jrmcauliffe

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by jrmcauliffe 8mo ago
The main watering hole for the hobbyist community around these machines vanished from the internet a while back, taking the forums and info around porting software with it.. I guess some of it is available via wayback etc.
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by jrmcauliffe 1y ago
I mean, it would be surprising. In what world does Hyundai want to build a multi billion dollar plant in a foreign country and subcontract to a 'sublegal operation' which still has to send foreign nationals, presumably experts in
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by jrmcauliffe 2y ago
Had a mobile mechanic unable to change the timing belt on our 10 y/o Volkswagen Golf because the balancer is now secured with a proprietary lock-ring instead of four hex bolts. He said this sort of thing is getting more common and even
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by jrmcauliffe 2y ago
But if anything is going to push it over the edge of going off (for whatever reason it has finally decided it's time), it's going to be a plane driving over the top / near it.
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by jrmcauliffe 2y ago
I didn't realise we had 18 mile depths.
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by jrmcauliffe 2y ago
Lol any serious business. Shoutout to all the people at mega-corps using Teams!
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by jrmcauliffe 3y ago
Yeah, I love the fact that Jetbrains 'everything' is actually affordable by a solo software engineer and you can just 'bring your own tools' to a job.
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by jrmcauliffe 3y ago
Sigh, remembers when Visual Age for Java was $10k a seat in 2000 $$$.
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by jrmcauliffe 3y ago
Companies are made of people and people have lives.
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by jrmcauliffe 3y ago
Genuine page turner.
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by jrmcauliffe 3y ago
A fair chunk of modern corporate data ends up in OLAP systems that are now more often or not stored using s3 (or their MS/Google equivalents) in 'Data Lakes'. The concept of 'private data' whilst using cloud provide
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by jrmcauliffe 4y ago
Once you reach a certain scale in a particular type of company the repo just becomes another type of org unit. Your giant fish swallows a minnow, it looks good on paper, someone does a half arse integration, then that repo becomes the one.
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by jrmcauliffe 4y ago
A final low pass filter (tuned to remove anything above half the sample rate) allows the accurate reconstruction of the original analogue waveform from the sampled digital data. ( The vertical 'stair step' of sampled data is very
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by jrmcauliffe 4y ago
A king who is also secretly The Duke of Cornwall, The Duke of Somerset, The Duke of Norfolk and The Duke of Richmond Sign me up..!
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by jrmcauliffe 5y ago
Lotus Notes.. :-) Seriously though, visual coding/drag and drop etc are great for non-technical users but in my experience the issue isn't code vs. icons. I worked in corporate workflow development for around 15 years using guess
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by jrmcauliffe 5y ago
I can't wait for this too. I've got a Prusa printer that's got the perfect spot for Pi Zero, but its never quite had enough juice to run octopi with all the trimmings.
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by jrmcauliffe 6y ago
The Brodie Forth books were the first thing that popped into my head too, but the Head First books really are another step away from K&R C etc.
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by jrmcauliffe 7y ago
Because they link quality of life to making great art rather than rent seeking(?)
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by jrmcauliffe 7y ago
Sure, if you want to define competition as the market you come from, rather than the market you're in.
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by jrmcauliffe 10y ago
Vmware virtualises 'modern' hardware.
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by jrmcauliffe 11y ago
There is usually only one provider of roads..
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by jrmcauliffe 11y ago
I've used the cheapest celeron nuc for this. Has built in IR, just add a usb drive / laptop drive and memory. Not much more expensive than a dedicated box here in Aus, and much faster.
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by jrmcauliffe 12y ago
If you listen to Amazon at their shin-digs, they tell it like all of these new services and features are in response to requests from existing customers.
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by jrmcauliffe 12y ago
I would guess the proportion of non-tech family that equate firefox/'The Internet' with this set of circumstances approaches zero.
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
I would assume because the sales team has told them they already have a 'best of breed' solution in 'your vertical market'. Oracle then bills the client for them to write ('customise') said solution, then adds
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
Or whatever came 10 years before that. FTP? Batch tape?
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
I don't have a Scientific Computing Workflow/Background, but the AWS recommended tool for automated deployment to AWS is Cloudformation http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ Connecting Spot instances to EBS v
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
Facebook is the most resource hungry app in a lot of workplaces...
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
Looks pretty good compared to the 'On Demand' instances though, even including the MS and (I assume) Teradici licensing. Somewhere in between On Demand on Reserved. If you can script yo sh!t together, spot instances is where it&#x
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by jrmcauliffe 13y ago
This is their solution. http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ I would imagine it's at least in the ball park if you have 100 servers..

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