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by greyhair 6y ago
I was looking for the ASUS plug before I posted my own. My router history is Linksys -> Netear -> ASUS. Unless ASUS botches something badly, my next router will also be ASUS.
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by greyhair 6y ago
I am one of those people that is sensitive to the change, I always have been. I wish we just stayed on standard time year round. In the summer, the sky stays light too late and messes with my sleep. In late March and October, the sun comes
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by greyhair 6y ago
Which is why I replaced the cheap drive in my build desktop with a Samsung Pro NVME. It made a significant difference. Multithreaded builds (make -j 24) can really hammer the drive. Read and write interleaved, which uses up cache in both di
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by greyhair 6y ago
Hey! I never thought of using the brick to keep my coffee warm. It is even the right size. Excellent! Thanks....
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by greyhair 6y ago
Best of both worlds. My laptop only runs Office 365 for email, calendar, and the occasional word doc. It also runs Slack and a browser for zoom meetings as access to Jira/Bugzilla web interface. Oh, and RDP into XFCE on Ubuntu on the d
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by greyhair 6y ago
Yes on all points except 10. You can buy fairly powerful desktops configured with just the on chip graphics or inexpensive business class graphics cards. I'll add a '13' to your list. 13. Bluetooth is evil, and any desktop I
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by greyhair 6y ago
There are a number of misplaced points in this article, but I will focus on two. UEFI, properly implemented, is a huge improvement over old BIOS. It isn't required to be 'locked', and I have never encountered a Windows laptop
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by greyhair 6y ago
Isn't this old news? I was using Firefox Facebook container for quite some time before I closed out my Facebook account, and that was some time ago. It is a great feature.
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by greyhair 6y ago
If you count domestic terror, for example, the recent conspiracy to kidnap a Governor (or possibly two). That should count.
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by greyhair 6y ago
There is so much excess natural gas in the US that they are building a plastics manufacturing plants to convert ethane to plastic. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/778665357/the-u-s-natural-gas... The plas
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by greyhair 6y ago
Back in 2006 I was returning to the US, as a US citizen, from a job interview in Kanata(ON), and I was held by immigration for so long I almost missed my flight. Not sure at all why I was flagged. White, middle aged male, returning to the U
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by greyhair 6y ago
$300K would be a contract rate for someone with 10 years of experience, with your own LLC and insurance. It is pretty easy to find contract positions for $120 per hour, and higher responsibility/skill positions for $150 per hour. And t
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by greyhair 6y ago
Multi-day take home projects? Seriously? Just say no that unless they are going to compensate you at contractor rate of at least $120/hour. That is a ridiculous ask, and if all engineers just said no and walked away, they would get wha
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by greyhair 6y ago
The empire building thing is the worst. "We don't actually have anything for you to do, we just have funding for three more people, and we need to hire people for those slots or we'll lose our funding. And our team size is in
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by greyhair 6y ago
This is how Bell Labs was back prior to divestiture, up until the mid 1990s. There really wasn't one huge Bell Labs, there were literally hundreds of hundred person teams run as if they were little companies, but with a huge bureaucrac
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by greyhair 6y ago
Obscurity takes many forms, and some are useful, particularly to common hackers, and others are completely useless. There are a number of code walking tools and disassemblers that will rename all variables and function linkages and provide
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by greyhair 6y ago
My father was a corporate pilot. Occasionally he had flights alone where he was picking up or delivering materials or light freight. He used to occasionally pull me out of school as a kid if he was flying alone, and I would ride in the righ
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by greyhair 6y ago
Is this actually portable x86 executable?
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by greyhair 6y ago
The web works so well, why would anyone install an app? Makes no sense.
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by greyhair 6y ago
I really love all the financial experts on this thread, both pro, and con.
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by greyhair 6y ago
And the wild part is, it never actually gets completely to zero, though it gets really close! And then read about lagrangian points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point So much fun.
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by greyhair 6y ago
This needs about 1000 upvotes. So much truth in so few words.
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by greyhair 6y ago
But that is a completely different topic. Licensing is an issue, yes, but that is part of the upfront decision process. In this day an age, this many years into open source licensing, if your team is not on top of that from day one, they ha
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by greyhair 6y ago
But that analysis is part of the design process on the front end. You don't just 'take' libraries or utilities without evaluating them. And you don't just write bespoke libraries without thinking about the APIs. So do yo
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by greyhair 6y ago
But then lets talk about internal dependencies. On a C code project for a large Fortune 100 company a half dozen years ago, I encountered a pesky header include that made no sense. And that header was part of a patch that I really did not w
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by greyhair 6y ago
Never
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by greyhair 6y ago
Get over it. The modern web sucks. My 2003 Thinkpad T41 was never a raging powerhouse, but is was "usable". It is no longer usable. Nothing in the hardware has changed, but the software, the browsers, and the web at large have all
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by greyhair 6y ago
WSJ news section is pretty good, but their focus is a little narrow. The opinion pages? Just tear those out and trash them before any of the words can accidentally leak into your brain. The space between the news side and opinion side of th
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by greyhair 6y ago
Hungary also as a public service media. In fact, I am not certain there is any independent media still existing in Hungary. Which goes to show that public media is not always the best.
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by greyhair 6y ago
There are two things at play, that have really cut into what roads I will ride on. 1) Distracted drivers. And it has no relation to age. I see old people using their phones, I see young people using their phones. This is number 1, by a huge

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