theandrewbailey

Perhaps interest should not be tax deductible. It's a huge subsidy to the banks and finance industry, which does not need any assistance, and has routinely caused destructive economic recessions.

> But if there are only a few of them, and a large fleet is being renewed, I suppose it can make sense from a fleet management point of view to renew the few perfectly current ones as well.

I suspect that had something to do with it. The Core Ultras came out of Dells, and as mentioned, the industry around here uses HP almost exclusively. (The rest of that load was HP, only about 1% were those Dells.) Some dogmatic system administrator probably said "We we are only supposed to use HP, get those Dells out of here!"

If an intern did it (or even a low paid full-time employee), one could easily turn a profit selling used equipment. (I work in the refurb department, reselling used stuff is literally my job!) 5 minutes per monitor @ $25/each = $300 per hour. You could sell to wholesalers for much less per unit, in exchange for not wasting time with random people.

I'm not sure how prevalent this practice is, but IT equipment is sometimes on a depreciation schedule. If an employee starts selling the company's PCs and monitors, an accountant will get very angry, because he told the government that the stuff is literally worthless, but it apparently isn't because it was sold for something. IANAL, but I'm fairly sure that's tax fraud. Once it's turned over to someone else (my company) for free, the valuation resets, or something.

> For what reason? It just makes no sense to me. Or am I too poor of a peasant to understand?

I don't understand it either. Two scenarios make sense to me:

Somewhat probable: everyone in a department got upgraded, no exceptions. 'This is a really nice PC, but the boss says it has to go.' (There were about 100 i5 9th gen mini PCs (still OK), and 500 t640 thin clients in that same load.)

Less probable: some department got closed and cleaned out.

> Are you in some rich part of the US?

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Not particularly rich (rust belt), but healthcare is a significant part of the local economy. About 90% of healthcare here seems to run on HP, but Dells can appear.

> Here in Europe I sometimes see hospitals and doctors practices using 10+ year old PCs and still rocking the old 17-19 inch 1280x1024 CCFL LCD monitors from like the mid 2000s.

My stomach turns seeing the dozens of 24" probably 1080p monitors we scrap every day. Pretty much all are significantly scratched when they come off the truck, otherwise reselling them might be good business.

> Was Richie Rich using them or something?

Sort of: there were about half a dozen in micro PCs in a load picked up from a hospital. I was kinda bummed that they were BIOS password locked (as were the other PCs from there). The model didn't have a password reset jumper (or any reset mechanism outside of contact Dell support with proof of purchase), so I couldn't sell them as whole systems, and stripped them for parts.

We get DDR5-based systems from time to time, but they're understandably rare. Most of the time, they still work. My rule: any day I come across DDR5 is a good day.

When I built my Ryzen 1800X desktop, I named it "AMD Ryzing". My optimism turned out well placed.

I recently upgraded from that to a Core Ultra 7 that I got from work (e-waste recycling). It was not my intended upgrade path, and I hope Lisa isn't too mad lol (I kept my Radeon though).

Fixing blue screens must be hard.

Halo used to be what everyone wanted (both to play and dethrone), but now it's sitting in the corner eating glue. Moving it under Activision is certainly an extreme measure, but if it means everyone who touched on it in the past 15 years can't anymore, I'm listening.

At this point, Halo is an irrelevant also-ran. A management shake-up is desperately needed to change that, because whatever vision it's had for the past 15 or so years hasn't been doing it any favors.

Obsidian moving under Bethesda? After New Vegas, I thought everyone there didn't want anything to do with Bethesda.

> “it’s not delivery—it’s DiGiorno”

We've had AI output all these decades, but never recognized it. Is this evidence of time travel?

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Maybe PyPy needs a Steve Jobs-like figure to write a "no C extension" manifesto, declaring that all Python apps must be 100% Python.

The title violates HN guidelines. Use the original title of the page.

The title tell me nothing. Why should I bother clicking this? It makes me think this is a low-tier ad that I come across all day, every day, therefore sus and should be ignored.

I'm not into cars, and this is the only car channel I watch.

It's not your English proficiency. I didn't know this game existed, so before clicking, I expected it was about LucasArt's legacy on the games industry, or what former people there are doing now.

I want all my software to use all my cores, because I'll have twice as many within 5 years.

> a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2

That's the spec of my retro PC. I never had one of those back in the day, but it scratches the itch.

This is one reason why I don't save my payment method for anything. No saved payment method means one less way for surprise charges.

I remember when Microsoft was sued for forcing a web browser into Windows. How the times have changed.

> but knowing exactly in which ways a function can fail is extremely helpful for building robust applications

I've worked on Java apps that have failed in mysterious ways that no exception could explain. Meanwhile, the overhead of having to call out certain exceptions but not others in language syntax is a bit excessive.

For example, decoding a byte array (or URL encoded form field) into a UTF-8 string means handling a theoretical UnsupportedEncodingException. What the fuck? How the hell can one have a JVM that doesn't support UTF-8? Why does my code need boilerplate that will never run because there might be some broken-ass JVM out there that that doesn't support UTF-8? How did it launch a web server, safely load all the libraries, and accept a web request, and route it to my code without blowing up? "But the encoding scheme might change..." No, it won't change. It's always going to be UTF-8. It will always be UTF-8. If it's not, let it blow up.

I never thought of Java being the 'move fast ~and break things~' alternative over .NET, but Java has a faster release schedule to get features out sooner.

Third Amendment is about not quartering troops. Fourth Amendment is protection against warrantless seizures.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-3/

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

This is about apps on F-Droid, not F-Droid itself.

I went upstream and started using Debian instead. Don't listen to the haters: it updates at about the same frequency as Ubuntu LTS.

I work in e-waste recycling. Most of the PCs and laptops I see are corporate IT decommissions. Most of those have i5 CPUs, and only a handful are i7. Few are cruel enough to afflict their wage slaves with an i3 or less.

Maybe this can be a Comic Sans alternative.

> Till date, there's not been an official Linux desktop build of Microsoft 365, and seeing how Microsoft currently operates, I don't expect one to appear anytime soon.

No one expected SQL Server on Linux, and nobody asked for Edge on Linux. An official release of Office on Linux is not impossible.

My first programming job was an internal line of business application at a mortgage vending company. There was an uncomfortable amount of time wasted waiting for someone to do something in ClearCase so I could commit. I've turned down interviews solely on the basis that I would be using that dumpster fire of lost productivity and UX from hell.

I haven't been professionally responsible for code since before AI started eating everything, and haven't touched AI in the meantime. Is this representative of the BS that everyone else here puts up with on a day-to-day basis? Did we collectively burn trillions of dollars for this?

What a blast from the past, and one of the classic evergreen articles.

The blockquotes made me depressed:

> People are not in control of the technology that surrounds them

For a few years back then, the pendulum was moving towards personally controllable tech, but in between the smartphone/SaaS/IoT walled gardens and whichever poison you feel like blaming today, that's simply not the case anymore.

I would make a quip about game devs will soon be making games for people who don't play games, but I think that's been happening for a while.