DrBazza

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by DrBazza 1y ago
Fortunately most CI/CD systems expose an environment variable during the build so you can detect most of those situations and still write a script that runs locally on a developer box. Our wrapping is 'minimal', in that you c
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> use a Makefile instead I was making a general comment that your build should be a single 'command'. Personally, I don't care what the command is, only that it should be a) one command, and b) 100% runnable on a dev box
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Your build should be this: build.bash <debug|release> and that's it (and that can even trigger a container build). I've spent far too much time debugging CI builds that work differently to a local build, and it&#x27
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by DrBazza 1y ago
We've been stealing from Peter to pay Paul since the 1970s, or rather the UK was in a mess in the 70s, so we raised money by selling off state-owned assets such as British Telecom, British Gas, the water board, and so on, to build the
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by DrBazza 1y ago
'Hedge porn' is in common usage in England, as a quick google will testify. Variously SFW/NSFW.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> So, couldn't the UK just ban free VPNs ? We could try . And try banning Opera for example. Or doing a Great (Britain) Firewall, which must surely have occurred to these idiots at least once. We're governed by fools and peo
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by DrBazza 1y ago
For whatever reason, Acorn dropped the ball. At the time the Archimedes blew the nascent PC and every other machine out of the water, and yet couldn't get a toe-hold in the US market for reasons I've never quite understood. At th
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were 16-bit 68000 chips. The BBC Micro was 8 bit and a 6502 chip, that era had at least the following: BBC Atom, Micro, Electron, Master Commodore Pet, Vic32, Commodore 64 Atari 400/800 XL Tandy TRS80 Oric
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by DrBazza 1y ago
There's no small irony that facial recognition isn't going to recognise the faces of those currently racing around on e-bikes stealing phones wearing their 'safety balaclavas'. Or, indeed, some of the more militant prot
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> You're probably instead thinking of income tax, which the US does levy worldwide contrary to virtually every other nation on Earth and is, I can tell you from personal experience, not fun. That's certainly what I was thinking
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Another 'problem' with the Linux desktop was that it was entrepreneur hostile due to the culture. The kind of folks that YC might have funded a decade ago.. Pre-mobile, pre-'fast internet', there wasn't really a
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I moved on from these fonts quite some time ago and just use https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka everywhere. It's ideal for 'wordy' languages such as C++ where a typical line length can often go over 150
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by DrBazza 1y ago
>I don't have any productivity issues with git, like... at all. It's not like I spend an hour running git commands every day. Agreed. Having used SCCS, CVS, Subversion, VSS, Perforce, Clearcase, Accurev (the weirdest of the lo
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Sadly, UK Parliament is made up of political careerists and art students, which is probably similar to most Western democracies. There's a saying 'those who can do, those who can't teach', it probably needs a final &#x2
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I'm glad I clicked through to the actual article rather than dismissing it via its slightly silly title. I learnt a few things about git, and I didn't realize that the tool `pigz` existed. Today I learnt...
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Large mass stars are very, very few in number, and have short lifetimes, so collapse into black holes (if it happens), and then mergers are vanishingly small. 225 solar masses black holes are in the realms of unlikely if only had that infor
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> is the first in a new generation of data centers being built by Amazon, and part of what the company calls Project Rainier, after the mountain that looms near its Seattle headquarters Near both the Casadia fault that's produced ma
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I've looked at these before, and the charts are nice, but I feel like there's a better way of displaying the data in some sort of matrix.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
On the other hand the points I listed are sufficiently coarse grained and the cost or expense of most of those can be estimated. Deaths due to coal mining? Probably in the hundreds of thousands. Animals killed by oil slicks? Millions.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Can anyone point me a genuinely unbiased comparison of solar, wind, coal, oil, nuclear and hydro, in a reputable scientific journal that covers all of the 'criticisms' that are raised for some but not others? There's at least
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Yes. "Please do the needful" and "revert", are the most common Inglish phrases I encounter when talking to our employees in that part of the world. More recently 'can I connect?' is a new one that is becoming
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I'd bet 'learnings' gets you going as well, and if it doesn't, it should, and I apologise for introducing you to some new modern idiocy. Seriously though, languages change.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Temperature is a totally valid measurement. For physicists. Not really for clickbait articles. High energy particles wouldn't attract as many views. If it were really that hot we'd never observe the CMB at a balmy 2.7K.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I dread to think what diseases the even 'younger generations' are going to get with all the microplastics in just about everything we eat, drink, and in some cases breathe.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
You mean the tree cut down in or next to the Tottenham Hotspur training ground, or proposed development (I forget). Also, the tree cut down by the restaurant chain, that's part owned by... one of the owners of Tottenham Hotspur FC. Als
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by DrBazza 1y ago
The implicit problem here (pun intended) in the given examples are implicitness vs. explicitness. Rust chose (intentionally or otherwise) to do the opposite of the many things that C++ does, because C++ does it wrong. And C++ does it wrong
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by DrBazza 1y ago
On the other hand HS2 will end up providing a net increase in woodland. Are you sure you mean ancient and not veteran? Ancient trees usually have some rather special protections.
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People don’t have ecosystems. Trees do. And they change through age. And many species insects depend on old trees.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> Jeez Zucky, I wonder why social is dying. Is it because there's no bloody social between the ads and random algorithm shite anymore? Well, there is a 'tab' (at least on mobile) that is eventually marked 'Friends&#x2

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