cookguyruffles

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A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life(twitter.com)
38 points by cookguyruffles 5y ago|17 comments
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
> that's easy For a tiny fraction of the population this might be true, for the rest of the population it definitely isn't true. I'm part of that tiny fraction, and pissed away hours trying to find a LineageOS (or similar)
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Precisely because the average social media user is petty, insecure, and attention-seeking. Like shaming is a fabulous concept I for one could get behind. Next up do follows, replies and retweets, and eventually people might slowly begin to
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
I had pretty much the exact same experience as parent comment. There is no apologizing for software that can quickly and easily accept your credit card number, but drag its feet and require non-existent humans to intervene to stop taking yo
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
https://i.imgflip.com/5b0hgl.jpg
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
These licenses are totally meaningless when Google make anti-competitive threats to their partners for attempting to exercise that license. They benefit from all the marketing of their vendor ecosystem in the public eye using the open thing
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
This is the correct answer. Do not allow a subtly different technical design distract you from the largest switcheroo here: this is a single-vendor enterprise OS delivered under the guise of open source, it comes with all the trappings of a
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Adding an extra 50 yards to any single Ryanair flight would likely bankrupt the company
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Most folk don't even know it exists because it's been the default option in their Internet banking for so long..
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
That's a highly optimistic read of it. China move fast and brutally when they decide to move, but often their motivations are approximately identical to what applies in the west, we just take a more gentle approach to changes in our ex
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
I think US banking is the outlier here. I've never paid anything like this anywhere in Europe, the vast majority of transactions (for example SEPA) are free, or very close to free.
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
honestly don't mind this one, worth it for the fairly awesome meta footnote
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Any idea why the minimum plot size needs to be so damn huge? Really killed the attractiveness of the whole scheme for me
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Speaking as an IRC lifer, every article I read about this fails to actually make any kind of cohesive point about what's going on and why it is bad. Explain like I'm 5 please? Who controlled nickserv/chanserv before this Andr
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
> The reason it's not generally done is because the select API has been effectively replaced with better things like kqueue and epoll and poll and ppoll. If you actually want to do something like select and you expect to have a lot
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Always wondered about this, can overlapping systems be used simultaneously for higher reliability or precision?
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Artificial pricing is still possible in the blockchain world, it's just called staking over there
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FastAPI default configuration leaks traffic information to third parties(github.com)
4 points by cookguyruffles 5y ago|0 comments
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Came here to say this. It's a site designed for idiots not engineers. How does rendering work? Can't even tell if it's HTML based or some hipster immediate UI toolkit nobody's heard of. What do I need to give up to get a
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Am I correct in saying after one usage, the parachute system generally needs replaced? I think I read this about Cirrus planes anyway
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
It seems initial distribution was centrally managed in this coin. Needs much stronger proof of no foul play in this case than a shiny web site
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
> Numerous articles document Bitcoin's energy sources, which are Primarily based in a country which is also the world's largest consumer of coal > Its security model has yet to be proven on any network worth discussing. Thos
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
> Not a specific one - any API Defining this is a job for industry bodies and suchlike, as is keeping it current. Lest we forget jokes like the 2020 Brexit agreement containing references to Netscape Navigator 4.0
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Is anyone surprised to learn there are informed traders on the other side of these hype-driven bubbles? edit: it defies belief that this is somehow a controversial comment
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
They have tens of knobs, some strange and esoteric, targeting specific corners of the banking system, but I believe if they want to control inflation they simply need to cut back on bond purchases. As they buy less bonds, their price drops,
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Bitcoin regularly moves in tandem with SPX and this effect will continue to strengthen as more ETFs become available, and futures volume (on classic regulated exchanges) increases. These instruments are gateways that enable a much larger cl
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
I never log into YouTube and this still happens, it's at least in part keyed to IP address
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
I'd be incredibly surprised if mobile power management did not account for the difference between "blitting array of 2D pixels" and "running massively parallel shader". Even if not done for energy conservation, it
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working mode
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by cookguyruffles 5y ago
You cannot put a price on career-long isolation from office politics

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