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by antod 4y ago
That is the whole point of the article. Based on their old Windows skills and experience (and having no Linux experience?), they thought they knew what they were going to get with a newer Windows install. The article is all about how shocke
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Agreed. That was how I've seen it run well. eg we'd create 2 channels for the incident - the first was for the technical team trying to fix it and would have quite a bit of noise as debugging went on. The second was for more senio
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From memory of back then, what made IBM noteworthy in the press was the scale of their investment and the number got repeated a lot. Dropping a billion dollars on some commie hippies made quite a splash that long ago.
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Yeah that probably is the case at big companies. My experience is all at smaller non VC funded companies where having some good product and design talent is critical.
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I've noticed that with a lot of local (nowhere near Silicon Valley) layoffs too. Very few engineers but lots of product and design roles - even from a purely engineering perspective it's a real shame because in my experience havin
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Yeah, I think something that gets missed by the decriers of pessimism is that over time we really do seem to be throwing a new strata currently at the bottom of the workforce onto the scrapheap. The "optimists" might not take noti
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I hated those things. Tomahawk on the Spectrum had a Lenslok - and our little 14" CRT TV had an external flat bit of glass that required you to unfold the lenslok and hold steady at just the right place. Even worse than it was on a nor
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> Isn’t it considered best practice not to use brew to install Python for exactly this reason? The only time I've ever had a big mess with broken Python installs was after using brew on Linux - luckily killing off brew brought th
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Hmmm... thanks for the update and link to eternal september. The way things are these days, I think I'm pretty much ready to try a return to usenet. Ironically although not a student or AOL user back then, my usage of usenet was after
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Although during the 80s and until Desert Storm, the same term was applied to the Iran/Iraq war - which is another mostly forgotten thing despite the huge human cost. (I realised after I typed the above that the wikipedia disambiguation
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I don't have any printers at all any more, but yeah I always found that Brother was a good choice for a cheap but still somewhat reliable network capable duplex laser printer that was pretty easy to get working in Linux.
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One usecase Matrox kept doing well was X11 multimonitor desktops. The G400 era was about the time I was drifting away from games and moving to full time Linux, so they suited me at least.
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"Now listen very carefully, I shall say this only once." I suspect that quote will meet Resistance.
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Yup, an incomplete list going backwards in time: Dixie Chicks, French Fries, PMRC, McCarthy Typically the shoe was on the other foot.
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Does parochial mean that someone still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea?
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As a parent of a 13yr old girl, we've tried with mixed success during her preteens to find her interests/activities she liked where she could get good at something and have a source of self esteem that came from somewhere outside
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Good to know the customisation is optional :) At one point I aspired to a setup like that, but I thought I was too lazy.
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It's in Ubuntu's Universe repository. That means it's usually just the upstream Debian package or one maintained by the community rather than Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu's podman 3.4 was pulled from Debian Unstable at some poi
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> I run Arch with i3, vim, and tmux Those are a bunch of options for people who like optimising and configuring (nothing wrong with that). I spend zero time on config in Linux just by accepting distro defaults. Maintenance would be les
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Definitely. It will probably happen by the time Avatar 2 is released.
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>IMHO (and bias disclaimer: Rubyist here) this is why Rails took over web and Python took over academia / ML - Python is about being correct, Ruby is about being adaptable - so Python is better suited to the well-defined-hard-to-do
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BingChat sounds eerily like Chat-GPP https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Genuine_People_Per...
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Seems to me that the power of government or lack thereof is far less a factor than the nature of that government (eg corruption or other self serving tendencies) when it comes to man made disasters. There are enough examples of man made dis
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Yup, sigh. NZ was a big sheep based economy when I was young. Now sheep are only for land unsuitable for cows or farmers that are stubborn holdouts. It costs more to shear the sheep than the wool is worth now - I really hope that can be tur
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> It was claimed the Germans Luftwaffe could fly by night on the full moon navigating by the reflection of these bodies of water, so the British govt issued orders to fill in these ponds and lakes to make it harder to fly by night. Won
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Sounds like a good reason to bring them in even earlier
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Admittedly the "on salary" is the key here. Trade wage slaves don't earn a huge amount - it's the ones that act more like a freelancer or their own contracting company that can do. A bit like when that IT guy moves into
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You underestimate just how mundane and unchallenging a lot of non software professional engineering is. Depending on circumstances, a professional engineer could just be checking and signing off on endless similar drafting details or techni
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I'm guessing beatniks in the 50s myself.
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> Yes. I hate reading something that's going to take 20 minutes and starts with an anecdote about Jimmy noticing something funny on a hike 20 years ago and you've got to read for 10 min to understand what it's about. But

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