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by blippage 4y ago
I'm in the process of migrating my projects to GitLab myself, away from GitHub. It was a good excuse to consolidate projects and delete some stuff that is unlikely to be of use to me. GitHub does seem a bit simpler to use in my mind. M
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by blippage 4y ago
I don't get it. Was this deal some kind of drunken bar bet? I said before that Musk wouldn't buy Twitter. Having glanced at the finance documents, he seemed to have financed a long-term investment with a lot of short-term loans (
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by blippage 4y ago
Gemini seems to be the land of broken clients. I tried amfora recently, and it gave a fatal error. I futzed around with other clients in the past, and they all seemed to have problems of their own.
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by blippage 4y ago
And then they (in the UK, at least) issue debit cards that you just swipe to pay. No authentication whatsoever. Otters banging rocks, my friend, otters banging rocks.
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by blippage 4y ago
> Frontpage, I'm going to bet. :) Yes. That sounds right.
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by blippage 4y ago
> I think we all need to consider the possibility of moving off of GitHub, I've come to that conclusion, too. I moaned and groaned when Microsoft bought GitHub, but did nothing about it. Now I've begun the migration process. I&
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by blippage 4y ago
Thanks. I'll check out the temporary mail thing. I still won't use it for the project, though. Anything that involves trying to get my personal info is an automatic "no". There's just no point me wasting my time. Th
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by blippage 4y ago
So, what happened to openid? I take it that it's no longer a thing.
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by blippage 4y ago
> Enter your email As they say on Dragon's Den, "And for that reason I'm out."
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by blippage 4y ago
So, my understanding so far is that Github (or anyone, in general) will provide a private key consisting of 24 alphanum chars. Github also has a copy of the key. To authenticate, a password is generated based on the private key, which acts
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by blippage 4y ago
Can anyone ELI5? It seems that I will requires either SMS, a mobile app, or USB dongle. I'm not happy about any of these options. I'm not going to give away my phone number, I don't have a smartphone (I have a Nexus from 2012
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by blippage 4y ago
Yep. Just write in HTML, and the browser will render everything for you. It's almost as if the browser treated HTML as if, I dunno, it was some kind of markup language, you know, with hypertext, and stuff, and could automatically rende
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by blippage 4y ago
Thanks. I'm glad someone got a laugh, at least. I can't give citation, but someone was talking about an assessment unit in the army that tried to identify candidates to fast-track to more senior command positions. What they found
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by blippage 4y ago
If it takes months to hire an employee, then it speaks volumes about their processes generally. But then I'm just a curmudgeony old fart with a decaying brain. Google is for bright young things in their 20's.
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by blippage 4y ago
I use autotools for an OS project I have. But here's the thing: AFAIK lua builds from just a Makefile. libopencm3 also builds from just a Makefile, and it will build multiple examples for multiple microcontrollers. The BSD guys seem to
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by blippage 4y ago
I think it boils down to "hard" vs "soft". Hard subjects, like sending a man to the moon, we're actually surprisingly good at. Soft subjects, mostly in the field of humanities, we're atrocious at. Economics is
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by blippage 4y ago
Oh man. The fake ads on that first link had me rolling around. Have an upvote!
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by blippage 4y ago
Curly braces FTW. I like Python, but I recognise that the use of whitespace is problematical, especially when it comes to refactoring code. I have a shortcut in vim that nicely reformats my C code to consistent indentation. begin...end, whi
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by blippage 4y ago
> Give me Vi or give me death! When I was doing my PhD back in the 90's, I was mostly using Windows 3.11 and writing in Fortran. My editor: Notepad. Seems incredible now. The big boys doing other research had Unix boxes, big expensi
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by blippage 4y ago
Incoming dad joke ... This is quite different from a male pandas mating strategy, where he eat chutes and leaves.
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by blippage 4y ago
Reminds me of the #1 reason for a day off work in Australia: possum attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ytDTcsuYM
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by blippage 4y ago
The problem is that it is easier to tout slogans and simplistic solutions than it is to conduct a sober analysis. Economics considerations are important, you can't just gloss over them. For example, just the other day, my dad was telli
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by blippage 4y ago
I find the problem with a lot of electronics books is that they are either too deep, or too shallow. Gerry Sussman (yes, that Sussman) explained that the way electronics is taught, and the way engineers think about problems are two separate
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by blippage 4y ago
Personally, I think Musk is having a bit of a laugh. This will never happen. * Twitter operating income for 12 m/e 31 Dec 2021 was negative. For the q/e 31 Dec 2021 it was $0.167B. Why he thinks Twitter is worth $45b is beyond me.
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by blippage 4y ago
> They know that the earth goes around the sun I'm in my 50's, my parents are in their 80's. Neither of my parents received any O levels (studied by 14-15 year-olds). I just don't think it was considered important. My
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by blippage 4y ago
I'm a UK guy in my 50's. I went to uni (the US term for college) in '83. At the time I was in the minority of the population. I was given a grant of £3000pa and was able to make ends meet. I might have lived in, shall we say,
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by blippage 4y ago
Odin doesn't work on 32-bit ARM, which was a disappointment to me.
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by blippage 5y ago
I had the pleasure of programming on Sun machines back in the late 90's. I loved them. They had humongous screens. I wouldn't want one of those falling on me. They had a package management system. I occasionally had to update the
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by blippage 5y ago
> Even deliberately using technically incorrect terminology in documentation (which act as misdirection) just to align with common misconceptions. I like to play with microcontrollers. Nearly everyone uses the terms IoT (internet of thin
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by blippage 5y ago
I noted in a previous post that the Beaglebone was was what the Pi should have been. It is open hardware, they are targetting the educational market, and has some interesting real-time coprocessors. But it is too pricey, so neither I, nor m

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