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by darrenf 9y ago
In all honesty I got at least two details wrong, I now realise; it was 1995, and Pro-Plus caffeine tablets.
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by darrenf 9y ago
In 1992 for my final pre-exams deliverable at uni I wrote the entire program text (in Pascal) out on pen and paper overnight, fuelled by cheap lager and Red Bull. Queued at the door waiting for the lab to open in the morning, then typed the
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by darrenf 9y ago
Oops oops yes, mea culpa. Note to self: avoid (posting to) HN after a few drinks. Thanks to all those who corrected me.
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by darrenf 9y ago
25°c is 77°f, not 45.
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by darrenf 9y ago
> I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use l
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by darrenf 9y ago
It seems the command is listed as `blame` even in the v1.0 book, but does even then have the `annotate` and `praise` aliases. In all the years I used svn I firmly believed annotate was the canonical form and it was the one I always used, so
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by darrenf 9y ago
> The feature has a terrible name But in svn the feature is actually called "annotate"; "blame" and "praise" are mere aliases for it. To quote the book[0]: you may find yourself typing svn blame …
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by darrenf 9y ago
A few years ago there was reportedly a persistent hum where I live in Surbiton, Surrey, UK. There was a thread on a residents message board[0] that escalated only as far as the local rag, and the council issuing noise diaries[1]. What disap
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by darrenf 9y ago
Hellishly expensive in comparison, but I found the Garmin Fenix 5 to be the perfect replacement for my dear departed Pebbles. It helps that I wanted a fitness watch too, but even just as a smartwatch it ticks every box that the Pebble did f
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by darrenf 9y ago
I'm curious about the "20 year" difference between the UK and Australia too. My brother moved down under in 1999 (so, y'know, almost 20 years ago) and I've visited for 1-4 weeks every year since 2006. Never in that
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by darrenf 9y ago
Anecdotally I'm doing it at least once a week. Unlike several other respondents I rarely split a food bill (easier to just do that in the restaurant), but whenever there's advance tickets that need buying for transport or basicall
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by darrenf 9y ago
To me this reads with the focus in reverse. The EU's aim is not specifically to regulate or punish non-EU service providers - rather, that's (one effect of) the tool they are using to protect the rights of its citizens which is
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by darrenf 9y ago
> Semicolon works, though doesn't have the quit/shortcutting on exit code semantics. I would say it's a little more than semantics. Consider cd /some/dir/with/a/typo && some_destruc
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by darrenf 9y ago
I'll chime in with a thumbs up for checkvist.com (no affiliation, happy user). I discovered workflowy.com first but moved across as I was seduced by "try without registration", the export options - text, markdown, OPML - and
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by darrenf 9y ago
Indeed, I have vivid memories of reading the chapter in Unix Power Tools devoted to this very topic: https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix2.1/upt/ch47_01.htm
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by darrenf 9y ago
The official Lambda developer guide has a section devoted to golang now: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/go-programming-...
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by darrenf 9y ago
That you find it hard to believe does not make it any less true.
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by darrenf 9y ago
I don't think it has much to do with being a Londoner; I'm one too (native and resident), yet have used the "breakfast → dinner|lunch → tea" sequence my entire life.
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by darrenf 9y ago
Article about/interview with the author of the blog here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/08/woolwich-foo...
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by darrenf 9y ago
My anecdotal experience (5-10k run 3 lunchtimes a week, followed by productive afternoons) doesn't seem to back this up. Can you quote a source for those findings?
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by darrenf 9y ago
I love making resolutions. • In 2014 my headline resolution was "have a pint in all 48 ceremonial counties of England" • In 2016 it was "go/be abroad at least once each month" ️ • In 2017, "be under 90kg on D
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by darrenf 9y ago
There have been several attempts and each airline has either failed, or relented to the market and introduced economy cabins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_class_airline
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by darrenf 9y ago
I enjoy it when mine feels like expressing an opinion in response to the commentary of any Alexa Bliss WWE match.
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by darrenf 9y ago
It was estimated that high, but using a flawed extrapolation from observations on just two streets in Putney: http://web.archive.org/web/20080704145855/http://www.channel... I'd be interested to kno
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by darrenf 9y ago
AFAIK the vast, vast majority of CCTV in the UK is privately owned and has nothing to do with police or government.
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by darrenf 9y ago
And then there's Michael Collins's take: > "My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he
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by darrenf 9y ago
I was running Bushy parkrun[0] one Saturday in 2012 when Mo Farah was on a training run, in the opposite direction to the masses. It was like Road Runner went past, incredible pace. I was also there when Andy Baddeley got the parkrun record
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by darrenf 9y ago
I had brochitis as a child, which by adolescence and several years of treatment with inhaled steroids seemingly just settled into an adulthood of "I wheeze and my lungs just don't work well". Never saw anyone about it, just f
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by darrenf 9y ago
I've lost 16kg this year, which I attribute to 3 things: 1. being fairly strict with calorie intake - though I have gone over my limit a whole bunch of times 2. upping my running game - 80km+ most months 3. being diagnosed asthmatic (a
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by darrenf 9y ago
Ah, I didn't know that. I thought the third party Yonomi skill had just somehow registered "turn on" as an invocation, but upon further reading it seems that's merely an implementation of the PowerController API†. Thanks

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