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by bnastic 5y ago
I tried this setup a few years ago, over a couple of weeks whilst in Spain on holiday. iPad Pro (1st gen + apple's keyboard case), shared Wifi from my iPhone (4G in roaming), blink, and OpenBSD VM from Vultr. It was surprisingly OK. Mo
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by bnastic 5y ago
I don't think the 'old' M1 13" Pro is long for this world - for £100 more (16GB+1TB spec) you get a much better machine in the 14" model. But independent comparisons will follow. I'd love to see a Pro/Max
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by bnastic 5y ago
I can’t remember a single military project involving France and the UK that didn’t end up with them parting ways. From NATO, for a while, to eurofighter/rafale
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by bnastic 5y ago
As I understand, that $tn for F35 is projected over the entire lifespan of the program, which is decades in the future. Not the sum they spent on development.
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by bnastic 5y ago
As an 8yo, I thought ZX was a German computer, because like every other home computer of the time it came from a shop in Munich’s Schillerstrasse. Somehow it found its way into Eastern Europe that wasn’t too keen on importing computers. An
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by bnastic 5y ago
It’s difficult to move away from Apple if you want to keep all your projects/hobbies inside one computer. I can (barely) make Windows do all the things I need, but that’s not an improvement in any way. (Fwiw, aside from software dev I’
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by bnastic 6y ago
This keeps getting reposted/rehashed regularly. And the code is there for those wanting to look into system include headers, like sys/queue.h (I haven't actually checked for chicken and egg scenario in commit history of vario
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by bnastic 6y ago
Promise Pegasus (thunderbolt storage) comes with a GUI that does the same thing - to shut it down you have to type “CONFIRM” before clicking the button
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by bnastic 6y ago
It may be so, but I'm talking from experience - as a keyboard geek I have, over the past ten years, taken all sorts of weird keyboards (and mice) into various big banks with not a hint of trouble. USB storage, on the other hand, qualif
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by bnastic 6y ago
I have not yet seen this implemented anywhere in banks. HID devices are fine, but anything else USB (esp. storage) is locked out completely. One of those banks wouldn't even let temp staff send emails out of the bank from their work ac
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by bnastic 6y ago
No, not GS. Am not at liberty to say I'm afraid
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by bnastic 6y ago
I wouldn't call them "ahead of time" - there was a need for a certain type of service and smart people recognised good solutions. It may have been ahead of time from general availability of that tech, and internal frameworks
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by bnastic 6y ago
Same in the UK, and I believe in other countries, it's not strictly a US thing.
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by bnastic 6y ago
This is absolutely true. Many are still running on old-old Mac Pros with Snow Leopard. Upgrades are done when hardware can't keep up anymore, but they also tend to use big DSP rigs from Avid and UA that remove the CPU bottleneck for ma
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by bnastic 6y ago
Not even considering it until I see Logic Pro X benchmarks. PS All those sleeping bugs from C code that was never tested on weaker memory models...
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by bnastic 6y ago
> I suspect this depends a lot on the installer. This is London, all installers of everything suffer from vertigo
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by bnastic 6y ago
Paying the equivalent of someone’s mortgage just to be able to get a decent internet connection in 2020 is infuriating. I would switch to Hyperoptic in a heartbeat but they are not rolling out to north London any time soon. Funny how in Sco
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by bnastic 6y ago
It's not that easy to get a contract either... First they said "health and safety", they can't get a man to bring the cable up to 2nd floor. I said fine, how about I buy that cable, I drill my own walls, and bring you th
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by bnastic 6y ago
> Especially the ones that implore you to trust them With long established institutions (like banks) you still have lots of competitors to choose from, and legal recourse if you are wronged. There is no recourse when PayPals, Amazons and
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by bnastic 6y ago
> i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed How about Apple telling me they don't like my busines
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by bnastic 6y ago
Yes, kqueue is very good, just not for the purpose in the OP's context - filesystem monitoring.
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by bnastic 7y ago
Yes. It's a short term money grab that will have profound effect on financial services industry, pharma, construction, etc. After killing contracting in the public sector the time has come to abolish the one-man consultancy in the priv
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by bnastic 7y ago
Contracting in London is as good as dead come April
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by bnastic 7y ago
Ah, C++ Builder... Borland wasn't afraid to patch the language (hello closures!) to get the features they needed. I loved that IDE, it made me a decent amount of money back in the day and it was ridiculously easy to get a full featured
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by bnastic 7y ago
> If Linux becomes incompatible with ZFS in any way, I'll switch to FreeBSD Isn't FreeBSD now using ZFSOnLinux project as well?
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by bnastic 7y ago
Calling BBC "conservative" is quite a stretch
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by bnastic 7y ago
Sony made a tablet like this ("Tablet P") some years ago, even made sure that their builtin apps (email, calendar etc.) would recognise the two screens and split the UI properly. I had one of those tablets and it was fun for a whi
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by bnastic 7y ago
Tried them all over the years. Then I bought Triplicate from mbtype.com and since then it's been my mono font of choice in everything. Nothing comes close on HiDpi screens
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by bnastic 8y ago
I pay for The Times and find them quite good. I agree and disagree with their columnists in equal measure, but I see them as honest(ly trying). The Economist, on the other hand, I’ve ditched after many years. Not worth it anymore. Tech news
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by bnastic 8y ago
Quite the contrary in mine. Dissatisfaction with “tax money waste” correlates with the amount of tax they pay.

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