DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Microsoft really is trying hard to get Windows 11 to fail It's every other version: 95 - ok (because we didn't know better) me - nope XP - ok Vista - nope 7 - ok 8 - double nope 10 - ok 11 - ...nope?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I said this on a previous win11 post here, and I'll say it again. I don't want telemetry on my machine, I don't want to jump through loops to turn it off, I don't want Teams on my machine (are we back in ie6 territory a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This is a theorised list of biochemistry that might support life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I would have thought in 2021 companies would say "if it's a 'not sure', then it's a no", but I've worked at some places recently where "not sure" would get additional interviews. That's one
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yes, in the south of the UK an infrastructure project beyond a mile in length or so is almost certain to hit some form of archaeological site. Graves, coins, roman roads, villas, mammoths, boats, swords, the list just goes on.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Announced this week that they're aiming for Feb 2022. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/07/27/crossrail-aiming...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
According to wikipedia, at least, it's 4bn [1] But you're correct, for a (UK) infrastructure project that's actually pretty good especially considering it has to go underground through a city that has medieval and Roman ruin
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by DrBazza 5y ago
And TIL goss+trivy as well. Not a devops guy, so also useful!
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by DrBazza 5y ago
We wrote quant code that had to run on all architectures... for the HFT team [1], unfortunately, including a long drawn out debacle supporting Solaris 5.7 for an absurdly long time. Other members of my team were looking at IBM architecture
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Worth reading just to "TIL" of a dockerfile linter: https://hadolint.github.io/hadolint/
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> In 1994, Intel and HP looked around and saw a wide variety of successful server CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, and POWER. This annoyed them and they decided to make a new CPU that no one would want to use. I spent some time
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Nine Elms is horrific, isn't it? Designed by supposedly some of the world's best architects. Where the votes were presumably cast by other architects and not the general public. Also, that development, and others have "poor
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by DrBazza 5y ago
London has similar problems. Apartment blocks that have a hundred flats, but only 5 are occupied all year round. The new ones at Battersea being a good example. The others owned by shell companies that are speculating and investing, or j
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> I work remotely and rent an office in town. I live in a semi-rural commuter town outside London, and I've noticed on one of the few office-industrial estates around the town there's a new building which currently has the logo
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by DrBazza 5y ago
In London, I'm inclined to agree with this. 2 days seems a fair balance. The trouble is that the majority of employees have signed a legally binding contract that says "your legal place of employment is <insert address here&gt
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by DrBazza 5y ago
You can always convert to brontosaurusii - so this car has a range of 45,495 of them... https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
And from just the other day: Windows Defender blocks decss. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914752 It's almost like there's something fishy going on.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's things like this that are making me less and less likely to continue using Windows at home. I've been running Linux KDE dual booting for a year or so, and I've have touched Windows in (uptime...) - 22 days or so. With Wi
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm not American, but I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't much appetite for building transport infrastructure above existing transport after the Oakland viaduct collapse in the 1989 SF earthquake. I'm old enough to r
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by DrBazza 5y ago
We have compulsory purchase orders in the UK that are often used on large infrastructure projects such as high speed rail to clear the route, but they’re politically unpopular and not used as often as they perhaps should be. And politician
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's a Western problem. China just moves people out of the way. In the West, you have go around, under, or over. Labour costs are low. The CCP answers to itself. Can I build this? Of course you can! In the UK, there's archae
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's always a bit harsh comparing a 36 year old language with more-or-less full backwards compatibility, with a new language designed with the benefit of hindsight. That's not to say that it's impossible to do something like
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Old world: desktops + 56kps modem + IE 5/6 + HTML/WAP + Windows 95/98/Me + x86 Mhz 32bit processors + dozens of ports + MS Office + VB/C++ New world: desktop/laptop/mobile + 100Mbps+ cable + W3C 'comp
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can't testify to my statement being 100% true without a lot of tedious searching on the UK FSA/SFA/FCA/whatever they are now's website. But that's what I have a vague recollection of. It's similar to HM
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by DrBazza 5y ago
One of the (legal ?) requirements we had to meet back in the 00s was that financial software (quant code, options trading) was "reproducible" for some length of time (7 years?). That meant: version control (SCCS, CVS, svn), arch
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by DrBazza 5y ago
We've had other people in the UK that have been rather less 'cautious' probably, sadly, through mental health issues, the Mole Man of Hackney: "Lyttle, originally from Ireland, inherited a 20-room property in the London
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by DrBazza 5y ago
ARM has a history of battery life though: "When the first test chips came back from the lab on the 26 April 1985, Furber plugged one into a development board, and was happy to see it working perfectly first time. Deeply puzzling, thoug
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by DrBazza 5y ago
My analogy, which seems to be a poor one judging by the downvotes, is that css is lowest level you can get for layout in browser, so it's inevitable that someone will write something of a higher abstraction to simplify it's usag
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Not liking React, and Tailwind, is a bit like saying 'I don't like Netty/Sprint Boot, I'll write my own web server'. css (and javascript/webasm) are the lowest levels in web development, of course people are go
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Sounds like Douglas Adams' shoe shop singularity. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon

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