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by bdsa 3y ago
Wikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin
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by bdsa 3y ago
How much energy does all of humanity use compared to the rest of the biosphere? Genuine question not intended to be leading, it's a very interesting point.
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by bdsa 3y ago
(On reflection, this is irrelevant.)
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by bdsa 3y ago
The moose test is more of a slalom around an object, and tests (sort of) stability rather than braking
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by bdsa 3y ago
There is a band that until 2021 was called "British Sea Power", and then they dropped British, specifically to avoid those vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Power
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by bdsa 3y ago
Yes, into the directory you're moving the files from...
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by bdsa 3y ago
Ireland and... Malta?
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by bdsa 3y ago
Powder keg
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by bdsa 3y ago
Thanks!
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by bdsa 3y ago
Brent?
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by bdsa 3y ago
"There was really nothing they could do"
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by bdsa 3y ago
Some great points from a sibling comment, and the one I'd add is: You don't need 100 instances of something to make managing it programmatically worthwhile. Different environments, for example: Terraform makes it very easy to ensu
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by bdsa 3y ago
You would encode it for the same reason we use source control - confidence that what is deployed matches some kind of record of it. In development we don't send archives of code to each other (OK, some people do I guess) and in infrast
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by bdsa 3y ago
Imperial gallon vs US gallon
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by bdsa 3y ago
I'm fairly confident they're being sarcastic
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by bdsa 3y ago
A fairly unidiomatic rendering of "lively", I think.
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by bdsa 3y ago
If you compare yourself to colleagues at your level, particularly how _they_ would describe themselves, do you think they would be as self-aware? As long as it isn't making you feel like a complete fraud, this level of introspection is
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by bdsa 3y ago
"I accompanied my friend to his parents' house"
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by bdsa 3y ago
>All have things Tesla doesn't: > ... windows that spontaneously shatter, their cars randomly braking on the highway, self-driving systems that like to slam into the back of emergency vehicles on the shoulder... Scary! :)
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by bdsa 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the ellipsis replaces another word... "a productivity application" or whatever
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by bdsa 3y ago
If you asked me, I would advise as strongly as possible that you stop using the term "legos" for a class of component. 1. We all know what the owners of the trademark will do when they find it (justifiably, perhaps) 2. The plural
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by bdsa 3y ago
I broadly agree with you (but then I work on cloud infrastructure which in most places I've worked so far has meant being a supporting/enabling function) but I do wonder: > In any company larger than a few people, your own ind
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by bdsa 3y ago
In some domains that is an explicit goal.
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by bdsa 3y ago
The fovea is an area roughly in the centre of the eye where your vision is at its best. Peripheral vision is the less accurate eyesight you have "around the edges" of your eyes. I assume he's talking about foveated and periph
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by bdsa 3y ago
I read this article and then started thinking about whether using this distinction makes you a lumper or a splitter and then felt very dizzy.
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by bdsa 3y ago
My dad and I got my grandmother set up with an EEE PC for sending emails. I don't know if she ever used it (perhaps she emailed my dad, but she wouldn't have been emailing me) but I remember setting it up to be as easy to use as I
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by bdsa 4y ago
I have to admit I'm a little starstruck to see your username replying to me. Thanks for all the effort and expertise you bring to bear on observability! We're using exactly that diff-on-PR/apply-on-merge approach, checking th
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by bdsa 4y ago
The Prometheus Operator and Thanos projects only officially provide jsonnet libraries and example implementations, rather than Helm charts (which are provided by the community, but I detest Helm charts anyway) so I've picked up Jsonnet
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by bdsa 4y ago
The Amazon links have a ref parameter: https://www.amazon.com/G-1<deliberatelybrokenlink>16XRCYN?ref=one-from-nippon.ghost.io
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by bdsa 4y ago
I forgot briefly that Dolphin refers to GameCube/Wii and was very curious about what a "dolphin emulator" would be (and how it would differ from a dolphin simulator )

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