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by eythian 8y ago
I saw that warning in the projectionist area, so projectionists didn't think the system was malfunctioning, phrased similarly to the one in that article. I wonder if those theatres just put the sign in the wrong place, or thought it wa
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by eythian 8y ago
Yes, I get "rate limited" on a single request on mobile web quite often. It's strange.
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by eythian 8y ago
No, it's because those things are for working with large amounts of data. So some overhead is acceptable, as it ends up being a tiny percentage of the overall time spent when you're dealing with actually large data.
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by eythian 8y ago
Yeah, I got a bit of a shock when I first used our one and my fifteen minute query took two months of CPU time. Thought maybe I'd done something wrong until I was assured that was quite normal.
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by eythian 8y ago
When you buy an Apple product, some amount of the money you paid goes towards Apple paying engineers to figure out ways of preventing you doing things like running software they don't approve of on it.
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by eythian 8y ago
I think that sitting on a bike is more comfortable than standing on a scooter.
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by eythian 8y ago
I also use them. It's been solid. Also, I used to have beers with the people working there back when I lived in NZ.
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by eythian 8y ago
At first glance, no obvious change.
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by eythian 8y ago
We use questions like this (actually, significantly simpler - basically, can you drive a loop and an array) as a screener test to see if you actually write a trivial program. If you succeed, it's a chance to add constraints and talk ab
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by eythian 9y ago
I used to use Liferea as a desktop application. Now I use TTRSS which has it's own web interface and Android (and others?) clients.
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by eythian 9y ago
It may be location dependent. For example, it doesn't know that I can bike across the street by my place, because there's a tram line down the middle. So it insists I go all the way to the end to turn around. It'll often also
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by eythian 9y ago
This might help: https://www.finnie.org/2012/08/14/twuewand-2-0-released/
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by eythian 9y ago
I have a small handful of VPSes for personal stuff that, more and more, I'm moving away from manual configuration to using ansible. The reasons for this are several, but the most pressing are that if one falls over I can spin it up aga
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by eythian 9y ago
That's not DRM. That's because the Chromecast can't store media, and requires it to be streamed. Google play music doesn't want to stream - probably because it will eat battery, or just because they know/think that