greggsy

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by greggsy 3y ago
Well spotted. I’ve always found ODBC drivers to be some ancient artefact that we lost the source code for.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Laptops and NUC style devices usually.
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by greggsy 3y ago
None?
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by greggsy 3y ago
I want to use someone’s novel software idea. I do not need to understand how it is built and how to maintain it . Getting irate about what the customer wants (‘use software easily’), then blaming them for not wanting to understand the b
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by greggsy 3y ago
I read it in the sense that they would retune or reengineer it if it was discovered that holding it in a hand resulted in poorer performance - ie. they need to factor in the environment it operates in (a hand beside a body) after they desig
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by greggsy 3y ago
True, but I just want to water my plants. Don’t really want to revisit a MySQL cheat sheet again.
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by greggsy 3y ago
> everyone just wants … something easy to run This is a valid need that any project maintainer should aspire to address. The ‘lowest common denominator’ is absolutely acceptable in an era of cheap storage and memory available to the aver
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by greggsy 3y ago
It’s right there in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article. Credits did go to him. The film was produced by Walt Disney Studios.
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by greggsy 3y ago
I mean 120fps on an SBC
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by greggsy 3y ago
Yet I continue to lose at least one whole day of my life per year trying to get some random wireless card working.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Even W10 struggled to shake off the XP era control panel items, many of which still remain as another layer in W11. I’m convinced that they released it prematurely as an attempt to claw back much attention from Apple’s M1 launch.
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by greggsy 3y ago
A smock would be most practical I think.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Orang Pi Plus supports DP Alt Mode [1]. You’d have to read through the spec sheet to confirm fps performance. Seems like a niche feature tbh. [1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/05/10/orange-pi-5-plus-sbc...
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by greggsy 3y ago
It’s the grugq.. he knows everything and everyone
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by greggsy 3y ago
I just scrolled through half a dozen ATC tower tour videos on YouTube and didn't see any skewed displays, but it's possible that they 1) they tidied it up for the tour, or 2) they just didn't apply this approach in those part
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by greggsy 3y ago
They always go for the max, knowing that they will settle somewhere closer to the expected rate.
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by greggsy 3y ago
> it's monopolistic behavior. It’s not a public good - there are alternatives. It’s a convenience if anything. I would like further support, but this isn’t a monopoly.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Even SMS is a paid service in many markets. Very expensive too, when you consider the price per byte.
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by greggsy 3y ago
It’s only 1% of my gross income (before tax) as a freelancer. I’ve never seen or heard of it being exercised in my sector (management consulting / cyber), but to be honest it’s a small price for peace of mind in case things do go pear
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by greggsy 3y ago
In Australia, cars have red rear lights on at all times, so it’s easy to distinguish a reversing car or a headlight. Also, aren’t all cars now required to have front on driving lights in most jurisdictions, separate to headlights?
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by greggsy 3y ago
Starts at around 22:55 for fifteen or so minutes. Pretty terrifying, but they seem to have it all under control. It’s difficult to get any sense of scale, but there’s some good panning shots where you see how close the power station is.
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by greggsy 3y ago
I hear, read and use the term on a daily basis, and I would say that it emerged in my workplaces around five years ago, and came into common use around two.
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by greggsy 3y ago
I’m assuming your daily driver doesn’t have 4GB of ram though
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by greggsy 3y ago
You’ve missed the point. Those standards don’t relate at all to writing code, they relate to process, procedure and due diligence - i.e. governance. Those all cost a lot in terms of man hours.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Lack of wifi support for any given distro I’m testing out is an instant rollback for me. I just don’t have the time or patience anymore. It has always been a problem.
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by greggsy 3y ago
I’ve always liked the idea of accessing a remote desktop running on your phone from a browser in any device on the network. You could use some sort of QR code to authenticate.
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by greggsy 3y ago
Many people expect a ‘daily driver’ to run Teams, Outlook and a browser with a couple of tabs running client side apps. There is absolutely a lot of bloat out there, including Office apps, but that’s just the landscape these days. People ge
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by greggsy 3y ago
It’s a bit like those old Poplar Mechanics stories about giant zeppelins, or aircraft with eight wings. They make for great articles with graphics to inspire the imagination, but are really just speculative fiction in retrospect. That said,
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by greggsy 3y ago
I have an animation degree (never pursued it professionally). For one project, I took some shortcuts, and ‘owned up’ to it during the presentation to the class. My lecturer interrupted me and wanted to emphasise that there is no ‘cheating’
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by greggsy 3y ago
> [ThreadX firmware binary] runs on the Pi's VideoCore GPU. This is the primary device, the part that boots up the Pi and controls its hardware: the Arm cores are slave devices to the VideoCore GPU. Very interesting factoid - I had

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