DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
The consistency rule I follow in any CLI tools I write: options are optional, required are commands or arguments. Anything with `-` or `--` is an optional . Just like all the basic unix/linux tools. You don't have to `ls --thi
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by DrBazza 3y ago
There are often non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Depending on the country, they're not worth the paper they're written on sometimes. In others, legally binding.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I've read in reviews about Teslas that they're actually really poorly built, versus historic car companies and you get the kind of creaking and rattling in 2024, you used to get in cars from the 80s. >> Does it hold its spee
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by DrBazza 3y ago
But how does it drive? Does it rattle and creak when you go over bumps? Does it hold its speed indefinitely at 100mph like an ICE car?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I own a 2021 Mercedes, and completely agree about the software+phone integration. It's 2024, why do I have to plug my phone in? And why is the user interface such an absolute cluster**? In fact one of Jeremy Clarkson's (Top Gear
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The longer I'm in the industry, the more I hate build systems that use languages. Build systems should be declarative rather than imperative. If you need complex stuff doing, it should be done outside of the build system. make was su
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The Crab and Winkle Way - I cycled it last week. You pass the Tyler Hill Tunnel which is the oldest rail tunnel in the world: https://crabandwinkle.org/visiting-the-tyler-hill-tunnel-at-...
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Came here to post exactly that. Had a few friends walked this with a guide last summer as it's on their to-do list of trails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broomway#Notoriety
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Interesting. I'd assumed it was something to do with the Office for Budget Responsibility and "transparency" of Government spending. I guess not. It's still absurd that the Government would announce how much they'
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Rob Holden, who lead HS1, and delivered it under budget said HS2 has been such a disaster, paraphrasing, because HS2 publicly declared its budget for each section, so the Cotswold tunnels, for example had a budget of, say, $10bn. So the co
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Ashford International, one end of the HS1 line is pretty well served: https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/A/... or the other end of HS1, St Pancras: https://git
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a homeless person sleeping in a London Underground station in 30 years of commuting, and many of them have benches without armrests.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
"Everybody has a plan until they're punched in the mouth."
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> 80 should be fine for most single lines of good code in most languages. C++ with even a modest template will flow over 80 without much effort. I'm now using the condensed width font Iosevka font [1] with 160 chars as my max width
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Chrome is the new IE6
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I've wanted to see whether thorium reactors actually work or not. I suspect the lack of interest from western governments is because it isn't very useful for making bombs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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by DrBazza 3y ago
How many batteries do we need to store the equivalent energy in 1kg of uranium or thorium? And how much mining is required obtain those materials and how much energy is required to refine those chemicals or elements? And repeat for the mi
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It seems like up-front monetary 'cost' is continually used to bash nuclear. And 100% from the perspective of human beings. To put it into context, nuclear * total human deaths due to nuclear since its inception is in the low thou
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Emissions shift with manufacturing. And for Western countries that means outsourcing to China.
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London is one of the most camera heavy cities in the world and crime is definitely not down.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The manhole cover from Operation Plumbob? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Software installation, even for simple trials reminds me of this Stephen Hawking quote: "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Depending on the content of the RSS they were publishing it was either an exceprt or abstract of the article, or the whole article itself. If it was the latter, it's almost certainly a cynical drive to get more 'page impressions&#
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> Those big chains drain money from the local economy though Exactly, all revenue goes back to HQ, and then off to somewhere else. In some cases being part of a large company means the smaller branches that don't barely break even s
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I must be fortunate then, as my closest local butcher that have to drive to, is generally cheaper than my regular supermarket. Supermarkets aren't exactly strangers to price fixing and ripping off customers. Once you've driven of
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It's not a rant, but thanks for the sarcasm. It's an observation, given that I've lived through those decades. You would have loved the 70s. Nothing open on a Sunday, and shops closed half day on Wednesdays.
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It's not so much 'the way they were', rather, I'd prefer to live in a small town with a butchers, bakers, and grocers, so that I'm spending my money in the local economy, and that I'm getting higher quality pro
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the UK, the supermarkets, the Internet, and modern 'town planning' have largely caused the demise of the UK high street. In the 70s towns were smaller, fewer people had cars, and there were hardly any supermarkets, so people wa
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And MacOS. And I hope Apple doesn't manipulate the "power usage" data that always claims Safari is the lowest-power best-battery-saver browser on their platform. I run Safari on MacOS for only that reason, that it allegedly g
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> It should support a standard like HTML 4 with no CSS or JS required. i.e. make the actual functionality on their sites simple to reduce the chance it doesn't work somewhere. You're right of course. It's not really a case

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