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by _joel 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_and_the_Russian_gove...
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by _joel 2mo ago
I recall playing the hell out of the original Xcom game
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by _joel 2mo ago
"Software Engineer" is a thing.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Someone test Action Retro's http://frogfind.com/ with it :)
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by _joel 2mo ago
Better off just using http://frogfind.com/
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by _joel 2mo ago
They definitely sell them in the UK too, the OP is just wrong.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Schrödinger's Product
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by _joel 2mo ago
People were aware of heatstroke and sunstroke before the Victorians. There's biblical references to heatstroke and even in Roman and Greek texts.
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by _joel 2mo ago
So https://pglite.dev/ ?
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by _joel 2mo ago
Maria, MySQL, Oracle shenannigans, perhaps. Also postgres is a "proper" db, so I'm glad it generally won out.
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by _joel 2mo ago
No mention of https://postgis.net/ - shameful
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by _joel 2mo ago
thought I recognised the face
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by _joel 2mo ago
How's Reform UK Ltd. done since then? They've lost 2 by-elections and beaten a bin. Sterling job I guess if you listen to any of their members.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Ironic, considering it was Johnson that started it before Khan "took the flak"
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by _joel 2mo ago
Reform are latching on to anything to detract from the 5 million pound "gift" to Farage from a crypto billionaire, Christopher Harbourne..
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by _joel 2mo ago
Indeed, it's 2026 and people are still putting HP port direct - directly on the internet https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hp+printer+9100
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by _joel 2mo ago
oh, we do.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Maybe pharmacology works better than chopping of dead racoon penises, or swimming in sewage?
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by _joel 2mo ago
Connecting to office LANs and going on the internet was a magical feeling back then. The speed coming from a 56k dialup was jarring. We'd have network games of Quake (rocket jumps included) and watch Real Player versions of grainy Sout
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by _joel 2mo ago
Sure, but you have to remember that a lot of companies use the issues/trackers/PR heavily as part of their development flow. If they go down, new work can't be scheduled.
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by _joel 2mo ago
I'm all for using a council of LLMs, I wrote a tool for it https://github.com/joelio/owl - but you still need to read through PRs yourself, at the very least.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Sure, but it's not just the reoo. It's PR's, code review and you've got a bunch of actions then it's difficult (not impossible) to deal with those being down.
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by _joel 2mo ago
It's every other day now. We pay for a service, we expect service.
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by _joel 2mo ago
It's strange how seeing the default NT4 and 2k colours take me straight back to a fresh install 25+ years ago. First job was doing desktop rollouts so I'd see it a lot!
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by _joel 2mo ago
I hardly ever see any spam nowadays, happy fastmail user.
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by _joel 2mo ago
If you're running infrastructure you care about, you really need to own the responsibility of keeping up to date with what you're supporting. Free or not.
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by _joel 2mo ago
So the watermark can be removed by rearranging words and choice of words. This seems trivial to bypass with a local model. If I understand this correctly.
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by _joel 2mo ago
Where's Steve Ballmer with the metal chair? https://www.wired.com/2011/11/cloud-foundry/
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by _joel 2mo ago
The post being flagged has nothing to do with my comment, please don't sensationalise
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by _joel 2mo ago
Yep

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