That one was actually down to poorly insulated speakers and 2G phone signals dipping into the audible frequency range

Oh god AC97 era onboard audio was just bad, there was always weird glitchy sounds coming from interference elsewhere on the motherboard

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I think the PC speaker was literally a 1-bit speaker. Anything that sounded more detailed was PWM on that one bit

Problem is, they should realise this only creates a gap for a competitor or even worse (from the companies’ perspective) a viable open source project that they’ll never be able to compete on price with.

Everyone keeps telling me “you’ll understand when you’ve got one”

I’m thinking that’s a pretty irresponsible gamble

I wish there was a Google translate for memes

Got no idea what’s going on here

Ah, fig boot

Given your username, I’m not convinced it’s going to go to plan

What boomer wrote this

Have you ever seen those videos of arbitrary code execution on a Gameboy with TAS tools? Where it spams every button for like 10 mins?

I’m now imagining a hypnotist flicking his pendulum around like it’s a yoyo

This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one

It took more effort than it should to unlearn this

Googling the tiles doesn’t bring anything up on Wikipedia so I’m gonna guess this is fake, I’m afraid

Thanks

Which airline? I’m never flying with them

Weekends Vs weekdays

Who the hell is having chips for breakfast

I’m calling the breakfast police

Edit: in answer to the question, bacon/sausage butty or scrambled on toast, orange juice and then the rest on coffee is probably not far from a standard morning

It’s not like they need to become experts

I mean if they would produce a better UI by using their expertise, how would not becoming an expert in the new thing be better? The reality is that the people paying the engineer are going to want the better UX over the benefits of not using electron in most cases.

But also that’s actually possible

Respectfully, no it’s not, not with software engineering unless you’re talking about learning a simple library or something.

If someone can genuinely master something in a day it wasn’t much of a skill to begin with.

I’ve been in this industry for about 20 years now, I would find it very hard to believe an engineer who says they’ve gone from no knowledge to expert in a new framework/language in any short period of time. I would either assume they’re trying to pull a fast one or more charitably just in the “naively confident” phase of learning:

especially with all the AI around.

AI can assist you if you more-or-less know what you’re doing, but a novice replacing proper learning with ChatGPT pairing is going to write some shitty code. I use AI in my role semi-regularly, and in my experience, no model has consistently produced me anything (non-boilerplate) longer than a couple of lines that didn’t need some kind of refactor for it to actually be up to our code quality standards. Sometimes you see them spit out some ancient way of doing things that have been outright replaced by a more modern approach, if you don’t have the experience, you’ll not know any better.

Can you buy naproxen without a prescription over there? I thought you generally needed to pair it with something like omeprazole and the general public can’t be trusted to read instructions

Sorry if it came across like it, but I’m not having a go at you or anything

I just think the mod deleting a post for what could have been a title change is kinda odd behaviour from them, perhaps they didn’t know it was possible? 🤷‍♂️

Well that’s pretty weird given you can edit titles