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by qz2 6y ago
Yep they are bastards. Watch Microsoft carefully.
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by qz2 6y ago
Occam's razor works fine if you add another hypothesis that the accounts aren't entirely accurate.
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by qz2 6y ago
To be fair I’ve got a fairly nice DSLR but without a $3000 chunk of glass in front of it, everything looks like a blurry mess at any distance which a UFO may be involved. I don’t own a $3000 chunk of glass. UFOs are certainly real but they
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by qz2 6y ago
That’s one pretty large shite multiplier.
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by qz2 6y ago
The difference when there are ubiquitous firearms and not is the level of fear and nervousness among strained relations. Any division is amplified then. All it takes is someone to lose it and it’s a cheap solution. And everyone knows it. Th
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by qz2 6y ago
Our entire country’s yearly stats are a bad weekend in Chicago. I wake up knowing I’m probably not going to be shot by some prick in Asda car park.
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by qz2 6y ago
Exactly my point. You can see when it stops working right here http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/
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by qz2 6y ago
That is purely selection bias. You have to look at other countries.
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by qz2 6y ago
It made sense when they came up with it but it was a large can of worms which didn’t age or scale well. Now you have a society based on mutual assured destruction at a civilian level devoid of trust and community.
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by qz2 6y ago
That’s really working out well isn’t it.
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by qz2 6y ago
I’m sure this will be a popular comment, not, but when you arm citizens you arm morons too.
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by qz2 6y ago
Yeah we have some now ageing CentOS 7 crap to clear up. The obvious choice was CentOS 8 but that is now uncertain. I’m glad I was too busy to take this on earlier in the year.
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by qz2 6y ago
I feel for you. At least it’s good to know that IE11 is likely to die before we do at the moment :)
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by qz2 6y ago
The real message is that if you want stability now, you have to pay for it with RHEL.
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by qz2 6y ago
My 20 year old Sennheiser HD25’s are tutting at this release. I will keep them for the desk and my existing standard AirPods for outside.
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by qz2 6y ago
I think a lot of people here, me included, are well aware that despite your best intentions and best understanding and application of testing, things can go drastically wrong at or after launch of a new anything. Eventually we learn what th
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by qz2 6y ago
Acquiring everything doesn't make it an ally, merely an owner or dictator of policy.
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by qz2 6y ago
I share your cynicism. I'm not sure that's a comfortable position though but it's better to live in fear than ignorance I suspect.
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by qz2 6y ago
No - web deployed click once applications. Straight to desktop from browser. Signed and whitelisted.
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by qz2 6y ago
Actually we don’t fix stuff as a species until people start dying. How long it takes is how much bad PR is involved. Avoiding that bad PR instead of solving the problem is an art that we have become better at than solving problems.
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by qz2 6y ago
It’s even worse when you realise I spent ten years convincing tens of large angry enterprises why they needed to deploy a registry fix to make our web based software work. I put the cost of this bug for us just in the $100k range.
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by qz2 6y ago
Oh that's nothing. When they introduced IE7, they broke ClickOnce launchers all around the globe due to the new download prompting. I raised a defect with my MS Partner support dude and normal MS support. All they managed was a registr
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by qz2 6y ago
Bloomberg are full of shit when it comes to tech news. I'm going to wait until products land before I evaluate. This last cycle I am impressed however.
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by qz2 6y ago
This is an excellent point and perhaps the right answer. Most of these problems exist because the one place we trust to manage our resources never pivoted on these things. In fact most banks are barely crawling out of the dark ages.
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by qz2 6y ago
Spot on. Managing subscriptions is a shit show generally. Doing it in one place is the right thing for the end user.
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by qz2 6y ago
There are a lot of changes. Don’t assume that poster is correct. A lot of the core HTTP stack has changed and a whole chunk of third party libraries are abandoned or rewritten entirely for .net core. Anything async is likely to be a complet
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by qz2 6y ago
Enjoy that. I’ve got a huge project which is wedged on 4.8 eternally.
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by qz2 6y ago
Java is a mysterious one really. It’s probably the most complete stack of all but you’re right about the legacy. I find it difficult to evaluate which technologies are risky with it now because some of it is throughly abandoned.
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by qz2 6y ago
I think in those scenarios you need to isolate the risky and exciting bits through APIs etc and build the rest of it using boring tech. I know of a company who failed miserably on delivery after they completed their ML risk engine and blew
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by qz2 6y ago
Try that with .net. They fucked it up at least four times in that 20 year period and there’s lots of garbage information around now. Realistically the best approach for stability is to pick mature technology and that means stable, well desi

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