mdekkers

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by mdekkers 3y ago
This happened two months ago
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by mdekkers 3y ago
“Disk full” isn’t a hardware failure though, it’s a failure of monitoring and management, which are aspects of solution design you can’t reasonably specc away.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Yet despite all these shortcomings it, and its descendants, were, and continue to be, wildly commercially successful. I genuinely don’t understand all this looking down on what, in hindsight, clearly worked. NT was always marketed and price
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Which clearly didn’t matter to their target market, which you didn’t represent.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I bought an SFP+ thingy three years ago and my sales consultant is a darling, we chat at least once a quarter. I haven’t bought anything since, but her kid recently graduated!!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Here in Italy, Bialetti have nice outlets, much like Le Creuset does. The one in my town often has quite a few people in.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Germany is _removing_ windfarms because they are in the way of their digging up lignite. https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157364
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by mdekkers 3y ago
The fact you use penis size to shame people, and refuse to see how that is wrong says more about you as a human than is does about people buying the cars you decry.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I still disagree. Have you measured the penis size of every large vehicle owner, published your findings, and had them peer reviewed?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I’m not sure I understand your point. I’m pretty sure you do, because the poster is pretty specific. You make statements around micropenises and the required compensation for them that are incredibly toxic. The whole meme is dead, yet
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Death by electrocution is incredibly rare in the EU, what are you talking about? Data, or hold your peace.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> […] hire top talent […] easy Have you _tried_ hiring good people?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Every watt spent doing anything PoW is just that much more intensification of our current climate crisis. > It isn't interesting. It's the most egregious example of conspicuous consumption on the planet. This cannot be ove
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Sure, if you're an architecture god who plans out all their internal interfaces in advance on paper it was OK, but I was 15. Us Architecture Gods don’t need planning. The internal interfaces have been immaculately conceived in our
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Yeah but this ain't an iceberg, it's a leak. Gradual improvement CAN fix it as long as people don't panic or give up. The available data, as well as the interpretation of all credible climate scientists strongly begs to
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> You can't stop the immediate sinking. Technically we can. Those in power don’t _want_ to. They don’t have our best interest at heart. These kind of “it is inevitable” attitudes are a big part of the problem.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I know what it means, I was making a statement as to the actual time available for a solution to be developed. Everyone appears to be talking about how incremental improvements over time to the hull of the Titanic will somehow stave off the
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> solve this long run. What “long run”
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Whilst i genuinely appreciate your suggestion, you are essentially saying “yes, the career and experience you have built up over the years are gone, beet find something else to do”
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by mdekkers 3y ago
The only thing on my CV that indicates my age are my early jobs. Just take those away. When they do ask, I say that work I did at that time wasn’t relevant to today. Either way, as soon as they figure out my ago, the screening call is typic
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Rocking that IPX/SPX!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Well done. I really don’t understand it either. I have close to 30 years experience, and have always stayed relevant in terms of approach, skills, and knowledge. According to the folks I’ve worked with in the past, I’ve done great work, and
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by mdekkers 3y ago
My plan? I’ll go out on my own terms. I fought my entire life to escape a bad childhood of poverty and homelessness. Not going back.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I’m 53, and I doubt I’ll ever find a job in tech again. I only started getting responses when I removed the earliest 15 year’s experience from my CV, and as soon as I hit the screening stage and my age is known they lose interest. Ageism ca
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Thank you for the great summary
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by mdekkers 3y ago
You are asking me to do a lot of work upfront before I get any kind of idea around costs. I couldn’t find any pricing information anywhere (except here in this thread) which is offputting to me. I didn’t fill in the quiz or survey or whatev
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Whenever I read about the AVP being a dud, I am reminded of my own reaction to the first iphone: “it is a stupid idea and it will never catch on” whilst proudly clutching my Nokia communicator. I think the AVP 2 or 3 is going to be great.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> * Systems which handle other people's money must have continuous backups to write-once media and be able to 99% recover from a total loss of online data within 24 hours. This is mostly in place, and has been for a while. Not so mu
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I don't know what the answer is, because it's a genuinely new environment for the human brain. I don’t know either, but I know it shouldn’t be censorship
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by mdekkers 3y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/28/eu-rt-ban-extends-online/

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