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by gbuk2013 4y ago
> coding only works because it's formal and 100% reliable This is not true for distributed systems: clock skew that is unpredictably different on different devices and networks are inherently unreliable. Real word physics is messy.
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
In addition to mine clearance, APOPO also train rats to sniff out tuberculosis in samples: https://apopo.org/what-we-do/detecting-tuberculosis/how-we-d...
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
I would add (in 2022) the bolt on support of UTF-8 via a separate set of API functions.
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised that database query pagination isn't directly mentioned as one of the use cases. The (async) generator wraps the paginated calls to the DB and yields pages or individual documents / rows. It's about a
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
Back in the day when I wrote PHP code it was not pleasant to work with UTF-8 - is it better now?
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
It’s fundamentally an issue of trust and unsurprisingly Microsoft still hasn’t changed from its “embrace, extend, extinguish” days: already there are add-on that only work with their official VSCode binary (e.g. the remote code sharing add-
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
I like using https://c4model.com/ - the Level 2 diagram is particularly useful. I use https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/ for the diagram itself because Github natively supports it in markdown
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
“Working in IT” is pretty broad, but a senior JS dev in London can reasonably ask for 70-90k these days, sometimes more.
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Clearing the Fog(michael-hudson.com)
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Our company does 5 interviews for a developer position: pre-screen with recruiter, hiring manager, pair programming, tech deep dive and one with one of the founders. Having been through the process as a candidate and now involved in it as a
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
In my experience, trying too hard or being attached to opinions is certainly a limitation with just about anything. For me the perspective offered in that video was simply to be aware of this perspective existing, i.e. a paradigm shift. I d
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I think "Rules for Rulers" should be mandatory viewing as part of any good education. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
First 25 mins of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE is a good start
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Here's a video of a talk John Mearsheime did for some students at Cambridge just a few days before SHTF https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE including his views on the sudden escalation in recent months.
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I use Block Bear on my iPhone - came across it years ago and it seems to work reasonably well.
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
You’re not the only one. :) For me it took some conscious effort but it was yoga that finally pushed me over the edge. Now it’s mostly just happy even if the circumstances don’t call for it. Like someone said in one of the other comments: h
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
It’s not really a language thing. I would never use Java again simply because it is owned by Oracle but I am sure it is possible to use it elegantly. Just that it seems this is not the mainstream way. So this is going back 5 years or so. We
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I’m being paid to believe otherwise. :)
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
As someone with a significant background in Node.js and a bit of experience in Java I think Node.js is much better in that respect. Yes, we have things like NestJS, which I refuse to use precisely for the reasons that you point out: it look
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I think this is partly a second-order consequence of the reasonable expectation that, due to the rate of innovation and general churn in technology, computer-related information goes stale quickly and hence more recent sources should be pri
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I don’t get it - I clicked on about 10 sites and none of them look anything like the screenshot picture?
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Hmm, while that’s a random number with no specific skills attacked, $70ph works out ~£412pd which is not very high at least by London standards compared to getting a contract job as a developer.
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Wrong kind of productivity for the capitalist environment though. Once the ego is out of the picture it is easy to enjoy “having enough” and choosing more worthwhile pursuits than the rat race to make someone yet more wealthy.
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
It’s probably the USB-C dock - I have the same issues with a Lenovo laptop and Ubuntu 20 LTS but works fine without dock connected. On my phone now but there was a bug report I found to match this - apparently 5.14 kernel might work better
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
I use https://www.metalsmith.io/ for my site and it works great, but any static site generator will do the same. No comment functionality but that’s fine by me. Static sites are cheap and easy to host. :)
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Javascript is a simple language. The weird syntax edge cases can be avoided using a well configured eslint. In my experience any complexity in application architecture is a liability (Java programmers writing Javascript is a painful memory,
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Not a pen geek but I did buy some Jetstream Uni 0.5 pens (one of the pens in the lead photo on the article) on Amazon for me and my other half to use in our home office and they are very nice. Price wise it was less than £10 for 3 shipped f
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Sent you an email.
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Shaolin Wahnam - been at it for about 17 years now. :) We don't have a syllabus for Chi Kung but here's a list of some of the groups of exercises taught and some brief theory as to their uses: https://shaolin.org/g
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by gbuk2013 5y ago
Chi Kung and Kriya Yoga. The former takes care of all my health and well-being needs and spills over into the spiritual practice side. Th latter does whatever it does on the spiritual side and also spills over into health and well being. On

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