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by mech422 2y ago
This(1)(2) any good for ya? "Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. Sculpt is used as d
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by mech422 2y ago
This(1)(2) might hold you over for a bit: "Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. Sculp
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by mech422 2y ago
yeah - but most programmers have less then 10 years experience... so they never saw those things. All the panic seems a bit overblown to me, but I have to remind myself that for a lot (most ?) of programmers - this is the first market downt
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by mech422 2y ago
Ohh - that sounds awesome! If I get to that point, I'll buy a boat ! :-)
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by mech422 2y ago
Wow! This is SOOO cool !! I tried to convert a dactyl generating program on github from scala to something I could read, but ended up going crazy! The interface is gorgeous, and pretty fast (though progress indicator seems to get stuck at 2
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by mech422 2y ago
Thanks for the chuckle :-) My 'retirement plan' is to be the last living COBOL coder :-D $5K/hr should be about right :-D
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by mech422 2y ago
I have to remind myself a lot of programmers these days have never seen a 'down' market, and get truly worried about the 'end of programmers'... You have to be pretty long in the tooth now to remember .com crash, off-sho
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by mech422 2y ago
Oddly enough - the guy behind Milli Vanilli (Frank Farian),had done the exact same thing before..He wrote the song 'Rasputin' and then created the lip sync band 'BoneyM' to 'perform' it... BoneyM went on to hav
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by mech422 2y ago
Oh! Thanks!
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by mech422 2y ago
Gotta throw in a mention of my fav: Odroid H2/3/4(1) $125ish for an SBC with Intel N/J series CPU, DDR4/DDR5, up to 32G RAM, SATA, Dual Ethernet etc. I have the old H2+ series and LOVE them :-) 1: https://ww
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by mech422 2y ago
Lately, I've thought it would be cool to work for an agricultural robot/equipment company. Interesting problems (computer vision, system control, navigation, etc.) and working on something that could actually help the world...
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by mech422 2y ago
Heh - yeah, 'paperclip' and a dot matrix printer (epson mx 80? or a commodore one?) got me thru high school :-)
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by mech422 2y ago
I've not followed any of the Nix drama (nor anything but the most basic Nix posts). I will say, having known McDonc for like 15-20 years - I would tend to take anything he has to say seriously.
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by mech422 2y ago
Derek Lowe's stuff is awesome - Probably the most famous 'stuff I won't work with' is 'sand won't save you this time' ... 1) https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-s
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by mech422 2y ago
Drobbins founded both gentoo and funtoo - so they're bound to be very similar. He basically fell in love with BSD 'ports' back around 2000, and decided to build (two!) distro's based around the idea in it...
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by mech422 2y ago
yeah - given his comments about hosting containers and what-not, it sounded like he has some community. I'm guessing after 20 years of doing distro's he's just looking for a new itch to scratch. Looking forward to seeing wh
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by mech422 2y ago
I worked with Drobbins way back in like '00 on Stampede Linux. He's been doing cool distro stuff for like 20+ years now. I'm a bit sad its not fun for him anymore, but I look forward to hearing about what he tries next :-)
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by mech422 2y ago
Personally, I'm an old school, social mis-fit geek .. So I actually prefer something a bit quirky/less glossy as long as the information is there.. For some reason that feels more 'human' and 'honest' then some
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by mech422 2y ago
They've had custom expert systems to help fill out the forms for years (decades?), so I find it hard to believe AI is really making a huge difference...
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by mech422 2y ago
I left the valley in 2010 - so maybe I only saw it at its best? I can remember part of the fun was just figuring out what the hell you were looking at :-) There was another place not to far from there that was mostly ham gear - they had a
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by mech422 2y ago
>>does bring up a point that is often overlooked when discussing best practices: our brains are different and organize things in different ways. I really notice this when I first look at a code base...Its not that the code is 'ba
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by mech422 2y ago
>>Note that this was a very opinionated post. Bonus points for calling it out as opinion, instead of treating it as the 'one true way' :-) P.S. I still like OOP well enough, and I love formal interface support like Go/R
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by mech422 2y ago
HSC was awesome...I used to love just browsing in there. It was like computer archeology just seeing all the different generations of gear. Some good deals too :-D
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by mech422 2y ago
ODroid H-series SBC's are standard Intel CPUs with (at least for the H2+) Linux supported hardware for pretty much everything (haven't tried running X on them though :-P ) they are my favorite 'home server' currently...c
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by mech422 2y ago
Huh - TIL :-) It does sound pretty neat though...
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by mech422 2y ago
Having an itch to scratch. I 'burn out' every 10 years or so and do basically nothing for 6 months or so..Generally get over it when I find some itch that I want to work on. Usually gets tied into some language/framework&#x2
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by mech422 2y ago
The absolute highlight of my work is when I get a new projected 'scaffolded' (bad choice of words, but I was using it before it became a buzzword) You know when you get to the point your data structures just make working on the co
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by mech422 2y ago
I would assume that would all go away if they get banned, which brings you back to hard to sue them?
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by mech422 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation :-)
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by mech422 2y ago
yeah - I guess it varies but I can usually spot about 5 of them out at night...Thanks for the link!

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