tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
Very frustrating just how much CPU/memory a blank Ubuntu install uses while idle vs Debian. For largely the same resulting system. I always prefer Debian because of crap like that.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
WallStreetBets had something that was like a fish in a fishtank somehow directing stock purchases, versus WSB, and WSB lost.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
My career took me to C-like languages and scripting environments like Ruby or Python. And (love it or hate it) most of the world thinks in JS nowadays. Some aspects of Pascal are really strange or awkward to me, like the rules for whether o
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There is already a system for this: DJs, radio, and mixes. But the DJs need to control the radio or the mix, and they need to do so solely for artistic or aesthetic reasons, not commercial, political, or economic ones. If the music can be e
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Wow, could you be any more haughty? I'm referring specifically to the UI. Yes I never worked with Delphi so I am indeed quite ignorant to its obviously apparent wonder.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The Bangladesh hack was unable to be reversed because the attackers exploited holidays in multiple countries to create a multi-day window where they could be reasonably sure that people wouldn't be auditing the transaction. And of that
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by tomc1985 4y ago
modern art = i could do that + yeah but you didn't + you didn't have the artist's cachet + you didn't have the connections to exhibit your work + you don't have the body of experience that lead you to this particula
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Even before the democratization of art we were still flooded with crap. I've spent a lot of time curating through DJing and collecting digital music, and the goal has always been to find that 1% that is amazing in the sea of 99% crap.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Having never used Delphi, the parallels to VB were uncanny. So I guess Delphi copied VB
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Ah yes, give everyone with no taste the means to create even more mediocrity. As if we aren't flooded with enough crap already!
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by tomc1985 4y ago
So glad to see this on the front page! I'm no expert, and Pascal is kind of a weird language by modern standards, but Lazarus does cross-platform desktop development using GTK or QT bindings. Electron Devs Hate This App! (ok, maybe not
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by tomc1985 4y ago
https://wiki.freepascal.org/fphttpclient isn't good enough? Why do you need a library?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Used this shit is crazy cheap. I picked up a 16-core Xeon monster with hyperthreading and 128gb of RAM for under a grand, and the power bill for it is maybe $20 a month
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by tomc1985 4y ago
NFLX got clapped for Q4 2021 earnings too
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Sucks for them, I guess. Because with the right know-how and some setup it is pretty damn easy.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The thing that all these everyman-boosters that have invaded and gentrified tech seem to forget is that people are capable of learning, and with the right motivation, they will. Can piracy be the bridge to tech literacy? Sure.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
It did, there is just a resurgence of entrepreneurial hipsters trying to bring back hardware stuff like they're trying to bring back vinyl. I really have a few questions: how good do the analog channels sound? How good is the filter? I
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by tomc1985 4y ago
If you pour water into a bathtub it will handle all the water... until it can't, and then it overflows
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> It's amazing to me how resistant people are to the idea that housing is expensive because there aren't enough homes for people to live in. It's always a search for exotic explanations like foreign buyers and mysterious e
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by tomc1985 4y ago
And that's commendable. Also very rare among large companies.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There will always be calls to compromise on principles to maximize some metric or another. There are legions of business wannabes and people who think they know best, and they will sweetly offer up their opinions to tempt you towards what
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why do we even bother to give any credence at all to company PR-provided explanations like this? They are spin doctors lying through their teeth, because literally everyone is. The culture of business writing/speaking has become so far
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> It would risk giving away information on the capabilities of US national security assets. Trump already did this when that Iranian something-or-another blew up (missile silo? nuclear reactor?) a few years ago, and he provided classifie
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> That use case is not one any commercial provider anywhere is going to build an ML model for. Why not? It's been a while since the west has had a war where the moral details are so clear. If I had a company like this I'd be ju
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by tomc1985 4y ago
FreeTaxUSA made me manually input my stock transactions last year, via a paper PDF I had to print and mail separately. For most situations it is probably fine but its investments support seemed limited.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why are so many afraid of "negative energy"? Let the man be weird. He doesn't exist to serve your opinion. Open your mind, dude
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Here? I don't think you're going to see any. And I think there's a legitimate use-case for people who feel that their favorite social networks are censored. Doesn't matter if the apps are full of garbage, that is what
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Slow golf clap from me I guess. Pedantry is super impressive.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Most of my experience is on continental Europe, where it seemed like multilane highways topped out at 55-65 km/h. So you're probably right. No need to go on the offensive though. "Gaol" is a pretty dead giveaway of Briti
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The 101 through Sonoma/Humboldt/Mendocino counties is, at some places, a 2-lane highway weaving its way through a twisty curvy Redwood forest at 55-65mph, and up to 75mph when it's a six-lane highway. And here in Southern Cal

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