yndoendo

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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   To be far, the metric of a salary at 40 hours is not valid. The time to commute should be count against that 40 hours and yet we exclude it. You're driving to work means work is taking your time, they also know where you live and how l
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   Qalculate is my go-to for cross platform calculator that is useful and is not limited to the most basic +-*/ operations. https://qalculate.github.io/
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   Wouldn't Texas and their electric infrastructure and pricing be that defines the reality of price floating while showing people in power are dumb? As showing by the lack of regulation to weather treat your power infrastructure? So col
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   One aspect that I am running into is managing the updates for air-gap systems. Some clients use IoT devices without a connection to the Internet. Currently working on a project to download and package OS and software updates for complete au
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   Microsoft is enrained in industrial and businesses because of legacy. Example is that number of industrial sensors need an application to configure their operating parameters, Often they only run on Windows OS. The need to run legacy preven
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   Arch Linux Updates Indicator, Bluetooth Quick Connect, Blur my Shell, Burn My Windows, Caffeine, Clipboard Indicator, Desk Changer, Espresso, GSConnect, Night Theme Switcher, Pomodoro, supergfxctl-gex, Tray Icons: Reloaded. Burn My Windows
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   My GOTO for steaming too.
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   I really do not see powershell as a bash, zsh, fish, ... shell equivalent. It is more inline with perl, python, php, ... scripting languages. One thing I really dislike about powershell development is default aliasing such as using curl to
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   by yndoendo 3y ago

   My disdain for Windows has nothing to do with that. It comes from trying multiple operating systems. From a development and usability I do not find Windows to be good. From personal usage, IT management and consulting, Internet hosting, and
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    This is like reviewing a P2 screw driver while testing it on P1 screws only while demanding that the P2 sucks. There is now way I can respect the work Linux Tech Tips does anymore. To be fair, I only used them occasionally to keep up to dat
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    I never really understood this argument to be for or against EVs. Electricity is an universal energy source. It can be created via renewables or fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are also a limited resources and have the ability to become depleted
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Society, in the USA, is not designed around finding the best and brightest doctors. It is about finding people to pay into being a doctor. "Need to spend money to make money" as the saying goes. Odds are some of those UPS works wo
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Windows actually uses SIDs to map internal users to windows settings such as profile locations and group policies. Open regedit and under HKEY_USERS there will be the SID for your user account which maps to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Linux has UIDs
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    You have to pay me to use Windows and macOS. After speeding years using both products, I don't want to use them any more unless I'm getting paid. I personally do not need any software that is tied to either platform. Professional,
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Often people complain how shells in Unix/POSIX communicate via strings and praise PowerShell for communication with objects. Yet stringification still is the most simplistic means for communication between multiple domains as shown in
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    According to the specs. The keyboard is running QMK on a RP2040. Does anyone know if this will be programmable like quality mechanical keyboards? One thing missing from all high-end laptops is the ability to program the key mapping at firmw
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Musk is nothing more than a VC courting other VCs. He tries to pump up the stock through side shows. Like staging the self-drive features of Telsa EVs. Showing off home battery backup system on Desperate Housewives that does not economicall
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Recently had a Windows update break my work computer. Everything seemed fine until trying to run a Windows Service in Virtual Box with the HOST OS being Windows 10 IoT in RTOS mode. The attempt to start the service create an infinite loop.
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Time is an economic utility. Managing developer account(s) and licensing is a time sink to bad utility. Also dealing with the B2B sales department is also within that time sink. More friction to use a product for a prototype is also a bad u
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    IBM sees economic utility as just making money. They don't see the utility of name branding and ease of transition. For example, I was using CentOS for prototype development. No way would I be able to get RHEL for this. CentOS allowed
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Intel foundry and the processor designing should have been split up in order to obtain legislative financial assistance with the push to support more manufacturing in the USA. This would force the foundry to actually focus on engineering ma
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    "The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery" talks all about the different substances tried to prevent and cure scurvy. British sailors turned to have a daily ration of rum mixed with the lime ju
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Often the anchor to Microsoft Windows is legacy. Both in existing code and existing knowledge. Takes energy to diverge away from both. Currently maintain applications because the former developer only knew C#. Also the tools used to configu
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    Replace "some" with "lucky". Is that not what STEAM often tries to do, increase the probability of a positive outcome over a negative. Improve luck. A person does not fight cancer. A person is lucky if the cancer treatme
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    by yndoendo 3y ago

    I am nuts! I often work on two main C# projects. One uses a data adapter with data table objects. The other, is about to have EntityFramework completely removed. Reduced it to only handling database connections. Original developers used cod
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    by yndoendo 4y ago

    I would disagree. Voting out a person is mutually exclusive to changing laws and regulations. This is why the idea of voting someone out is supported by all parties. Looks like change yet does not require the change to take effect. New repr
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    by yndoendo 4y ago

    And this is why I hate Windows in an industry automation environment. Dislike having to troubleshoot why that USB NIC or Serial device being destroyed by plugging it into another port. Had to write a PowerShell script for the USB NIC issue
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    by yndoendo 4y ago

    E = mc^2. The bigger the vehicle the more mass the more force and time needed to come to a safe stop. More force on impact to the driver and pedestrians.
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    by yndoendo 4y ago

    Religion and cults are next in the ML rabbit hole of content creation.
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    by yndoendo 4y ago

    Control desktop monitor settings still requires using the display's built in controls. This should be directly accessible to the OS so one can quickly lower or raise the screen's brightness like on a laptop. Manually turn off blue