codeduck

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by codeduck 2mo ago
Believe it or not, they actually already do this.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
I was thinking earlier that a traditional spring-based pocket watch seems far more intricate to me than a wodge of glass and silicon. I know the phone is far more complex, but intricate? Nah.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Not the RSI I was expecting it to be.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Bad news, budget cuts mean we can afford a flounder with a paper fan. His name's Steven and he lives about twenty yards east of Lulworth Cover, but we reckon he's okay to commute to work.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
All right, mate, let's hear your plan for securing the UK's south-eastern coastline.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
It's called being insulated from the immediate consequences of their actions and hubris.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Oh boy, it's a big one.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Or even what they were regularly doing to grids of rainforest in Vietnam.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Why would no local cache on a laptop hold the IP address for the api endpoint if it's already open in the browser and being posted to?
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by codeduck 2mo ago
I studied History of Art in school - long ago admittedly, but it was clearly helpful in identifying differences between eastern and western portraiture. It was, however, far less useful at helping me identify artifacts from Central Africa
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Hmm. Hmmm. Hmm. HMMM. Hmm. Yep! I know some of these words.
42.
by codeduck 2mo ago
Or perhaps a slop flag on submissions that gets added once enough readers have flagged it as such. I'd love that feature.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
So... not a new subatomic particle discovery then.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
I have to ask why someone would choose this over ansible, ssh, and a proper monitoring and metrics stack. Something like this allows unconstrained config drift with no audit trail.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
Guess it's time for me to write the first book of the Orange Catholic Bible.
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by codeduck 2mo ago
There are a few more images omitted from the BBC article in her actual works: https://archive.org/details/Eden30538/page/n5/mode/2up
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by codeduck 3mo ago
The system grows to stifle itself.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
> When I want my child to really excel in learning, I would force them into kumon - so they can skip a grade Great - so now they're a year younger than all their peers in terms of emotional resilience. I've seen this play out
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by codeduck 3mo ago
> If you glass the villages and salt the fields, you even win against the taliban and vietkong. You may win tactically, but you lose strategically - firstly by demonstrating that surrender is pointless, and secondly by creating a martyr
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by codeduck 3mo ago
> best intentions in mind when they built this That's nice, and it will make a fantastic set of paving stones for the road to Hell.
51.
by codeduck 3mo ago
> if implemented right is doing some heavy lifting. The problem is that this is an experiment with a ten year horizon.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
It is on mine.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
As a Butlerian, this is hilarious.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
With VM, I've had great success with just quietly introducing it in one part of the system. People quickly notice how reliable and low fuss it is, and from there adoption grows. It's one of those magical systems you can successfu
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by codeduck 3mo ago
my Brother in pungnaciousness.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
I often use over-ear headphones as ear-protectors rather than sound sources. It muffles the outside world, leaving me free to think. I suspect in-ears have degraded my hearing, so I don't use them any more.
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by codeduck 3mo ago
It would be hilarious if it, like Teams, was backed by Sharepoint. It would also explain a lot about how terrible it is.
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by codeduck 4mo ago
> I don't recall him having any impact on the story. Well, he did rescue the hobbits from the Barrow Downs, and gave Merry Brandybuck one of the swords of Westernesse with which Merry ultimately wounded the Lord of the Nazgûl and th
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by codeduck 4mo ago
You're arguing with people who don't understand the word Parliament in the term "Parliamentary Democracy". Just nod, tut, and move on, it will be better for your mental health.
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by codeduck 4mo ago
piss off back to /r/reform mate.

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