technofiend

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by technofiend 1y ago
The last thing I did yesterday before leaving for the day was make my employee open a change record for the weekend. Why? Because between in-person and virtual interruptions I literally could not get my work done. Tomorrow, I'll make
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by technofiend 1y ago
I wish I knew what you're doing to make to make it work.
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by technofiend 1y ago
I recently discovered that my jetkvm won't work on chrome, firefox or safari in macos, even after trying various workarounds to enable webrtc. The fix was to boot up Fedora in parallels and use Firefox there. In fact I'm thinkin
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by technofiend 1y ago
Explicitly banned by policy at my employer. Possibly due to concerns around data leaks, possibly due to not wanting to create a haves / have not situation. Policy is always enforced but rarely explained.
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by technofiend 1y ago
A childhood favorite and warm, nostalgic memory as an adult. A good friend of mine and I taped a spoof of Copacabana by Barry Manilow and got a really lovely letter back from the good doctor saying he'd done his best but couldn't
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by technofiend 1y ago
Mike Myers put into words what I'd been thinking since watching Star Trek, where every outdoor scene on an "alien planet" looked similar: "You know what's remarkable? Is how much England looks in no way like Souther
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by technofiend 1y ago
Depends on whether you mean damaged or destroyed. Ukraine reports 41 damaged, 12 destroyed.
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by technofiend 1y ago
"Duty to the shareholders": if you aren't the CEO growing revenue quarter over quarter, then your mostly stock compensation is worthless and the board is interviewing replacements.
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by technofiend 1y ago
Absolutely! I plan to buy a mini split, and efficiency is the biggest driver after properly sizing the unit for my space. Energy costs add up when you live where your air conditioner can run non-stop for months at a time.
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by technofiend 1y ago
They also rotate their points system making what seem like contradictory choices when the system changes every couple of years. In contrast taking Wegovy simply shut down any desire to snack and drastically reduced the desire for all but t
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by technofiend 1y ago
Particularly after Citizens United, money has squelched voter influence in favor of a few large donors. People don't seem to realize however imperfect the choices are, actively voting against this agenda instead of giving up and hopin
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by technofiend 1y ago
You spin off a company with all those obligations and pay it a pittance to take them on as supposed assets, soon after it declares bankruptcy. Now your new megacorp is free of all those pesky contracts.
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by technofiend 1y ago
Oh man NYC taxis. I swore them off after one too many "Oh the cardreader is broken" lines. I just explain I'm traveling for work and my company card is they only way they'll get paid et voila the card reader is magical
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by technofiend 1y ago
Nora's working on Graffiti in Greenwich as we speak.
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by technofiend 2y ago
This is exactly what Comcast does with their Xfinity service if you use one of their devices.
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by technofiend 2y ago
You really want 6 e or 7 these days so you can shift to 6GHz. There are many more channels available, adoption is limited so there's less congestion and the signal attenuates more quickly and has higher free-space path loss as well.
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by technofiend 2y ago
A mac mini is cheap if it's worth in investing in a platform to buy an app ala buying an Apple II to run Visicalc.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Isn't that what a DMCA takedown is for?
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by technofiend 2y ago
My gaming PC has four NVME slots. Currently it hosts Windows 10 and Fedora, but since a new update was released it's also about to host SteamOS. When W 10 support ends later this year, I'll use Windows 11 ARM in a VM on my MacBoo
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by technofiend 2y ago
That's been my experience: it's good at basic tasks. It can be prompted to write idiomatic code in very small amounts. Anything beyond that and it's just as likely to either write non-optimal code or silently delete code whi
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by technofiend 2y ago
I agree the need for troubleshooting can be born from poor decisions, but it's still a marketable skill for places that need it at scale. One of my roles was head of Linux Engineering for a Fortune 50. Sure there's the pets vs cat
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by technofiend 2y ago
I hear you: would love to see a RISC-V-based system without all the downsides to using ARM. Perhaps in another 3-5 years we'll see performance parity and it'll be viable. If we get close it certainly seems like we'll see a la
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by technofiend 2y ago
I have a friend who spent a few years skydiving. He thinks he's a fantastic driver but well let's just say opinions vary. He will happily speed on the freeway and dive between cars like a maniac. What's funny is his pre and
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by technofiend 2y ago
Legislation was tightened after the S & L crisis and at least according to Investopedia was the itself was due in part to lax oversight: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sl-crisis.asp *What Could Regulator
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by technofiend 2y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Do you mean Chip the Wolf is actually a human who wears a wolf costume? Because he looks like a cartoon character to me, so he doesn't qualify as a "furry" in my mind.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Not sure how mainstream furries are. Sure, they have conventions and whatnot but do you expect to see one on a box of cereal anytime soon? Probably not.
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by technofiend 2y ago
I bought a cheap Blu Ray burner from Microcenter for less than $50. Flashed with an image I found online and it rips DVDs and Blu-rays no problem. I did all that because I'm in the same boat you are: I have a ton of media and it'
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by technofiend 2y ago
Will there really be a mac mini wirh Max or Ultra CPUs? This feels like somewhat of an overlap with the Mac Studio.
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by technofiend 2y ago
It's a portmanteau but we call all the little sort of Starbucks "fauxbucks". You know the ones in gas stations, Target stores, etc.

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