synicalx

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by synicalx 4y ago
I thought we were all working from home these days?
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by synicalx 4y ago
Fair warning, setting up and managing a DSLAM is an undertaking, and additionally everyone that wanted to use it would need a compatible modem as well. Source: I've setup and managed two such environments back in the day at an ISP, and
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by synicalx 4y ago
Well I mean.... there's your problem right there. You're paying for a 12 hour response time, on a plan the AWS has told you fairly explicitly is NOT for production or mission critical workloads. I get that it's frustrating th
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by synicalx 4y ago
Y'all got any of those chiggin nuggets?
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by synicalx 4y ago
Can't come soon enough IMO
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by synicalx 4y ago
Satellites would, I assume, burn up on re-enter if they happened to de-orbit. I'm more worried about them banging into one another and surrounding the Earth in an impenetrable debris field that makes future space exploration/trave
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by synicalx 4y ago
> "Just imagine how safe driving will be when every vehicle is FSD and can talk to one another," Some genius 10x'er forgets to carry the 1 or something, and all of a sudden an entire city full of cars all collide with pede
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by synicalx 4y ago
A hammer; I used to help my dad and grandpa build extensions and various other wooden things on our houses, and still to this day I can get a nail into a bit of timber with two whacks quite reliably.
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by synicalx 4y ago
Things like this are why I'm glad I live in a country with sensible employment laws. Firing people willy-nilly SHOULD be taboo, if you find yourself firing people all the time then you're the problem not the people you're fir
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by synicalx 4y ago
> 21k lines of Perl GLORIOUS $10 says this was made by someone who worked at an ISP.
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by synicalx 4y ago
Ok then, entry level on Apple's scale. The i9 MBP's were the previous generation of "top of the line" CPU's offered, and the M1 is the "bottom of the line". An i9 MBP would start at around $3500-4000AUD wh
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by synicalx 4y ago
I have an M1 in my personal laptop, and a previous-gen i7 in my work MBP and the difference is night and day. The i7 is hot, loud, and can barely last 4 hours on battery (and it has a brand new battery in it). With a 4k monitor hooked up th
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by synicalx 4y ago
In this comparison though, your entry level CPU (the M1) is holding its ground against a top of the line CPU performance-wise and beating it on power and thermals. To me that feels like a HUGE improvement, it's like an i3 performing th
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by synicalx 4y ago
Personally I love the touchbar. I got a M1 with the touchbar and some extra RAM/SSD and it's my main machine, but if I had have been in the market for purchasing one now instead of 6 months ago I definitely would have gone for the
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by synicalx 4y ago
I don't think mandating anything works very well, you should trust your employees enough to let them work out amongst themselves how best to work. Personally I hate WFH, so I choose to work from the office. I have a coworker that I wor
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by synicalx 4y ago
My Nextdoor devolved into multiple houses on my street setting up a shared Nest/Google account and rigging up a dozen or so cameras to watch their entire stretch of the street 24/7. All this because someone thought their car was v
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by synicalx 4y ago
In this analogy; it's JUST a restaurant it's not that important that you be there with your friends and family. There's plenty of other ways you can see and interact with them, the restaurant isn't important or necessary
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by synicalx 4y ago
On a Sony TV, at least on my one (before I yanked the wifi antennas out) you could just create an open network and then sit watching the Wifi settings screen on the TV and watch it just jump right on. If you're really concerned about p
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by synicalx 4y ago
Sell the exploit to the highest bidder, I assume
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by synicalx 4y ago
I stopped after people started putting up fake "COVIDSafe" check-in QR codes that linked to... suspicious sites. It wasn't widespread enough to be a major problem, but common enough to make it not worth my while - especially
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by synicalx 4y ago
A company like that would 100% outsource their customer service to the lowest bidder
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by synicalx 4y ago
Less than billions
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by synicalx 4y ago
I'm very curious, why base everything on Slack? There's no denying it's super popular (and my preferred choice for collab) but the majority of businesses don't use it, and it indirectly adds cost to your product; if I wa
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by synicalx 4y ago
> Isn't it an enterprise product targeted to executive level buyers, and customized to the business? Maybe, and maybe not. Execs aren't or at least shouldn't be making these kinds of decisions in a vacuum, they should be a
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by synicalx 4y ago
I could see that working from the top down - ie. something in space beaming power "down" to a plane. Going from the ground up seems like it could be a little risky, nuking other planes, passing birds etc. Having said that, a Golde
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by synicalx 4y ago
I just have my dotfiles in git, along with a script that clones the repo, moves the files into position, installs packages and does a few other little things. I had thought about just making my whole ~/ a git repo but I feel like that
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by synicalx 4y ago
BlackBerryOS, although really I think I miss the phones themselves. My last BB that ran BBOS was a Passport and that was a brilliant phone; using the keyboard to swipe around was genius.
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by synicalx 4y ago
You just reminded me about the little remote controls iMacs used to come with that looked a bit like an iPod Shuffle - those things were great.
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by synicalx 4y ago
Few main things I did that made my workspace just a little nicer; 1. Added decorations and art that I can see when seated at my desk. 2. Put down some LED strip lighting behind me and also at the back of my desk so I can control what the ro
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by synicalx 4y ago
A company I used to work at had an in-app chat feature that ran entirely on XMPP, specifically using ejabberd which scaled really well. Can't say it was super intuitive to setup and run though, there was definitely a learning curve.

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