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by bbrks 4y ago
A typical single lane road in the UK under national speed limits (60mph) have dashes that look like these - if not opposite (longer lines with shorter gaps) Based on some other road details, like the barriers, bollards and road signs, I&#x2
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by bbrks 4y ago
A tool like Dash/Zeal to have a searchable local copy of dev documentation. I use it even when online because it's simply much quicker and a coherent UI across many languages.
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by bbrks 4y ago
Use one of the notification websites to grab a $5.99/mo KS-1 from kimsufi (OVHcloud) - it should be in stock multiple times a day It's a tiny dedicated server that should be plenty sufficient. I run all my personal infra on these
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by bbrks 4y ago
Does that vague "bypassing 'technical limitations'" clause also cover tweeting messages more than 250 characters by screenshotting your notes app I wonder?
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by bbrks 4y ago
Many young European countries reliant on tourism, like Croatia, introduced digital nomad/remote working visas mid-COVID to encourage people to stimulate their local economies when tourism suffered the most.
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by bbrks 5y ago
Couchbase Lite offers delta-sync and P2P replication over any transport. Has client libraries for all mobile OSes, Java, and recently C. CBL is backed largely by Sqlite with features layered on top. Local query support, server replication a
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by bbrks 5y ago
This is how MacOS presents thermal throttling in the Activity Monitor - there's a visible "kernel_task" process taking up CPU. The downside is of course, that users see this process name chewing up 500%+ of CPU, google "
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by bbrks 5y ago
For those who may be wondering why 88x31px? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-odd-size-of-88x31-become-a...
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by bbrks 6y ago
You might want to check the CI history of vim too if you want to compare meaningless metrics. https://github.com/vim/vim/actions?query=workflow%3A%22GitHu...
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by bbrks 6y ago
As somebody new to both, are you able to elaborate on what telegraf/TICK provides that the collection of programs in the post does not? I see lots of posts complaining about the stack in the post, but all of the alternatives posed don&
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by bbrks 7y ago
The real value in unit tests comes when you need to refactor a codebase. Especially if you're not the original author. Unit tests are a codified API contract. It's easy to write something small and correct from scratch (like a gre
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OnePlus Hit by Data Breach(forums.oneplus.com)
161 points by bbrks 7y ago|48 comments
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by bbrks 7y ago
Sure, that satisfies the uniqueness aspect if that's all you're looking for in an ID. But it doesn't satisfy the predictability aspect. You can't know what the ID will be ahead-of writing the item to the database, nor st
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by bbrks 7y ago
A foreign key is a hard-constraint that must be enforced. There's no stopping you from storing item IDs in a theoretical shopping cart table without FK constraints though. It's just that the onus is on your application to provide
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by bbrks 8y ago
They did. M87* was the widely publicised "first" photo, but they also got images of Sagittarius A* (the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy). The difficulties with Sgr A* are twofold: - The black hole moves too muc
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by bbrks 8y ago
I think Zoom now has a preference for holding down space to temporarily unmute your mic. But I fully agree, push-to-talk should be absolutely mandatory for any calls with more than 2 people in them.
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by bbrks 9y ago
Listened to the first two and it's now on my quite varied pool of podcasts to listen to on my commute. Thanks!
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by bbrks 9y ago
My old place uses Gin. Works well enough, but had some problems with URL param handling causing our API design to eventually become a mess.
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by bbrks 9y ago
Stuff you should know No such thing as a fish - random trivia/comedy The infinite monkey cage - scientific trivia/comedy Sawbones - Medical history/trivia Go time - golang community IRL - Internet cultured topics by mozilla
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by bbrks 9y ago
A little bit "out there" but I've been impressed with 'Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard'[0]. You get far more space to play with in a virtual environment than you can get on a screen. This would be killer if it sup
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by bbrks 10y ago
15" rMBP 2013 here. Glad I went for the expensive 16GB option, doing that seems to have held pace with even today's laptops. A shame I can't easily put Linux on it though for further longevity.
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by bbrks 10y ago
Seems OK here in the UK. A few years out of education and focused on Golang in which demand is outpacing supply, especially in London.
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by bbrks 10y ago
The first paragraph mentions it's using Hyperledger's Fabric[1] blockchain implementation. I assume they're building their own smart contracts on top of that. [1] https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric
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by bbrks 10y ago
I've been writing Go for the last 18 months, and seeing it dissected side-by-side with C [0] is causing some epiphanies that I wouldn't normally get to see in day-to-day programming. Excellent resource. http://hyperpoly
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by bbrks 10y ago
In the UK, Tesco have been running a 'Scan as you Shop'[0] thing for a couple of years now. Customers pick up a scanner as they enter, scan their items as they go into their cart, and they have special checkouts which read your sc
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by bbrks 10y ago
jq uses empty square brackets as a way of accessing all of an arrays elements. Not sure if this tool uses the same syntax? E.g. users[].id
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by bbrks 10y ago
I've been using Atom for almost a year in Ubuntu and OS X without this problem.
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Distributed Transactions: The Icebergs of Microservices(grahamlea.com)
2 points by bbrks 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbrks 10y ago
LastPass works fine for me in this scenario (plus a mobile device). I'd rather be on an Open Source password manager, but I've found the sync is always too painful to do yourself.
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by bbrks 10y ago
Spam calls are a nuisance in the UK too. Especially on landlines. If you threaten them with reporting to the TPS (Telephone preference service) and they're not just a robot, they sometimes stop bothering you.

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