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1. Networking and keeping contacts. Not LinkedIn which I have found to be completely useless and full of lunatics and weirdos. Good old fashioned email and exchanging details when you work with other people. Check in with people occasionally to remind them you still exist. I have to turn work away.

2. Mostly bullshitting people then winging it.

If you start with a sieve and try and plug all the holes to make a bucket you're going to end up with a leaky bucket.

My initial point was a really that there are terrible privacy implications and poor track record of actually treating the customer well, as if that wasn't obvious.

As for the rest, I'm just pissed off with people throwing their words into my mouth. Oh there we go again.

That would assume that it was possible to rank them, which I made no statement about.

Anyway this discussion is starting to sound like Slashdot circa 1999...

I can't see that happening at all. The idea gives little utility over the top of the last big leap (smart phones) with a lot of additional costs and problems.

I'm not sure why you could infer that from my answer. Last thing is a figure of speech not an ordered set with my point being the tail item :)

Last thing I want is Google, Qualcomm and Samsung looking over my shoulder all day.

Yeah it’s super cheap if you use the pooled service. Back in the 90s it was $1000 for 3 eurocard sized boards if you wanted them in under 2 weeks. This was a big problem for us so they built a PCB lab in house and it’d still take 3 days.

Now I can get the same to my door in under 2 weeks for $60. And they actually test the boards!

Not sure where my DNS from my ISP (Zen in UK) but nothing is ever blocked or broken. I’ve stayed away from the big providers because of their target size.

I can go earlier: I was designing them in the 90s.

I've got a mathematics degree and I can't work it out either if that's any consolation.

Yes expensive landfill merchant.

Got a 9 year old iPhone 6s here. Actually still perfectly usable and annoyingly fast compared to my 15 Pro. Was getting patches until July 2024 as well.

When one phone falls off the bottom of the stack another one goes on the top of the family stack. In service we have a 15 Pro, 13 Pro, 12, XR, 8 and the 6s. I'll push Pro phones down every two years now. Occasionally something needs a new battery and that's about it.

As for usability, there are a couple of problems but once you get used to it and why, meh. Safari+AdGuard (free) is excellent and a lot less dicky than Firefox on Android.

I went from climbing into my car to climbing mountains so definitely better :)

50/50 on that. Had a near miss there. Borderline type 2. Blasted weight down from 115kg to 65kg and changed diet.

Now I still eat pizza, pasta, bread and chocolate all the time. Just reasonable amounts of it as part of a balanced diet. And not the crap shovelled out by fast food restaurants.

Indeed. The problem is that there is no regression suite clearly. Sometimes things get broken and then have to be fixed again. You end up in situation where you need to tell a person to use a specific version and hope they know how to get it working.

This makes communication, which is a really big part of mathematics, extremely difficult.

Thanks for the suggestion - will look into it tomorrow.

Not performance heavy here. What I do require is something that is less buggy though. Maxima has zero to no test suite so there are regularly stupid regressions that break everything.

They buy it because they want to tell people it cost $25k.

If it's a fucking turd, which it is, does not form part of the equation.

I love how I get downvoted for every negative comment about this rather than an actual rebuttal of the issues.

It's fucking shit. I hate every moment using Maxima. I'd rather pay for Mathematica but my org is too cheap for that. There you. Enjoy :)

Even better, I'd rather do it by hand!

SBCL shipped via homebrew.

SBCL is fine. It's Maxima that is full of bugs.

Yes it's terribly buggy. Incorrect answers sometimes depending on release versions and solve gets stuck all the time. I tend to use Xcas/GIAC instead where I can. Also bundled on my calculator (HP Prime).

It's so bad that the university I "loosely associate" with have their own patched version to fix a load of problems with it.

Stable yes. Buggy yes. There are all sorts of problems it gets stuck on. solve() is terrible.

But Maxima, which is horrifying buggy.

No one has been specifically prosecuted for speech as far as I am aware of. The individuals locked up were quoted as being prosecuted for speech by less than accurate media and were persistent offenders and violated their release or suspended sentence terms.

Might want to get your information from somewhere credible.

The marketing and the reality are somewhat different. Ignoring the fact that “the west” isn’t one political regime, it is about balance. While the US prides itself in allowing people to run around cosplaying as nazis under the guise of freedom, other countries consider that to be offensive and would legislate against it.

It’s a wide spectrum. Any extreme of censorship and a complete lack of censorship and control will quickly lead to the decline of society. Nuance is where everything is. No absolutes.

Double standards happen in international politics. Things are regional and promoting certain events are considered a security threat as it’s not exactly as if there isn’t a problem with terrorism from radicalised Islam in the UK.

Also worth noting that the content of this is considered distasteful among the Muslim community here as well. It makes them look bad too.

Stuff like this sows the seeds of division between the communities.

I think we can probably make do without a game that glorifies the 7th of October massacre. Or any as a matter of fact.

I mean I pretty much made my mind up about that one already. It didn’t take a lot of effort.

Yeah I’m not queuing up to buy that either.

What happened to killing demons on Phobos?

Steam is not the Internet really though. It’s a community store run by a large corporation which profits from everything that is sold. The internet just happens to be the delivery channel.

This is like going to the supermarket and buying a product which is called “killing jews, the best of” and then when someone comes along and gets pissy telling them you’re anti censorship.

It’s just tasteless morally questionable shite. If it was the other way around then people would be defending it similarly. It would still just be tasteless morally questionable shite.