loudthing

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by loudthing 4y ago
... the Lisa, the Apple III, firewire, calling wifi "Airport" for way too long, that home speaker boombox thing, the weird round mouse that came with the iMac, ... But seriously, I remember reading on here a comment from a previou
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by loudthing 4y ago
I completely agree, specifically a middle management problem that bubbles up.
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by loudthing 4y ago
TIL: there are no nuclear reactors in Australia.
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by loudthing 4y ago
Unfortunately the folks that get to make these decisions are so removed from the reality of their company's every day tasks that all they can think is "if I don't see butts in the seats I bought, then obviously no work is get
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by loudthing 4y ago
I’ve never heard someone call their own country a “third world country”. Out of curiosity, which country are you referring to?
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by loudthing 4y ago
But do woodworkers consider their home workspace a "lab"?
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by loudthing 4y ago
That's awesome. Reminds me of retro computer enthusiasm. It's not about the hardware, it's about the experience and keeping classic tech alive.
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by loudthing 4y ago
It's the phrase "homelab", I suppose. Why not call it "Home IT" or "Home Data Center" or "Home Network Infrastructure". Calling it a home laboratory sounds like enthusiasts are trying to escape s
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by loudthing 4y ago
I guess I'm struggling with why I would buy the same commercial grade equipment to play with at home when my profession should be fulfilling the needs of that skill set. Sounds like if you feel like you need to do so, you're more
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by loudthing 4y ago
I've never understood why fiddling with IT equipment in your home is considering a "home lab" since you aren't necessarily creating anything (like a laboratory would do), you are just integrating together other people&#x
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by loudthing 5y ago
This is a really cool little look into implementing relatively basic functionality that we have become accustomed to with mainstream PC's.
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by loudthing 5y ago
Back in the day I had a Thinkpad T40 tablet that served me very well. Absolutely bullet proof PC, and it could run Crysis on integrated graphics :)
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by loudthing 5y ago
"I want it to just work" is a very subjective phrase. I think you'll find the majority of users have very different use cases for technology than you do. Also, try to read past the first sentence before you downvote me.
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by loudthing 5y ago
Honest answer: Apple is a lifestyle brand, however they manage to offer a superior product to the layman because they have tight control over both hardware and software codevelopment. In my experience, people tend to also like Apple hardwar
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by loudthing 5y ago
Interesting how slow USB-C adoption has been so far, which is a shame because the connector and concept are a great standard, but the implementation of various busses (Thunderbolt, PCIExpress), video adapters (Displayport, HDMI 2, 2.1), USB
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by loudthing 5y ago
Darn. I was really hoping for a new Macbook Air :/
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by loudthing 5y ago
"Britain last year backed a $546 million funding round at the company to develop the country's first small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), part of its drive to reach net zero carbon emissions and promote new technology with export
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by loudthing 5y ago
Not quite. The Great Firewall of China has the ability to shut off access to specific sites, services, and even communications protocols very easily and very effectively. Trying to access Google from China doesn't result in a page from
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by loudthing 5y ago
I for one am a proponent for free and open internet and net neutrality. Banning any sites/services in the US is a slippery slope. There has to be better ways to deal with these problems.
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by loudthing 5y ago
I missed that ratio part. I actually thought it they were saying 1.75x more expensive for 3d vs 2d. I wouldn't expect one art style to be thousands of times more expensive than the other. Good catch. Also regarding 2d cinema animation,
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by loudthing 5y ago
3d movies require a lot more technical r&d, experimentation and tool development. This was true for 2d in the past, but Princess and the Frog was made in more or less off the shelf 2d animation software. The biggest challenge to doing 2
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by loudthing 5y ago
This seems super pointless but fun.
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by loudthing 5y ago
In the US in May of 2018, a federal law went into effect saying all new cars require a backup camera. This means that there needs to be an LCD screen visible to the driver for the camera. This is sort of a slippery slope as far as feature c
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by loudthing 5y ago
This still sounds terrible.
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by loudthing 5y ago
"and I get to see the USA from outside the decadent, rose-colored bubble from which it is usually experienced." This. As someone who moved to the USA ten years ago, you do not understand "the bubble" Americans live in un
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by loudthing 5y ago
This is a very good answer. You also don't necessarily need a degree for it.
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by loudthing 5y ago
I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but "software engineering" is not necessarily, and historically hasn't been, engineering, or "physical engineering" as you called it. Also historically it was possib
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by loudthing 5y ago
Reading this title gave me a headache.
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by loudthing 5y ago
Thanks for the response. I hadn't heard of Zerotier. Going to check it out.
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by loudthing 5y ago
Can't believe I've never heard of this. Thanks!

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