aubreykilian

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by aubreykilian 4mo ago
I have a documentation vault in my repo, organised using Obsidian (bases, wikilinks, frontmatter, etc), and accessible using obsidian-cli (and related Claude skills, thanks kepano). I started the repo agreeing with Claude the structure and
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by aubreykilian 7y ago
I used to work as a Network Admin at a big university in Cape Town years back, and one of the urban legends at the time (late '90s) was that one of the long distance wireless (microwave? Line of sight required) network links were repor
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by aubreykilian 10y ago
Technically something with just different sized slots for the coins will work, and let gravity take care of the rest...
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by aubreykilian 10y ago
Flavour-based sorting? That's Version 2.0!
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by aubreykilian 10y ago
This happened to me one night late a few years back, with Oracle on a CentOS server. rm -rf /data/oradata/ on the wrong machine. I managed to get the data back though, as Oracle was still running and had the files open. &qu
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by aubreykilian 10y ago
https://put.io/ ?
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by aubreykilian 10y ago
Agreed. I recently switched jobs after an 8 year stint at my previous employer, and it took me many months and many recruiters and possible employers, and every single time I started from the position of "Let's not waste anybody&#
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by aubreykilian 11y ago
This smells like a marketing gimmick... (See what I did there?) Why not just make that button's functionality be the default, instead of an optional setting? I think some engineer had way too much fun putting that hazardous image int
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by aubreykilian 11y ago
Wow, you think you're going to read some comments about a community update, and you end up reading a mass of comments delving into the human psyche. Damnit I love HN.
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
Agree. Reminds me about an article I read about company loyalty: http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/ Was quite an eye-opener actually.
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
I have the same question. Surely older employees have more experience, more knowledge, more to offer than the younger ones? I'm 1 year (and 1 day) away from forty, and yes, this kind of story does hit home a bit, but I feel my contri
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
Well this is great news! I can finally stop trying to use Depenguinator http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ ;-)
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
Surely passion for games outweighs the other things? Perhaps the Indie Game Dev movement is a better way to go... AAA games companies should stop over-promising features and over-working their staff, and go the Blizzard route of "It&#x
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
I've always wondered how "Life at <insertBigTechCompanyHere>" compared between the big ones. I've heard a lot about the Google life, but what about MS? Yahoo? Twitter? Facebook? The rest?
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by aubreykilian 12y ago
Makes sense to me.