dman

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by dman 6y ago
It is not a new phenomenon, I am still grouchy about how Deja was handled. :(
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by dman 6y ago
I think a lack of geographical diversity is coming back to bite tech companies. For better or for worse conservatives believe they are not fairly treated by tech companies. The fact that most US tech companies are on the coasts which happen
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by dman 6y ago
I disagree with this line of reasoning. I have seen good/bad examples on either side. I think it actually comes down to someone on the developer team having a high set of standards that they push everyone to subscribe to.
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by dman 6y ago
Really wish Fujitsu sold a developer kit with an A64fx chip - its the only shipping ARM chip with SVE that I know of and I would love to get my hands on one to play with.
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by dman 6y ago
I hope they stop at extend this time.
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by dman 6y ago
Which car make and model?
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by dman 6y ago
Have watched from close quarters how some friends have experienced burnout trying to make a living off their OSS projects. The projects in question are fairly popular and in broad use by large corporations but efforts to monetize were ultim
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by dman 6y ago
It took me way too long to learn this lesson.
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by dman 6y ago
Any thoughts on Rhinoceros?
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by dman 6y ago
Given that the person who wrote the apology has apologized for the apology not being upto the mark, I think we can say that the apology missed the mark. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353#issue
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by dman 6y ago
I am hoping control of these mitigations is given to the user in terms of easy to control knobs. I don't have the same concerns as your bigco cloud provider and would like to run my home machines without these mitigations in place. (I
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by dman 6y ago
Invaluable for students in film school to showcase their work to a worldwide audience before they make it big in Hollywood.
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by dman 6y ago
Could not agree with you more.
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by dman 6y ago
Do you mind elaborating what kind of problems you work on?
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by dman 6y ago
Anecdotally gcc + gdb does release with debug info builds a lot better than clang + lldb. In general quality of debug info is one place I have had fewer issues with gcc/gdb than I have with clang/lldb.
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by dman 6y ago
Same here!!
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by dman 6y ago
Here is one possible pleasant surprise if I was starting out today - if my calling in life was to be a systems programmer then learning C++ opens up a rich sea of codebases built by people who knew what they were doing in the last ~25 years
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by dman 6y ago
I dont think I made any references to complexity in my tweet. All I was trying to say is that the bad news with respect to C++ is priced in and the language only has to be marginally better than what its detractors make it out to be.
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by dman 6y ago
The disdain about C++ is now so overdone that I think that people who actually sit down with the language will be pleasantly surprised.
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by dman 6y ago
Brilliant quote - going to use it in the future.
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by dman 6y ago
As a person who does not work as a system administrator professionally but does use self administered linux machines as workstations systemd has not brought any new productivity gains but it sure has increased the learning curve.
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by dman 6y ago
Given the enthusiasm for class action lawsuits in the US I am amazed this passed muster with management and the legal department.
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by dman 6y ago
How do you know?
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by dman 6y ago
Sigh - I hear you.
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by dman 6y ago
If you things to just keep on working Arch might not be the distro for you. Have you tried something like ubuntu?
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by dman 6y ago
Working for me
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by dman 6y ago
I have written a fair amount of software in Qt. It has been clear to me from the actions of the Qt company (via the amount they charge for it, getting rid of indie plans which allowed you to use it Qt for ~350 bucks a year vs the $5508 a ye
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by dman 7y ago
In the midst of a pandemic where teenagers are liking and sharing these videos I do think that public interest concerns apply.
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by dman 7y ago
TikTok is distributing some incredibly dangerous material during this pandemic - people claiming in tiktok videos their religious faith makes them immune to the virus and showing a Corona infected person hugging others with messages like -
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by dman 7y ago
I have seen this myself - every software startup feels that everything they build upon must be a commodity and the only value add should happen at their layer.

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