gumboza

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by gumboza 4y ago
As the poster who posted it, it irritates me but it saves a lot of typing and is a well understood idiom.
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by gumboza 4y ago
I got the pangs back in 2003 and managed to snag a SPARCserver 1000E with full disk array. After spending 2 days getting it up and then a 3 months using it as a workstation, I got the electricity bill. That ended my interest in running vint
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by gumboza 4y ago
Before Solaris on Ultra 30. After Windows 2000 Compaq Workstations. Software demands were EE/EDA stuff like Cadence, Zukon.
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by gumboza 4y ago
Correct. Certification https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf
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by gumboza 4y ago
Well there's an entry cost or an exit cost or a risk. If the tradeoff makes sense then spot on but if Medium pulls your stuff you have an untenable risk tradeoff. This is why I don't write articles. The investment vs return is low
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by gumboza 4y ago
Ironically I actually worked for one. Operations team were windows only. Software team were java only. $12.2m wasted on not delivering an ERP system which was eventually replaced with SAP which cost twice as much and run on some Oracle stuf
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by gumboza 4y ago
It's certainly not dead. Unix workstations are still really popular for general purpose use. You can go in a local retail chain and buy an Open Group certified Unix 64-bit RISC workstation for £639 here (Argos)...
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by gumboza 4y ago
Time will tell. All new battery technologies solve one problem but create two more. Edit: I'm not necessarily talking about technology problems. There are geopolitical and environmental problems too :)
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by gumboza 4y ago
This. I'm not sure why the hell anyone would do anything else to be honest. It has been an insane proposition putting content on something you don't control.
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by gumboza 4y ago
I learned that Windows NT/2000 was considerably cheaper, had a much shorter lead time on hardware, ran the same software, could be run by mere mortals thus had a better ROI.
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by gumboza 4y ago
That's where the whole thing falls apart with these things usually. Oscillators are quite difficult to simulate because they require less than ideal startup conditions i.e. noise, voltage gradients to get going. While the SPICE engine
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by gumboza 4y ago
A lot of human history isn't. And we'll look back in 500 years and say the same thing again.
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by gumboza 4y ago
Yes indeed. I used to do that on a Sun workstation back in the 1990s as well. Then go and make some tea while the simulation was running.
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by gumboza 4y ago
I want 2003. That's the last time anything worked. LTspice for example. Edit: worth nothing there is a native macOS port of LTspice now.
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by gumboza 4y ago
He's not managed to control the narrative though, only tank his finances and draw attention to everything negative that falls out of his face hole. I'm quite enjoying this one at the moment.
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by gumboza 4y ago
Judge baiting at this point.
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by gumboza 4y ago
giffgaff. SIM only, reasonable prices, works well, never had any coverage issues anywhere other than remote bits of the peak district. Been with them for 5 years now. It's basically O2 without the risk of being upsold to constantly or
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by gumboza 4y ago
Well you can get a ham radio license, spend $1500 on a basic radio and antenna and accessories, erect it in your garden, get on air and feel the joy of open communications all over the globe. Or more realistically get blasted by people on c
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by gumboza 4y ago
As an ADHD sufferer I’m the least valuable person on the planet :)
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by gumboza 4y ago
That's the sad thing. The core of windows is pretty good. It's just the mismanagement and shell that's a shit show.
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by gumboza 4y ago
It's worse. There's some windows 3.1 hiding in the ODBC configuration... https://imgur.com/XOmCyEG
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by gumboza 4y ago
Don't start me on VTL. I spent two weeks trying to delete a VTL which was sitting unused at $5000 a month. On lambda, the issue I mentioned was actually because one of their services was built on top of that and maintained state betwee
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by gumboza 4y ago
Windows is built like my old apartment was decorated. 20 layers of paint over the top of mouldy wallpaper.
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by gumboza 4y ago
To an external non-technical observer, this is about as exciting as me hitting a clean compile in the scale of things. It really makes me happy but no one else cares until the product arrives. I'm excited for both for reference.
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by gumboza 4y ago
Completely agree with this. The only products I'd even consider by choice from Amazon are the core IaaS products. Everything they built in house on top of their own platform is a buggy shit show. One recent problem I have been dealing
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by gumboza 4y ago
Or just don’t smoke anything and have zero problems. Works for me!
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by gumboza 4y ago
Oh man wait until you’re all 50. The difference is the other way round to what you think it is. Thank fuck I gave up smoking it 25 years ago…
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by gumboza 4y ago
Worth also reporting the IMEI as stolen here: https://www.imei.info/news/report-imei-number-lost-or-stolen... If they do bypass the activation lock and resell it, anyone buying a second hand device or parts can check i
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by gumboza 4y ago
Yes I have a German friend who spends 3 months a year filing their tax situation. German paperwork is insane. And because a lot of the country is surprisingly technologically backwards, everything is on actual paper still. Takes me about an
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by gumboza 4y ago
I think realistically walking meeting outcomes would be worse. At least in my case, walking around outside switches me into survival mode. Raised heart rate and adrenaline. I learned this during covid when I was doing laps around the local

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