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by dissent 2y ago
I have long felt that DevOps was always a philosophy, not a methodology. It simply meant folding all that operations stuff into the SDLC. It was always about making Ops part of Dev, not the other way around, and especially not as a standalo
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by dissent 2y ago
Which they had to do by wrapping the entire proprietary win32 API, we had to wait decades, and it needed Valve behind it. All without Microsoft's cooperation. Their strategy was to make it the best gaming platform by making it the only
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by dissent 2y ago
> Windows has one major thing going for it: it’s best-in-class for gaming. > It might even be the greatest gaming platform of all time I keep hearing this. It's the worst gaming platform of all time. Windows was brute forced into
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by dissent 2y ago
This is really it. They feel safe doing it and will even openly brag about their discriminatory policies, safe in the knowledge that their brand of of discrimination is righteous. Where have we seen this before...
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by dissent 2y ago
You are assuming that diversity for diversity's sake is a worthwhile pursuit to begin with. When the metric becomes the target it ceases to be a good metric.
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by dissent 2y ago
I know, I lived through it, and it was great at the time. Note that I was responding to OP who said he he'd set aside a Windows PC just for gaming. That would qualify as a gaming appliance in this context.
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by dissent 2y ago
I think you nail it right here. Gaming is a specialist activity poorly suited to general purpose computing. The only reason we ever used one machine for both was that home computers were expensive. Not having to support games in your daily
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by dissent 2y ago
I know a lot of developers who agree with you. But how is make dependency free? You need to install make. Which version? GNU make, or FreeBSD make? What platform are you installing it on? What version? In my team we had to get all our devs
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by dissent 2y ago
Why invoke it via make when it can invoke itself? It's just another dependency that's not needed in this scenario.
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by dissent 2y ago
One issue I don't hear mentioned often is reuse. A task runner's tasks could be arbitrarily complicated, pulling in all sorts of dependencies of their own. This is less true for the traditional compile targets make was designed fo
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by dissent 3y ago
I also think this is only true because a generation of office workers have been trained to believe it is true. We don't have a better option because it is impossible for an alternative to be established. Excel begets Excel. Further loc
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by dissent 3y ago
I think his words were ill advised and he was likely to get in trouble for them. But, as a woman, I don't think you ought to be offended. His point is in your favour. He is saying there are too few women in the area and the industry wh
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by dissent 3y ago
Well that's a double standard if ever I saw one.
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by dissent 3y ago
With respect, as a transgender person are you saying these soldiers are not "real" transgender people?
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by dissent 3y ago
Comment about the HDDs wasn't poorly researched - it wasn't researched at all. It's from personal experience. I'm not saying PCs were "better computers" than Amigas, or trying to frame a fair comparison. The po
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by dissent 3y ago
7MHz for the 68000 on the Amiga vs 33MHz on the 486. I also saw it running on 386s at the time and it really wasn't quite enough, so CPU was certainly a factor. But the killer was RAM no doubt. 1MB on the Amiga, while my PC had 4MB. Un
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by dissent 3y ago
I don't know if it's possible to appreciate Turrican 2 if you didn't play it back in the day, but it was really good at the time and I remember it fondly. In this instance, it was on several platforms but the Amiga version wa
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by dissent 3y ago
It was more where I lived, but you are right a good PC was probably 2-3 times more expensive. But it wasn't possible to get that gaming experience on the Amiga at any price. This was a year or two before Doom.
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by dissent 3y ago
I realised the Amiga had had its day when I played Dune 2 on the PC. It was a great game on the Amiga releasing to rave reviews. But the PC version on a 486 with a soundblaster absolutely sang. It made the Amiga look an entire generation be
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by dissent 3y ago
They are recognised and acknowledged to the point that it becomes tiring hearing about it all the time. The referendum was whether there should be a constitutional change, and the country decided overwhelmingly that there should not be. Sev
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by dissent 4y ago
Article conflates global installation into the system python with global installation in general. Not everything is a project dependency. If you want, say, ipython, available everywhere, global installation is appropriate. You can get this
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by dissent 4y ago
He didn't mean you were running Linux "on" or "under" Windows. What he meant was "this is not because you are running Linux instead of Windows".
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by dissent 4y ago
The world's full of them though. I don't really get the passion behind the anti-Elon camp. It sounds personal. Isn't it just some billionaire doing what they do?
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by dissent 4y ago
happiness => 'appinesss => a penis
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by dissent 4y ago
Doesn't have to be, invariably is in my experience. I prefer the approach of taking the phrase Zero Trust literally.
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by dissent 4y ago
MDM for laptops? No thanks. It's a world of security theatre - the main purpose of which seems to be to stop me doing my job. Also it invariably means Windows.
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by dissent 4y ago
My position is that the problem lies with the listener, not the speaker. I looked up Joseph H. Manson. At a glace that looks like exactly what OP was talking about.
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by dissent 4y ago
Don't mistake me for a religious person. I think it's the bane of mankind. My point is that despite this, trying to ban it is counter productive.
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by dissent 4y ago
Could you not argue that religious teaching should be suppressed since it often stands in opposition to fact, therefore is responsible for misinformation leading to violence? (and let's face it, that's probably pretty hard to argu
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by dissent 4y ago
The Orwellian bit comes once the quality gates are in place and get subverted for political means. But even if that doesn't happen, I disagree strongly. Extremism doesn't need scientific backing and never has. They'll take it

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