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by qz2 6y ago
The HP 48/49/50 series is more of a competitor to the TI89. The HP50G is a fairly extensive ARM based computer not a calculator. It is ridiculously powerful. It is discontinued now in favour of something pretty and shiny but vastl
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by qz2 6y ago
That's roughly where I have landed as well. Also including VScode and remote-ssh :)
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by qz2 6y ago
Kubernetes 1.19 here... To clarify your edit, I am mostly concerned that I want to pull in another deb repo or something so when I do an apt update I get a full set of updates, not the distribution packages and a manual compile job to argue
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by qz2 6y ago
Exactly my point.
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by qz2 6y ago
Yes I’m talking about third party packages, software and repositories. The contents of the default Debian repositories are excellent, but usually quite old.
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by qz2 6y ago
Larry's lawyers would probably see that as a technicality which can be resolved in court.
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by qz2 6y ago
There were lots of copycat themes for Linux window managers and toolkits around then which looked much worse than this attempt. I really miss the windows XP theme. It was super clean and consistent compared to the shit show we have now.
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by qz2 6y ago
Oh it's worse now. No one tests anything against Debian any more and assumes that Ubuntu is the one true Linux. That makes things like Kubernetes have some extra annoying hoops to jump through. The whole Linux ecosystem is like trying
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by qz2 6y ago
They'd have to ship just over twice that to touch Lenovo now.
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by qz2 6y ago
That's about right. Here in the UK you were lucky to see a mac ever back then. A colleague bought the lamp style iMac unit in 2002 and we were quite frankly shocked at it. It was actually a pretty horrid machine compared to our windows
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by qz2 6y ago
I learned how the win32 common controls combo box worked, which was handy as I had to fix a bug related to it, how they handled compatibility between windows versions and lots of little bits of weird design info in the comments. I spent a g
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by qz2 6y ago
This will be interesting. I learned a lot from the mainsoft leak.
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by qz2 6y ago
The whole situation is a joke really when it comes to stuff like this. Everyone crows due diligence and removing administrative access and putting in security controls everywhere, not using own hardware, having locked down this that and eve
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by qz2 6y ago
Yes. We're being sold a mainframe again. But a much much worse one. Now without the reliability, documentation, support and consistency.
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by qz2 6y ago
I fail to see the benefits of this. It’s just another set of immovable constraints on your development process and a charging model chucked on something that is 100% solved over and over again. Actually that’s software these days summed up
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by qz2 6y ago
Yes it is glass half empty and intentionally so. The point is that it takes time to reason about problems, understand more than individual perspectives and evaluate solutions to problems. I have shot myself so many times in the past by havi
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by qz2 6y ago
My wife is a fine example: Problem: coffee machine not working. Her representation of the problem: we need to buy a new coffee machine. Really what’s going on: coffee machine needs cleaning properly but it doesn’t match the rest of the stuf
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by qz2 6y ago
Watch out for saying no. People you work with learn what things you will say no to and rephrase the question to avoid a let down or start asking the wrong question and then misquoting themselves later. This becomes a cat and mouse game of t
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by qz2 6y ago
That nails it perfectly. It's sad but true.
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by qz2 6y ago
I’ve watched my current gig push microservices hard. Realistically after 5 years and a lot of investment only 10% of traffic lands on them. Was a waste of money and time.
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by qz2 6y ago
I feel for you
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by qz2 6y ago
What about AppFabric which tied it and all their ESB stuff together. That was flushed faster than a bag of crack in a police toilet.
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by qz2 6y ago
Trivial projects yeah. This is not a trivial project. As for different variants. Two different http pipelines (classic, integrated), OWIN, one obsolete variant of OWIN, whatever is lurking inside .Net core now. WebAPI, MVC, bits of the rema
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by qz2 6y ago
Nope. An ASP.Net MVC project dragged through since CTP versions.
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by qz2 6y ago
This is the most schizophrenic platform I've ever worked on. I've just spent an hour trying to make something work across the five different variants and web pipelines doing things underneath. Edit: to be clear we have completely
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by qz2 6y ago
To be fair we could do nearly all of that before without much of an issue. Now we inherit the overhead of the software, demand pricing, apps that are made of shit and string (uber eats I'm looking at you) and zero customer service...
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by qz2 6y ago
Your first paragraph nails it completely. The entire software ecosystem is like having infinite layers of train crashes to fight through every day. The purpose of a lot of software is to make software, not to solve problems.
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by qz2 6y ago
My point was regarding WSL2. I will never use macOS again though. That is completely dead for me but that’s a whole another story.
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by qz2 6y ago
2 There are too many weird compromises and bugs with it. Better to stick with a tidier abstraction.
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by qz2 6y ago
WSL integration love wears off pretty quickly I find. There are so many rough edges and broken things. While debugging a UDP server recently I discovered that any attempt to capture anything via UDP was scuppered entirely by the networking

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