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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I read somewhere that electric vehicles had some trouble operating in cold environments - something to do with a big loss in mileage. Has this problem been resolved in modern vehicles? Winters in those parts can be quite nippy.
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Agreed. It’s fine if it’s just a game to get someone interested in the idea of playing the piano but you need to switch to proper instruction soon especially if the person starts playing regularly, as incorrect posture and hand position can
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
That’s pretty cool. :) About five years ago I built something similar but with a single focus of building interactive network diagrams. We would link individual nodes to backed APIs that would get triggered by certain network events and cau
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I just visited a restaurant like this in Calabria a few days ago - you turn up and they just bring you food, most of which is produced by them or nearby. It was awesome. :)
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I had been paid to do computer things before I got my first IT job. By then I already knew how to re-install Windows, build computers from parts and write some VBA code for Excel. By the time I got my first IT job I had a Law degree and I w
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
It depends on how the code is structured. Our apps use a micro kernel / plugin architecture of loosely coupled modules so most of the time it is sufficient to know only a few modules to be able to refactor. Fundamental changes require
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Ha - I’m this guy at work except I’m a couple of times more productive than everyone else because I know the codebases back to front and our team is several times more productive than other teams because the code is neat and tidy after cont
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I built an invoicing / international shipment documentation generation / stock control / production tracking system with Excel and VBA and it's been in production for close to 20 years! I am conflicted as to whether or n
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Ballroom is 10 dances which means 10 times the variety of music to dance to. Also our outfits are way fancier. :-p
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I’m an (international level) competitive ballroom dancer and a martial artist of 15 years and there’s a lot of overlap between the two. And it’s really valuable to me as a software engineer - at the very least it forces me out of my chair a
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Not at all - grep piped to jq works like a charm - I have made reports using that in the CLI wrapped in a Makefile that were exec friendly. And there are other tools like gron for example. And if you are building something serious and with
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
And if you are building anything other than toy systems then please, for the love of the FSM, use structured logging! If I could get my hands on the developers who wrote all the snowflake log formats I had to deal with on a daily basis back
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I'm not sure why Mr. Rogozin is writing in English and in Forbes, but yes this is mainly aimed at the internal audience. There's a lot of bitching and moaning in certain Russian circles about how the space program is falling behin
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_CPU
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Instruction set documentation was released a few days ago: http://elbrus.ru/efficient_elbrus_programming_book_2020-05
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
My other half is from HK. We live in London and most of her family lives in Canada so I get to spend a bit of time there every year. London is London - the only city that can hold a candle to it is New York and having spent time in the latt
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Proxmox is awesome - VMs and containers with an API that just works. Network file system with a UI that just works. We once built an internal system to make network solution demos in it - a VM image running Proxmox that would be configured
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
Zoom works fine except the 2 times I tried to give a presentation to our extended team of ~40 engineers at which point it locked up my session and left a zombie connection behind so I couldn’t rejoin. Having that happen twice when some impo
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by gbuk2013 6y ago
I’ve been using Linux (Debian) on my work laptops for over a decade now but corporate IT is finally forcing me to switch to Mac for bullshit policy reasons. It doesn’t help that Zoom is buggy and the VPN client we are forced to use is Mac&#
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
here you go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DXyCiKbDI :)
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
YMMV and also depending on what counts as a microservice but I currently write and maintain (as part of a very small team) several services that run on 200+ (physical, virtual and cloud) devices around the world and a monolith simply wouldn
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
The Japanese have the “koku” unit of rice measurement - which is approximately the amount it takes to feed one person for a year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku They don’t mention anything about the person’s appe
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
Every developer should definitely build a few dynamic applications using only DOM APIs. After doing it several times, they will start building their own framework. At that point they should consider using an existing framework. :)
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
> Looking at the police report, I do wonder what the punishment would be in other countries. In the U.K. 1-2 years it seems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causing_death_by_dangerous_d... Having read the facts appe
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
I wrote a class management system some years back for the dance school I go to and now I am writing v2. :) Maybe I’ll open source that Node.js Etcd-like KVS I wrote for the various micro services at work...
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
We use a combination pub/sub over WebSocket and Resque job queues for communicating between microservices and it works very well.
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
No, I was specifically talking about Content ID, as that is the one I used in the past (challenging on fair-use grounds). You can appeal a claim, which is usually rejected by the claimant. You can appeal that which, when rejected, will add
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
This is not entirely correct: you can also appeal the strike by affirming your claim (the strike will then be removed) and it will be up to the claimant to then sue you (you have to provide contact details in your appeal). Unless you run up
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
Assuming directory “dir” and that “data.zip” archive will create that directory, this target will create the directory dir: wget http://.../data.zip unzip data.zip
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by gbuk2013 7y ago
You see them for what they are, without emotions and judgement and you do what is right. In your mind, sincerely wish them well. Even if you can do nothing else for them it's OK - you are already doing good in the world. Most people, w

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