I like computers
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Buying a new NVME for my desktop has shown me people miscalculate PCIe Gen versions and the throughput you get.
Gen3 x4: 3.938 GB/s
Gen4 x2: 3.938 GB/s
Also think about GPUs and how much (or little) memory they have... Gen3 x16 is 15.754 GB/s
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Sometimes I wonder if the person who's in charge of UX for Chrome for Androids uses Chrome for Android...
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I still think about this thread despite having left the public research world a while ago. Don't agree with all of it 100% but it's very thought provoking and still shapes what I do today
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Turns out the HDMI standards body is just as useless as the USB standards body (flatpanelshd.com/news.php?su…)
At least Thunderbolt went in the right direction with TB4
Impressed with Linux on the desktop. Got a new monitor that does the fancy USB C stuff, plugged it in to my laptop running Debian Stable and everything just worked perfectly.
Also super nice now only having 1 cable to my laptop instead of 5
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Ugh a bug in Android 12 means my settings app bombs out when going in to a certain menu😢
Seems to be here cs.android.com/android/platf… that compare call with "android.text.SpannableString cannot be cast to java.lang.String"
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Google Pay and Device Controls removed from the long press power menu in Android 12 on Pixel devices, 1 step forward 6 steps back :(
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The questions are:
What does @github taste like? Are there any other flavours?
Interesting history on Gits `pull` - felipec.wordpress.com/2021/0…
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That evaluation led to a full production deployment :)
...which I just upgraded to 14.0. Think it started on 6.something
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Normally quite against going all in on one product/vendor but I really like how Gitlab is turning out since I did my first evaluation of it in 2014! Wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as the central piece of an engineering org
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Raises a bunch of questions around using evidence from computer systems.
I wonder how many people have been convicted due to badly written software
Thirty-nine Post Office workers convicted of theft have names cleared after one of the UK’s most widespread miscarriages of justice
bbc.in/3nfMvwc
Next up:
Xbox Live Gold renamed to Xbox Plus
Xbox Gamepass renamed to Xbox Now
Why would you throw away a brand like "Xbox Live"????
