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Comment · 9 months ago
The main watering hole for the hobbyist community around these machines vanished from the internet a while back, taking the forums and info around porting software with it.. I guess some of it is available via wayback etc.
Comment · 1 year ago
I mean, it would be surprising. In what world does Hyundai want to build a multi billion dollar plant in a foreign country and subcontract to a 'sublegal operation' which still has to send foreign nationals, presumably experts in their specific fields along with housing them to 'cut costs'...?
Comment · 2 years ago
Had a mobile mechanic unable to change the timing belt on our 10 y/o Volkswagen Golf because the balancer is now secured with a proprietary lock-ring instead of four hex bolts.

He said this sort of thing is getting more common and even if he did want to buy all of the required bits and bobs he wouldn't be able to fit them all in his van.

Even in the 'good old days', you weren't getting very far working on your car without things like gear pullers, timing guns and feeler gauges. All things that technically you could be using for other things, but not exactly in the average toolbox of someone that doesn't work on cars.

Comment · 2 years ago
But if anything is going to push it over the edge of going off (for whatever reason it has finally decided it's time), it's going to be a plane driving over the top / near it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I didn't realise we had 18 mile depths.
Comment · 2 years ago
Lol any serious business. Shoutout to all the people at mega-corps using Teams!
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, I love the fact that Jetbrains 'everything' is actually affordable by a solo software engineer and you can just 'bring your own tools' to a job.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sigh, remembers when Visual Age for Java was $10k a seat in 2000 $$$.
Comment · 2 years ago
Companies are made of people and people have lives.
Comment · 2 years ago
Genuine page turner.
Comment · 3 years ago
A fair chunk of modern corporate data ends up in OLAP systems that are now more often or not stored using s3 (or their MS/Google equivalents) in 'Data Lakes'. The concept of 'private data' whilst using cloud providers is an interesting one, but there has been enough work done by all parties involved to ensure that all but the most sensitive data is now created, stored and analysed using the systems provided by "Big Cloud".
Comment · 3 years ago
Once you reach a certain scale in a particular type of company the repo just becomes another type of org unit. Your giant fish swallows a minnow, it looks good on paper, someone does a half arse integration, then that repo becomes the one. The one that your manager says, under no circumstances no-one commits to, because then it's OUR repo (with whatever baggage that brings)... The org depends on the code, but the org actively resists it like a virus. This kills any attempt at the mono repo at any largish non FAANG org.
Comment · 4 years ago
A final low pass filter (tuned to remove anything above half the sample rate) allows the accurate reconstruction of the original analogue waveform from the sampled digital data. ( The vertical 'stair step' of sampled data is very high frequency information which gets removed, 'bending' the output back into it's original shape). The video linked above is well worth a watch.
Comment · 4 years ago
A king who is also secretly

The Duke of Cornwall, The Duke of Somerset, The Duke of Norfolk and The Duke of Richmond

Sign me up..!

Comment · 5 years ago
Lotus Notes.. :-)

Seriously though, visual coding/drag and drop etc are great for non-technical users but in my experience the issue isn't code vs. icons. I worked in corporate workflow development for around 15 years using guess what, Lotus Notes, and the 'real' problem was getting end users to think programmatically, not remember syntax / tools. You can have all the easy to use tools in the world, but you still need to really be able to think through a process.

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