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by minkles 2y ago
The problem is that they're written by developers. And when I say developers I mean developers, not engineers or authors. Everything is about a sausage factory, nothing more. You don't learn stuff other than copying and mimicry. A
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by minkles 2y ago
I don't read programming books any more because they are mostly shit or expensive or expensive and shit. The hit rate of finding a good one is so low it's easier to just fudge your way around a problem using some idiom you're
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by minkles 2y ago
This is far more difficult to follow than the normal one. Some lines, particularly London Overground on the North side of the city, are all over the place.
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by minkles 2y ago
> Go telemetry is an opt-in system Great job Go. Hat tip and respect for this. Unlike .Net. I will enable this where it is appropriate.
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by minkles 2y ago
Yeah that. Pixel 6A and 7A. Unreliable as hell. Went straight back to iOS. Edit to clarify: constant problems with payments, bluetooth, eSIMs.
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by minkles 2y ago
I can imagine the silk gowns being covered in brand logos.
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by minkles 2y ago
Urgh some of those are crazy expensive. Best to pick by destination if you can. For example they charge you $23 for 10 gig in Central Asia there but if you get a local eSIM it’s $5 for the same and $10 for unlimited. I just WiFi hopped beca
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by minkles 2y ago
This is the fateful combination of O2 and Android together, possibly the worst experience in the universe (from experience). Nothing but trouble for years. I dumped my Pixel 6A and O2 a couple of years back after a roaming shit show in Icel
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by minkles 2y ago
It’s also that most IT people doing corp stuff don’t even give a crap or even know what half the hardware is these days. I mean our IT department bought developers laptops with 8Gb of soldered in RAM and no expansion then bitched at the dev
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by minkles 2y ago
I can’t wait for this to fuck up monumentally and end up in Private Eye.
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by minkles 2y ago
last.fm / gigs / bandcamp. Oh also Meetup music events and I actually play a couple of instruments so get talking to people.
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by minkles 2y ago
Perhaps I’m old but I never got into this at all. I have a very carefully curated collection of music which is combination of CD rips, stuff from bandcamp and bootlegs and piracy. I can’t possibly replicate this with any online music servic
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by minkles 2y ago
I think you miss the point. Literally all the documents and information I need to protect are not protected by credential guard or virtualisation based security.
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by minkles 2y ago
Yes you can. Massgrave :)
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by minkles 2y ago
Most of the virtualization based security measures it disables are, well, described here nicely: https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by minkles 2y ago
This is just marketing spam.
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by minkles 2y ago
Engineering safety culture is built on piles of bodies and suffering unfortunately. I suspect in software the price of failure is mostly low enough that this motivation will never develop.
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by minkles 2y ago
I’m not sure there aren’t better solutions to the unix CLI which is basically formed of a bunch of shit parsers written by idiots wired together, an operating system pretending to be an editor and a text processing package with a footprint
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by minkles 2y ago
Clearly you've never worked on a government project! I was on a defence project that overshot by a cool billion dollars on the SOW...
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by minkles 2y ago
That can be turned the other way around. Who would rationally waste their time arguing with something to get it working when something that works is already available?
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by minkles 2y ago
Oh here we go again. Someone blaming the hardware. Every damn time. A hackintosh isn't even comparable. I tried it on a stock Lenovo T14 gen 3 and a new Intel 14500 crate with both integrated graphics and a 4060 and a Lenovo T495s. The
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by minkles 2y ago
Literally last month.
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by minkles 2y ago
Things that suck: fractional scaling doesn't work anywhere properly, most of the desktop apps have terrible user experiences, absolutely show stopping bugs, suspend/resume on the whole platform is Russian roulette, inconsistencies
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by minkles 2y ago
If it had a working, competent desktop environment, yes. But it's not there. Everything else, 100%. But the whole desktop environment thing is a mess with extremely poor quality control. It's much more fun to change the universe 5
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by minkles 2y ago
This could be more accurately phrased as Linux being an incompatible fork of Unix and macOS actually being Unix. And you are annoyed at this scenario. I'm not sure what your noise cancellation point is, because that works absolutely fi
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by minkles 2y ago
I think that's working on a lot of assumptions. The null hypothesis would be that there are no trait differences between people born at different times of the year and that would need to be disproven. However it would be interesting to
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by minkles 2y ago
As an end user I really don't want Electron apps on my phone. I want people to actually bother to do something native and fast, not cheap for the engineers.
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by minkles 2y ago
It's not a vulnerability as such. It does retain data between two executions however that it shouldn't but we're in control of both executions so that doesn't really classify as a vulnerability. Basically something is st
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by minkles 2y ago
Even worse. We're a big enterprise customer. I've spoken to the people who actually architected and built the feature and they don't even understand the problem properly.
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by minkles 2y ago
It has been 3 years since I reported a problem in one of their services and they still haven't found anyone who seems to even be able to understand the problem.

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