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by WWLink 2y ago
That sounds like google's 'team matching' process lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
> That's why I like all-round developers better, they have a bit less to prove by making "smart and complicated" code. I thought we all agreed the best kinda code is the stuff you can debug at 3am. While drunk.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Yea, I was thinking that volunteering would help them meet people and see their pain points first-hand. Observing/shadowing sounds like a lot better way to get insight into what's going on. Plus they're offering up help in ex
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by WWLink 2y ago
Really dumb foolish suggestion? Check volunteer opportunities at your local hospital or health clinics.
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by WWLink 2y ago
One thing that does make me chuckle when I see "retro" setups on reddit is the use of a crappy 13"-14" monitor from 1993 surrounded by hardware from 1998 or 2002 or so. This doesn't surprise me though. The high end
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by WWLink 2y ago
If there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's how not to build a wooden deck lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
I remember a common talking point for space shuttle haters (aka people who use the word "boondoggle" way too damn much) was that it's a truck and we don't need a space truck. If it was a truck what is starship?
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by WWLink 2y ago
I'm waiting for the day that a company decides that prolonging the usability of an old game on physical media is robbing them of income they would make if you bought the new version. Eg, a game developer suing people who make patches o
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by WWLink 2y ago
Actually, with refind being a thing, I'm not sure why grub is still a thing. Also why MS' bootmgr stuff is still a flaming pile of junk. Edit: And why MS has never given us a way to dictate where it installs its junk and/or t
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by WWLink 2y ago
In my LA neighborhood, it's trucks with mud tires and old german cars modified to go POP POP POP that annoy me the most. Loud exhaust is a very very close third. Loud diesel being first. Followed by V6s lol. I don't understand peo
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by WWLink 2y ago
> ProSupport gets you competent and US-based tech support engineers with the power to solve tech problems and ordering (e.g. spare parts) quickly. 10 years ago I bought a refurb alienware tower really cheap. It, however, came with some
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by WWLink 3y ago
IIRC you actually could copy from the phone or ipod back to the computer but you had to turn off automatic sync first.
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by WWLink 3y ago
MS Word templates are one of the most awful things I've ever messed with. I had a fun time using them with pandoc to produce autogenerated word documents. ARGH! The nightmares! We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not
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by WWLink 3y ago
Ah, the wiz bulbs. Those are pretty dumb and I think the most effective approach is to put them on a VLAN that is firewalled off from the internet. You can control them with OpenRGB or Home Assistant. It's both a good thing and a bad t
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by WWLink 3y ago
If I had to point a finger at something I'd say it's probably how they bundle everything, market everything, have cultured decades of cult-like loyalty in business IT employees, and so on. That is, aside from the bundling I'm
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by WWLink 3y ago
Honestly it blows my mind they were able to give control of one of the most important industries in the world over to a foreign country like that.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Why would anyone ever use anything other than Logic Pro? /s
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by WWLink 3y ago
I don't get it? When I wash my cars I like to go all out and clay them and wax them. And then the next morning there's a nice layer of dust. And the morning after that the morning dew has cemented that dust on. Even a 3 year old c
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by WWLink 3y ago
As someone that learned to program on BSD and shortly thereafter, Mac OS X and Linux.... I honestly don't know how people use Windows machines as a dev environment 24/7. It would drive me mad. Everything's so wonky and weird.
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by WWLink 3y ago
This is the one 'creative' use case I know of where Macs actually are better - the lag and latency issues on Windows still seem pretty bad. I spent the last week shopping around for an audio interface and every single model had pe
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by WWLink 3y ago
Ya know the funny thing about Pebble, looking back as someone who is on his 3rd apple watch: At the time, I honestly thought Pebble was doing it the right way! And in hindsight, I still think that at launch, they had the perfect idea - for
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by WWLink 3y ago
They started to, and then they gave up on it. https://www.engadget.com/meta-dissolves-ar-vr-os-team-204708...
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by WWLink 3y ago
Apple makes devices for the users. Dell makes them to sell as part of a service contract to a company. Microsoft makes an OS to sell to enterprises to provide a heavily managed experience for their employees so they can maximize productivit
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by WWLink 3y ago
TL;DR: Apple builds to a standard while everyone else builds to a price.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Having the OS, the hardware, and the app store, along with a lot of the (almost mandatory) cloud services AND the most popular apps, all made by the same company.
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by WWLink 3y ago
> If Google didn't have to worry about money, they might not develop these things to give away for free. I get the impression Google has no intent to give things away for free anymore lol
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by WWLink 3y ago
This has nothing to do with laws. This has everything to do with Apple choosing how you will use the software on your device. And they're straight up insisting that if you don't live within a geographical area, the functionality o
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by WWLink 3y ago
I think the hardware still feels pretty fancy. I recently bought a macbook air and iphone 13 and they feel really nice.. the imacs I got my brothers have been excellent as well.... But buggy software filled with ads. Yes. That much I agree
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by WWLink 3y ago
The sooner this "ecosystem" crap dies, the better. The sooner not needing Apple dev tools or an Apple developer account to make software for an Apple device, the better. The sooner I can use my Apple Watch with an Android phone, t
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by WWLink 3y ago
> The biggest problem is that the people that work better in an office tend to see that benefit because there are co-workers there. And if half the people are working from home, the co-workers aren't there. So you can really only ma

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