imissmymind

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by imissmymind 2y ago
I had a wise friend tell me that engineers are always in a state of being wrong. What you build today you will most likely laugh at in five years. The goal for today is to build the least wrong thing you can. I used to argue more than I sho
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by imissmymind 3y ago
That's not nice. Everyone is on their own journey, their own learning curve, to a level experience needed to fulfill their own ambition. Rather than saying, "your code is crap" wouldn't it be more productive to encourage
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by imissmymind 4y ago
You're important to us. You are needed. This will pass and there are people who love you
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by imissmymind 4y ago
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver. I read it at least once a year and live my life by it. There was no book that better described living in the digital world vs the physical world when I was growing up programming and living in muds. Every
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by imissmymind 6y ago
Get a pinephone and a pinebook pro and be done with it. When you want to get online, use a public WiFi like mcdonalds or starbucks and connect to tor or i2p and do your thing. Attempting to hide in a world full of people who could care less
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by imissmymind 6y ago
Wasn't being sarcastic. Assuming your workload can support the hardware, why isn't this a viable alternative? I could do ~99% of my job with one. People below are asking about affordable ways around this and it made me think of th
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by imissmymind 6y ago
What about sbc's? afaik, they wouldn't be subject to any of this and since Intel and amd are doomed, wouldn't something like a pinebookpro or rpi make for a secure, yet affordable, solution?