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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Agreed. A ready example is the jobs created by those who would produce, maintain and improve upon such automated solutions. Ubiquitous automation would imply robotics, permitting demand for classes of non-knowledge worker labour, who are ty
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Not open source, but I do recall some searched-out expletives in the leaked Windows 2000 source code providing the Slashdot crowd with some amusement back in the day. Most were around having to kowtow to weirdness from certain vendors.
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
> Now, Microsoft says, it will removing individual user names from the productivity score entirely. [...] “No one in the organisation will be able to use productivity score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and se
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
The thing I like about Teams is the way you can have collaboratively-editable documents localised to a particular channel by way of the Files tab, which is great for organisations that don't yet have an ingrained online Office 365 or G
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
An excellent contribution. Education at this "full stack" level is something we should see more of. I particularly enjoyed the concise explanation and code example in the Perspective Projection section. Often web based explanation
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Link to it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx386xpDqCY
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Don't over-think it. Jot down several bullet points that you want to talk to, and just write as best you can to those points (without re-writing any of it). Go over it once for any grammatical errors. Next step: post it. Unless it&#x27
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Michael Abrash is an excellent chronicler of technical history. Reading through his contributions is always time well spent. See also https://fabiensanglard.net/ for a more contemporary take. His 'Black Books' on
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My personal choice: Talend API Tester - Free Edition (formerly called 'Restlet'). It's straightforward, and (most importantly for me) works seamlessly through a corporate proxy. I also like it's approach for having a hie
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
If anyone was ever alarmed by the GOTO et al within BASIC, it's worth remembering that the 'B' stands for "Beginner's". I think the language serves an excellent role in firing the curiosity of an amateur, wheth
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> "They’re afraid that there’s more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they’re afraid to go in, and they don’t want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they d
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
My interpretation: Contrast, vividness, attention-grabbing.
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This is a really interesting article, and WSL 1 was a testament to Dave Cutler's vision for the NT architecture re: support for multiple operating environments (read 'Showstopper!' for more background). Also, as someone hacki
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Whilst the OP is after ostensibly practical examples, I would add something I haven't yet seen mentioned and that is education. If you are wanting to learn more about computing and how operating systems work, Linux is excellent at givi
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> What I've found is that each time I install an update - or more likely, install a new tool - there's a chance it will be blocked by something or cause a problem with something else, and I'll have to debug it for an hour
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
I've been through this experience myself, so I know what you mean! The best resource I found was something provided by my local university called "Mathercize" (may just be something specific to them), which gave you a range o
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Having to tinker a bit is part and parcel with Linux in general, I find. And this is even more true if you are expecting a level of usability quality at parity with commercial OSes. My take is that you have to adjust your expectations and a
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I understand how you feel (personally, I really liked the book). I think it depends on your goal. If your goal is to just "get on with things" and essential read something more akin to a reference manual or a focused tutorial with
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
From someone married to a PhD, I suggest the Google route. With the PhD you'll likely be more distanced from what truly interests you (the topic is essentially a negotiation between you and faculty) and what may continue to be relevant
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
That's really useful, thank you! Great to know that others share the same security concerns around this process. I will be sure to try this out.
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Yes, you're right, I think I've picked up a little confirmation bias based on my choice of distro lineage (in hindsight all have been some derivation of Ubuntu, with some variant of a Gnome 2 / 3 desktop environment). I guess
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
I can see how that could come about (lumping window manager concerns all into the one bucket), but to me it's security implications make a good case for re-architecting this part of the system. I.e. having a separate part of the OS whi
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Slightly offtopic, but a common exploit(?) I frequently see with Linux desktop environments is a few seconds where the user's live desktop is displayed after resuming from standby, before the logon screen comes up. Not exactly a case o
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
Agreed. They are much 'cuter' and approachable than the recent geometric icons used by MS. Still a ways to go (especially with the smileys), but I like their direction.
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Agreed. I would say to set aside a little time and see if you can think of anything within the realm of tech that you still find interesting. Regardless of how irrelevant you might think it is at first glance, as you will be biased towards
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
For a short while, 14 years into my own career, I managed to shift from my Windows-oriented .NET development role into an organisation which did PHP against a strong Linux environment. I got the job after demonstrating my expertise at a loc
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
I agree with this point of view. I often get tired of the relentlessly competitive society that is continually pushed upon us. The reality is, there are endevours out there which are not predicated on dehumanising zero-sum transactions. For
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I've felt this a few times, but ended up not making the jump to a different field because of my lack of expertise compared to tech, and the pay downgrade that would incur. Something I've realised is that I will often jump to the c
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It's interesting to see the proportion of revenue of iPhone vs. their other products. It's unparallelled, but based on the dip from last year seems equally volatile / subject to competitive forces. You can see everything else
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I struggle with the same thing. My mind is often too noisy to filter out the signal, let alone put into a structure suitable for tractability. I happened upon George Polya's "How to Solve It" book several years ago, which con

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