Neikius

Isn't the series very dramatized and quite inaccurate compared to the actual history?

Well I for one agree here. Some good sensors would be nice. Otherwise why even have a smart watch? Just get a regular. But there will be a tradeoff, there always is and we cannot have everything. At this point in time I will settle with something that is open and builds a healthy ecosystem.

I keep looking for a decent watch. And phone. And there is just nothing available. Everything gets encumbered with this and that cloud. This and that app. Mandatory policies, apps, surveillance and eventually subscriptions or selling of your personal data.

I don't think we will be getting this in our "free market". It would need to be mandated by state for manufacturers to use open APIs. There is just no incentive for them to offer those otherwise.

Can you use Garmin without their proprietary app? And if not, is it at least working without some sort of cloud services?

Too many products nowadays are bound to some sort of online checks and that is even worse than "battery not replaceable". The second is much easier to circumvent than the first (dependence on cloud infra). And ofc the data security. I will never be comfortable with giving corpos my medical data.

Yeah, good point :) Fully agree with this. The site will be very hard to reach anyway.

But for the case of industrial society at the tech level of 1800s and no knowledge there are things you can do too. Like make some of the bad stuff reachable with a bit less of an effort and allow people to figure it out by themselves. Our ancestors didn't all die due to bad mushrooms did they? So smart people will still be able to figure it out. Just give em a little help.

Yes, exactly.

I just also like to have an option to run service locally and connect to either cloud instances (test) or local instances depending on what I am troubleshooting/testing. Much better than debugging on prod which may still be required at some point but hopefully not often.

How would you check what the banking app you are using requires?

Anyone tried running KDE?

They usually require headphones plugged into 3.5mm jack...

Well I am aware there are ring 0 debuggers out there. Also running in a VM could help. Question is is there anything useful around you could just grab (for linux)? It should be possible at last.

Armed with this fact thinking about electronic devices. How the front of the signal travels and how suddenly the distance matters. Was blown away when I first thought about this.

Maybe just get married and get that citizenship sorted eh? You are in a situation which obviously is exploited by your employers.

What most people don't know is that vista was not all that different from 7. As you mention after SP fixed the bugs. The main issue was hardware requirements were quite hefty with all the new stuff and people put it on 2gb ram laptops with 5400rpm disks.

In any case the issues got much worse with 10 and now even worse with 11. The os itself is not good but it is what it is. Now the invasive trash happening lately is truly bad and should be enough to move people away. Seems there is not much of an effect so they will keep pushing.

What? That is actually an everyday concern and devs assuming that information is not needed will bring pain down the road.

Just two cases of the top of my head: working with databases and json interop with other systems that actually do differentiate. And the second one should not happen, but people do make assumptions and sometimes those are inherently incompatible with how golang works.

The thing that bothers me is... golang actually has exceptions. It is just that nobody will dare mention it. Panic and recover eh? It is just that by default error is the thing you should use and everything and everyone does. Then the exception mechanism comes along and you now have 2 ways of handling errors. Making things quite confusing.

This is actually terrible. I tried that a while ago, but after a short while removed all of the Optional[] code and went back to pointers. Why? The default ser/des in go just cannot play. It instead works great with pointers.

Using pointers that are nillable whenever I want to have an optional value. How did I solve the usability problem? I just introduced 2 simple methods: Or and Of. First one will resolve ptr to a value or default if nil (provided in param) and the second one will make a ptr from a value type. That is actually all you need! Don't have the code here or I'd post it but it's easy enough to make your own (with generics).

Then you add delete and you have a cow fs.

Which are many.

Some with deduplicarion built in.

You ever ran out of ipv4 addresses on a home network? I find this probably does not apply to vast majority of users. And even if you do run out... If using DHCP is it trivial to change network prefix.

I stopped playing it long ago because it is just too random. They added too much stuff which is often a problem in rouguelites.

There is a ton of better balanced deck builders out there. Personal opinion but monster train is much better balanced.

Kinda hard to get rep nowadays though.

This is a lovely use of the DSL..too bad I prefer plain java.

I moved from m1 MacBook pro to m2 recently.

Just like that my monitor's built in KVM stopped working in a reasonable manner. Can use it to drive the web camera which sometimes works normally and sometimes with shitty frame rate. Microphone now appears and then gets evicted (rode USB mic), my headphone preamp will crackle like mad so it is useless...

I got this monitor specifically to be able to work with the stupid m1 limitation of 1 external screen and to be able to switch seamlessly to my secondary rig. And it could be connected using one cable as it does power delivery.

Now I have an expensive montor that is useless for the purpose I got it for. Not sure whether to blame dell or apple but do not remember many instances of issues like this in my life. Being a PC guy forever and now got forced to use apple for work.

Really don't understand why it's being pushed so much in corporate env. lately? Maybe I am just weird.

Bought one such monitor.

2 years later switched from m1 to m2 and it no longer works well enough (may also be the Sonoma upgrade stil gotta verify that). The devices get disconnected and glitch etc.

Went to check with dell and monitor is "not supported" on macos.

I am at a loss for words.

Wait what. Doesn't go have a proper garbage collector or do I need to get reeducated?

Apple and google are big corpos and those are legendary for their inability to make anything properly. It has been a while since they were small and could move fast... So no, I would not take them as a standard.

Microsoft is notorious for their lax status page updates...

Please go and do what you suggest for 8 hours a day then come back.

Giving bad tools to any professional is a bad idea for productivity. We have other ways of checking if software is slow.

It is all a question of company priorities as there are no professional standards whatsoever established. And companies ofc go for spend the least they can get away with.

Java is slow is a really old myth. It was once upon a time. Ofc there are caveats but looking at your average developer ... You will be fine.

On the other hand I would forbid an average developer the use of c/c++ and similar. It is just not worth it.

Funny experience with vw - is had front brake pad sensors. Ofc rear pads wore off and never tripped any sensor...

You think Europe does not have roads covering everyone? This is the sunk cost fallacy at it's finest.

Maybe the most offensive thing about public transport to an American is that it cannot really be profitable by itself. Infrastructure rarely is but it is still worth investing in for the downstream effect.