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by djhworld 7y ago
This is basically a write-up of the entire Missing CryptoQueen podcast if anyone didn't get a chance to listen. Almost reads like a transcription in a way....
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One thing I'm not clear on from the posts is whether the credit card fraud is still ongoing on his account? I remember reading these https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/apr/21/amazon-why-am-...
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What are people doing with FPGAs? I'd be really interested in understanding or seeing some cool projects!
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It's really interesting to have seen a language launch, develop and evolve over the last 10 years. Back in 2009 I'd just started my career, and while I've been mostly doing Java development professionally, I do a lot of Go st
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I've jumped around all over the place, I can never settle on a tool and it's really frustrating I've been through * evernote - slow and buggy UX, properietary format * emacs org mode - good but you need buy in to org format,
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Can you edit and save the notes in markdown? I’ve got a bunch of notes in this format and ideally would like to keep them that way if I move them to a new platform like Tiddlywiki
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One thing to be careful of with this is the Data Transfer (egress) cost you will incur streaming data out from S3. If you're just wanting to do a 'grep' style action on an S3 prefix, might be worth looking into "S3 Selec
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Not sure about legality but here in the UK you will find opticians will give you your prescription, but often exclude the pupil distance measurement (I think) which a lot of the online stores require. I think you can ask for it, but they wi
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I'm going for my regular eye test tomorrow, I'm similar to the author with toric contact lenses (for astigmatism) and glasses for all other times. I'm not looking forward to the "does this look better or worse?" dan
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This is pretty much the approach I took a few months back after reading _But how do it Know?_ by J. Clark Scott, although I wrote it in software [1] [1] https://medium.com/swlh/i-dont-know-how-cpus-work-so-i-simul...
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> They must be spending a steady amount on PR. The news seems perfectly constructed for the obligatory quote from their founder when in this case the answer isn't their system It might also just be familiarity from the writer, i.e.
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This is a fun write up to read, because I experienced exactly the same problem in a similar system dealing with lots of writes to S3. Sporadic 15 minute timeouts for no immediate reason, especially as the files were only a few megabytes in
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> 2015 era MacBooks and MacBook Pros get working keyboard and touchpad support with this release, courtesy of the Apple SPI driver Anyone know if the audio for >=2016 era macbooks will ever be made to work? https://github.c
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Not familiar with the US political system here > The bill would amend the Presidential Records Act to preserve Twitter posts and other social media interactions of the President of the United States Does this mean the bill has not (yet)
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> significant time commitment compared to a 1 hour in-person interview. I don't think I've ever been in a software engineer interview where the face to face portion is less than 3 hours (at minimum!)
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Definitely understand the hand crafting etc has value if your post is complex and has interactive elements or lots of graphic design, and would be a shame to go to waste. I guess the main thing you need to provide really is the text and ima
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I think other people in this thread are running services that do a similar thing. My crisis of conscience was around storing the full text of the articles on my own server and then presenting them as a new feed on my domain, e.g. https:&#x
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I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfo
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I've been making my way through this course https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud923 It's about 9 years old I think so might be too out of date for you, but I've been really enjoying it. I think they
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How do you consider a card 'done'? I've experimented with Trello in the past for this, but I always just ended up with a massive list on the board and spent an unreasonable amount of time antagonising over when cards should b
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Yeah From NAND to Tetris is probably a better more structured approach, I kind of just went off and did my own thing but I'd imagine it's more fun to get something playing Tetris! Blog post is here: https://medium.com&#
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by djhworld 7y ago
I've been diving into this operating systems course https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud923/ in my free time, It's about 9 years old I think, but it's been very enjoyable Earlier this year I emb
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I've always thought about doing this but keep on running into reasons (or excuses) not to. Right now I've gone half in and have Fedora Server on an Intel NUC that I SSH into. So not quite a desktop replacement, but a nice linux en
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I guess coding outside of work does allow you to explore things that you might not get a chance to in the day job, which in turn might help with interview situations.
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> so long as you do not watch any TV programmes live. Law was changed in the last few years to make this applicable to on-demand content too from BBC iPlayer
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Last week I purchased an NVMe drive for a small home server I'm building. Take into consideration the last time I bought components was about 6 years ago so it absolutely blew my mind seeing how small the NVMe drive was, like the size
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The worst part is the self doubt afterwards when you get presented with ANOTHER reCAPTCHA, leaving you questioning whether you got something wrong.
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Could you test Alacritty too? https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
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Do you have example of alternatives for the BufferedReader with the NIO APIs? I do a lot of work with large GZIP that are read line by line using the standard IO (i.e. GzipInputStrem(FileInputStream)) etc) but your comment has really made m
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How does this work for the claimants, do they get ~$50,000 each (it says more than 200 people but doesn't quantify it) or do the legal costs swallow up most of that

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