drwoland

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by drwoland 2y ago
To be clear, I don't think the library would actually be used to accomplish this task. Rather I suspect a tounge in cheek reaction to years of tedious spelling adjustment disguised as urgent feature requests.
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by drwoland 2y ago
As a programmer working in the UK I've never been asked to rewrite something into British English. I have been instructed to convert some old codebase to American spellings to "avoid confusion". Probably about 6 times in 20 y
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by drwoland 4y ago
When I worked on a big c++ codebase I found them essential for both ci/cd systems and actively debugging an issue. The valgrind suite of tools like cachegrind are very useful for both troubleshooting as well as classic static analysis
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by drwoland 4y ago
I think it's better than slacks sidebar threaded reply. It also has better code blocks, less irritating pop up magic and no bots nagging you to fill in credentials all the time.
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by drwoland 5y ago
The only source for that claim as far as I can tell is conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen's book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen_(journalist) . So it's probably nonsense.
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by drwoland 5y ago
I think the thing I found most fascinating was the fact that the hives were small (~= 5000 bees) and had multiple queens, with one swarm having 9!
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Ancient bees found in Blenheim palace estate(oxnatbees.wordpress.com)
141 points by drwoland 5y ago|23 comments
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by drwoland 5y ago
Do you have a source for the guardian editorial policy being pro the toppling of Gaddafi's regime in Libya? The Guardian is far from perfect but generally they were and are against military intervention by the UK.
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by drwoland 6y ago
This reminds me, a company I worked at used a bash script + zenity to automate the programming of devices using open-jtag. It worked pretty well and let the workers (skilled mostly in soldering and electronics assembly) do the programming a
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by drwoland 6y ago
The sad thing is, at least in the UK start ups are often headquartered in the US to make it easy to chase valley VCs.
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by drwoland 11y ago
I have to work with a legacy Perl codebase most weeks and I've been ignoring Perl 6 because upgrading our interpreter version is difficult for a bunch of reasons to boring to go into. I'd been naively holding out a hope that Perl