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by setquk 8y ago
Honestly I can't be bothered to replace the fixtures. Edit: looking at the price of fixtures, the economic argument is poor as well.
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by setquk 8y ago
I've taken every single LED bulb that has failed on me to pieces and it's always the same failure mode. The heatsink compound isn't applied properly to the back of the LED board. The LEDs immediately in the gaps smoke out. Al
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by setquk 8y ago
You're 100% right but it's very inconvenient to use. For example if you want to copy a buffer to the display you have to track the position and then execute commands to move the cursor to the new region. Less of a problem now in C
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by setquk 8y ago
I've had a lot of experience with schools and mental health issues. I have a daughter under an EHCP due to a genetic problem that causes learning difficulties and the competence is simply not there to handle even basic care in this asp
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by setquk 8y ago
Gah I hate these bloody awful displays. You find out regularly that the display's memory isn't organised how you think (linearly) because the early displays were tiny, so writing say a line out on a 40x4 display turns into a night
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by setquk 8y ago
Amateur here is "unpaid". Usually the obsessive nature of engineers, me included, means they tend to take the work home with them. Back when I was working for a defence contractor years and years ago there were a lot of amateur ra
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by setquk 8y ago
That usually means you have to take it to the insurers specified repairer which is usually the lowest bidder. No thanks!
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by setquk 8y ago
I save up and buy one in cash. No contracts for me and no debts thank you!
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by setquk 8y ago
It is large. Definitely a two handed phone even with my massive hands.
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by setquk 8y ago
If you add AppleCare, aggregate that cost over 24 months and sell the handset at the end it’s a good investment. I don’t sell at the end but give my wife’s and my used handsets to the kids and they get two more years out of them. Total expe
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by setquk 8y ago
Another XR fan here. I went from 6s to XR. It’s much faster, the camera is amazing and the battery life is exceptional. It lasts 1.5 days of heavy use no problems at all. The only compliant is sometimes I pull it out of my pocket and try an
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by setquk 8y ago
The problem comes is that you are not in control of the scope of the data or the processing of it. Just because now is ok, it doesn’t mean tomorrow will be and once data is leaked unintentionally (look at their disastrous QA at the moment)
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by setquk 8y ago
I don’t care about them selling it. I care about them having it to start with.
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes MSFT are cancer on a telemetry perspective. I signed up for “new outlook web access” today and it was hammering the shit out of their servers with telemetry hits. Ublock Origin turned these into console errors. They are simply the worst
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by setquk 8y ago
My first proper job involved oracle. This put me off ever using it again from a licensing, technology and ethical perspective. Just the army of clueless but certified vulture contractors explained the ecosystem. This is how you slowly burn
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by setquk 8y ago
Unless it’s Azure as they make small company mistakes like forgetting to renew certs... YMMV for anything you can’t see or touch regardless of the size or experience or reputation so far.
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by setquk 8y ago
I returned a 2018 MacBook Air with the membrane because it failed with the same failure mode. Then I got duplicate key presses. I now use a thinkpad.
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes. It can simultaneously cause and cure cancer too!
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by setquk 8y ago
I’m not sure it was a joke. I had to deal with Oracle 9i years ago and I still have the emotional scars of being buggered hard for some licenses for it. The only way we could circumvent a lot of cost, allowing us to keep humans on budget, w
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by setquk 8y ago
Why on earth would you want oracle cloud? Pay in collected souls?
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by setquk 8y ago
I worked on a military site literally after the whole September 11th thing went down and everyone was super paranoid. Had armed police patrols and everything. At lunch we still cut through the same hole in the fence perimeter which had been
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by setquk 8y ago
He got to see a fair few of them as well in the 30 years since that article he lived for. Perhaps his writing had a hand in the inspiration. When I’m out of ideas I look at science fiction for inspiration.
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by setquk 8y ago
Fantastic article. I wish I was born a lot earlier so I could work with these discrete and semi-integrated devices. they looked so much more fun than modern electronics which is just "bus the ICs together".
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by setquk 8y ago
Yes. While they were justified this time, it is possible that they won't be justified in the future. Management now is not management then. Anything that outsources control of this level to a third party is a business risk for a compan
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by setquk 8y ago
Business as usual. They’re like the bad guy in a crappy cartoon that does the same bad stuff every week.
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by setquk 8y ago
Great reference :)
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by setquk 8y ago
It takes them forever to fix stuff as well. For about 6 months it had “Reply Al” instead of “Reply All” on OWA. Trivial but it shows how crap their QA is.
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by setquk 8y ago
The worst thing about this is when stuff goes down, it does so at the least convenient time. Back in 2003 I was on a customer site who had a RH server and there was no internet connection available (as it was routed through the box) and my
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by setquk 8y ago
I’ve had Systemd completely stop responding before on numerous occasions on centos 7. As in can’t reboot or hangs rebooting or all commands hang. Only recourse has been to reboot the instance from AWS dashboard. I can’t get to the bottom of
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by setquk 8y ago
It's no different to having to buy a TX8 screwdriver because you don't have one already. Even the big brands make them now: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/screwdrivers/1230844/ I have replaced

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