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Sometimes wrong... I have the role of "chief troubleshooter" in my engineering group. I have a bit of a nervous tic that forms when I hear absolutes like this. Don't assume the cus…

I was commenting on this just last week. Gaming on Linux has exploded since the Steam Deck was released (just as all Linux users were hoping it would). All the effort which went in…

I have loved programming (literally) my entire life. Some of the books I learned to read on was TS-2068 BASIC program listings in kindergarten. Luckily for me, before I got too far…

If you're going to blame NIST for what NSA did in this case - you might as well say "don't even trust anyone for digital privacy" since the NSA already collects literally everythin…

Meh, except it's not available.

My hunch is we will get exactly zero new features, but Musk will be able to ensure any and all of his rich buddies will be back on the platform. I don't think he gives a damn about…

Such a desperate, veiled attempt.

Stephen Hackett worked at Apple. And the cost of the material has nothing to do with the argument. I don't know why you'd imply that it "costs precisely the same", as no two materi…

"This is why things like 'evidence based' medicine is so dangerous -- we don't have evidence for the vast majority of impactful conditions, simply ignoring patients with these cond…

Yeah this was my thought, too. I was using PowerDNS to do this sort of thing within a basic home environment. But I have no idea if it has the necessary features to keep a producti…

Erie, CO lost $1M to a phishing attack. It was very well timed and targeted toward a major project which had been in the works for a decade. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/30/e…

Open-source has nothing to do with preventing people from making money. This is like a Microsoft argument from the 90s.

Yeah, just gotta echo this. That was a whole lot of noise to really not make any point. Like - I even agree with most of what was typed, but I don't see it's relevance to anything …

I just love the delivery on "where did you get that camera??"

The fact that previous salary has anything to do with future salary comes from the same swamp of misinformation like "it's illegal to discuss your salary with your peers." My appro…

To add to that, Github reads Arduino code as C++. I know it's not truly this simple, but if the file extension is ".ino", I feel like your detection algorithm should be free to use…

The boot-up time is really a killer. I also just can not get used to the input/keyboard of the nSpire. My actual workflow is to use DM42/HP-35s for anything I can do with those, an…

Yeah I pay the same. Sure I hate Google and yada yada... But if the call for money is "we will show you no ads, and your money will go to creators", and it is a realistic amount, y…

When I encounter it, I feel it's often a hatred of the "doers vs the thinkers" My career path was 25 years engineering, before migrating into a hybrid EE/PM role as sort of a natur…

I feel this is an overly optimistic view. There's not many situations in the last 50 years where "businesses being able to charge less" have led to them actually charging less. It …

In my work, today's date would be 21K11, to save space over the longer date.

I worked for IBM during these times. I loved OS/2 2.1, it was so great to use for work at the time. Warp was too little, too late, and not as stable as the earlier releases.

This is so awesome. I'm thrilled to see work progressing at the other end of the bandwidth spectrum.

Just finished up a Python class as part of my EE this summer. I had no idea this wasn't the default way everyone did Python GUIs. This was the main library we used throughout - it …

They have supported ad blocking extensions for literally years. Though, these days, I'm 100% Wireguarded to my house when away and everything goes through Pihole anyways.