DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
> > Rust as the path forward over C/C++ I hope not, but it's the popular memory safe language we have now, and ironically Stroustrup's quote applies "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Don't forget about outsourcing loads of your production to China, and then claiming your own country is about to meet its carbon goals. Works for Europe.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Any treasure finds in the UK are usually passed onto archaeologists and/or historians in the first instance for study, and almost certainly end up in a museum thereafter if they have historical worth. They are allowed to be sold for p
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Logos. Plural. At least in the UK. Having just looked at boxes in my kitchen I counted 5 different logos that look the same at first glance, except they're not. 3 arrows with a number in the middle, one circular arrow, 3 arrows with
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by DrBazza 3y ago
a) evidence? What the UK has a long long track record of, is CND and Greenpeace misrepresenting or outright lying to the general public about all aspects of nuclear power and often conflating it with nuclear weapons. I trust scientists ov
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Is this a consequence of the 'woman who can smell Parkinson's'? https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/meet-woman-who-can-smell-...
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Here's one for you: "Plans by the City of London to move its markets to a new location in Dagenham have run into a problem" "The issue is Romford Market, which was created by the Royal Charter of the Liberty of Havering
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Fruiterers Passage is part of the Thames path and runs under Southwark Bridge.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not quite sure about the down votes here, but there's quite a bit of activity in social media at the moment about performance, saying exactly the same as the parent, tl;dr if you get the data structures right, especially with hindsigh
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Anything that I have to look at it in a car, other than the road is a danger. I'm actually shocked that the various safety bodies in the US and Europe haven't already tried to limit the touch screen nonsense in modern cars.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
To succeed they had to make streaming video easier than torrenting it, and cheap enough to attract the casual torrenter. And like every company, v1 was run by the founders that understood their customer base. Of course, we're at v2, wi
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Microsoft's Activision takeover blocked in UK(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by DrBazza 4y ago|0 comments
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by DrBazza 4y ago
There's a couple of reasons I can think of: "young professionals" are more likely to be flat sharing or living somewhere that's sub-optimal for remote work, and the other is access to grey-beards like myself for questio
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> How in the world does a submarine going at < 40 mph not detect that it's running into a mountain? Two things: first US submarine, second "South China Sea". I suspect the sonar was off "for reasons".
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Do these volcanoes really have steep/craggy dramatic slopes like the image suggests? Probably not many. They will have formed slowly at plate boundaries such as the mid-Atlantic ridge, then moved apart over millions of years, the
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> CEO received compensation for good cost-cutting measures? What am I missing here? CEO not being penalised for over-hiring and bad decision making in the first place? Turkeys are never going to vote for Xmas/Thanksgiving. CEOs an
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I'm currently trying to persuade my current employer for a linux desktop. Developers at my company have zero reasons to use Windows, and yet we're using it 'for reasons'.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Windows 11, ad ridden malware by any definition from 10 years ago. Users will take it, because where else to go. 2 of my last 3 jobs have offered MacBooks, something unthinkable even 10 years ago. The majority of my friends kids (70-80
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> nuclear waste has to go somewhere. My stock comment for that is: bury it deep and with signs; if we've lost the ability to read the signs, we've lost the ability to dig deep and endanger ourselves.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Fossil fuel waste goes straight into the atmosphere is and is killing millions of people through climate change and respiratory diseases. And not forgetting slag piles and other fossil fuel waste (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Unfortunately popular sentiment doesn't equate to scientific fact. Nuclear power is cleaner, safer and less environmentally damaging than fossil fuels in every way. Still, since when have politicians ever let facts get in the way of
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I think what's worse is the "hands free driving" is "free for 90 days and then a subscription". The creep of subscriptions in cars should not be a thing.
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Ford launches hands-free driving on UK motorways(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by DrBazza 4y ago|2 comments
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The problem with build systems are its users. For exactly the reason you say. For a man with a hammer every problem is a nail. Developers don’t think of build systems in the right way. If you’re doing something complex in your build it sho
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by DrBazza 4y ago
London is quite low but unfortunately death by stabbing in the teens-to-20s age group has increased dramatically over the last two decades. If you're not in that demographic, you're probably fine.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I suspect it's the next paragraph - the star orbiting is "normal" Formation of a black hole is a pretty violent event - a supernova. Which sometimes ejects a companion star, and would certainly strip it of mass and change it
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> > but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky. > To be honest though, so is Windows (in certain aspects). Stockholm syndrome. I think people are so inured to Windows now, that people don't see the problems.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Can anyone explain how this won't, putting it diplomatically, attract certain 'dark web' types, and in turn bring mullvad under the microscope of law enforcement?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I feel like GitHub has lost that magic. Am I the only person that used Github for what it was? A place to push and pull my repos from my CLI? That hasn't changed. I rarely use the website.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
This post is also saying he wants to protect his child from social media _and_ have the ability to do so. Windows on the other hand, is saying, we're in charge, and no, we'll make sure you can't (easily) uninstall any of this

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