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by gymbeaux 3y ago
My guess is they’re referring to the mini PCIe cards. I think Coral only comes in NVMe and mini PCIe (and technically you can buy just the chip itself I believe). Obviously mini PCIe is deprecated and it’s unlikely many people have a device
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’m not aware of a scientific study that supports the notion that computer/keyboard use leads to CTS. Conversely, I’m aware of many studies that show CTS being caused by the use of vibrating tools + genetics. While society associates C
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
There are some studies out there that show that trackpads are actually some of the most “taxing” computer input devices in existence. Here’s one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S169
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I first experienced “RSI” with the 1st Gen Magic Mouse (the one that took AA batteries that needed to be replaced every other month). Terrible, terrible design. And they kept it exactly the same for Magic Mouse 2. “RSI” is not a diagnosis,
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
3.9 isn’t that bad on my opinion. I work with other Python libraries, popular ones, that won’t work past 3.9. I think PyPDF is one of them? Something with PDF parsing.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
How do I make $150k (or more) having high-level conversations about AWS with senior software engineers? Seriously. I’m sure it’s not an “easy” job, but fuck if I make less actually writing the software (median SWE salary is something like $
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’m sure everyone here is aware of the colloquial hate that certs get outside of IT (“A+”, etc.) , even I. What I don’t know is why AWS would rather pay a salesman $150k (or more… I looked up salaries a few months ago, but either way…) to s
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I think companies prefer to develop AI stuff and then sell it, rather than sell the hardware.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Our experience hasn’t been THAT bad but we did waste a lot of time in weekly meetings with AWS “solutions architects” who knew next to nothing about AWS aside from a shallow, salesman-like understanding. They make around $150k too, by the w
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
That’s the niche DigitalOcean is trying to carve out. I’ve always loved and preferred their UI/UX to that of AWS or Azure. No experience with the CLI but I would guess it’s not any worse than AWS CLI.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Exactly. Last job I worked at there was always an issue with the YAML… and as a “mere” software engineer, I had to wait for offshore DevOps to fix, but that’s another issue.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
If you’re not already aware, I encourage you to read about the bills that governors in Florida and Texas have been creating and passing. I think it challenges anybody (willing to accept that challenge) to choose between identifying as a mad
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
VERY interesting read, thank you for that. It’s worth noting several people’s answers state something to the effect of “quantum computing might be able to do it” and indeed I don’t expect an i9 or a ThreadRipper to ever defeat AES-256.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
AWS Glue is just Apache Spark but you can’t debug it when it errors because all that is “conveniently” obfuscated from you. SageMaker is JupyterLab with a GPU attached. Cognito is just OAuth. And of course networking is fucked… somehow AWS
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
That’s all well and good, but I think that was the consensus leading up to the report? Then there’s the “it takes X months for new rates to ripple through the economy” thing.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I have a 3TB Seagate from around 2009 that still works. It was shucked from an external USB enclosure and has moved desktops several times. Granted its use has been pretty intermittent. Right now it’s just sitting on my desk, as it often ha
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Well, if you write 1 to every bit of the drive, and then write 0 to every bit of the drive, the data is gone… but to be fair, I think the concern is proving that actually occurred before disposal. It’s easy to see the data destroyed when th
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The local electronics recycling company where I live (US-FL) shreds hard drives by default and many of their enterprise clients apparently ask for it when they “donate” their old PowerEdge servers, NASes and whatnot. Now obviously the recyc
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Well, convert does the conversion for you… it’s kind of challenging to come up with an example where there isn’t already a tool/package/library for X. But like pretend there wasn’t one for converting images… you can’t just off-the
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Yeah it’s not a challenging problem, but the specific code example isn’t the point. Replace his example with “at one point, we wanted a command that would convert a PNG to a JPG….” most of us couldn’t do that without Google.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
What are some examples of needing a lower-level language?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I dunno man I’ve been rejected by a lot of companies over the last ~8 years, seems like they can find talent just fine.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It’s pretty disturbing, if you are a good human
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I have issues with all three ecosystems. I’ve listed them in a previous comment on HN but macOS off the top of the noggin: no longer supports display scaling on 1440p displays; Night Shift doesn’t work on DisplayLink displays; can’t adjust
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
My KDE (and sometimes GNOME) issues are mostly to do with scaling. If you use KDE or GNOME with a single, 1920x1080p display and AMD or Intel GPU, I doubt you’ll really have any issues.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
See from my point of view you are being unfair to Windows . Brass tacks- both kind of suck for desktop usage.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Linux is great but Linux with desktop is rather buggy. Even GNOME and KDE are rife with bugs (depending on your hardware somewhat). Then there are the quality of life improvements like that window layout system in Windows 11 that beats anyt
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Yep, I’ve done some freelancing over the last few years. I like it, but it’s hard to do that and a full-time job at the same time. Obviously the issue is getting enough work when you’re not normally employed, and when you are normally emplo
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
They said that they and their team were contractors and thus continued to run inefficiently
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I can’t speak personally, but people often get from nicotine what they would also get from marijuana- both have a “high” that makes you feel “different”, and the withdrawal symptoms from nicotine are more like those of meth than marijuana (

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