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by baz00 3y ago
I would be embarrassed to crack that open and do work on it.
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by baz00 3y ago
This stinks of no-one-knows-what-the-fuck-they-are-doing-itis, a common problem in the software engineering community. When mixed with a deadly dose of sunk-cost-fallacy-itis and project-death-march-itis, the only way out is adding more Jav
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by baz00 3y ago
Talking of a shoestring budget, sometimes it's a good thing. I actually learned more useful things about EE by fixing broken test gear than doing an undergraduate course. The course was so heavily theoretical that when it came to actua
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by baz00 3y ago
Oh that's pretty awesome. Thanks for the link!
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by baz00 3y ago
It's even worse for us cyclists. Regularly tries to kill me in the routes it picks.
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by baz00 3y ago
As opposed to my one day work week which is 4 days of pointless meetings and 1 day of actual productive work peppered with interruptions and spread across 5 days. An hour of straight concentration is something I crave right now.
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by baz00 3y ago
I predicted many years ago that the fall of America will be due to citizens unable to afford to run air con.
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by baz00 3y ago
Have you tried using a desktop OS that vendors give a crap about? (Yeah I know how that sounds but it's true)
879.
by baz00 3y ago
This got me when I was in the middle of nowhere abroad airgapped. The file I wanted wasn't there. Switched to OneDrive and android now. Keep offline works.
880.
by baz00 3y ago
Reasonable telemetry i.e. logging which can be correlated across services, is probably good enough. I think we're hitting 15,000 logs a second so even sampling OT becomes financially infeasible.
881.
by baz00 3y ago
Functionally it's usually an edge case somewhere or someone doing something stupid. Recently where I reside there was an overflow scenario of a registration number and the powers that be decided to add another digit. Of course to maint
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by baz00 3y ago
Feel less bad about that 5th coffee now...
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by baz00 3y ago
Bram wrote the only bit of software that never let me down once. RIP. You've done good to the world.
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by baz00 3y ago
I've been heel dragging for over a year on OpenTelemetry for this reason. The org doesn't need it either. They saw something shiny and want it for no rational reason other than they think everyone else is doing it. Realistically t
885.
by baz00 3y ago
Office 365 + Maxima + LTspice + VSCode + Photoshop + Lightroom + TeX/LaTeX mostly. LTspice, Maxima and O365 are horrible on macos.
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by baz00 3y ago
They're not wrong. I've got an M1 14" MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad T14 gen 3. The MacBook is in the cupboard and the ThinkPad does the work. Despite a few rough edges it's a lot more useful and easier to drive. I genuinely
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by baz00 3y ago
Microsoft can simply fuck off if they try and sell me VDI. It's literally the shittiest user experience you can have regardless of who provides it or how it is implemented. Local first, remote sync is fine. Remote first is not!
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by baz00 3y ago
HP are scum but I have to say the most reliable laser I've had is an HP LaserJet Pro M148 and it wasn't expensive. No jams, everything works, no crapware. Done 7000 sheets on it. The only thing you have to do is ignore the low ton
889.
by baz00 3y ago
Give it a couple more cluster upgrades worth of YAML wrangling and you'll turn rabid like the rest of us.
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by baz00 3y ago
That's going to leave a big hole in your CV/resume where there could be a CNCF word salad to make the recruitment and HR drones drool. They need to know if you can write a custom k8s controller in Clojure to generate cronjobs that
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by baz00 3y ago
Disclaimer: may require the inhalation of YAML.
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by baz00 3y ago
Better fire up the crack pipe instead!
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by baz00 3y ago
I manage a few rather large k8s clusters during the day and I don't understand what this is or why I'd need that without reading too much. If I read too much I switch off. This is a side effect of the emotional damage from managin
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by baz00 3y ago
Hahaha hooky RAM dealer. Much respect though for being there at the start. I used to do something similar with pirated Amiga games but that was a limited market!
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by baz00 3y ago
Surprised that's still around. Had a fairly large airgapped Pegasus deployment (1000 seats) on Netware back in 1998.
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by baz00 3y ago
Stop-A is the key combo you hit on Sun workstations to drop into the ROM monitor. Usually when they are locked up solid with a crashed Xserver and need a reboot.
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by baz00 3y ago
Question for people with more expertise here. I just switched to Android recently because I don't fancy getting mugged again for a huge pile of cash for an iPhone. So I've got a Pixel 6A. It's pretty much loaded up with MSFT
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by baz00 3y ago
Oh man that's funny. Only because something similar happened to us. Hired new cleaners circa 2001. Got into the office one morning and all the PC cases were open. All the RAM and CPUs had been stolen.
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by baz00 3y ago
I don't care as long as I control my data and leverage the collaboration opportunities that the cloud gives us. That means I want real files with documented formats on my real disk on my real computer and to be able to work with them w
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by baz00 3y ago
Yeah crazy money. My father used to import RAM when it was really really expensive in the 1980s. He used to take it on planes from Taiwan as hand luggage handcuffed to himself because it was that valuable.

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