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by gryf 4y ago
To be fair so did my lecturers at university...
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by gryf 4y ago
We don't do production builds on laptops. But it's important that all builds are 100% reproducible on all build targets and that includes non docker ones. That is much more difficult if you have to cross compile stuff. We can bare
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by gryf 4y ago
I have been contemplating this move as well and nearly bought the whole Serif package on sale but I am Adobe's bitch and getting too old not to just pay for the problem to go away.
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by gryf 4y ago
I have identified the limits of human incompetence. Please someone hire me so I don't have to live through this nightmare any longer.
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by gryf 4y ago
I congratulate them but after 27 years I'm still using and paying for Photoshop.
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by gryf 4y ago
I love reading people saying this. Try a couple of thousand DB tables evolved organically. Nope not happening.
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by gryf 4y ago
Exactly that. I don't and I won't do it again.
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by gryf 4y ago
Cost savings are mostly consolidation, scaling down stuff we don't need (we have peak hours) and migrating stuff to kubernetes and packing it tight.
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by gryf 4y ago
Unfortunately yes. I would rather a desktop but they don't know how to pay half as much for the same specification. The desks in the office are all equipped with docks and expensive WiFi mesh driven by COVID mentality so that is the st
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by gryf 4y ago
Thanks for the tip off. I will look into this tomorrow. This is why I'm here. The distributed consciousness of HN is a wonderful problem solving engine :)
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by gryf 4y ago
Tried that but unfortunately there are some painful addressing and routing issues when you are subjected to when dealign with a corporate always on VPN. Ergo you can't actually contact clusters which you have to admin via kubectl.
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by gryf 4y ago
Unfortunately we're in a regulated industry so getting a PO signed off for one Mac is nigh on impossible without involving the entire corporate machinery.
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by gryf 4y ago
Everything, all at once. SMEs can't reliably manage that transition with any skillset and still deliver a product at the same time.
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by gryf 4y ago
Firstly, yes I do know that. Windows Phone was before Satya and the telemetry ramp up and was a quite marvellous platform compared to the alternatives on the market. Unfortunately they fucked it up switching from CE to NT and burned all the
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by gryf 4y ago
Yeah this is definitely one of the coolest developments I've read about. My daughter is studying biotech at university. While I was on the cutting edge for proliferation of computing, she's there on biotech. What an exciting futur
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by gryf 4y ago
I just worked on a massive "optimised" cloud migration like you've never seen. We moved from multiple DCs to AWS and the costs are approximately 8x what the pre-migration costs are. We were realistically expecting 2x which ga
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by gryf 4y ago
Yeah if only. Our ops people are too uneducated to be able to deploy anything Apple. Literally there are armies of factory pressed Windows monkeys but nothing in the Apple space. Note to apple: please start concentrating on the enterprise s
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by gryf 4y ago
This. We have three people entirely dedicated to reducing costs. As for avoiding ARM, we do only x86-64 because corporate security policy demands that we have Windows laptops so that some box ticking overlord can fill out a security policy
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by gryf 4y ago
Yeah. My HP toner cartridge has been "empty" for about a year and is still printing fine! It has done more pages since it was empty than before it was empty.
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by gryf 4y ago
I just googled that reference. Weugh.
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by gryf 4y ago
The whole android experience is a minefield though. It's like having a needy psychopath in your pocket that after 18 months disowns you. I'd rather they resurrected windows phone.
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by gryf 4y ago
Completely missed that. What a cluster of assholes. Guess I should start thinking about the inevitable exodus. The CSAM scanning thing was the first strike off.
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by gryf 4y ago
I haven't followed him for over 15 years when he started branching out from software into other things. What crazy has he accumulated since?
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by gryf 4y ago
I was speaking to someone at the weekend extolling the virtues of Huawei phones and how cheap they were and "I'm never paying for an iPhone or drinking the kool aid". I pointed out the history and security concerns and was gr
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by gryf 4y ago
Go, Python. That all I do now. Quite frankly everything else is just pain. I’ve been using python for about 20 years. That has longevity. Go has the same feeling around it. I’ve got nigh on 20 years of c# experience and it has been nothing
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by gryf 4y ago
A forgotten dimension of this problem is that you’re never happy if you care too much. Intelligent people care too much. If you don’t care enough you’re probably causing trouble for other people. I’d rather hurt myself than other people.
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by gryf 4y ago
Someone finally realised it was bollocks after enough customers told them it was. I’ve been on a few projects over the years which the outcome was exactly that.
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by gryf 4y ago
Yes definitely permanent damage here too. The interesting thing is that things that were wrong with me stopped getting worse. Was worth it just for that.
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by gryf 4y ago
Terribly difficult. I keep oscillating around 65 and 69Kg.
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by gryf 4y ago
Dang I started at 109Kg and went down to 65Kg. Feel amazing now. Best thing I ever did.

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