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by bluedino 1y ago
I work with Python programmers (engineers/scientists who 'know' Python) daily. Having them understand why their slow code is slow would be amazing.
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by bluedino 1y ago
In the early-ish days of Linux (2001 or so), I had a friend who wanted to use certain scanners and modems and things that didn't have any support. I used to always tell him 'just write a driver for it', not realizing how comp
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by bluedino 1y ago
I remember reading a story about writing games in the 80's, and the programmers were all using some powerful timeshare system, but during the workday it slowed to a crawl as everyone compiled their code. It was far more productive to j
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by bluedino 1y ago
I work from home so I eat 3-4 each morning.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Before Covid it wasn't uncommon to see eggs under a dollar per dozen.
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by bluedino 1y ago
> After I learned C and started using it, I noted that I experience five times more memory-related issues in C programs than in an equivalent Pascal code I was writing before. I wasted so much productive time learning/writing C for
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by bluedino 1y ago
9 beers is a lot but it's not THAT many. - a drunk
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by bluedino 1y ago
Many PSX games had the music on the CD as standard audio, so they didn't require much of any effort from the console to play.
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by bluedino 1y ago
I don't think I ever played an actual 'Lode Runner', just Steve Moraff's version (DOS shareware?) Whatever happened to that guy?
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by bluedino 1y ago
Now I'm remembering all the fun we had a long time ago with php websites that used an AS/400 for a data source. They didn't sort the same, and the mom and pop web dev shop that was hired to create the web site didn't und
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by bluedino 1y ago
It was common to try to get grant money to build a cluster of PS3's when they came out. I'm betting a bunch of computer science students got a console after that. Was the PS3 the one that was banned from some countries? And wasn&#
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by bluedino 1y ago
Those are all checkboxes on the form The first time you do it, you can do a consult with a cloud team member And of course they get audited every quarter so usage is tracked
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by bluedino 1y ago
> At $dayjob the time required to spin up a single cloud VM is now measured in years. We have a Service Now ticket that you can complete that spins the server up at completion. Kind of an easy way to do it.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Even if you can get instant approval, Dell or HP won't Fedex you 50 servers next day like they will 50 laptops. And once you're a customer you get to deal with sales channels full of quotes and useless meetings and specialists. Yo
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by bluedino 1y ago
Should the US employ enough people to file 160 million tax returns each year? (Just individuals not corporations) The tax code is a behemoth. Plenty of loopholes to find to save money. Also, most of the tax prep companies are thinly disguis
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by bluedino 1y ago
> It's the poorest county in the state and would bring in much needed money. What money? Power bills won't go down. The solar panel factories aren't in that county. The installers will be brought in from out of state contr
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by bluedino 1y ago
Weren't shucked drives (removed from enclosures) referred to as White label drives at one point?
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by bluedino 1y ago
I've had the same thing from random disconnects etc from various USB hard drives and SSD's over the years.
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by bluedino 1y ago
I remember seeing the Mix C video courses in computer shopper magazine http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/cvideo.htm
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by bluedino 1y ago
I was just thinking the other day, if the connectors had been USB-C from the start. No Type-A, no Type-B, no Mini, no Micro...
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by bluedino 1y ago
> But that industry has been taken over by asia. There aren't many that haven't been.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Why not get a dedicated server from OVH\Hetzner at that point?
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by bluedino 1y ago
We have a neighbor with two campers, and a boat. They move them around every 10 days so they don't get a ticket. They also have 7-8 vehicles, and to top it off the person who lives there is a mechanic that works out of his home garage
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by bluedino 1y ago
I always wondered if any engineers suggested changes to make some BASICs faster and the companies didn't want it competing with "real" software
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by bluedino 1y ago
There are some bad "high end" factory systems. Looking at you, Ford and B&O.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Never seen any decent audio gear at a thrift store. Plus, does all of that stuff integrate with your tv remote like the right soundbar can? Most people don't want multiple remotes or have to manually turn a receiver etc on
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by bluedino 1y ago
$150 soundbar setup from Best Buy is good enough for "most people"
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by bluedino 1y ago
You can't scratch an mp3, ruining your copy.
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by bluedino 1y ago
That's what we ran. Core system was written on PICK Basic in the 80's and it just kept going on and on. I was buying HP Integrity (Itanium line) spare parts on eBay up until about 10 years ago.
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by bluedino 1y ago
My friends parents used to clean a business on the weekends, and as kids we got dragged along, but we had permission to play games on one of the office computers. It was an unassuming 286 running DOS, but it had a modem and a couple bulleti

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