briane80

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by briane80 7mo ago
He was a professor at my old alma mater, Queen's University of Belfast. I remember hearing a story about him going to Harvard to give a lecture and, as he was presented, one of their professors referred to himself as the "Hoare of
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by briane80 3y ago
Great news, and with the 92% effective covid vaccine, Moderna are really killing it.
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by briane80 4y ago
Also there was a famous media interview by clive sinclair telling customers they could fix an issue with the a ram pack upgrade falling off with the use of blu tac
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by briane80 5y ago
OH no!
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by briane80 5y ago
That guy stuffing his face like it's a movie theater.
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by briane80 5y ago
Telling on themselves
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by briane80 5y ago
Ivermectin has shown great promise not only treating symptons of covid (5000% reduction in viral load in one paper) but also as a prophylactic. The small studies released recently suggest up to 83% effectiveness as a prophylactic. Of cour
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by briane80 5y ago
Reeks of try hard blog posting. First 4 have nothing to do with remote working. Last one is about people not turning cameras on and using audio only, not weird or "ineffective" at all.
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by briane80 5y ago
It's even better - they work out if you paid too much automaticallly and send you a check in the mail. Had 3 checks over the past decade or so from having time off between jobs but paying full rate for the remaining time. Nothing qui
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by briane80 6y ago
Feel like shit, just want him back.
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by briane80 9y ago
If you hate our culture so much why do you want citizenship?
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by briane80 9y ago
Annotation based compiler hints?
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by briane80 9y ago
This will be a special version of windows XP with all the rubbish taken out and only the required services running etc. We used a similar version of XP as a base OS for a security camera control device. It will have been security validated
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by briane80 10y ago
I see airwars.org already receives funding from the open society foundation and other nerfarious organistions. Perhaps you should ask billionaire George Soros for a sweaty wad of cash.
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by briane80 10y ago
Where did they personally attack her? Please provide some quotes from the original article and not the hyperbole in hers. "scenarios that is not covered by standard procedures" Actually I know people who work in benefits and this
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by briane80 10y ago
Where did they release her financial records? Have you read the original article?
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by briane80 10y ago
This story follows a pattern of coordinated attacks on public services in The Guardian and other left leaning media outlets. Usually with the agenda of demanding more money and funding. No doubt, mistakes happen in large bureaucracies but
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by briane80 10y ago
That's a far too level-headed and reasoned response for the current climate, even in HN.
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by briane80 10y ago
I wonder what effect +OptimiseStringConcat has on those benchmarks. It's supposed to collapse a lost of .append calls and tries to use the minimum amount of StringBuilder objects
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by briane80 10y ago
I once heard a (probably apocryphal) story of a developer who had been playing Doom installed on a server. The sysadm caught him playing it and promptly unistalled the game. However the important business application hosted on the server th
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by briane80 11y ago
As we all know Scottishness is passed through the male gene* (Stewart Lee).
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by briane80 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/technology/gene-amdahl-pio...
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by briane80 11y ago
This is the 10th article today about sexism/feminism/rape culture/woman's issues etc. What's going on?
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by briane80 11y ago
I had the LASEK (also called PRK) and the recovery isn't as bad as it sounds. The next day was painful and I had patchy vision for a few days afterwards but within a week there was no discomfort at all and my vision was fine. (It does
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by briane80 11y ago
Optical Express in Belfast
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by briane80 11y ago
Got it done September 2013 and overall very happy. I had poor eyesight (-4.5) and astigmatism in one eye. Cost £3000 for the top end surgery (3D mapping etc.) also due to my thin cornea I had to have the PRK rather than LASIK. This took lo
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by briane80 11y ago
No I'm speculating. I'm imaging if I lost something involving physical activites I would rationalise it as my opponent being stronger/fitter/faster/better hand eye coordination etc. But how do you rationalise it w
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by briane80 11y ago
Yes it's true. Though with Chess it felt different. I guess with sports you are pitting physical or athletic ability against an opponent but with Chess it's your mind and intellect which seems to draw the ego out more. Winning
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by briane80 11y ago
I love chess but stopped playing around the age of 20. I played a lot in school and was captain of my school team. I played in league and cup matches for 2 years and every day I practised on fellow students in the sixth form prefects room.
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by briane80 13y ago
"It is interpreted at run time (byte code) rather than compiled" The bytecode is complied to native code by hotspot after a few runs but C++ still has a big advantage with direct memory management and numerical functions. Though for most a

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