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by octorian 8y ago
As others have said, the whole point of these machines is that they were NOT simply creative combinations of current high-end commodity products. The whole system architecture, from the CPU, memory, I/O, to the graphics hardware, was c
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by octorian 8y ago
I wonder how much of this is myth, rather than reality. Or rather, only an issue on cars with poor battery cooling/management.
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by octorian 8y ago
This is why any half-measure is kinda a waste. The overhead to "rent something for the occasional need" is far more of a real-world hassle than people are willing to put up with. Also, having kids dramatically changes what you nee
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by octorian 8y ago
Agreed. While its probably one of the more expensive ones, I really like how you don't have to buy anything from the manufacturer besides the device itself. The consumables are not proprietary, and are just off-the-shelf litter and g
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by octorian 8y ago
One night in a bout of frustration with my then-current job, I started searching message boards for names of products/companies in my field of side-project interest (mobile development). I then Emailed several of these places my resume
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by octorian 8y ago
> But the fact they keep on using "military grade tech" makes me lose most of my faith in the merit of the article. This description has been paraded around ever since the original Munro comment using those words. I'm stil
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by octorian 8y ago
When I used to live in a "normal" part of the country, telling people I'm a Software Engineer would usually lead to one of two things: 1. They'd pivot to asking me where I worked (which I didn't feel comfortable sha
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by octorian 8y ago
The Silicon Valley region is one of the few places where being a Software Engineer is considered a normal and mainstream career.
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by octorian 8y ago
> There is nothing about learning how basic data structures and algorithms work that won't help you in your day to day development. Having a basic understanding of these things is NOT the same as being able to regurgitate them on a
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by octorian 8y ago
And then you discovered that there were online vendors who sold that same stick of RAM for $22 + S/H. Back in those days, the price difference between stores and online/mail-order vendors was enormous. Mostly because the customer
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by octorian 8y ago
I think my favorite part of the article is this quote: "Personal finance experts love to discuss how much money you can save by avoiding that daily Starbucks habit or packing a brown bag lunch every day at the office." followed by
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by octorian 8y ago
> The option is to buy it fully specced. A new 6-core i9 with 32 gigs of DDR4 amd 4TB of flash storage will probably keep you happy for the next 5 years. That means your budget is slightly above US$ 1200/year of happy computing with
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by octorian 8y ago
First, they'd need to have a willingness to license "encumbered" codecs, drivers, etc, even if it meant charging for a version of their product. Second, it would involve a ton of product testing, and tedious ironing out of ro
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by octorian 8y ago
I kinda wish they were able to implement the touchbar in some sort of hybrid way, like those Art Lebedev keyboards we all saw hyped (but probably never in person) back in the day. While I'll admit there are cool things you can do with
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by octorian 8y ago
I can definitely attest to this, having had one back in the day. Of course back then, everyone else made super-chunky laptops, at least with the cheaper models (so chunky that people bought netbooks because laptops were insufficiently porta
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by octorian 8y ago
That was back in the day when you had to buy Apple's 17" model just to get the same number of pixels on your screen as everyone else's 15" model. Apple had worse density than the competition back then. Then a few years p
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by octorian 8y ago
Same here. Well, that's my personal laptop which is perfectly fast and in great condition. My work laptop was actually the same generation, until IT recently upgraded me to one of the new-keyboard models. I don't like how loud the
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by octorian 8y ago
I've long felt that the greatest threat to Linux on the desktop (for the past ~15 years) has been OSX, not Windows. We all want a solid and reliable UNIX-based OS, but we also want an OS that won't be treated as a bastard child
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by octorian 8y ago
Every time one of the big boys screws up, we all hope for this. Then the relevant players in the Linux community fail to get their shit together and the cycle repeats itself.
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by octorian 8y ago
Developers are more likely to use software that's designed for multiple platforms, without priority given to the Mac. (I guess if you assume not all developers live their life in Xcode.) This means that developers are more likely to be
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by octorian 8y ago
Yet, typically, each country/culture is reduced to a single cuisine. The exception to this is when you're lucky enough to live in an area with a sufficiently large immigrant population from a particular part of the world. I'v
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by octorian 8y ago
The long excursion might be seen as implementing all that code to do EFS-to-TAR. (Rather than figure out how to compile a Linux kernel module, or run an old version of Linux on something.) If I was trying to do this project, I'd just d
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by octorian 8y ago
I have a late-model Indigo2. They're definitely a lot heavier than they look. The later models also suffer from being a bit of a "bridge" machine. Newer CPU and graphics paired with older SCSI, Memory, and Networking.
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by octorian 8y ago
On the bright side, the Octane2 is one of the few SGI machines new enough to support graphics hardware with DVI ports.
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by octorian 8y ago
I think the whole 512 byte sector CD-ROM thing was common to all the 90's-era "Real UNIX" machines. They generally all wanted to treat CDs like a hard drive, for booting purposes. (PCs, on the other hand, did a different weir
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by octorian 8y ago
It actually varies a lot by state. In Florida, where I used to live, it was $25-50k lopped off the value of the house before taxes were assessed. Proportional to house prices, this was a lot. In California, where I live now, its only $7k. P
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by octorian 8y ago
And if you're looking for the name of the 3 other businesses in the same building as the Chipotle, good luck! You might have to zoom in another 400%, and get lucky. Now what if you're trying to casually browse the map to get an id
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by octorian 8y ago
I've extensively written code like this, though I don't seem to see others do it very often. I suppose if you really hate gotos, then a "do { } while(0);" with a "break;" in the middle of it is equivalent. Ther
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by octorian 8y ago
> The same will happen to smartphones. You can already see it. Manufacturers trying so hard to invent features nobody needs, just to have an excuse to buy a new device. Unfortunately, smartphones exist in this world where everyone has fa
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by octorian 8y ago
Its easy to forget that Microsoft hasn't actually taken over control of GitHub yet. The big announcement was that they have entered into an agreement to acquire GitHub, after slogging through (perhaps) months of legal, accounting, and

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