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bySpinlock_1977
30, 2026 @10:56AM
(#65959046)
Attached to: Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
Yeah... these days, it's probably that.
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bySpinlock_1977
30, 2026 @10:19AM
(#65958936)
Attached to: Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
No thank you. Instead, fix the bugs and remove the advertising.
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bySpinlock_1977
y 27, 2026 @03:07PM
(#65952966)
Attached to: Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
What a drag. Sorry to see these stores go. They were a great training ground for sleight-of-hand magicians.
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bySpinlock_1977
ary 21, 2026 @09:18AM
(#65939448)
Attached to: CEOs Say AI is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
What the CEOs are really saying is that AI is making THEIR work more efficient. And since CEOs are just like normal people, AI must be making everyone's work more efficient too. After all, no one has every accused a CEO of being myopic.
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bySpinlock_1977
y 20, 2026 @08:40AM
(#65936836)
Attached to: 'Just Because Linus Torvalds Vibe Codes Doesn't Mean It's a Good Idea'
I'm a professional developer with decades of enterprise experience. Like many of us, I have home projects. A week ago I signed up for $10/month CoPilot, because I wanted to try my hand at mobile development - something I've never done. Fortunately, I'm experienced in React and that is a viable platform for mobile development, but that doesn't address all the environment-specific items that differ between mobile and web development.
I engaged CoPilot to ask for development platform options - it gave me two, along with pluses and minuses. Very helpful. I chose one and started setting up my dev environment (VSCode + tooling). I would still be futzing with that if CoPilot didn't solve a bunch of little problems for me. It also helped me out of a whole raft of other problems. At this point I have 3 app screens working (mostly) and I have only 20 hours invested. I never would have got this far without CoPilot (or equivalent - I don't care). It's like having someone who's read every book and internet article at your left elbow, and you can ask it whatever / whenever.
It also made enough mistakes that I had to make it work on a problem 4 or 5 times before it got it right. At no point would I have taken the 'vibe coding' approach, where I let it build the whole thing. It makes too many mistakes and would implement things in a way I don't understand. I find it much more effective to paint the broad strokes myself, and ask AI to write small functions or help with problems.
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bySpinlock_1977
19, 2026 @03:19PM
(#65935414)
Attached to: ERP Isn't Dead Yet - But Most Execs Are Planning the Wake
I'll provide a little more color commentary... ERP was born out of MRP, fashionable in the 70's and early 80's. Manufacturing Resource Planning was all about having the right inventory on hand to manufacture widgets to meet a delivery schedule. It had an inventory module, with screens for doing various inventory functions. It had a Bill of Materials function, which kept track of which smaller parts went into each bigger part, and which bigger parts when into the next bigger part, etc. Given that, and a target delivery schedule, it was possible to predict when to order the materials to meet the schedule. I've skipped over alot, but that was its essential function.
As time moved on, more modules were added, like Capacity Planning. Given enough information about a plant, it could predict when an intended target delivery schedule exceeded the plant's capacity to meet it. As more modules got piled in, marketing weenies rebranded the thing to "Enterprise Resource Planning". These beheamoths include personnel modules, contract modules, and scads more I don't know about.
These functions are essential to many businesses, so ditching ERP doesn't mean not doing those functions, it means doing them with different software.
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bySpinlock_1977
16, 2026 @10:35AM
(#65929194)
Attached to: Students Increasingly Choosing Community College or Certificates Over Four-Year Degrees
I wasn't expecting a guitar enthusiast to respond to that, but since you did...
It was a 1975 Les Paul Standard with a tabacco sunburst finish. Nothing super-special, but I think I got $800 bucks for it.
Keep on rockin!
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bySpinlock_1977
ry 15, 2026 @02:30PM
(#65927134)
Attached to: Students Increasingly Choosing Community College or Certificates Over Four-Year Degrees
I did exactly this waaaay back in 1980. I went to the local community college instead of university. Like the OP said, it's much cheaper. I think I was paying $600/semester plus books and lodging. But when you're living at home like I was, it's really just books. I had to sell my Les Paul to pay for books one year - I wonder if a Les Paul these days can cover a semester's-worth of college books.
I was also in a highly desirable specialty - computer programming - so I had a job before I got out. If you're in a highly-desirable area these days, college instead of other options can make very good sense!
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bySpinlock_1977
12, 2026 @08:27AM
(#65917628)
Attached to: Linux Hit a New All-Time High for Steam Market Share in December
It's going up another 0.0000001 this year when I kick Windows to the curb.
Advertising, Recall, dark patterns? No thank you. It's my computer, not yours.
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bySpinlock_1977
ry 01, 2026 @07:19AM
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Attached to: 'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'
You make a good point. But my concerns are around privacy (will my phone be confiscated? social media examined? fingerprints taken?), and personal safety (will I be detained?, shipped somewhere?). For me, politics takes a back seat to these items.
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bySpinlock_1977
mber 31, 2025 @07:18AM
(#65892351)
Attached to: 'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'
35 year ago I was admitted to the U.S. under the NAFTA (now CUSMA) agreement as a Technical Specialist, because I had significant experience with databases. That led to me going green-card and getting married on an American. I lived there happily for 17 years, doing software work. It's so sad to see that welcoming, exciting America disappear down the drain of facism. To my American friends: He's destroying your place in the world. You are no longer the shining city on the hill. These days, I would not cross into the US for anything.
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bySpinlock_1977
er 16, 2025 @03:30PM
(#65862349)
Attached to: Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy
One could use heat exchangers such that the cooling water and the sea water never intermix.
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bySpinlock_1977
r 08, 2025 @08:13AM
(#65843045)
Attached to: Was the Airbus A320 Recall Caused By Cosmic Rays?
First, cosmic rays are what you blame when you can't find the bug. And second, if cosmic really are to blame, then they should have rolled back to the previous version of the sun.
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bySpinlock_1977
r 01, 2025 @10:11AM
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Attached to: As Windows Turns 40, Microsoft Faces an AI Backlash
Good question. I'm delaying because I also write music, and my music software isn't available on Linux. I suspect others are in my position, having that one app that isn't available and it's data file incompatible with any completing products. I'm locked in :-(
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bySpinlock_1977
r 01, 2025 @08:15AM
(#65827629)
Attached to: Amazon and Google Announce Resilient 'Multicloud' Networking Service Plus an Open API for Interoperability
Of course it is. Every problem (including our ineptitude) is an opportunity.
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