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by crinkly 1y ago
These days C is enough pain :)
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by crinkly 1y ago
I disagree with this entirely as I rather like a desk job and hammers make my hands hurt after a bit :) If you want to get paid in software don't do something utterly commoditised and popular or you're just a fungible meat flavour
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by crinkly 1y ago
If you want to learn how to solve problems with hammers, engineering is what you want to do. If you want to know how the hammer works, do mathematics or physics. If you want to get paid, do software. This is why I did an EE degree, didn&#x2
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by crinkly 1y ago
Rubbish. The sticker is still on my 14 year old washing machine. Hell I've got a 55 year old piece of electronic equipment here with the serial number sticker still on it.
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by crinkly 1y ago
This stuff really annoys me but the problem is really well solved elsewhere. When you buy an Apple product it has a number on it Axxxx and a serial number somewhere. That's all you need to identify your product to anyone. That includes
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yep. When the only tool you know is the hammer you're going to hit inappropriate things with it.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Good to hear. I will add that not everyone who writes a paper expects anyone to read a paper with that level of diligence and it can lead to some interesting outcomes for the paper authors over time. Keep up the good work is all I can say!
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by crinkly 1y ago
The bubble pops way earlier than the news comes out. You can see it in the investment companies as their analysts start heavily promoting whatever is about to pop to keep stock moving while divesting at the same time. Last thing they want i
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by crinkly 1y ago
Not OP but you're right that it's probably metal shaders as it runs on pre-RT capable iPhones. But I've tried it my spare 13 Pro. It's laggy as hell on the betas. Like really laggy. If it goes into RC/release like t
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah this. I'd rather we have NeXTstep back than pastel blurry glassware oblivion. I have a longing for 10.4 on my old plastic Intel iMac at this point.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Sounds like when I worked for a defence contractor in the 90s. Felt owned from the moment I woke up until I fell asleep. Didn’t feel human. Just woke up one day and thought fuck it and never went back in. Took 6 months off, went on holiday,
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by crinkly 1y ago
At best it churns out mediocre to poor code so it’ll produce mediocre to poor thinking. I wonder if some of the proponents know where the line is in the art. I suspect not.
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by crinkly 1y ago
The biggest problem with this is near zero communications from Microsoft. But what do I expect these days? Shovel AI in everything at any cost. I’ve had repeatable data loss recently from windows 11 under a specific condition copying direct
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by crinkly 1y ago
It's only blocked on certain ISPs in the UK. Mine (Zen) is not blocked.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I have a colour cal 5k display. That’s not streamable in any sensible way. Nor do I want the latency or interface disparity.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I've tried those (and RawTherapee). They are nowhere even near half the way to Lightroom.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I didn't buy it or agree to them anyway :)
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by crinkly 1y ago
That hasn't happened on Mac at least. If it does I will go to Linux.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Wait until you plug it into JIRA, strap copilot and actions on it. Then you can have all flavours of hell at once. Our org has ground to a halt. A lot of the time we just break the branch permissions on the repo we are using and run release
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by crinkly 1y ago
Only thing that keeps me off Linux is Lightroom and Photoshop. Nothing even remotely comparable. So it's Mac for me, but I get you.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Glad I don't have to use Word any more or Windows. Everything is in TeXShop+LaTeX for me now. Just files on the disk as it should be.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I suspect the majority of people who recommend particular x86 laptops have only had x86 laptops. There’s a lot of disparity in quality between brands and models. Apple is just off the side somewhere else.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Having used both types extensively my dell matte display diffuses the reflections so badly that you can’t see a damn thing. The one that replaced it was even worse. I’ll take the apple display any day. It’s bright enough to blast through an
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by crinkly 1y ago
That made me laugh because that’s exactly what it is.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Online petitions give voice to people who can felt heard but ignored.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Compiler is usually IO bound on windows due to NTFS and the small files in MFT and lock contention problem. If you put everything on a ReFS volume it goes a lot faster. Applies to git operations as well.
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by crinkly 1y ago
+1 for organic maps. Have used it hiking and travelling all over the world. Never had any issues with it. Not had any GPS problems other than that time I was in an area where it was being jammed. Bloody Russians.
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by crinkly 1y ago
As the owner of an M4 Pro and an Intel Ultra 7 laptop, the M4 pro is uncomfortably cold most of the time. The ultra 7 is uncomfortably hot. The Mac sucks in the winter. The PC sucks in the summer. The PC is however entirely unusable due to
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by crinkly 1y ago
Semi-related, but they aren’t the status symbol they used to be. I know a guy who did quite well out of removing Agas for a few years because they are so expensive to run. Apparently up to 20x the cost of more sensible equipment. They were
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by crinkly 1y ago
I dislike Go but I haven’t found anything else I dislike less.

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