DrBazza

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by DrBazza 1y ago
It's a reciprocal agreement. If my employer is decent and goes the extra mile, I'd be encouraged to do the same. If they're shitty, then they get what's in signed the contract, and that's it. But... don't fall
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Zoning is a US thing. The article refers to the UK housing problem and we don't really have that problem, but I suppose that might fix the US market. UK houses are a good investment, in fact the best investment for £500k, and also the
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by DrBazza 2y ago
One cause of the UK's 'housing crisis' (or rather un-affordability), just like other countries I suppose, is simply that if I buy other properties, I get: capital appreciation on the asset, and return on investment (by ren
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Arguably, Jira ‘has issues’.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
It’s not called the Grauaniad for nothing. Private Eye have mocked it for years.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
On the other hand, I'm 6 weeks on from 3 fractured ribs, and still no exercise. I'm sure there are a few medical people on here that will tell you that ribs are a special case. If I were to breathe too deeply during the first few
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I thought you were talking about Wanjiru at first. Who knows how fast he might have gone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wanjiru
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by DrBazza 2y ago
This perhaps? https://fortune.com/2025/01/06/germanys-ev-sales-crash-elect... The overall slump in electric car sales in Germany saw battery-powered vehicles lose market share relative to traditional combusti
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I find Ball's Pyramid fascinating for rediscovering the tree lobster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus
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by DrBazza 2y ago
The masochist in me keeps coming back to c++. My analogy of it to other languages is that it’s like painting a house with a fine brush versus painting the Mona Lisa with a roller. Right tool for the job I suppose.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
We're governed by the most technically inept people possible. The Peter Principle writ large. I'm pretty sure there was a story on here recently when UKGOV / GCHQ were recruiting for a 'senior something something tech&#x
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by DrBazza 2y ago
That was the government that was supposed to stand up 'for the poor', but allowing a predatory industry to thrive, whose main demographic are 'the poor'.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I'm glad it's not just me that's noticed this. I thought it was targeted advertising because I also see lots of 'old people adverts' :) It's horrific really. I change channels as soon as one of those adverts
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. Perhaps tell that to one of my friends that has a shopping addiction. He buys endless amounts of running gear, and then resells it, basi
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Next evolution of this will be MS Agents. We will finally see the return of Peedy, Merlin, Genie, and Robby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> Every Saturn 5 was successful On the other hand every Russian N1 wasn’t. Rocketry is hard. It’s seems proven that if you’re a government space agency it’s even harder.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> Trying my luck here, but you wouldn't know of any extension that more easily integrates plain HTML pages into an mkdocs navigation/page? I think you just want to use the `nav` section in `mkdocs.yml` to add non-Doxygen pages:
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I use `just` - https://github.com/casey/just and have a `docs` task. That runs a bash script that does all the heavy lifting (python install, and so on). Though given all the chatter on here in the last couple of week
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by DrBazza 2y ago
It's easy enough to just use `mkdocs` with `mkdoxy` and the material theme, and you're done. In my repos it's simple enough to just run `just docs` at the root and that's it. Docs built for the given branch/tag&#x
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> he was prevented from extending his project outside the lab by pressure from the British Post Office, which then held a monopoly on telecommunications. The UK and telecoms don't make a happy pairing - we always seem to do the wron
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> but what about when the existing codebase is already inconsistent It depends. If it's a self contained code base, automatic refactoring can safely and mechanically update code to be consistent (naming, and in some cases structural
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Non-orbital. But it can do that as well. Just sacrifice the rocket and use the landing fuel for more delta-v.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Not all profiles end up in orbit . At this point in time, reusuability sacrifices delta-v for fuel. If you want to launch scientific missions you want to escape Earth orbit. If we're going to land on Mars, we're going to need
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by DrBazza 2y ago
There's a certain exchange out there that I wrote some code for recently, that runs on top of VAX, or rather OpenVMS, and that has an epoch of November 17, 1858, the first time I've seen a mention of a non-unix epoch in my career.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Goldilocks aside, I’ve not seen a family ruined by porridge. I have seen it first hand with gambling.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
We love our regulation, especially if the government can't easily tax it. Yet, we still have gambling adverts on UK TV and on football shirts. At the same time we've also banned adverts for "certain types" of porridge.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
> As a claim, it's antique -- it would easily have been a view of Turing and others many decades ago. Absolutely. We discussed this in the 90s and were of the opinion, then, that event state of the art NNs (in the 90s) wouldn't
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I knew this would be a preprocessor macro from the second I saw 'nonsensical errors'. The joys of having a multi-decade career in C++ and C.
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I would hope it's the 'persistence forecast' + x % better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting#Persistenc... IIRC the Metoffice in the UK does/did pay bonuses to staff based on modelli
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by DrBazza 2y ago
I stopped visiting The Verge after their last 'rebrand' which offended my eyes. As for the article, well, ads are everywhere now aren't they? "Accept all cookies or pay £3 a month for ad-free" is what we're get

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