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by antod 4y ago
40yrs? Python has had generators for approx 20yrs already. Unless you're talking about a different language.
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by antod 4y ago
Large wooden structural members perform better in fire than most people expect, and concrete ones often don't perform as well as most people expect.
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by antod 4y ago
When I was 10 or 11, my father had a TRS-80 model III he'd bring home from the office in the weekends around 81 or so. I have a vague memory he might've had an older TRS-80 model early on before the model III - one with a separate
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by antod 4y ago
> He still had the Spectrum in pristine condition in its original box last year when he died of cancer. I'd love to have it, but don't really want to ask my aunt and cousin for it. You could say something like "If you ev
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by antod 4y ago
Well, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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by antod 4y ago
Reading that made me think back to all those breathy Wired article from the early/mid 90s predicting the cultural future of cyberspace. Maybe it was because the writing style seemed similar, but that this is the let down review article
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by antod 4y ago
> but how can firemen get in the building without wasting precious seconds? In my experience, the axe is their first option - even if they could get the keys. It's kinda a job perk.
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by antod 4y ago
Sigh. More time has passed since the writing of that retro computing article and now, than between the launch of the computer and the article. Feeling old.
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by antod 4y ago
After watching how my kids schools deal with this, I think the a big part of the solution is not just thinking about bullies or the bullied, but the rest of the kids in the middle that aren't bullies or the bullied. The schools program
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by antod 4y ago
The cynic in me thinks they did learn from history, and spotted a way to adapt the old scams to a new playing field. Much easier than coming up with brand new scams.
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by antod 4y ago
>In general, volcanoes are classified as silicic or mafic. The silicic ones contain more gas and tend to erupt explosively; the mafic ones, more lava floes. A few geology papers were part of my engineering study way back when - we were
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by antod 4y ago
I know what you were trying to say, but calling a smaller company "out of touch" due to not getting close to FAANG compensation in itself seemed a bit "out of touch" to me regarding the business realities of small compan
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by antod 4y ago
Personally I'd not deploy these files. Although that would be more to do with not having to discuss it yet again with auditors or pentesters than it would for actual security.
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by antod 4y ago
Generally very much like Rails with a running process that could be standalone or with a web server interface module depending traffic or other requirements.
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by antod 4y ago
I don't really care about the other later phases of Earth's natural lifecycle - I kinda like this one. So much so, that I'm going to be investing in the other ones at all. Now if only that was the kind of short term thinking
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by antod 4y ago
And on the current topic, crytocurrency really does mean hidden currency.
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by antod 4y ago
And for those that don't know - entering Basic code on the Spectrum (well the original one at least) was ALL single/shifted key shortcuts for keywords rather than typing them out. eg https://www.old-computers.com/m
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by antod 4y ago
Not sure what you thought I meant or was selectively remembering, your statement doesn't contradict mine and is just how I remember it too (US and UK playing up vs Europe and Ukraine playing down). Unless you were claiming the Russian
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by antod 4y ago
I seem to remember one reason usenet worked so well was the pretty stringent insistence on good netiquette. Of course it wasn't foolproof, but nearly all people wanted to follow the implied rules most of the time. Todays internet demog
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by antod 4y ago
Yeah, the Crimea annexation was dodgy as hell but as you say more ambiguous. The population had enough imported Russians (and "exported" Tartars) that they could run bullshit referenda and claim the people wanted annexation. The r
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by antod 4y ago
I assumed chickens would have been much smarter than they turned out to be when we got some. Birds are known to be smart, just not all birds as it turns out.
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by antod 4y ago
For some reason, this makes me wonder how Slashdot's moderation would work in the current age. Too nerdy? Would it get overwhelmed by today's shit posters?
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by antod 4y ago
> My parents are Gen X with degrees (Eng + Chemistry?) and they seem to have enjoyed their 20s and early 30s, settled down in their 30s and ended up pretty well off without ever really worrying about money. That probably depends on whe
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by antod 4y ago
My layperson understanding was that the more atoms/bonds a molecule has, the less transparent it was to IR. Diatomic molucules like oxygen and nitrogen were pretty much transparent, molecules like CO2 and H2O were in the middle, and bi
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by antod 4y ago
I've had the same experience. It was kinda jarring as I expected devs to not fall into the same trap they complain about with questions/requests from their users.
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by antod 4y ago
I think things are more complicated precisely because things got easier. The more complexity we can now handle, the more complexity we will create.
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by antod 4y ago
Yup, I worked for a company that moved everything from colo to AWS. Not only did the annual tech costs increase about 10x (even with all the AWS migration credit funny math), but they ended up with double the number of engineers to look aft
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by antod 4y ago
From memory, the early versions of Docker were basically just combining LXC with an image implementation using overlayfs. They then switched to spinning up their own container processes directly. Storage with LXC is just a block device, so
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by antod 4y ago
It doesn't help that Confluence has one of the most irritatingly useless search engines in existence.
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by antod 4y ago
That they won't rely on their own anecdotes/assumptions and actually research something? Sounds like what science is supposed to be right?

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