Recent content by c_porter

Required certs are just a way to build a moat around an industry to entrench certain interests (professional associations and large industry providers, mostly). If you don't want to hire someone with a certification...don't. No need for it to be required by law.

I don't think they can do that by law, they have to go through the ridiculous federal procurement process.

Want and need are synonyms in [H]land. So pick your flavor of [H]: raw speed or enough cores for the neighborhood.

Do forced updates over Windows Update that crash your planes count? Because if so, you're in luck!

Damn man, she got the Microcenter in the divorce? Fucking divorce court screwing dudes again.

Thanks, AMD.

Agreed. Some people just gotta be too cool for school, I guess. Whether or not their games are the kind a person personally enjoys, their list of classics is huge and they're clearly one of the greats. Shame what's happened to them, but the glory days were glorious indeed.

Not speaking on the specific Lisa Su case, but where AMD is at is the perfect time to leave. Always sell high.

Unlabeled means the axis is dual-unit. All future dates are measured in "hopes and dreams" and all past dates are measured in "unmitigated bullshit".

I look forward to Kyle's review of the new chips. Ahh, crap.

As you know, it depends entirely on who made it.

Woah, woah...let's not go crazy here.

Some emojis probably aren't hurting anything, but I do have one story that's related. We did some work for a client whose internal Slack was filled with stupid memes and shit all day. Part of our job was to help their dev team become more productive. People were saying they didn't know what was...

That's why we use Slack. Tried Teams, everyone hated it, moved back to Slack. Also works better with bringing in client guests since they have almost all used Slack and nobody has used Teams. Glad to hear the garbage pile that is SfB is heading to the grave, though. If Teams does nothing but...