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if it was running linux you'd have that inflatable autopilot out of Airplane! and be expected to do a full engine rebuild every time you stop for gas, and all the parts would be free but it's anyone's guess which ones will work together.
if it was running apple, you'd go broke buying or servicing it. All leather interior and the autopilot is some guy named Keith who is earnest and a responsible driver, but smells vaguely of patchouli and something vegan.
it it was Microsoft, you wouldn't be allowed to exit the vehicle while charging or updating, and BSODs are quite literal at 100km/h
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Don't forget if it was an Apple car you'd have to get a new one to go from a city street to a superhighway.
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And six months later it's top speed would halve ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Don't be silly. Apple cars don't use streets or highways. They have their own astral plane to traverse.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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No way there would be any leather in an Apple car.
The seats would be made of glass, and your back pain would be a figment of your imagination.
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... and you weren't holding it right anyway.
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... plus the gas filler would only be compatible with Apple filling stations in Apple Stores, where a Genius Bar expert will add 100cc of gas per visit. Price per 100cc to be advised.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And it would not be gas at all, more like a secret mix of plutonium, antimatter and dark matter.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I used to feel that way until I ran linux as a primary OS. Never again. I've never had such stability problems.
Now I'm seriously considering Apple. At least then I get a POSIX OS and closed-loop development that doesn't eat my master boot record every time it updates the OS - seriously a problem I had on my last *THREE* linux machines.
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Well, I try to avoid the "your OS wears GI shorts" exchanges. 
Never seen such here and I have been running Linux as my OS for many years. Only had to install it from source once for an old Dell. Again, whatever floats your boat.
Herself couldn't get anywhere on a Windows laptop, kids gave her an Apple MacBook and she was good to go. On her second one in 11 years. She is an Artist, they are "different". Nice kind of different.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Yeah, I'm not an OS holy roller, but I'm just fed up with both windows and linux, personally.
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DEC would make only minis and they would not be marketed for home use.
But they would be very secure.
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And stable. You'd never have to reboot them.
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We recently upgraded our internet connection at work and made me realise that life begins at 100Mbps.
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I have 1,200Mbps at home, 400Mbps at work - and they want me to go back to the office!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I take it back. 100Mbps is the beginning as for 1,200Mbps that's happiness !
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I don't even think I have network adapters that can handle that. Sheesh. I have 750MBits or so and I'd be happy with 200MBits/s - i know that because my wifi router gets saturated after 200MBits/s of traffic.  I have to hard line into the thing to get my full speed. I only do that for one machine.
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8Mbps down, 0.75 up!
DSL sucks ass
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Chris Losinger wrote: DSL sucks ass
It does. But that's what you get for living on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. 
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Meh. The more bandwidth I have, the more bandwidth I waste. My home connection can sustain a (roughly) 5.3mbps download, and I honestly feel very little incentive to get anything much faster.
[Edit]
And it's not one of those "you don't know what you're missing unless you experience it" type of situations. My work machine (which I reach over VPN) can sustain hundreds of megabytes (not megabits) per second, and while I find that all very impressive, I don't know what use I'd put that to if I had that here at home.
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where more bandwidth comes in handy is when things get busy.
if my wife is on a Zoom call, my remote desktop connection will sometimes simply time out, with our glorious 8Mbps (max, and highly unstable) DSL connection.
if we had even 20Mbps, that wouldn't happen.
modified 11-Jun-21 16:11pm.
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I was going to point out that I'm the only one in the house using my connection, but even then, I did complain a few days ago that every once in a while I have a system that randomly decides to start downloading something; I can't identify which system, and what it's downloading...and that can be a problem.
Getting a faster connection for this case however sounds like a Band-Aid solution, as the root cause would still exist.
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I agree. I now have 120Mbps down and upload at 42Mbps with ping at 14ms. Downloading and running a project from github takes 1 minute.
A Xcode update of 14gb was a pain before and is now ready while I have a coffee. Of course, now I have no excuse for not working any more..
jhaga
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I have two STM32 boards collecting dust for two main reasons:
1. There are too many toolchains/frameworks for me to decide which one to rely on primarily.
2. The build times for the ones I've tried from #1 are atrocious. This has been the biggest show stopper for me because even with incremental compiling and linking you still have to do full builds periodically and with these boards it's painful. With the ESP32 you can remove "components" from the framework so you don't suffer build times for things you don't need. With these STM32 frameworks it seems like you have to build things you'll never even use.
Given these two issues, with #2 being a huge deal to me, and given I want to stick with C++, what framework do I choose?
Anyone have any ideas?
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