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by crinkly 1y ago
One thing I've learned about the Middle East is that you have to give it a month before even considering the headlines. There isn't a single honest trustworthy media outlet out there. Everyone is partisan or tangled up in everythi
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by crinkly 1y ago
Had a friend who was out there as a charity worker to help clean up after Srebrenica. It was worse than documented publicly. Same demilitarisation failures and covering shit up in Lebabon. UN can get fucked.
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by crinkly 1y ago
The latter is quite normal. There is an APU in most commercial jet aircraft.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Making loads of money cleaning up shit already here.
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by crinkly 1y ago
It’s the less bad than America option.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Strangely I see a lot of people hitting things with the brute force hammer quite regularly rather than using calculus. Some of our financial modelling stuff was CPU bound and took seconds because someone couldn’t be bothered or didn’t know
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by crinkly 1y ago
Not a dying breed. There is just a relatively static demand. Proportionally it looks worse because the rest of the industry has grown massively. Really the problem is there are too many CS grads. There should be a software engineering degre
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by crinkly 1y ago
Professional statistician here. Not that I get to do any of that these days, bar read Significance magazine and get angry occasionally. Looking at the original blog post, it's marketing copy so there's no point in even reading it.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Depends what you do. The sudden large accumulation of layers and corporate SaaS crap in the industry since about 2001 you're right on. But those of us a bit further down the stack or before that, it's pretty useful still.
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by crinkly 1y ago
That’s his job. He’s doing it.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I think Tim is only kissing ass because the desk trinket is cheap and the investment will take time to materialise, probably after this presidency. And Apple will be around longer than trump will be alive. I’m sure it’s killing him as much
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by crinkly 1y ago
I’ve done the same last year. But it was so I could play games :)
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by crinkly 1y ago
As someone who hangs around with academics outside the comp sci field regularly they mostly seem to have old MacBooks which are falling to bits. Not sure I’ve even seen an ARM one yet. They mostly don’t need a lot of juice and don’t want an
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yep that. I just upgraded my M1 Pro MBP to an M4 Pro MBP and I can’t tell the difference really. I’ll leave it 6 years this time.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah. I've been in an A320 simulator before for a few hours. They are pretty easy to fly and land. What isn't easy is getting one in a state ready to fly and to the runway. I can fly a Cessna 172 (didn't get enough solo hours
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by crinkly 1y ago
Good. Hopefully we're going back to more sensible and sustainable 2-3 year cycles.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I use Apple's cloud services yes. And I have ADP turned on. It just works. (I have offline backups of everything of course)
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by crinkly 1y ago
I spent a good few hours contemplating this over the last couple of years and the only rational answer I can find is that they are, apologies for language, just complete fucking morons.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah I'm with you there. Someone sent out some professional communications to me about a week ago and it was a bullet list where the bullets were emojis. And signed it with a smile. Just no. Appears a lot of people write something up t
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by crinkly 1y ago
I've tried most of that. It's really nowhere near any of the basic Apple stuff. I have no issues with GrapheneOS just stock android.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah good luck with that one. I ran a home lab for a number of years. This was a fairly extensive set up - 4 rack mount servers, UPS, ethernet switch etc with LTO backups. Did streaming, email and file storage for the whole family as well a
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by crinkly 1y ago
Don’t forget the CoPilot key you accidentally hit that suddenly pops up a window after 2 minutes waiting saying there is a problem at the moment. And if it’s Dell, a built in rattle!
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by crinkly 1y ago
And full of XSS and weird bugs if you don’t know what you’re doing.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Eh use their own hammer against them. Calling someone a pedophile is libel in the UK. Sue them!
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by crinkly 1y ago
I caused enough stink for them to be looking over their shoulder.
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by crinkly 1y ago
They moved the emoji thing to where the globe is and gave you a bigger space bar. Also changed the font slightly.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Wake me up when someone makes a better Reminders, Calendar and Photos app on Android... I'm using AdGuard for blocking ads in Safari. Works fine. I do have a GrapheneOS pixel 7a as well but I'd rather not let Google near my shit.
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by crinkly 1y ago
PM like it because they can break it until it fits their worldview. I've worked at 3 orgs in a row where the JIRA was a complete fucking broken mess because the process in it didn't match reality but someone thought it did.
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by crinkly 1y ago
User retention is a more important metric. Everyone is silent there. That is directly tied to MRR, long term viability and ROI for investment. If those were positive I'd expect them to be crowing about it, but they aren't. Capacit
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by crinkly 1y ago
I think the real problems are that knowing when to use something appropriately and holding yourself honestly to that are pretty difficult for most people.

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