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by leonroy 10y ago
To be honest Microsoft has a habit of layering on functionality on top of existing functionality in a piece meal approach so that you end up with a solution which is 75% compatible with the standards but not quite. Despite being a software
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by leonroy 10y ago
> I would love it if they were really optimizing anything about iTunes. Indeed. iTunes has become so bad I bit the bullet and signed up for Roon - despite its eye watering price. It's a vastly better (and of course in some other way
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by leonroy 10y ago
I'm a pro. I'm an experienced programmer, amateur photographer, edit home videos a lot and do a bunch of computationally expensive tasks on my workstation. Whilst I'd like to have the absolute latest, cutting edge GPU from AM
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by leonroy 10y ago
It's actually a pretty interesting idea but I think without government legislation on the matter a lot of white hats will run afoul of existing laws and end up serving very long sentences.
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by leonroy 10y ago
A few days back I see (yet another) article about Stephen Hawking's concerns for humanity and AI's potential for harm. Today I see we're teaching AI how to scare us. Super :)
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by leonroy 10y ago
I'm certain we'll see AI which is smart enough to replace a lot of tasks which humans currently perform. For example paralegal work, medical diagnosis, logistics solving for cargo and military applications etc. What I cannot wrap
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by leonroy 10y ago
I read about it in a UK magazine called 'The Big Issue' probably about a decade ago. A quick Google turns up nothing unfortunately but IIRC the policy was practised in just a single region, not nationwide so perhaps they discontin
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by leonroy 10y ago
Years ago I read about an excellent effort in Italy to reduce the homeless problems there. They examined what made folk homeless and what kept them there. A big focus was on re-employment and having a fixed postal address. Those who lost th
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by leonroy 10y ago
As a coffee addict and someone who fasts I keep looking into this. Strictly speaking a fast is supposed to allow a period of detox for the body so coffee isn't really a good idea. That said it doesn't break your fast since it has
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by leonroy 10y ago
I've been a software dev for 10 years. When I started I saw the transition from Perl to PHP and a lot of snobbishness from the former towards the latter. Seeing the changing of the guard in web languages was pretty instructional and it
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by leonroy 10y ago
We did have WSUS running on our 2003 Secondary Domain Controller servicing Windows 7 and 2008 Server clients just fine. But as another poster said, 2003 is seriously EOL so the latest versions of WSUS might not work.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Good info. I have a Peace Lily in pretty much every room except the kids which has an Areca Palm (non-toxic). They do sod all for my pollen allergies - only an air purifier has brought it under control (anti-histamine free now). One thing w
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by leonroy 10y ago
Looks like Balmuda (original designer of the air purifier) is claiming the same: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2858592/xiaomi-faces-copycat-...
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by leonroy 10y ago
> I don't know if he actually said that but isn't all innovation incremental? He said exactly that: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/tech/2014/10/jony-ive-lessons... And yes innovation is incr
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by leonroy 10y ago
> I now really notice the diesel smell and the fumes in central London. Completely agree, the noise is pretty bad, that said you can tune it out or sound insulate your home. I find the fumes from traffic the real pain point of city livin
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by leonroy 10y ago
This quote from Jony Ive really made me feel for the guy: “When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it’s copied. I have to be honest, th
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by leonroy 10y ago
> The burka and niqab, for example, is not only illegal but even before being so it was extremely unpopular in France (I believe the estimate was ~200 for the entire country). Yet, walking around London and it's outskirts this was a
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by leonroy 10y ago
> Someday, maybe today, we have to ask ourselves if email (Gmail) is a public utility. That's an interesting way of looking at it and you're right, Google's initial approach to marketing the product did frame it in that wa
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by leonroy 10y ago
There is one damn thing I would love from Microsoft. And that's to get rid of adverts from their software. I use Windows 7 and Windows 10 Enterprise. We paid for those licenses. It boggles my mind that anyone at MS would think sticki
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by leonroy 10y ago
Fully agree with your comments, but I fear we're going in the wrong direction with the silo-ization of the web and the decline in open standards being ratified and used by large companies. Just look at Google's hostility towards m
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by leonroy 10y ago
Just completed evaluating the two above. Been using Play for a year and a half and Spring Boot for a few months. Play is incredibly convenient and has some very sane, intuitive defaults which makes getting something going very, very simple.
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by leonroy 10y ago
If Article 50 isn't signed by the Autumn then I believe snap elections in the second half of 2016 or early 2017 will occur with at least one of the major parties campaigning on a Remain platform. Interesting (and troubling) times lie
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by leonroy 10y ago
Considering our military spending is more than 50% that of the next European nation (Germany) I think the EU will certainly miss at least some of the things the UK brought to the table. The EU does have a lot on its plate but in addition to
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by leonroy 10y ago
Looking at European history over the past 500 years doesn't bode well for cooler heads. The European Union's main aim was to bring peace to the region. Economic growth and immigration were secondary aims. If the purpose of the uni
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by leonroy 10y ago
Agreed. What an arrogant attitude especially considering their Macbook Pro (2015) recently had a corruption bug which necessitated a firmware update: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1830?locale=en_GB Good checksumming t
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by leonroy 10y ago
When I was a kid (early 90s) learning to play the violin those Strads cost under a million. Since then their price has rocketed just like every other tangible which has become a hotly contested investment asset. It's sad because it mak
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by leonroy 10y ago
Anyone know who works on APFS? If I were Apple I would have certainly picked up some of the ZFS core team, curious if any of them are currently at Apple. Could speed up their time to market with such seasoned hands on board.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Sums it up for me. Having two kids and starting and running my own business has been stressful and difficult to put it mildly. I know my wife and I would kill to get a decent holiday without the kids and day to day stresses but that's
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by leonroy 10y ago
Dropbox + symlinks works great already.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Could be for performance reasons rather than a technical blocker. That said AES-NI instructions do make encryption pretty fast so it's anyone's guess at this stage.

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