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by redshirtrob 6y ago
> System 76 is not cheap. I acknowledged as much. However, the OP's comparison is with a Mac so I don't think discussing the cheapest approach is in the scope of the discussion.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what would qualify as an "official site" for laptops supported by Linux? Would it be run by Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or some other maintainer? I think expecting anything official or authoritative from the Linux
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I've mentioned something similar elsewhere in this thread, but I really don't see why someone would choose Linux if their daily work revolved around marking up PDFs, editing Office documents and sending email. I do these things on
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
What I like about Linux over Mac is I can do just about anything I want. Apple puts guardrails up, or has weird technical reasons [0] why certain things just can't be done. On Linux, I know it's just a matter of perseverance to ac
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I got a System76 Darter Pro for work, preinstalled with Ubuntu. It worked perfectly. It booted directly into a graphical display manager. All drivers worked out of the box. Not sure what else there is to say here. That sounds like what you&
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
She did not tell us we were deriving the quadratic formula. I had no idea where she was going when she started the exercise.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I don't think so. I was on the Calculus track in high school so we derived it in...Pre-Calculus. Prior to that the quadratic formula was something that seemed to be handed down from on high. We used it in Algebra II and maybe even befo
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
No doubt it was the wrong coffee maker for them. I don't think it was well designed though. I think it was "eh, ok" designed for the happy path, and very poor for the unhappy (but probably pretty normal) path. I think what th
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
These issues are everywhere if you bother to notice. My in-laws had a coffee maker with a built-in grinder. The grind function was default enabled, so if you went to brew some coffee from pre-ground beans and just turned it on, the grinder
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Be honest. I make a habit of having gaps in my resume. I like to take some time off between jobs. It's a luxury, but if you can swing it, it will do a lot to recharge you and get you ready for your next role. If the gap is fairly large
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
This strip is beautiful. As a parent living with snow on the ground in Ohio, I just lived this experience when my children asked me to go sled riding. Work will be there after they go to bed, but these years will be gone before I know it.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I see you had a ready retort. Nice!
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just off the top of my head: - "The pernicious poem place." - "Demonstrates defenestration." - The "salubrious" beats. - "Mainstream commercial
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Here's my favorite little bit of Bill Watterson trivia. He's from the Cleveland area. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio. As he arrived, another famous cartoonist Jim Borgman, who is from the Cincinnati area, was just graduating.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
This was a developer job. I doubt making presentations was a key part of the job. As such, they emphasized that I shouldn't spend a lot of time on the presentation. It functioned as a conversation starter. For that it worked well.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
A few years back an SF startup asked me to prepare a presentation as part of the final round of interviews. It was supposed to be something I like to do. I chose making pizza on my charcoal grill using my KettlePizza [0]. At the time, our f
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Yes! I've been on the interviewee side of this a couple times and absolutely love it. It has so many nice properties: 1. It fosters meaningful conversations about code that is not dependent on the candidate solving a toy problem. 2. As
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
> Why is there so much aversion to proving one's abilities? Programmers today feel they shouldn’t have to do whiteboards, or hackerrank, or take-homes. Because it doesn't necessarily prove one's abilities. Each of those it
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Joe Posnanski's sports writing. A friend turned me onto his blog in 2008 and since then I've read nearly everything he's written. It amazes me one can be so prolific and write with such beauty and grace for such an extended t
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I'd say it's the tax code that's at fault, but that doesn't stop folks from leveraging the tax code to their advantage. As a single datapoint, I was in the final stages of interviews a while back. I had a call with the C
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I wonder if a good hack would be to think in terms of how I would react if a (my) child showed me something they made? Children are often doing something for the first time. I've noticed this breaks down my barriers to what I consider
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Thanks. I borrowed one of their chainsaws from a neighbor back in the spring. It worked flawlessly. That's the brand I was considering so glad to hear another positive review.
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I mostly stick with corded tools. Over the past 17 years I've managed to collect: - A Milwaukee right angle drill. I don't use it much, but when I need it, it's invaluable - A Porter Cable circular saw. I get a bit more use o
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I love this idea. I own a couple of items on the list now (Le Creuset Dutch Oven, and Kitchenaid Mixer) and I can attest to their durability. I think your idea of cost per month is good for things you use often. One thing I've been thi
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
One month is about right when you add it all up. Not fun. Thanks for the suggestion. I have only found this to be an issues with version 12 and on. I have examples from version 9 & 11 that work as expected (both before and after video a
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Dealing with Canvas is painful. I recently ran into a weird image distortion issue on Samsung Internet Browser 12 (I guess it's based on the Chrome engine) when drawing a video frame to a canvas context using `drawImage`. Since you&#x2
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
Yeah, that's a possibility too. Thinking about this more (really, why am I still thinking about this more?), I regret positing that OP was lying without including the possibility that dsiroker was lying. Additionally, I should have con
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
This is something I wanted to say in my response but left it out to avoid taking away from my other thoughts. Circa 2013, had I been asked this series of questions, the answers almost certainly would have been: 1. Spend as much time with my
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I was definitely a shareholder. I had early exercised some options, and reached my one year cliff. I believe your conclusion is correct. They shut down the company and sold off assets. The acquihire probably returned some money to the inves
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by redshirtrob 6y ago
I was involved in an acquisition as a shareholder. I was nigh impossible to get anything out of the executives. It was an acquihire so maybe things were different.

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