xaldir

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by xaldir 4y ago
> YouTube vastly improved in the recent years. Can you explain how? From my perspective, the platform is still struggling to get the basics right : lots of spam in the comments, recommendation is meh at best, some videos are hard to find
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by xaldir 4y ago
Oh come on. I've been talking for years with Microsoft representatives and they were balls-deep on the windows-as-a-service scheme for years, until they weren't. You could argue that Microsoft was betting on Windows 10 as a platfo
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by xaldir 4y ago
I will bet that almost* no one at Microsoft (*well maybe Raymond Chen) knows that it's there and what it does, they are too busy piling up (not-so)shiny new things.
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by xaldir 5y ago
I posted exactly that on the reddit thread and got my post deleted...
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by xaldir 6y ago
It would help greatly if this kind of things (that and security exceptions would not apply to any host in the RFC1918 address space. Would make life easier for IT dept around the world.
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by xaldir 6y ago
> open source First tool: Trello Hmm okay
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by xaldir 6y ago
I think he was talking about the classic .doc format which was a clusterfuck and not the open XML.
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by xaldir 6y ago
vSAN is software Raid. Having an HBA or a controller in pass-through is a requirement.
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by xaldir 8y ago
Linux Foundation exams are quite good on this aspect too (sadly they became quite expensive).
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by xaldir 8y ago
>For everyone, look at Solaris for something superior. I'm still sad that such a good system fell in the hands of Oracle :(
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by xaldir 8y ago
In my eyes Windows Classic is much better.
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by xaldir 8y ago
That reminds me of the Azure presentation where the Microsoft employee switch to Chrome after Edge crashed.
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by xaldir 8y ago
These days having an actual office is considered a perk, so...
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by xaldir 8y ago
My thinkpad x220 is my work laptop since 2011, with a few upgrades (ssd, 16gb ram, battery, because you can actually upgrade it) it performs quite well to this day.
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by xaldir 8y ago
Our sample size is smaller but we are closer to 40% with models needing multiple fixes. It doesn't help that most of our people are traveling with them and working in various environments. The few that uses them as desktop workstations
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by xaldir 8y ago
As a professional I encounter still too many VGA only projectors in clients offices, but HDMI is the dominating standard by far. So many people use TV in their conference room and that is not going to change any time soon. Getting rid of th
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by xaldir 8y ago
I think they are doing clever stuff to mimic real netflix traffic. You can see various request to *.nflxvideo.net
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by xaldir 8y ago
I don't know about you, but every other day or so I receive bitbucket status alerts about some part of it not working properly.
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by xaldir 8y ago
Now you know why the PS/2 port is still around.
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by xaldir 8y ago
There is a famous precedent with milka.fr https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_contre_Kraft_Foods tldr : a woman named Milka bought the domain for her own business and used it for a while before Kraft foods noticed it.
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by xaldir 9y ago
You do not find them individually, which means you have to separate elements with close chemical properties. More often than not, the deposits contains relatively low concentrations of the stuff along with other minerals. To quote Wikipedia
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by xaldir 9y ago
A friend of mine who does music production too, keeps a mac pro (2012) on snow leopard for backward compatibility purposes (compatibility with old specialized hardware, pci express cards and software).
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by xaldir 9y ago
It is possible to power up and down nuclear power plants, it is however very inefficient. And when you have neighbors wanting to buy your surplus electricity and a grid that support it, why bother? France and other countries (like Switzerla
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by xaldir 9y ago
>patient preference As a patient, I'm always suspicious when I see this. When I'm in a bad enough shape to go to the hospital, going home is not my priority, getting better is. As someone who also work in an hospital, pushing p
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by xaldir 9y ago
I'm with you on this.
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by xaldir 9y ago
Fine. Except figuring out a business model is the content creator responsibility not the user's. Business models that involve hostile 3rd party adds/tracking are bad and if your users are trying to evade those, you need to figure
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by xaldir 9y ago
Looks like there's a server too, sounds good.
58.
by xaldir 9y ago
Good. I still don't want it.
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by xaldir 9y ago
So... Are we going to see a surge of cheap second hand GPUs?
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by xaldir 9y ago
As a Jira administrator, I both love and hate Jira. It's versatile and quite a good set of tools when configured properly. On the other hand looking under the hood is quite frightening.

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