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by RegW 2y ago
Where "not now" could be a euphemism for "I don't want to, but there always a hope that they will change their minds later and won't force me", or perhaps it means "I want to wait until everyone else has c
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by RegW 3y ago
DiffDebugging is not a term I have ever heard of before, but I guess it's something I do on a regular basis. The code used to work, it doesn't now, WTF has changed?
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by RegW 3y ago
Yes, I thought I must be missing something. Seems like a great idea, but I only see animations and not much to suggest that this isn't just a dream.
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by RegW 3y ago
I wonder what other purposes FB have used those 1.1B+ publicly visible photos to train models for?
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by RegW 3y ago
Ah. I was wondering why I can never find anything I want to watch on Netflix.
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by RegW 3y ago
Wot? Even if you are building a reverse proxy?
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by RegW 3y ago
> Quora being a good option is incredibly surprising to me. Me too - I'd never heard of it, so I felt compelled to go and look. Bounced off the signup page and thought "That's probably why more people don't use it&qu
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by RegW 3y ago
Well I assume that the end-to-end encryption is honoured, and the message is not parsed in any way at either end. I also assume that the end-to-end reference is between your phone and the phone of the intended recipient, and not between yo
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by RegW 3y ago
> I have lived in the UK for 35 years and I didn't even know Google Messages existed until you mentioned it. Exactly, even though it is the default messaging app on Android and receives their SMS texts for them, most users don'
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by RegW 3y ago
I don't think so. When you text somebody it's assumed it's SMS, but if your friendship circle is on Android then in actual fact it's Google Messages. All the same benefits: end-to-end encryption and data mining.
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by RegW 3y ago
Often examples don't make it clear what is expected. As a consequence you might copy the example value temporarily until your understanding solidifies, but it never does, or doesn't before it gets a dependency on it. So foo.bar.
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by RegW 3y ago
I also remember having to work around the lack of environment variables (in the 80s I think), but reading through the Wikipedia entry it looks like that restriction is long gone.
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by RegW 3y ago
> Our upvotes, likes, shares, and retweets need to be reserved for only those things which truly deserve to be amplified, not just because we personally appreciate them, but because they’re of exceptional quality. Sounds great, but with
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by RegW 3y ago
I also agree with the later option. I've been using databases for a very long time. For the past 2 decades there has been a drive by framework providers to transparently handle such things and relieve developers of any difficult decis
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by RegW 3y ago
I am that old, and I don't need to be in motion to hit the issue. Tactile buttons feedback through your finger that your finger is indeed in the correct location, and when you get that positive feedback you click the button. Touchscre
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by RegW 4y ago
Doh! I was expecting something about mirroring databases.
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by RegW 4y ago
or future?
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by RegW 4y ago
Tasword on the ZX Spectrum used a font that fitted into 4x8 (so the characters were 3 pixels wide). It wasn't brilliant by today's standards, especially given it would usually be plugged into an 80s TV. However, this allowed 64
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by RegW 4y ago
I just can't take the maths seriously. As a younger person I hated to skate on a rebellious subject or show my ignorance of what must be obvious to everyone else. As a better person I knew I must be patient, but was annoyed with thos
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by RegW 4y ago
I'm so dumb that this question didn't even occur to me :-)
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by RegW 4y ago
> no vote to strike was taken. Those involved might have thought that not volunteering to work overtime isn't a strike, and so wouldn't realize that one was required. Clearly this company believes this to be incorrect but [the
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by RegW 4y ago
During a particularly bad period at one company I worked for in the 80s, a coworker declared that there would be points awarded for each reference made to the Titanic during the upcoming project meeting. He sat quietly making notes during t
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by RegW 4y ago
I think this is using the term "asynchrouously" where others might use "off-line". When the meeting turns up a problem that isn't going to be resolved in a few words, you might prompt those involved/interested
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by RegW 4y ago
Ah ha! I like it. Mangers with a restricted budget for meetings. The more people they invite, the more rapidly their quota burns.
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by RegW 4y ago
> ... websites that hijack mouse wheel ... half way down the page - to suddenly reduce the size of the page content.
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by RegW 5y ago
May be. However, my memory is of 2 factors that made line editors like ed necessary. 1. The keyboard mechanics and having paper as the output medium made typing very slow. That's probably why all the commands were short (ls, mv, rm,
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by RegW 5y ago
> I'm not quite willing to call it fraud yet, Great. So if you're happy with just a bit of disconnect, I'll get down the dump and pick up some old oil drums and fire up a kitchen in the garage. What do you fancy? KFC? Na
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by RegW 5y ago
Passer by: "Oy mate! D'you know you've left your stable door open?" Parsons: "You sire are a horse thief. You shall hang for this."
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by RegW 5y ago
Yep. Been there. Done that. In the 80's I worked for a guy who insisted that we wrote all our C using macros that made it look like FORTRAN, amongst much other nonsense. How fondly I remember the many hilarious hours spent trying to
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by RegW 5y ago
> We have not banned tulips because of the Tulip mania. True, but now we grow them as flowers, rather than hold them as a potential source of value or use them for exchange.

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