tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
> and I can't be associated with anyone Then don't be? What is even the point of saying this on an internet message board?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Our worst and ugliest trait
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Wait so now we have tiling vs overlapping window manager holy wars? Sigh...
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Not to be confused with Darcula I take it?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Referring more to the title field merely being a title, and not some banner to fill with attention-grabbing crap
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by tomc1985 5y ago
App titles not being filled with a bunch of promo crap sounds pretty pro-consumer to me "It is what it says on the tin"
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There are a bunch of legit arguments in favor of retiring ISOs; he even touches on some of them (obsolescence)… but your users are your users, whether they’re snot-nosed kids or dusty old farts or whatever. All users matter!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I agree with this guy fully (having been professionally bitten by exactly what he describes and also having to innovate a way around it) but casually dismissing old-timers and old-school ways of doing thing reeks of ageism and needs to be s
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Because it is not representative of every experience, and without labelling it as such the story given above is mere FUD We should be encouraging self-hosting for those with the risk-tolerance to do so
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Every step here is illustrated as a worst-case scenario, and omitting the time gaps between issues where the system is operational where you are receiving value from it. Yes self-hosting is a PITA. Yes things will go down. Yes it takes time
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by tomc1985 5y ago
As one of those haters, I would have so much less of a problem with it if it wasn't a sledgehammer of a platform, and a resource hog. IMO it's just plain disrespectful to users to inflict them with this crap Also, I'm pretty
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by tomc1985 5y ago
So basically, "more idle time" equals better problem-solving ...which I agree with wholeheartedly. Never underestimate the value of sleeping on, gaming to, or hammock-ing a problem in order to solve it.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Mainly that. Plus you can configure VLC to always start with the volume down, kind of annoying for listening to music
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Most anyone in their mid-thirties or older who were computer literate 10-15 years ago cultivated some kind of media library. To say nothing of (ongoing) iTunes/Amazon/Beatport/Junodownload/Bandcamp/etc purchases del
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It only works for the main window. The library window doesn't work with it.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Who says I'm using a Roku? My defanged smart TV has a computer (and a Shield that only runs Kodi) attached to it. Many of us still have large personal media libraries. Samrt TVs do nothing for that.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
foobar2000's library features kind of suck IMO. Clementine/Strawberry have issues with large libraries or just skip tracks Spotify is cloud, automatically eliminated there VLC Player gets used for porn and videos Winamp quietly Ju
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I haven't had any problems viewing things formatted for 8.5"x11"
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> In reality, this only works if you have e-pub books There is soooooooooooo much content available in PDF
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I miss advertising like this... where it actually talks about the product and why you need it instead of blowing emotional smoke up your ass
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by tomc1985 5y ago
They knew it would collapse, just not so quickly.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Those vehicles were left behind by the Afghani armed forces and were no longer US assets. Of course, our failure to predict the afghani military's collapse is a huge error but that just proves that even world's best and most well-
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by tomc1985 5y ago
How do you extrapolate all that from such a simple statement?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
1) The afghanistan pullout is the country keeping a promise that Trump failed to keep that was made long before either Trump or Biden, and it would have been a quagmire to whoever had the guts to actually follow through on it 2) People keep
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The government is actually trying to do something for folks and yet they are still ungrateful
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I've been out of the security game for a while, this almost reads like fiction. Good god this is nuts. I've heard of extracting keys with timing attacks but this is even more impressive! Also, apparently the Switch perma-pwn got p
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Master != memorization Memorization is not all of mastery but it sure is a large part of it. Like, I get it, I can't memorize for shit and I rely on Google/SO to an uncomfortable degree for programming, but that is more bec
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You might want to work on that. There's something to be said for mastery and it seems risky as fuck to require the presence of the cloud, let alone a few websites, to be able to work. It seems like mastery and knowledge just for the sa
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by tomc1985 5y ago
My guess is this depends when you got into tech. I am a lifer and have been at it since high school; most of my peers got in through sheer passion, when it wasn't nearly as crowded
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Honestly, a BS in anything is helpful. As a SWE at large the number of teammates I've had with CS degrees I can count on one hand, everyone else came from another walk of life

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