mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 5y ago
+1 - I laughed. (Haven't used Windows in 20 years, but it's all just so much deja vu) BUT. I used to have full control. And then Ubuntu foisted snap on me and now I have to suffer the constant worry that snapd might choose to upda
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Just the other some tourist came by in a helicopter, landing in a next-door field to take some visiting friends for a flip. They'd rented the chopper for the day as some sort of perverse idea of an adventure. Complete waste of energy,
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Not the list you were looking for, but I have (inherited from a mentor much earlier in my career) a developer-classification scheme: The four Ducks. Wild Duck, Tame Duck, Lame Duck and Quack. https://www.mikro2nd.net/ducks&#
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And then are at a loss when you demand that they identify themselves to you. After all, all you've got is a voice at the end of the phone. Seriously I'm sure there's good ways to solve this using some simple crypto(graphy, no
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Time will tell.
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I think the real point is less about the cost than about time and budget overruns when comparing nuclear vs. renewable projects. I'm hard-pressed to think of a single solar or wind project that's run late or over budget, whereas
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
And hella impressive compared to any nuclear project!
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
How and why do you even know there's an email in your "work" inbox? Have your devices switch off notifications outside of work hours and you're done. If the sender asks why you didn't respond, explain politely tha
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Seems to be missing `phoon` (or was it `xphoon`?)
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Sounds like they read some headlines along the lines of "Meta... metaverse... blah, blah, blah..." and had a bout of tech-envy. Again.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Fully agree! The point I was trying for is that dependencies have to be managed -- something I've been blathering into the void for a decade, now, without any noticeable impact. Maybe now I'll get those juicy consulting gigs..
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"Oh, just run `node install` and you'll be fine..."
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Thing is, it's not just automated systems that are broken. As worrying to me, or even more so, are those huge, lumbering, old-school systems called corporations, where the humans who work in them are merely functionaries, cog-wheels th
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
When I first read Dune, 'lo those many years ago, I always thought of the Butlerian Jihad as being somewhere in our far future. Now, I'm not so sure...
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
To quote William Gibson, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." In other words, expect to see some things getting better while other things we've long taken for granted get worse. It all gets much pa
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned) Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent. Perhaps you meant "impartial"?
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
It seems that quite a lot of tree-to-tree networking is done via mycorrhizal networks. Without doubt there are mutually beneficial interactions between plant roots and fungi for extracting nutrients, and quite a lot of good evidence that th
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I am forced to wonder, though, whether Norvig's definition is a useful one. By this measure we'd have to consider bacteria to be intelligent. Corporations, too, for that matter. (I do go along with author Charles Stross, occasiona
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Good. Eliminate this useless and elitist "sport".
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Ach no! It's arrays, too.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
DDG has been my default for a few years, now, and on the very rare occasions I've been forced/mistakenly use Google, their results have been without exception worse. Much worse.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Flashback to "Interstellar", where the first 40 minutes involved this guy speaking in some deep-south US accent with a mouth so full of marbles that he was incomprehensible. At some point later in the movie, I bailed. Apart from t
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
And not forgetting "A Note On Distributed Computing" https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/...
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
According to respected epidemiologists I've seen quoted, closing borders against one or a small number of nations amounts to nothing better than performance politics theatre and is of utterly no practical use in slowing or preventing t
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I didn't see anything on Function Point counts in the article. No advocating it per se but it was, at one time, considered one of the more useful ways to evaluate codebase complexity.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
To repeat: I've never been asked to provide anything of the sort to Gandi.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
You might(?) be thinking of the SunRay stuff, which was certainly not X-windows based, though similar in concept/architecture. There was never a time when "everyone simply had a dumb graphical terminal". (I never worked d
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
What's old is new again. We were doing this (and with any application, not just IDEs) back in the early 90's with X-windows. X-server local, compute engine where-ever you could borrow/steal/hack it.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Netbeans had just this about 10 years ago (or was it more?) You could share editing, build, debugging live via a stock XMPP server. Until Sun killed it in favour of some half-arsed imitation that was supposed to make them money.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"You want loyalty? Get a dog." Seriously, employers who start with that "loyalty" thing... eeeuwhh... just run. Away. It's a business relationship, not family nor friends. The loyalty you'll get from an employe

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