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by hggigg 2y ago
This shows the true value of the platform to end users is near zero. If it goes away the world keeps turning.
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by hggigg 2y ago
+1 for this. There are some communities on Discord as well surprisingly but they are invite only so I'm not posting any links on here.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Aye and it’s a fucking shit show. Down with all “stores”!
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by hggigg 2y ago
A good point which is why I want it in a Mac Mini where they (hopefully) haven't compromised it thermally as much!
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by hggigg 2y ago
Plug in the debugger and give it 5 minutes to warm up!
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by hggigg 2y ago
As I've said elsewhere, your data is the important bit. And at least in my case that is 100% portable. The winds of change are inevitable, but you can move house without too much hassle.
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by hggigg 2y ago
The other side of the fence is just as bad. Look at what Redhat and Freedesktop did to Linux. While you might have the illusion of control, the exit plan to take control is to take on tens of millions of lines of source code and manage it y
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by hggigg 2y ago
So useless then.
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by hggigg 2y ago
Numbers are plausible. The M4 iPad is close to an i9-14900k in single thread. I’ll buy an M4 mini when one comes out to replace my M1.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I have an InReach Mini 2. It is not necessarily useful. It depends on where you are. Don't make any assumptions about it until you've done research. You'll find some places have only voluntary services and the phone is likely
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by hggigg 2y ago
I'll be horribly blunt here but I don't give a shit about any of that any more. It's irrelevant which is why open source is a complete joke for most people. I, much as other users, just want my computer to solve the problems
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by hggigg 2y ago
Could be worse. The whole Gnome 3 and Wayland thing pushed me to macOS.
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by hggigg 2y ago
No it's really not. Please don't think suburban USA can be extrapolated to the middle of bloody nowhere. I might be able to get a message off, but how the hell do you contact the emergency services and who the hell is going to res
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by hggigg 2y ago
Yeah that. The ETF (IVZ QQQ) I had a chunk of cash in is at risk as well as that tracks SP500 roughly due to the holdings distribution. I pulled it recently. I might lose a few % at the top but when it goes bang I don't want to be near
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by hggigg 2y ago
Yeah this. I was 50 miles from civilisation in some mountains in central Asia last year trying to do astrophotography and I had to edit out the flying space trash after!
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by hggigg 2y ago
RMS Olympic, the longest survivor, was captained by a drunken moron and nearly got sunk as well...
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by hggigg 2y ago
I think it's the AI titanic era. Everyone spent ages telling us that the idea was unsinkable. The peonage in the bottom is currently bailing out water by the bucket (layoffs) while the rich are still telling everyone the ship isn'
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by hggigg 2y ago
I would add that just because you add these things it does not mean you can scale afterwards. All microservices implementations I've seen so far are bolted on top of some existing layer of mud and serve only to make function calls th
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by hggigg 2y ago
Indeed. Even worse some entire academic fields are built on pillars of lies. I was married to a researcher in one of them. Anything that compromises the existence of the field just gets written off. The end game is this fed into life changi
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by hggigg 2y ago
Mark Watney approves.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I would say "be opinionated". Building something non-native that works on every platform looks like crap on every platform. And nothing is slower than the average Electron pile. I would say stack but pile seems more appropriate.
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by hggigg 2y ago
This is not a terrible idea actually. Although PDFs can have structured table of contents :)
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by hggigg 2y ago
I would speak to many more people regarding how they read things and you will find outside the tech industry fixed formats are king and there is no sign this is going to ever go away. Academia, education, business and finance included at le
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by hggigg 2y ago
Not yet but after a quick search, it really piques my interest! Thanks for the pointer.
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by hggigg 2y ago
I have no problem what language or stack you use as long as you only compile it once, not every time you click something. There are energy and memory savings to be made :) It's definitely not better for content. It's impossible to
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by hggigg 2y ago
I don't think they really have a chance if I'm honest. I would rather like Apple to take the lead on this one. They have a ridiculous amount of money and control over a not insignificant portion of the market. They could use this
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by hggigg 2y ago
I'm not sure that content exists any more in any reasonable quantity. Occasionally a video will pop out which is interesting from someone but generally it's all below average. The attention dynamics have focused all content onto r
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by hggigg 2y ago
That was a miracle. I used to type in programs from magazines and books and nothing ever worked. That did however teach me how to fix things and was very productive in the long run!
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by hggigg 2y ago
Pong isn’t that complicated. If you go even further back it gets even simpler. There’s a good example here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/oscilloscope-pong-for... It looks complicated but it’s really no
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by hggigg 2y ago
I had something similar to this at home except it was a laser printer and it got a postscript file out of LaTeX which was parsed out from a bunch of Perl. A couple of months in, my naive Perl parser broke and I woke up to half a ream of pap

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