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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a middleground. Power Automate. The website crashes Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate power automate so so so much

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Power automate has so much potential and promise, but it just sucks to implement anything more than built in templates.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I guess I'm so used to thinking in code, and power automate seems hell-bent on being aimed at More business oriented folks. I find it extremely unintuitive, and downright hostile in terms of actually getting something done that I know how to do, but I'm not allowed to.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

matlab

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Me: oracle, oracle and more oracle

Damnit, who put a maze with no exits in this cage?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm in university and I use both...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I did computer science, and we used MIPS Assembly..

I ask you, when has anyone EVER wanted to use a MIPS processor lol.

Also, for AI, we were forced to use LISP, which the lecturer didn't teach. He graded us using a poorly written script, and if your program crashed his script, he gave you 0. You only got 1 attempt. But, when is the last time, ANYONE has used LISP either lol

And Perl.. And PHP, etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

MIPS is RISC type and more open that x86 or ARM. I guess this is why they teach it. Also I heard that some universities/schools starts teaching RISC-V more and more because of just that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you dont understand why the specific instruction set you studied isnt the point you should maybe po back to school.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Mobile phones like the N97 were already using ARM.. Whilst it might have been about learning the algorithms, one could argue considering the cost of university that we should at least get taught on the best platform (obviously RISC based in this case).

One could make the same argument about anything though. I could argue they shouldn't have even taught X86 architecture, and taught TempleOS instead of Unix Tools (after all, it's NOT the point). The point is to learn, but it is also to avoid double learning AFTER uni too.

I will give them props for at least teaching us OpenGL at the time instead of Glide (that was a good decision).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snarky but true. MIPS actually is common in network equipment. It's niche, but not completely unused. Also, it's really an excellent instruction set for teaching.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is true.. However, I guess I'm a bit salty we didn't do ARM instead

That being said, admittedly, I've never used assembly again anyway lol (except once, for reverse engineering something)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Garbage software is one of the primary reasons I left my last job despite high pay. It just got too friggin annoying to use. They'd roll out a 'hotfix' to fix something they had broken 3 months earlier and they'd break 2 new things which previously had been working fine for years. The support was so bad I just bought a magic eight ball for our office and we'd ask it our support questions.

Yardi, I'm looking at you.

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