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by hughrr 5y ago
People don’t know when something is done, finished and complete. They have to go and fuck around with it. Look at windows for example. Image how good that would be if they didn’t keep trying to fuck around with it and actually finished some
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by hughrr 5y ago
This reminds me of an experience I had watching a company trying to replace a system with ML. First they marketed it heavily before even thinking. During test cycle they fed the entire data corpus in and ran some of the original test cases
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by hughrr 5y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted because that has been reality for some of us I’m sure. Me included. My pet favourite example is the ”you’re shit and going to fail. You should do what I did” . This is advice inevitably comes from very toxic p
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by hughrr 5y ago
This is sickeningly accurate and hurt to read.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Can confirm :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
I am living in this hell at the moment. This situation originated from compliance box ticking and trickled down to a kafkaesque nightmare where you are punished for ancillary problems. This is of course while being hammered because delivery
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by hughrr 5y ago
I want my passwords back. Windows hello doesn’t know who the hell I am until after lunch.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’m going to upgrade. If they roll it I’m going to sell the phone.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Interesting read. I always think of Batman https://youtu.be/9pSD26bGy3I
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by hughrr 5y ago
If you think driver management doesn’t suck then try owning an HP wireless printer. Total shit show.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah if they gave me a high DPI Windows 11 classic theme without telemetry and some actual quality control I’d be all over it. My mother also agrees with me on this. She’s been progressively hating Windows more every release too.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes and no. The 48k was a bit of a disaster to start with. Lots of failures, bugs galore, a full recall due to power supply shock hazard. Not to mention the horrible keyboard. When you look at the microscopic view of owning one computer fr
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by hughrr 5y ago
Actually that’s not strictly true. Test methodology was “see if it worked and ship”. Many many of the computers were returned and replaced immediately. And a lot of the new ones you got were the broken ones which were sent back and the chip
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by hughrr 5y ago
I have a fair amount of experience with Sinclair products both from ownership and repair perspective. We should speak the truth of the dead and not lie to ourselves.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah it is. The guy had a rabid cult following much like Musk does today. He had many financial victims with poorly engineered products. He made a very valuable contribution to the industry however. People have rose tinted glasses about it
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by hughrr 5y ago
It really irks me when someone is misrepresented when they drop dead. I’m personally fine with the parent poster’s comment because it’s exactly a fair representation of the guy’s products. They were mostly awful to some degree.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Sinclair was an expert at that. He guided many an industrial product designer to fortune by showing them exactly what not to do.
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by hughrr 5y ago
You mean there wouldn’t have been a BBC if he had tried harder? :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
Sort of. As a former Sinclair user his products taught me patience and tolerance. I jumped ship the moment I could afford a BBC.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I used them for technical reasons. It was amazing what crap you could hang off a user port podule. At one point I had a home security system running off a limping A420. This was until the power supply exploded and nearly burned my house dow
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by hughrr 5y ago
Ive been using python to pay the mortgage since about 1999. With respect to indentation, realistically it depends on how many morons you have to share the code with and how many broken ass misconfigured editors those morons are wielding. At
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by hughrr 5y ago
The real choice turned out you don’t need to solve a lot of the problems and don’t need an ecosystem and don’t need to create a problem that doesn’t need to be solved. Example. Numbers on my iPhone. Fuck it, use libreoffice on my laptop and
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by hughrr 5y ago
This was SCVMM on premises hyperv infrastructure not azure.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’m removing myself from the concept of an ecosystem and choosing software based on individual merit at the moment.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s most of their open source stuff. And probably most of their closed source too.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Oh Apple is really starting to head up to the top of my vendor shit list these days. I’ve already dumped their entire ecosystem after the CSAM shit.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s still better than MS SCVMM which installs an agent which craps a brick, takes out your VM network and then there’s zero support other than an abandoned GitHub repo. They could have supported cloud-init but went for the usual not inve
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by hughrr 5y ago
This is one reason I stay the hell away from Windows focused software on Linux. There’s a complete impedance mismatch. Also MSFT’s GitHub open source fairy dust project stewardship is a shit show from experience.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Ah yes. The ones that time out for me almost universally. Regardless of that it’s about efficiency. The 100Mb video is probably fairly efficiently encoded already.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Amazing that’s crammed in 13Kb but the other day I had to download a Meg of crap to view one web form.

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