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  @jackwilliambell @glyph yeah embedded means something different now. Even on-chip firmware often runs a miniature OS now

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  @jackwilliambell @glyph I think boilerplate is the price to pay for a formal language. How much boilerplate is necessary to establish the neccessary context for the interpreter/compiler is however the hallmark of good/bad design imho. Anybody complaining about too much boilerplate in java/c++ I invite you to look at VHDL (a hardware description language). This language thrives on mountains of boiletplate. (Verilog is the ugly stepchild that spawned out of "less boilerplate, more C" de...

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  @jackwilliambell @forthy42 @glyph wow. I don't come close to 20. But I think I got a decent range from obscure assembler to python, with a bunch of hardware design languages thrown in. At the moment, C++/C# earns me the money. C++ is certainly ugly. It *tries* to be friendly, just as a tiger raised in captivity is just a cuddly cat. One wrong move... and ot lets you make all the wrong moves. C on the other hand is a wild wolf showing its teeth: it doesn't pretend not to be dangerous.

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  @elilla if I hear my dev team lead propose using copilot for things you should never use it for (which is everything) again, then I might just throw in thr towel and try to do bonsai full time.

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  @jackwilliambell it certainly evoked a derisive snort from me. I am getting a vague sense of unease for agreeing with Goldman, though. Are they making a short play on companies heavily invested in AI?

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  @jackwilliambell it writes the same way an industrial blender for pig food cooks: taking ingredients and finished dishes, blending it to slop. And its makers expect their customers to like the slop too.

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  @jackwilliambell is the audio separatly or via usb / hdmi? How many monitors? I have a 4 port * 2 hdmi port variant with. Older, with usb 2 only, which does not work properly with the think pad docking station. A newer model (sorry in german): https://www.kvm-switch.de/de/4-port-dual-monitor-8k60hz-4k144hz-hdmi-hdmi-usb3-0-kvm-switch-mit-kabelfernbedienung-kc-kvm842.html So far little complaints with jvm switches from KCEVE. (They tend to get hot) If you need analog audio multiplexing that coul...