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It's not as straightforward of a choice as it may seem. In theory Linux would be a better choice but there simply isn't the infrastructure or IT staffing in place to manage millions and millions of Linux desktops. I'm not saying it can't be done but for various reasons it hasn't been done and that's a major practical roadblock. Just from a staffing perspective alone if you hand millions of Linux desktops to life long Microsoftsies you're begging for disaster.

I stopped going to StarBucks when all the employees started looking like the carnival freak show was in town. I just don't trust people who look that way to handle buy food and beverages.

As corny as they seem now the early FMV CD-ROM games felt like a gigantic leap forward at the time. Being able to interact with a photorealistic environment was a completely new experience. Being too ignorant at the time to understood how they worked it seemed like pure magic. Of course they were nothing but a novelty in retrospect but the illusion was very real at the time.

Here's one of the most simple practical examples that proves to me cats are conscious. When my cat sleeps in my bed occasionally I accidetanlly kick or bump into her in the dark. Instead of fleeing, hissing or attacking me she lets out a very unique earnest meow that clearly means 'hey I'm here' and she goes back to sleep like nothing happened. She clearly understands my motivation wasn't to harm her. She clearly understands we share a common motivation of sleeping in the comfy bed. She clearly understands a concept of the future where she lets me know her position and expects me not to accidentally bother her again. If I continue to bother he she will simply get up and move just far enough away to avoid further trouble.

To put this into perspective it's a small enough amount of memory that merely running a web browser with a dozen tabs open is often a choppy laggy experience.

Winamp was doomed to be a relic of a simpler time. Even if you take the iPod and iTunes Store out of the equation Winamp's file-centric approach was a limitation as people's music libraries increased in size and complexity. All their attempts to add more modern features just made Winamp worse for the people who did like its simplicity and file-centric design.

As a casual observer it seems to me they were simply too late to the party and probably didn't have anything that fantastic or high margin justifying to bring to the table. It's like if back in 2005/2006 there were lots of 'almost as good as the 2007 iPhone' phones on the market they may never have entered that market either.

I'm not sure I ever actually bought a box of blank floppy disks. Instead I would call up software companies and ask for free demos instead. I did it so often the postal service warned may parents they would stop delivering mail to the house.

As far as adaptions for the illiterate masses go I thought the series was pretty good. I couldn't personally get past the stink of soap opera SciFi Channel quality acting and writing myself but if you have no plans to ever read the books it's better than nothing. One positive thing I can say is the art design was pretty good especially the computers and their interfaces.

There was a time when the Atari ST was the perfect home computer. It was cheap, easy to use like the Mac, and offered a 'next gen' 16bit gaming experience before any of my friends had a Sega Genesis. I continued to be a diehard ST fan until the exact second I first saw Doom running on a PC.

Seems like a very risky investment to me. Unsupervised non-employee mods have a tremendous amount of power over the day to day user facing operations. Why would anyone invest money in a site that could be quickly destroyed due to a fashionable political trend at anytime? For example if the mods band together and decide Jews can no longer use Reddit or something equally ridiculous the stock will plunge.

Just focus on the fundamentals. Ignore the obscure edge case stuff until it's relevant to what you're doing and chances are it never will be. There are experienced network engineers who don't know most of this stuff off the top of their head. If you can get to the point where you can read a packet capture and understand what's happening you're way ahead of the game.

Back in the 90s the only book on programming my school library offered was Dr Dobb's Toolbook of 80286/80386 programming which was a compilation of articles from the journal. Even though most of it was way over my head it was the only thing I had at the time so I studied it religiously. Purely out of scarcity of knowledge this led to learning basic assembly because the only thing I had access to was this book's code snippets and Microsoft Assembler on the school computers.

The best advice I can give anyone trying to appreciate jazz is to think of it like listening to a conversation in an unfamiliar foreign language. You don't have to understand the literal meaning of the words/notes to infer their emotional tone, pacing, and the ebb and flow of the conversation. Jazz in this way is an abstraction of spoken language. It communicates a vibe or general emotional landscape that you can interrupt for yourself in a personal way.

As a more accessible starting point I'd actually recommend Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess album. It's a hybrid of Gershwin's composed music and jazz. Being more structured than most jazz recordings it will give you some context/framework to enjoy the jazzy parts. Most of the songs are short and digestible.

I use my M1/8GB Air pretty much exclusively for web browsing and run into 'out of application memory' errors on a regular basis. Relaunching Safari generally solves the problem. It's just such a bad look for Apple to be selling premium priced products that can't do the most basic task people want them for without throwing errors.

I dunno about Chrome but a single YouTube tab in Safari can use over 1GB of RAM these days. It's absolutely insane to sell a computer in 2024 that's gonna struggle to open 10+ browser tabs.

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Obviously a planned obsolescence tactic. If the base models were 16GB there's a fine chance Apple wouldn't see another dollar from those customers for another 10+ years at minimum. The average customer doesn't understand their memory requirements and cannot be expected to predict how they may change in the future. It's the only thing they got left they can use to trick customers into buying a machine that will need to be replaced sooner.

I experimented with it as a productivity enhancer and ultimately found it was too much of a happy hamster wheel effect. It makes you feel more productive even if you're not actually doing anything constructive. Just as often it can lead to short sighted bad judgement that is actively destructive because you're just looking for busy work to flip bits for a dopamine rush. I wouldn't recommend it unless you actually need it or at least use it very sparingly and strategically.

I'm not a big fan of any of the modern macOS or iOS wallpapers. They're so busy it's hard to even read text labels on top of them. My goto background for many years was Leopard Server but it was eventually replaced by the Linen tile texture that IIRC wasn't a default wallpaper choice but could be copied out of the system folder.

My local Mom & Pop burger/pizza/grinder places actually cost the same or even sometimes a bit less than fast food these days and the quality is much better. Most of these places actually need about your repeat business so they haven't been as greedy on jacking up menu prices.

Condé Nast might have helped run it into the ground but the unrecoverable dive started a long time ago. Pitchfork's content slowly turned into something more like a parody of pretentious music criticism. Paragraph after paragraph of drivel with seemingly no relation to the music. More like someone's journal entry repurposed as an album review. Maybe because they realized how stale their content had become they seemed to shift more and more of their focus towards hip hop and other genres that their traditional indie/rock readership didn't care as much about.

Maybe I'm just too old for this shit but I'd much rather spend $3500 on a set of excellent displays for my computer and still have money left over to buy a huge TV for entertainment purposes. Might even have enough leftover to buy an Oculus for occasional novelty use.

Hey if you're ever looking for any DevOps people with a network engineering background LMK I'm a big fan of NetBox I think it's something I'd enjoy working on.

Big fan of NetBox I'm not even sure how I'd manage modern infrastructures without it. Unless your environment happens to be very static it's a huge time sink to document a network using old fashion Visio diagrams. The initial setup of NetBox can be quite an undertaking though. As long as you secure them properly CDP/LLDP/etc make the process much easier. One general rule of advice make sure you keep good backups of your NetBox because it's easy to make changes with unintended consequences that take a lot of time to manually back out

I usually dismiss this type of stuff as being cool but ultimately a massive waste of time. In this case however how can you argue with the results? He can hand this card to any potential employer and probably get any job he wants. Having a passion for something and finding a constructive outlet for it is quite an achievement.

When I was a network engineer I frequently experienced IPv6 skill rot. I'd go long periods of time not encountering it in the wild. It's hard to be confident with a thing you're not working with on a regular basis. I guarantee you I made mistakes because of it. There was only one maybe 2 year period where I would have considered myself an IPv6 expert.

Yes but I'm ashamed of it. It's too good.

There's something very gross to me about this product. It digital gluttony. It's like buttering your pop tarts. It's like adding extra sugar to your Cola. It's like wearing a diaper so you don't have to get up off the couch. At some point isn't enough enough? How connected do you have to really be? How much more engagement do you need to feel something? How many screens do you need to fill the hole in your heart? I wonder what's going on in the mind of a person who craves this isolating hyper stimulated cocoon strapped to their head.

At just about every tech company I've worked at probably at least 30% of the staff wasn't really needed and didn't contribute much. They were there to take some small amount of workload off the really talented people's plate. In modern times there are more efficient ways to solve than problem than simply throwing man power at it. These companies could have easily cut their workforces 5 years ago with little to no impact to the bottom line but there was just no incentive to rock the boat until economic factors dictated it.

IPv6 has been such a wild ride. About 7 years ago there was a big IPv4 depletion scare when ARIN made it harder to obtain IPv4. I did a bunch of dual stack deployments for customers around this time. In subsequent years quite a few of them ended up paying us to come back in and un-deploy IPv6 as their network engineers or often 'the IT guy' neglected to maintain firewall rules and access-lists leading to major security issues. I can't really think of any other vital technology like this that has rotted on the vine and had so many false starts.