People are 99% of the problem I have at work. Doing things poorly. Not caring about processes just wanting to get things out the door with little regard to quality unless the customer complains. Abuse of agile has made me hate it. 15-30 minutes a day wasted as the program manager leads it.
Teaching yourself programming is important on many levels as the job is a continual learning type of job. What you learned 5 years ago might apply today or you may have to learn something completely new to stay on top.
They don't want to use the term rent because you would then see it for the temporary period it will turn out to be and not be willing to pay what they want you to pay for it.
I only use it to track what I am reading and my progress. I don't use it for recommendations from others or to see what the authors I read are doing. Maybe as a social network around books it sucks but as a way for me to track my reading it's fine.
Yeah even Microsoft's compiler aligns values on appropriate boundaries for performance reasons. DWORDs on DWORD boundaries etc. And if you want to pack the data structure to avoid the gaps in structures there are methods to do so via #pragma options. I think their complaining about what was done for performance reasons shows a great lack of overall understanding. More time researching and less time griping would have served them better.
You can also use TheC64 (Max) as a USB keyboard to the PC to use in Vice if you decide you want the keyboard and want to take advantage of some of the functionality of the emulators. I found a page that shows how to add a USB connector to the Max to allow this.
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only versions of the product (Systems Management Server) were for the X86, Alpha and MIPS.
I miss the documentation that was part of Microsoft MSDN subscription. I now work in a sandboxed environment and cannot access help for the APIs from within that environment so something that I can download in it's entirety and get into that environment would be ideal.
I have asked it to write code. The code looked reasonable but did not work (using a non-existent API or library). I said the library XXX doesn't exist. And it would respond with an apology and a new solution that maybe worked maybe didn't. Sometimes it could pull off a save eventually.
The idea was better than the execution sadly. I had one of those mice and it never really felt like you gained much with the vibrations etc. I'm sure had it been more widely adopted it might have become much closer to the promise.
And back in the peak covid days they asked for donations to keep them alive and operational. They wanted the community to support them based on goodwill and now they seem happy to burn that goodwill to the ground.
The recent issues with Samsung's SSD's don't help with those feelings I'm sure. I have a WD-Black 1TB SSD in my system that I built in 2018 and I used it heavily all day long and I have not suffered any issues from the SSD. I also used a MacBook Pro from early 2013 and only recently sold it still going strong with it's SSD (proprietary). I read recently that some HDD were starting to have reliability problems after a few years.
Hulu Live TV is even better regarding location. I have it and had Google Fiber and AT&T fiber at the same address. If I watched live on one it would report on the other than the home location changed and it only gives you so many of those for free before they prevent you from viewing the content (Live TV) you pay them for. So it's only IP and no taking into consideration geo-location at all.
Last year I upgraded from a early 2013 15" MBP to the 16" Max and it's like a whole new world. Way more storage and memory. I can imagine going from the same machine to the M2 would be amazing but from M1 to M2 not enough of a bump to pay the price.