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by neepi 1y ago
Oh now that is interesting. Source here as well https://github.com/suitenumerique
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by neepi 1y ago
Yes. Lucky if you even get noticed.
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by neepi 1y ago
I haven't found anything that needs fixing.
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by neepi 1y ago
This is the standard voice of someone who's never had to deal with a badly maintained or managed open source product or an asshole maintainer or had to run a fork for 6 years because no one will merge a trivial fix in. Or had a LibreOf
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by neepi 1y ago
I assume it went as well as an acquaintance of mine found out. Wanted to go Linux and open source so dumped O365 and got Fastmail, libreoffice in to start with. His two office staff found rather quickly that they were up shit creek as they
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by neepi 1y ago
It's not that bad. My ex-partner has my old 2017 iMac and it is still supported with patches on Ventura. She's bought an M3 MBA that she hasn't set up yet because she can't be bothered. As for Microsoft, much like the la
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by neepi 1y ago
Actually you can use them as external displays but requires some hackery. See https://ohmypizza.com/2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-e... But yeah agree entirely there. When upgrading from my somewhat cranky o
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by neepi 1y ago
Mine didn't because it meant she could spend more on shoes. Anyway she's gone now... It's about making the most of opportunity, something which is all around us and needs to be utilised.
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by neepi 1y ago
Yes. They don't know what AI actually is and what the capabilities are and the companies selling integrations are running on hope rather than technical competence and suitability. So it gets applied to unsuitable problem domains and fa
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by neepi 1y ago
That is precisely my point.
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by neepi 1y ago
One of my former contract outfits is there right now. Two failed projects so far, one of which impacted customers so badly that they ended up in trade press. The other one wrote off 5% of revenue with nothing to show. No you can't solv
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by neepi 1y ago
They took two days and used react components and all sorts of shit and we nearly missed the deadline due to it. The page I did was less than 4K with all content and css embedded and took me 10 minutes. There's doing the job and there&#
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by neepi 1y ago
Having been poor for most of my life, it's what you didn't pay for that keeps you afloat generally. If it blows up, I will move to the Lenovo M70s I found without a hard disk or RAM the other week. I put an 8 gig stick in it and i
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by neepi 1y ago
So I needed a nice looking static page kicked up on a CloudFront endpoint the other week. Just one single static page which had corp branding on it and had some blurb, a title and a link to a dataset we publish occasionally on it. This is s
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by neepi 1y ago
It could but I respect my potential userbase too much to make it more convenient for me and less convenient for them.
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by neepi 1y ago
Yep same. Amazing what you can pull out of the skip these days and run for nothing. I lifted a couple of dead Lenovo P720 workstations out and managed to get a working dual Xeon silver 32 core machine with 64Gb of ECC RAM. Uses a bunch of p
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by neepi 1y ago
I had an idea years ago for an app but came to the same conclusion after some market research and a risk assessment so didn’t bother. I do not regret that decision for a moment. I either have to put enough time into the idea to do it full t
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by neepi 1y ago
I had LTO. It's expensive and painful. Just multiple copies on good quality SSD is fine. Needs to be left powered up occasionally to do maintenance.
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by neepi 1y ago
Yeah good luck with that. Seriously.
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by neepi 1y ago
This is sad but true.
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by neepi 1y ago
I disagree. Quality depends on your market position and what you are bringing to the market. Thus I would start with market conditions and work back to quality. If you can't reach your standards in the market then you shouldn't
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by neepi 1y ago
I would not assume that this methodology applies to applied engineering, as a former actual real tangible meat space engineer. Things are a little nuanced and the nuances come from a combination of communication and experience, neither of w
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by neepi 1y ago
That seems to be a completely inappropriate use case? I would not hire a blind artist or a deaf musician.
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by neepi 1y ago
Ah yes the race to the bottom argument.
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by neepi 1y ago
My only take home is they are all terrible and I should hire a professional.
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by neepi 1y ago
Ah yes the constant adversarial relationship.
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by neepi 1y ago
As an owner of 30+ year old CDs, that isn't necessarily the case. Some of them don't work particularly well these days. I went through a streaming thing for about 10 years but am moving back to physical media now. When I went to r
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by neepi 1y ago
I gave my kids iPads. But I also parented them.
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by neepi 1y ago
The term AI was invented because Claude Shannon was fed up of getting automata papers.
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by neepi 1y ago
Ego > engineering.

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