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by taffronaut 5y ago
I'm not condoning the behaviour but neither is it a pathology of a 'fucked up small community'. Welsh nationalists burned down english-owned holiday homes in the 80's and 90's "in response to the housing crisis
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by taffronaut 5y ago
The missing step can be that in a large company HR needs to assign a grade/job type to the role before they advertise it and these are standardised typically with respect to both education qualification and years of experience. The com
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Generally for Intel I see the benefits as: - Part of a roadmap to RISC-V to eventually lure Arm customers uncomfortable with the Nvidia bid for Arm - Generally hitting Arm at the lower end by giving RISC-V more credibility in the short term
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by taffronaut 5y ago
The economics of FOSS is not a solved problem and the author deserves kudos here for asking questions that I don't see asked anywhere else. The examples chosen are maybe not the most current, and there are counterexamples especially in
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by taffronaut 5y ago
> Similarly with colonialism - that's something that is only possible once your society is already rich and powerful enough to go around and dominate others. I disagree. The European colonial period started in the 15th Century[1]. I
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Another route is to lobby those projects to adopt an open governance model. This effectively puts the management of the project at arm's length from the corporate parent. It's a trade-off for them to get more engagement vs rescind
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Likewise FLStudio - thanks to its lifetime license model I have been using it as a paid license DAW for more than 15 years. It has a very active and collaborative user base especially for hip hop and indie game music.
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by taffronaut 5y ago
I found that playing Rock, Paper, Scissors against an AI opponent demonstrated at least to me that I was not even able to make what I thought were random choices. The only way I could hold the AI to a draw was by using an external source of
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by taffronaut 6y ago
Do hobbies have to be successful? IMHO the time is for restoring your sense of well-being. There are loads of happy (but terrible) amateur artists, musicians, dancers, DJs, woodworkers, model-makers, novelists, photographers, Wordpress webs
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by taffronaut 6y ago
It's ironic that several of the criticisms here are for huge lists of 'engraving' options in hidden menus in Sibelius. Engraving is the equivalent of typesetting (but music obviously doesn't have moveable type). I used a
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by taffronaut 6y ago
My dad was in a similar situation when he retired from chemistry research. He tried a bunch of things, some of which stuck, some of which didn't but still passed the time and got him into outside interactions. In no particular order so
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by taffronaut 6y ago
Using the IKEA and Argos (RIP 2020) catalogues, my mum was still able to browse for furniture and household stuff independently at the age of 92. She doesn't have broadband or any digital device; she's also deaf and doesn't h
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by taffronaut 6y ago
I thought that was a pretty interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
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by taffronaut 6y ago
I meant long term support in general but I was not specifically running LSTB. It ran vanilla W10 Pro installed by the reseller. I found much later it was not even an OEM license so not a bad deal - effectively the machine was free. The worl
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by taffronaut 6y ago
The focus here is on laptops. On mainstream commodity desktop hardware, Windows 10 long term support is a lot better than this article suggests. I just threw out a thirteen year old Xeon system (Dell Precision) that had been my daily (updat
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by taffronaut 6y ago
Agreed. I read the guy's autobiography and he was pretty big on excuses. He can continue sniping from the sidelines but he is an economic pundit who got the chance to apply his big ideas to run a country. He failed and was fired by his
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by taffronaut 6y ago
This. I feel I learned a lot more about insecurity related to 'keeping up' in tech from this thread than I did about brain changes in mice.
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by taffronaut 6y ago
Absolutely agree. My first job out of college was working for a company that was a minor sponsor of the Tyrell P34. We briefly had one of the cars in reception.
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by taffronaut 6y ago
I changed jobs when I was over 50 and it was certainly tough. Hiring via the front door process didn't work for me. My best performances were typified by (i) the recruiter would push me as a good fit for a difficult-to-fill (ugly even)
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by taffronaut 7y ago
FLStudio has a great community and Image-Line deserve kudos for their "lifetime" license model. I used it extensively for a few years and found it solid and productive. It's maybe closer to Ableton than Cubase.
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by taffronaut 8y ago
Hill farming sheep has no career progression, every year is the same brutal sequence, and you're at the mercy of whatever meagre prices the market sets for meat and fleeces. The tangible outputs vs office work does not seem sufficient
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by taffronaut 8y ago
I sometimes imagine going back to explain to myself as a teenager what I do for a job now. When you were young, what did you want to do? We are still accountable to that person we were. As a teenager, did you want a corporate job and a gym
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by taffronaut 8y ago
I assume that this is the "offending" thread on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/promos/comments/56ymfc/hey_linux_pe... Quotes: “This is going to be a very hard sell being a proprietary closed s
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by taffronaut 8y ago
I am an introvert who freelanced for a while and now I have a permanent gig which includes biz dev. Former colleagues helped me by either letting me practise on them, or giving me helpful and motivating feedback, or by introducing me to pos
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by taffronaut 8y ago
I disagree with this. In my experience as a generalist, most hirers are like customers in a tool store. They're looking for a tool to do a thing. Trying to interest them in a Swiss Army Knife is a waste of time. If they're shoppin