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811.
by hughrr 5y ago
That sounds about right. I was interviewed for a fairly well known company on contract a number of years ago. I was told the product was top secret and it was going to be amazing etc etc. So roll in on first day after signing up to fuck kno
812.
by hughrr 5y ago
I'm with you on this. I don't run a NAS and never will.
813.
by hughrr 5y ago
Been there won’t do it again. I now have three laptops, two iPads and two iPhones on my desk all day though. Which is a complete fucking pain. Some days I wish I did something else for a living.
814.
by hughrr 5y ago
Yea as a developer if I did it, it’d still look like windows NT.
815.
by hughrr 5y ago
Oh great another 5gb on the install image that no one is going to use.
816.
by hughrr 5y ago
To be fair that’s actually working the best for me at the moment. Mostly because it is at least consistently white and consistently minimalist.
817.
by hughrr 5y ago
That’s pretty handy actually. Thanks for the idea.
818.
by hughrr 5y ago
Sorry for the not very constructive comment but it looks like ass. Like a B grade KDE theme.
819.
by hughrr 5y ago
UUCP via tightbeam.
820.
by hughrr 5y ago
Indeed. They weren’t real PCs. Complete software and hardware lock in from RM.
821.
by hughrr 5y ago
I use a Mac connected to various Linux nodes via ssh. Development and sysadmin work.
822.
by hughrr 5y ago
I have an MSc in microelectronics. All transferable professional knowledge could have been self learned in about six months from a book. They didn’t teach us how to learn. They didn’t give us any guidance on that front at all in fact. It wa
823.
by hughrr 5y ago
That debt is only part of the student finance picture. It’s difficult paying off a credit card, overdraft, commuting, potentially car insurance and rent at the same time. That £20 is a fairly significant amount of cash when you’re in that p
824.
by hughrr 5y ago
Well realistically you tend to start seeing patterns after a bit. Then you end up redrawing everything as those patterns in your head. Then you develop an intuitive model of what is sensible and what is not. This is not something they teach
825.
by hughrr 5y ago
Mine was terrible value for money. Went to a red brick in the UK and studied electrical engineering in the early 90s. My first job on the market was a start from scratch experience. I learned almost nothing of value at university and my per
826.
by hughrr 5y ago
Am I the only one who leaves mine as is?
827.
by hughrr 5y ago
This was probably Econet and network !boot stuff. That was horribly slow. Stand-alone boot was about 5 seconds. Usually the schools has MDFS filers from BBC days being repurposed as econet servers which could barely cope with the load of a
828.
by hughrr 5y ago
I had a similar idea which involved a large amount of gerbils in a giant wheel. They can convert sunflower seeds (which are of course solar powered) into energy 24/7. Thanks to your stroke of genius instead of using a generator and cha
829.
by hughrr 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.
830.
by hughrr 5y ago
I was under the impression that Apple still are a major contributor to WebKit and chromium as they actually originated WebKit?
831.
by hughrr 5y ago
It does make sense to have 128 bit computers. Consider memory mapped sparse datasets. 18PB looks like a whole lot of address space now but in 50 years, who knows…
832.
by hughrr 5y ago
Second hand Herman Miller Aeron and Amazon basics foot rest. Can’t beat the combo. Just make sure you get the right size chair for you. Late 40s 5’9” here. Also farting on an Aeron is a whole new life experience.
833.
by hughrr 5y ago
Oh yes. People are still drinking the self driving kool aid. My father paid for self driving option in UK on a model S. three years ago. For three years it’s “any day now” he tells me regularly. I’m not sure what he’s doing now but he was m
834.
by hughrr 5y ago
I do this. Works really well.
835.
by hughrr 5y ago
Well basically I went here and it said it was supported https://ubuntu.com/certified/201905-27049 Which it was. Then it broke.
836.
by hughrr 5y ago
There’s a lot of that stuff out there still. I was speaking to a former colleague a couple of years back and he discovered a NT4 box with a Hayes modem dangling off it doing mission critical EDI stuff in VB4 while doing a site migration. No
837.
by hughrr 5y ago
I made the AMD choice and bought a T495 which is Ryzen + Radeon powered and supported by Ubuntu. The GPU drivers shit a brick every 10 minutes. I now own a Macbook Air.
838.
by hughrr 5y ago
That's less than 1% of the pain I experienced there.
839.
by hughrr 5y ago
The original poster is correct. For some configurations Linux is a complete shit show of pain. And it is not stable over time. I had a nicely working T495 which is apparently officially supported by Ubuntu. Worked wonderfully for ages. Then
840.
by hughrr 5y ago
If anyone is complaining about a few hours here and there, relax. It took 7 years for me to solve an intermittent one once. The issue turned out to be an immeasurably small thread synchronisation issue that went away when we bought new CPUs

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