bit of an exaggeration. I often go to some place in a rural area in mainland
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> You don't want your developers developing on a different OS than your CI & deployment environment anyway. Who's running OS X servers in production? What are the devs running OS X and IntelliJ tools deploying on?
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> The code was also...interesting to look at. Talk about unmaintainable lol. I've seen outsourced code where some logic was spread over 800 lines of copy/pasta horror for what should have been about three functions and two for
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. What does that sentence mean? I cannot parse it. Does it mean that the fear of being turned off has been inser
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by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I've found the only things that can cure a hangover are time or more alcohol. It's called the hair of the dog (that bit you): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_of_the_dog

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