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by nocman 4y ago
If only retail stores had websites like Craigslist! Just last night I was in one trying to do a simple search for a fairly common item (on my phone). After waiting between 20 seconds to a minute for search results to return, then trying t
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by nocman 4y ago
Naming things is hard. I agree that bad and/or misleading names are, well, bad. However, I don't agree that we should just give up and name everything {SomeCrypticNameIThinkIsCool}. Invest time in naming things well the first tim
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by nocman 4y ago
I think somewhere in the middle is a good place to start. This can be managed by limiting the scope of code a "language newbie" writes (until they get reasonably up-to-speed) -- if/when that is possible. It also helps if yo
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by nocman 4y ago
> "code quality" is not real, it's just something software engineers like to argue about like sports. While I do agree that many developers sometimes like to argue about "code quality" too much (and I've p
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by nocman 4y ago
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi > The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a
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by nocman 4y ago
It actually takes a fairly high bar for me to leave a negative review of a product or service. But some sellers/providers are just so awful to their customers, you're dang right I enjoy helping other people avoid suffering from a
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by nocman 4y ago
Except a lot of people find helping others to be a positive thing for themselves.
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I guess what I was trying to say is, "PCIe isn't dead, it just smells funny." :-D
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, that's fair. As I said before, this is not one of my favorite Weird Al songs (many of which I could sing along with word-for-word from memory). I was never crazy about the song, so I am not surprised that I didn't know the
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by nocman 4y ago
To be specific, he has an architecture degree from Cal Poly.
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I think that's mostly true. However, I'm sure I have heard a few people use RAM when they meant hard drive space. Though, in fairness, those were probably friends/relatives who used computers but didn't know a l
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by nocman 4y ago
> Business users get: laptops, mostly. That's far from universal. The business users I've worked with recently almost all have desktops. A few (mostly management) have laptops for work. I'm sure a lot of that has to do
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by nocman 4y ago
"The Death of the PCIe Expansion Card" seems like an extreme description of the latest set of motherboards having "fewer than five" PCIe slots. Yeah, the numbers have shrunk over time, but I think that's probably du
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by nocman 4y ago
Maybe so, but I don't see anything in the lyrics that could not be taken from a friend who's "really good with computers". At this point, however, I'm willing to give Al the benefit of the doubt. It certainly would
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by nocman 4y ago
Just to be clear, I did not in any way mean this as disparaging toward Weird Al. I've been a fan of his music for decades. But as I said elsewhere in this thread, I have been surprised in the past by people I would have described as f
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by nocman 4y ago
> There's no more reason to think Weird Al might not have known what RAM was than there is reason to believe he didn't know that having Bill Gates do your tech support was unrealistic I understand why you might argue that, but
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I guess it depends on whether you interpret them as separate. It is possible to think of it in a cause-and-effect way "Defragging my hard drive for thrills got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM". Which, honestly, I could see Al
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by nocman 4y ago
Of course, the other plausible explanation is that (at least at the time) Weird Al didn't know the difference between RAM and hard drive space (especially likely, because he's talking about defragging a hard drive). In fact, I&#x
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by nocman 4y ago
The point you seem to be missing is that Chromium isn't a standard. If you want to reduce fragmentation while avoiding having one entity with too much control, the solution is fair setting of web standards and multiple browser implemen
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by nocman 4y ago
> "in an optimally-beneficial fraud prevention effort, the amount of fraud is non-zero". Yeah, but that phrase won't get any clicks. I gave up about half way through the article and just skimmed through the rest.
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I changed the background to black and then they showed up (could not see them before that).
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by nocman 4y ago
As I said in another part of this thread, I don't have any problem "dipping my toe in". It isn't difficult at all to enjoy using a good mechanical keyboard without becoming obsessed with it. My friends who use mechanica
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by nocman 4y ago
> The keyboard rabbit-hole gets pretty deep. Not for everyone. For years I have preferred keyboards with Cherry MX switches, but I just buy fairly inexpensive ones used. Not really a rabbit hole at all.
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by nocman 4y ago
I would not call 9 years ago "recently" (March 2013 is when Adobe announced it would no longer sell boxed copies of the Creative Suite software). Adobe obviously doesn't care. They treat their customers like crap and activel
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by nocman 4y ago
> I think government examples are relevant. Governments can haul you into court for fraud, for one thing. And they typically try to define things based on widespread understanding. I never said that the OSI's definition of "ope
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by nocman 4y ago
> but this definition is long-settled by the vast majority of people who know about software We obviously disagree on this point, although "the vast majority of people who know about software" is a fairly vague qualifier. The f
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by nocman 4y ago
> Now this feels like arguing semantics. Because multiple people are wrong, this makes them right? Sorry, no. I did not say they were right. Effectively I said a lot of people use the term "open source" differently than you do
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by nocman 4y ago
> Basically, if there is no free will, there is no point in debating But if there is no free will, you should not even try to stop someone from debating if there is a free will, because they have no choice but to debate it. Of course I r
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by nocman 4y ago
> Nope. Sorry but you don’t get to hijack the term “open source” The problem with this viewpoint is that the OSI is not the final arbiter of the English language. Yes, the OSI has an "official definition" of what constitutes &q
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by nocman 4y ago
I understand that some people don't see the value in face-to-face interaction with coworkers -- and I say this as someone who has worked in most scenarios (long-term remote, long-term full-time office, and partial remote). It obviousl

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