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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> ... I encourage people to live in the terminal. I've done this for decades. screen or tmux (although I still confuse the keybindings between the two). When coding on the move (mostly when I had a long commute or was away from the
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
That's my point, it's not just to work, we treat it as an extra social space that isn't directly connected to work. No-one is going to hassle me about my TPS reports. I can sit and have a conversation about non-work related t
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
I remember this from a Martin Gardner “aha!” book (or one in that series) which my parents gave to me somewhere around the age of 10. Those books had a profound effect on me. (Of course, the text in the linked article predates Gardner’s wor
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
My wife and I go to co-working spaces a couple of times a week (on separate days and different co-working spaces), despite both working fully remotely. This is our solution for a "third space". This gets us out of the house, gives
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
That wasn't really the point I was making. It was more a response to the OP's comment of: > I've always wondered at the motivatons of the various string routines in C - every one of them seems to have some huge caveat whic
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> I learned C in about 1989/1990 and have used it a lot since then. I have worked on a fair amount of rotten commercial C code, sold at a high price, in which every millimeter of extra functionality was bought with sweat and blood.
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Sure, the post I was replying to made it sound like it's a surprise that anything written in C could ever have been a success. Not many people starting a new project (commercial or otherwise) are likely to start with C, for very good r
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Removing strcpy from your code makes it a little less memory unsafe. (Depends on what you replace it with obviously...)
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Yet software developed in C, with all of the foibles of its string routines, has been sold and running for years with trillions of USD is total sales. A library that records how much memory is allocated to a string along with the pointer is
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> Blew my mind that there was a wire that went all the way to London from Australia! Before the telegraph they used to do things wirelessly: https://www.brunningandprice.co.uk/_downloads/telegraph/tele... (Not
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Anyone visiting the South West of the UK should go visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_Porthcurno ( https://pkporthcurno.com/ ) (There's also the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
We just take it for granted here in the UK. The number of people who die accidentally on the tracks each year is very low, and much lower than those who choose to commit suicide that way. There's a strong "stay away from train tra
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Anywhere with third rail (which is predominantly London and the South-East of England) tends to be fenced off along the sides of the tracks or other things in place to strongly discourage you from walking onto the tracks. Given that a consi
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
> surely the seat would be in the correct carriage? You’d think so but you’d be surprised how un-joined-up things can be.
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
London for sure. All three of the Stanstead, Gatwick and Heathrow Express services are an absolute rip off compared with the alternatives that don’t take much longer. Many people use them out of ignorance, expense accounts or they have the
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Many UK long distance trains still take power from a third rail for some of all of their journey. Overhead electrification is a long term goal for the non-Metro UK rail network but it is a long way off. The other method is an electric train
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
(Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…) “Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Looks like some Ubiquiti UniFi switches (definitely SOHO) support 802.1x
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Late 90’s I had a ~90 minute commute for a while (50min train with seat, 20min London Underground seat mostly, 15min train crammed, 10min walk). The longer train I would use my laptop, same with the 20min underground section on the journey
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
A friend once asked me to do some pen-testing on a machine he was running on his home network. He said I'd need to come round to his house to do this as he didn't want to provide access to the machine via the Internet. Fair enough
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
They still engage, possibly even more so, with the topic if it's setup and structured the right way. (It's all too easy for lazy teachers/schools to just shove work onto a laptop for the kids to do and then pay little attenti
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Complete digression I know... Driving on public roads is prohibited until a certain age. That age is 17 here in the UK but me and many of my friends growing up in a rural area learned to drive from the age of 14 or 15 on private land. Our p
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Exactly. In order to prove you are not 15 online you have to prove you are >=16, even if you are 63. And there's no "I'm an adult" proof with leaking exactly who you are. This is thinly veiled "we want to know ex
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
> Imagine being 14 and having an entire laptop to prevent you from ever needing to focus in class. Depends on the school obviously, but at my 15 year old's school they default to their laptops staying in their bag and only get them
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Yes, the classic description for a member of the British Upper Class is someone who looks down on people who have to buy their own furniture. (One classification of "upper class" is someone who has never had to buy their own furni
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
> One thing that stopped me from seeking the vanity plate I'm sure it differs between countries but in the UK vanity plates have become reasonably contentious. As a gross generalisation they're fine if the car is worth hundreds
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
> I'm imagining someone driving in England and the police having no way to input those letters into their system. I would assume the UK has worked out a way of dealing with this having had plenty of years of foreign plates being dri
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
https://xcancel.com/HNStatus only uses chronological ordering (after any pinned tweets) and that has the last message 12 Dec 2023. (Basically whenever you see an x.com link just change it to xcancel.com and avoid the nonsen
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
Choose racially neutral terminology… allowlist and denylist (or blocklist)
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by alexfoo 10mo ago
There's rarely a free lunch for any meds. I know someone who needs Meds A because of $SERIOUS_CONDITION (medical, not psych.) They're on Meds B to deal with some side effects of Meds A. They're on Meds C to deal with a side e

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