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by hughrr 5y ago
I think some of the stuff I’ve seen was soldered together with Jesus’ soldering iron or bashed together with rocks. I’m surprised the author found enough bits to make a good SB-101. I built a fully stacked Elecraft K2 to perfection a number
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by hughrr 5y ago
I think that’s survivor bias. A big chunk of stuff barely worked and didn’t last as long. I had a couple of old and tektronix scopes which are amazingly reliable after 50 years according to the collectors. Nope! Yours are the exceptional on
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by hughrr 5y ago
Just a heads up here: iCloud / OneDrive / Google Drive / DropBox are not a backup solution despite the vendors promoting it. They are there only for convenience. I have experienced file loss on OneDrive. I am now using iClo
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by hughrr 5y ago
It has only just been rolled out. I think it’s still early days. I’m using it for my domain fine but that has only two users on it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
They do die horrible deaths. Half the Heathkit stuff I have picked up over the years has been utterly irrecoverably buggered by the moron who assembled it to start with or someone who modified it later. Amateur radio kit is the worst variet
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by hughrr 5y ago
Do these come with a sick bag?
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by hughrr 5y ago
Happy I live in the UK when I see things like this posted. I was offered a job years ago in the US which I declined and would never want to be held to ransom over my health potentially.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Not much of my life is spent at work. I spent the last 10 years optimising the ROI from work down to a suitable compromise of time vs money.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Very few write cycles!
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by hughrr 5y ago
Spot on. Another relative point to note is that I learned pride should be ranked well below dignity.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I was at that sort of company, finally. They got bought out. It changed. I’m staying for the retainer at the moment.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Completely agree with this. Customers always seemed to want to pay me fixed amounts for jobs and be absolutely no good at estimating them. I got paid 28 days contract fees for a job that took 3 hours once. They paid up and asked me to not
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by hughrr 5y ago
Don’t sweat it; it might be healthy. I have made it a feature of my life that I don’t actually care about work and will not be changing it. It turned out that I’d spent at least 20 years being tricked into caring for things which ultimately
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by hughrr 5y ago
A side effect of working for asshole companies like that for years is I’ve slowly developed a zero fucks attitude and an immunity to threats and carrots dangled in front of me. I can sit there as a project is falling over the edge of a clif
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s why I never touch a new Amazon service for 12 months.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah seen that too. Six years here and I’m walking and running 50k a week without a problem. More energy than I’ve ever had. I actually just ate home made vegetable paella and chocolate cake for dinner.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Completely agree with this. I find it really annoying when friends switch over and then their diet becomes McPlants, pizzas and ready meals with meat substitutes in them and any mention of something new ends up with a shrivelled up face. Ph
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by hughrr 5y ago
Zero here!
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by hughrr 5y ago
I think it also helps when you’re not driving a distraction filled Android tablet on wheels.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Agree with this. I suspect someone will release an actually affordable (comparable to ICE up front and ownership costs), safe, basic EV with decent range and standard car features which has better quality and less hype around it and Tesla w
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by hughrr 5y ago
aka the problems are the same as they were. That’s a good metric for the lack of progress on the issues.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yep. I’m a single dad of three and it’s amazing on all fronts.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I just rent mine from Linode. Less capital risk then.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Probably the one that attempting to process an unconstrained system in a constrained model, regardless of the method, always results in unhandled edge cases. Apply tons of metal and fragile entities made of meat to the problem and someone’s
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by hughrr 5y ago
I think it is 100% fraudulent to charge for the FSD option that isn’t enabled at delivery of the vehicle. Edit: to qualify this my father paid over £5000 for it three years ago.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I tried Linux on a fairly hefty Ryzen rig recently and it was the usual shit show. HiDPI doesn’t even work properly with wayland yet. My next $4k rig is going to be an iMac. Typing this on my iPad in a hotel. That’s the life.
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by hughrr 5y ago
My father has a 2019 P100D model S. I’ve driven it a few times. It feels like you’re driving a cross between a budget Android tablet and a somewhat skittish horse with a rocket engine up its ass. What could possibly go wrong? On the last tw
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by hughrr 5y ago
This. So much this. It’s 2022. We still have meat flavoured train drivers and they have a massively constrained set of complexity to navigate.
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by hughrr 5y ago
The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Please don’t insult CFML by comparing it to something that puts the user at risk and crashes every five minutes ;)

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