Benjamin_Dobell

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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I've been running through the Japanese course daily for the last 2 months. I'm learning to read somewhat , but I doubt that if I was to speak I would be understood. I understand there are limitations to this format. However, what
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
It's relative. No-one else has produced a media franchise that earns as much or more than Disney any more recently. Disney has also produced some of the most recent highest grossing box office films https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Frozen is one of the newest entries out of any media franchise to gross more than $10B — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media... . More than Fortnite has grossed. Not too shabby.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Whilst I'm not proposing a salary cap on companies. I also certainly wouldn't want all the world's best talent operating under the same company. There'd be no competition. You'd also be restricting the capabilities
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I've happily been using git-secret ( https://sobolevn.me/git-secret/ ) for encrypting and committing non-critical (i.e. non-production) secrets for a while now. It sounds like Gittuf will do a lot more than git-secr
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
If the site offers an ad-free paid subscription model, that's reasonable. I mean, it'd be much better just to redirect to the sign-up page. However, if the site is so user hostile that they think bombarding users with invasive ads
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Sadly there aren't many left. The one we go to in Australia is shutting down this week: https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/melbourne-lunar-drive-in-ci... Only went as a novelty maybe a few times before having kids.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Because of compile-time type safety / static analysis. And I say this as the author of an IDE that bolts those features onto Lua: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
> == and != operators (other than == null/undefined); please use === and !=== That's a whole lot of equals signs. Typos aside, this all looks really amazing! Although by no means sound, the ergonomics of TypeScript's typ
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
From the link: > Websites should not be able to attribute data of an ad click and a conversion to a single user as part of large scale tracking I'm curious, do people generally care about this specifically, or is it the sharing of
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I don't know that I would describe it the same way, but I definitely experienced some sort of survival mode last month, when I (a software engineer) delivered my daughter at home, in a very much unplanned fashion. I can remember the ex
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Perhaps the changes made in the announcement we're all commenting on have improved the situation. I had a few search terms (intentionally niche) that are now showing up as top results where as they didn't in the past. Very happy w
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I've also got Sarcoidosis, some pulmonary involvement, but certainly not debilitating (as long as I remain on medication anyway). However, every time I get prescribed antibiotics for something unrelated, damn I feel so much better for
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Strangely, at least in Australia, you often pay more for booking directly. On multiple occasions I've checked a hotel's website and found aggregators with cheaper rates, then literally walked in the front door and asked what&#x2
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
You're right. We've been on Fly.io for 6 months[1] and it's been nothing but pain. ~10 years ago I took a start-up off an EC2 distributed set-up and moved them to a simple Dokku & Linode single VPS infra (plus separate
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Not a fan of the Wise rebranding. It immediately made me uncomfortable. After thinking about it some more, it is because the rebranding is "fun". I'm transferring significant amounts of money through this company. I don'
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
You just made me realise something. For 10 years , every month I'd received an SMS saying: > Your latest bill $-0.02 on [... blah blah...] From a telco provider I no longer use. Turns out they finally stopped messaging me in Nove
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
> That's AUD $1.50 per tablet / USD $2.23 per tablet I have no idea how much dishwasher tablets ought to cost, but you've applied the exchange rate in reverse. $1.50 AUD is currently about $1 USD.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Be that as it may, the author is in Australia. All MacBooks have minimum 2 years warranty. Display recently died on my MacBook Pro (M1 Max). Having to talk to a Genius rather than being able to book in the service online or via phone was
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
I can understand if people don't agree that it's copyright infringement, and will use these tools on that basis. However, rolling over on issues you're passionate about because they're difficult to address? Well, if ever
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Where are these fees documented? Corporate cards, or cards with more "features" (lounge access, insurance etc.) tend to have yearly fees associated with them, at least in Australia. I was under the impression the customer covers t
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Because that's the name of the software. Google will return it as the first result. It is technically an acronym, Open Broadcast Software, but all the marketing material refers to it as OBS.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Is it really cognitive dissonance that we're assessing laws individually based on merit, rather than prescribing to simple-minded political ideologies focused on vague concepts like more/less laws?
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
This looks interesting. Recently I needed some really infrequently executed background workers. Basically just generate a CSV from our DB, email it somewhere. Historically I'd setup a Redis backed worker queue for background jobs. Howe
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
> Because they are closer to each other, they can produce more output than they could if they were far apart. This is what makes cities such great places This really needs a (recent) reference. What is output being measured, and what&#
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
I sometimes think we'd be better off if we didn't come up with and name catch-all diseases. I've Sarcoidosis, which basically means I have inflammation symptoms similar to other people (~150 in 100,000), but beyond that the
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
I want to start adding support for Lua derivatives to my IDE - which adds static type checking to regular Lua. Inference, structural & nominal types, generics etc. (Luanalysis - https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/In
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
Glad it wasn't just me. I was waiting over 10 minutes for a hosted runner.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
This is really cool. Upon further Googling, readers may be interested in https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/12/using-ebpf-in-kubernetes/ If you can go beyond Kubernetes, I think that'd give Odigos more
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by Benjamin_Dobell 4y ago
There's a lot of considerations and trade-offs when implementing your own type system. Do you want the type system to be 100% sound, or do you want it to be convenient to use? This comes up regularly, and recently did so again when imp

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