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by gommm 5y ago
While I agree with you that the Sierra book could have used a better editor, I still rather enjoyed it anyway. I finished it in one evening and was engrossed in the history of Sierra.
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by gommm 5y ago
oh yes, I didn't mean to harp on you, what I meant is that I believe a lot of executives make the same calculation, oversimplifying things in the same way which leads to the repeated QA issues both Apple and Microsoft have or to the is
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by gommm 5y ago
I think that's often the reasoning behind this but I think the oversimplification doesn't help. It's usually harder to attract new customers than to retain them so retention is important and regression bugs affect that. They
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by gommm 5y ago
I don't think that Microsoft ever ran at 12 full-time given my experience with windows 9x... But then Joel is biased when it comes to Microsoft.
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by gommm 5y ago
I think that it would be good to dedicate a few months with no new feature and just focus on fixing all the regression bugs, there's a lot of bugs that are reported for many months to a year seemingly without activity. I used to like I
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by gommm 5y ago
I'm based in HK so prices are definitely lower since I can order directly from taobao. The purifier was around 350 usd, it's the Mijia Air Purifier MAX Enhanced Edition. For the sensor, I used an ESP32 with a small eink screen (fr
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by gommm 5y ago
Having tested the DIY option versus some other air purifiers (xiaomi not levoit though), I do think that there are other considerations to take into account. A box fan with a HEPA filter bungee is loud and is very annoying to have at home.
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by gommm 5y ago
I'm the opposite, I have a kindle Oasis and caught myself getting the ebook of paperbacks or hardbacks that I own. I just find it more comfortable to read. That said, I really dislike the interface of the kindle, I like the kobo's
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by gommm 5y ago
Oh I don't disagree with you that he is great at managing the supply chain. World class even. The thing is, there's inertia, Apple made great products and still have a great reputation, Amazon was a great place to buy online and w
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by gommm 5y ago
And the worst part is that their software division used to be great. Aperture was really good when it came out, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro were great. Eveh talking about iwork suite, numbers and page used to be better than they are now. Even
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by gommm 5y ago
I was starting to wonder too but then I updated to 11.6.1 and the problem disappeared so it would point to this being a software issue?
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by gommm 5y ago
I'd say 2000s, 90s gave us windows 9x and ME which were far from being reliable. Same for Mac Os 7 & 8.
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by gommm 5y ago
It used to be the same for me, when I started with Tiger until Snow Leopard, I never had crashes. Uptime was months. Then I started getting some crashes occasionally but still relatively rarely. This increased a bit around Sierra then reduc
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by gommm 5y ago
Ok, and that and Lefebvre are definitely very very common. Thanks for looking it up.
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by gommm 5y ago
In French, that would translate to forgeron, but it doesn't seem to be a very common name. On the other hand, boucher (= butcher) and boulanger (= baker) are very common name in France. Kind of interesting that certain profession would
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by gommm 5y ago
I think it was both of the factors you mentioned but also due to the fact that in early/mid 2000s, China increased the number of university student by an order of magnitude (almost ten fold). This caused some growing pains in universit
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by gommm 6y ago
Wow, that must have been rough, I was lucky in that I came back just before they changed to the hotel only quarantine. One of my friend had to go through hotel quarantine and ended up getting a windowless bedroom during the entire 14 days (
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by gommm 6y ago
I'm actually hesitating, my freenas has ECC ram (it's a nas and it'd be stupid not to) but I'm building a desktop around a ryzen chip that will run pfsense as well as multiple vms. I wanted to buy ECC but I have a hard t
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by gommm 6y ago
Yes, based on my experience on a mac, I would not buy any mac with less than 32gb ram (I personally use 64gb and it's so much nicer)... Yes, it seems crazy, yes it's a lot of ram, but I like to be able to run VMs locally and not h
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by gommm 6y ago
What makes you think this would help? In the specific recent case of the Vienna shooter, he had been in prison for trying to join ISIS, he had gone to Slovakia to try to buy ammunition for a Kalashnikov AK-47 and the Austrian authorities we
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by gommm 6y ago
I love Apple's solution when it comes to localization, they will search both the non-localized name and the localized name. So if you're looking for Image Capture, you can find it with Transfert d'Image and with Image Capture
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by gommm 6y ago
Read only is already giving the keys to the kingdom if internet connections are not limited. Any sandboxing that doesn't protect against exfiltrating private documents is not sandboxing at all. It's fine if it's a trade off b
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by gommm 6y ago
Hope that part of the rating will include regular security updates for a minimum of 10 years.
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by gommm 6y ago
oh I didn't know that, I somehow thought the chapters would be much longer. I've mostly played VR games in 30 minutes sessions about. I get dizzy beyond that and it's the time I've got available anyhow :)
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by gommm 6y ago
In the past year, I've used my steam account for VR games 50% of the time roughly and they still didn't really push Alyx all that much. That said given I mostly only do short game sessions , maybe they figured that I wouldn't
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by gommm 6y ago
Completely agree with you. Let me add my voice too to say how glad and grateful I am for all the work done by the author. He's always helpful too on the forum and friendly.
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by gommm 6y ago
Completely disagree with you on that, he comes across as someone who is tired of always being asked the same questions, who does work to solve the problem and is frustrated that a lot of people are unappreciative of Kovid's work. Give
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by gommm 6y ago
Definitely recommend the books (at least the ones written by the father, not the ones written by the son). The lynch movie departs quite a bit from the book, it's not a really bad movie per se but it's frustrating if you've r
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by gommm 6y ago
Well in this case, they only told us about the computer issue as a justification after the fact, they never told my father when he was in the emergency. If my father had been redirected to another hospital instead of being left there to wai
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by gommm 6y ago
I also don't understand this, my father died last month because of the same reason. He had an aortic dissection and in those cases time is critical (especially given that he was under anti coagulant). But they took 12 hours before they

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