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by non-entity 6y ago
I actually was surprised to see these are made, as I considered getting one for a few projects. The ones I saw were pretty expensive with some being resold on ebay for just under a thousand dollars. Reading some reviews though it seems yoy
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by non-entity 6y ago
So if I understand correctly, I wouldn't be able to flash, say coreboot?
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by non-entity 6y ago
D is weird to me. Ive only looked breifly at it, but I liked what I saw. I'm assuming it had some early issues or completely failed to market itself for too long because it seems to see very little use compared to similar languages.
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by non-entity 6y ago
I get why its done, but all this locking down of modern systems is making me rapidly lose interest in computing.
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by non-entity 6y ago
I remember one time seeing a job posting at one of the big tech companies everyone talks about that looked interesting to me. No way I'd be able to pass the interview today, but out of curiosity I decided to look into what they would b
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by non-entity 6y ago
> If you look at the trend on "mainstream" OSs, it seems to be going the other way. Google and friends have been working hard to move the networking stack upwards into the userland, because they control the userland and not the
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by non-entity 6y ago
I came across a company who provided DOS drivers for their product. Last updated 2014...
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by non-entity 6y ago
I suppose its fine as long as its not connected to the internet.
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by non-entity 6y ago
Get ready for the new generation of dummy terminals equipped with unreplacable proprietary firmware :)
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by non-entity 6y ago
There have been a number of things I've found running some old version of embedded windows that I've been suprised by
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by non-entity 6y ago
perhaps
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by non-entity 6y ago
I mean for some applications you're going to gave to have a desktop app, particularly anything that communicates with external devices or most OS related components. Although the ways people will convince themselves otherwise are prett
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by non-entity 6y ago
I probably wouldn't mind working with modern java with a good team, but I don't like my odds.
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by non-entity 6y ago
Does Scala see much use out of the big data niche nowadays? I've considered picking it up, but I'm always discouraged by someone telling me to use Kotlin instead, or stories of companies abandoning Scala for reasons like complexit
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by non-entity 6y ago
Not sure I can pinpoint it to a specific time or anything, but as of recent nothing feels like "magic anymore". Many years ago there were all sorts of classes of software, patterns, etc. that looked and sounded arcane and complex
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by non-entity 6y ago
Of all the Haskell programers I've met and interacted with both irl and online not one came off as "arrogant" (there is a programming language who's hardcore fans tend to be a bit more, uh, eccentric, in my experience, b
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by non-entity 6y ago
I would love a job where I got to travel like that, sadly they aren't common in software.
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by non-entity 6y ago
You can even work as a developer!
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by non-entity 6y ago
I have a few projects closely related to telecom stuff and I thought it may be fun to use Erlang or Elixir, however I keep hearing people advise against using Erlang, except in the specific niche of distributed applications, so idk anymore
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by non-entity 6y ago
Yes but then you're perpetually depressed when you realize what you have to use day-to-day :P
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by non-entity 6y ago
> stems for the simple fact that most "pop-culture level" C programmers are too lazy to learn the language "hard" - academic - way, and instead prefer to "learn" from practice Now I'm rather curious wha
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by non-entity 6y ago
For C I mostly agree, but from what I understand there's still a ton of new C++ being written and even replacing "legacy" alternative languages even if they provide advantages.
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by non-entity 6y ago
When I first learned of OpenVMS I was incredibly confused at the name. I guess I'm so used to Open X projects being opensourced.
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by non-entity 6y ago
> and when I told my neighbors that I wanted to be a cop when I grew up, they’d tell me, “You’re too smart for that.” Turns out they might have been right, quite literally. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you
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by non-entity 6y ago
In the long run sure, but that doesn't mean there can't be set backs and temporary regressions.
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by non-entity 6y ago
From what I've heard, you might be waiting for that 870 days later as well.
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by non-entity 6y ago
I've wanted to leave the industry for a while for various different reasons and it seems the golden handcuffs are very real. The only realistic options seem to be moving towards adjacent business roles (various management, business, or
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by non-entity 6y ago
It is now, orginally the story was submitted with a title along the lines of "Florida is a police state".
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by non-entity 6y ago
This is a sherrif too, so they're elected, not neccesarily by any sort of experience or merit. Nobody likes to hear it, but I'm willing to bet this person has been in office for a while. Tough on crime is popular among "model

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