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by antod 5y ago
heh > Saving 4 minutes a day on a process, over the course of your lifetime you will save 1200 hours. That’s a half year of vacation. If I had to micromanage my personal life that way, I'd need a lot more than half a year of extra
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by antod 5y ago
Yup. I always liked to have my team (been in the infra/ops/sre/devops/sysadmin areas) focussed on latency rather than throughput by having slack. Luckily we've usually been able to avoid Scrum etc, and work in a w
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by antod 5y ago
Yeah right, what's next? The author of the site isn't actually a ninja?
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by antod 5y ago
> No, it's based on studies of modern [0] and prehistoric plants. The Carboniferous period for example had CO2 levels comparable to today's and an explosion of coal forming plant growth. So back then they were "rapidly&q
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by antod 5y ago
Both our kids had stints in an isolation ward being fed/hydrated through a tube with rotavirus at ages around 3-4. They couldn't even hold down small amounts of water for days. I could see how it kills so many kids in developing c
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by antod 6y ago
I was having huge flaky thunderbolt problems on my Linux T490 - even updating the laptop firmware didn't fix it despite Lenovo changelogs indicating a bunch of thunderbolt dock bugs fixed. Then I swapped the Lenovo thunderbolt dock wit
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by antod 6y ago
> and some folks ripped PCM audio directly to WAV files yup, that was me. I had to be very selective about what songs I wanted off a small number of CDs. I seem to remember doing that before ripping and faster CD drives too - instead c
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by antod 6y ago
People can read Perl? I thought they could only write it. Maybe that could a lucrative specialised role - Perl Reader. I jest
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by antod 6y ago
I didn't realise there was content beyond the link to the book. Looking closer my privacy plugins had blocked the content (I'm such a luddite).
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by antod 6y ago
Yeah, my example had none of that stuff. It was a place where people were made to feel welcome, got listened to, were trusted, cared about and helped each other, were free to be themselves, could freely and honestly express their opinions t
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by antod 6y ago
> Culture is over-rated. Many years ago I experienced a company lose an authentically good culture, and turn into an average shitty one in less than a year. I have to disagree. Just because the average shitty ones still talk about cul
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by antod 6y ago
That wouldn't have been these user namespaces as they were first released with Linux 3.8 much later on. I think the user name space was the last one to land. I think vserver used a completely different set of functionality. I never rea
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by antod 6y ago
Nice blog about the early styling proposals which predate my webdev experience. For the newbies, back in the CSS 1 days, the intention was to create separate styling rules to make maintaining or changing styles easier. If you ever had to st
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by antod 6y ago
My naive assumption would've been that they could composite it into the scene. After all that movie was a relative breakthrough in compositing more difficult digital content into live action.
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by antod 6y ago
Perfect English is difficult, but that's the case for nearly all native speakers too. English is nothing but fluid and fault tolerant though, useful communication still happens even with quite broken English.
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by antod 6y ago
I have vague memories of named pipes between GUI programs that also went along with datatypes. eg in the file dialog of GUI app 1 saving a file to something (I forget the details) like PIPE:foo, then in GUI app 2 opening that data from PIPE
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by antod 6y ago
I got my start with a Spectrum and that book too. Far less luck interesting my kids in computers though.
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by antod 6y ago
> In a perfect world Ruby would have left Python in the dust It pretty much did, but then Rails and Ruby's hype cycle faded a bit, and Python kept going, recovered and found new niches.
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by antod 6y ago
I don't think it was growing out of it so much as a lot of them went and chased the new shiny over at NodeJS.
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by antod 6y ago
New Zealand switched from a mostly 2 party first past the post system to a proportional multiparty (usually) coalition system about 25 years ago. We would also end up with governments that won the most seats but lost the popular vote. IMO w
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by antod 6y ago
Yup. It had to be a null modem cable rather than a standard serial cable. They were the equivalent of a cross over ethernet cable. Later on we had the fun of figuring out IPX/SPX network drivers on DOS over 10base2 to get a 4 player ga
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by antod 6y ago
For first MVC, you didn't mean Struts rather than Spring? Even then I have a vague feeling there were earlier ones.
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by antod 6y ago
Basically, yes - it can work like that depending on circumstances. My son started with Ubuntu and doesn't like windows (new school requirements forced it). But he's not into gaming. I've known a couple of other fathers that h
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by antod 6y ago
That was only on the last generation or so of VCRs. For the first decade or two, programming them was like setting an old digital watch with 2 or 3 buttons and making different digits on the clock flash.
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by antod 6y ago
I had no idea who was being talked about until I saw the reference to "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Own Head". As a kid in the 70s/80s, my Dad had a bunch of those books. I still remember some of them too - like the ma
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by antod 6y ago
I presume it's a reference to this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ ie constant standards churn to keep your competitors busy.
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by antod 7y ago
And the Arctic Ocean etc etc The Soviets won out eventually, but without the west they could very well have lost before they really got ready.
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by antod 7y ago
Yes. I always marvelled at the translators ability to recreate the wordplay jokes (eg names) in another language
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by antod 7y ago
And you know what they said? Some of it was true!
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by antod 7y ago
Not being experimental and being the default option are still two different things though. Even in 19.10, while it is installed as part of the default install without experimental warnings, it still isn't the default session option. It

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