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I've dealt with pretty much everything from steaming nightmare creeping Cthulhu desktop applications right into back end fintech stuff written in the dark ages over the last 30 yea…

You missed the two entire toolchains and the third tool required to stick them together? It's pretty difficult and expensive to build one stack, let alone three and onboard another…

> And what _we_ have here is unfounded indignation over a perfectly fine way to solve a problem Absolutely no way is this a fine way to solve the problem. That is crazy talk. 1. It…

Buy AMD

This. I'd rather have to defend all my ideas than have the bad ones blindly promoted.

The person is a salaried employee. They are getting paid by their employer. The web site is a personal portfolio / blog /resume site. Traditionally you're paid in attention on that…

Definitely agree with this. You get that confirmation with siri. I mostly use my watch for it and it will show me what it did on the screen without having to touch anything. Confir…

Yeah it doesn't always work well. I say "hey siri add green milk to the shopping list" . I want "green milk" added to the shopping list which in the UK is semi-skimmed milk. What d…

I don't want that to happen because the price variation in toilet paper is huge based on deals and offers available, and Amazon is rarely the cheapest provider these days, so it's …

It's useful for trivial unambiguous tasks where you have your hands full or don't want to touch your device or it's dangerous to. That's all I can muster mine for. "Hey Siri, add m…

I know the point of this article is to demonstrate how to solve a problem but the premise is a bad one and must not be confused with sound software architecture at all. In fact it'…

I will fix it later. My colleagues probably won't. This is a common failure mode I've seen of development teams. There is no time to fix it later.

Conversely one of my children has a complex medical condition which would have bankrupted me several times over in the US. And the service has been second to none.

You can make the money in the UK if you know what you're doing.

For now. I know someone who was "doing waaay better in the US", took 3 weeks of leave and came back to a huge series of lay offs, market saturation, unemployment with no healthcare…

So you traded our bananas republic for a gun toting corporatocracy with low employment protection and comedy healthcare and no food standards. I'm not sure who's worse off.

I specified and architected an internal ERP system (PLM/SRM side) to replace a paper system. This was a big Oracle/web thing in the early 00's at the peak of Six Sigma. This was re…

Ah I just invoiced my ex wife's uncle last time I was expected to help for free at my usual hourly rate. No one asks me for help now.

At least it's not goatse :)

Just like to say a big thank you for this. When ActiveX was no longer acceptable I wrote some desktop integration technology which replaced it for web apps with an http based backg…

Yes indeed massively impressed with this machine. Cost bugger all as well (Lenovo Neo 50S gen3)

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I d…

This is the general feeling of what I see from AWS support as well as a consumer of the platform. I'm battling something for weeks now which is a completely broken ass piece of shi…

That’s terrible. My library is 100GB and works fine so may be worth trashing the machine and trying again when freshly installed.

I get the feeling that local regulators will eat them alive for this when the complaints start rolling in.