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by grumblepeet 2y ago
I’ve noticed that the Microsoft Azure portal is down effectively preventing us from running admin tasks.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
My partner’s great uncle Perce (Blackborow) was one of the crew. He was the one you see in the pictures with Mrs Chippy the ship’s cat sat on his shoulder. Originally a stowaway he became steward. Lost quite a few toes to frostbite. When he
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Not a water computer as in the article, but here is an analogue computer for predicting tides for a whole year. https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/11/15/2020/
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Happy New Year all. HN has been there for me to read, learn, get cross with comments, and generally entertaining me for several years. I may not always agree with or understand articles that are linked, but I come back every day. So Happy N
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Merry Christmas everyone! Haveagoodun.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Many many years ago I worked for a University that had a huge stock of old 386 and 486 pizza box style PC’s and we were implementing Citrix Metaframe on Windows 2000. It was decided to repurpose the older PC’s as thin client boxes, but in i
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Who Put Bella Down the Wytch Elm?(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by grumblepeet 3y ago|0 comments
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Piffle. I myself use many of these words on a daily basis. Seriously though if you want a read something by an author who really went for it and used maybe 75-85% of this list, get a copy of the Gormenghast series of books by Mervyn Peake.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Some of these photos are just around the corner from my house. Weird to see them in Hacker News. Some of the people who own houses in my area have started hacking off the painted cement and brought the houses back to plain brick. Even some
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Agreed. I’ve just eaten ragu following a recipe on YouTube that advised me to tuck the rind from the Parmesan into it before cooking the sauce for 3 hours. It completely broke down. Not fancying a chip in my pasta sauce.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Such a coincidence. I rarely drink Ribena - which is the concentrate made from Blackcurrants (other blackcurrant cordials are available) - but the other day I bought a bottle. I had just made myself a drink of it and sat down and opened Hac
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Asks me to sign up for a subscription.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
On mine too. iPad is locked into place on the Magic Keyboard. ‘Water’ goes to the top of the screen.
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
Yes, there is another game where you can do that, Real Tennis or Royal Tennis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_tennis
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by grumblepeet 3y ago
SharePoint pages can now be created with Markdown BTW. There is a Markdown web part out of the box. Not so sure how Markdown files themselves are handled though, pretty badly I suspect.
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Coincidentally i tried to install Lazarus yesterday and hit issue after issue, two being some missing dependencies, which were items that I found in the documentation to be downloads as well. It then complained about lack of gdb, which I do
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Merry Christmas one and all. I mostly lurk here and seldom comment, but I learn so much about upcoming trends from things posted but mostly what people think about them in the comments. Thank you all for your hard work and keep it coming. I
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Well considering this article is 12 years old it shouldn’t be used as a definitive description or narrative on SharePoint for intranets today. The whole platform was rebuilt a few years ago and runs on React now. That doesn’t mean I think S
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Yes, same, came here to say nice to see Aurora out in front.
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Does it turn you into a cannibal? I hope not, I had one of their burgers earlier this evening and have been eyeing my partners ear for about an hour…
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Just wanted to remind people that the funeral of the Queen isn’t until next Monday. These people are getting arrested for shouting at royal proclamations and ceremonies of remembrance. The Police here seem to have a zero tolerance to any fo
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
I think a much more thorough and measured discussion of this was done by Gwern in his piece about socks https://www.gwern.net/Socks in which he describes yak shaving as a failure cascade and talks about ways to avoid it.
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Spelling? Equation has an ‘I’ in it. Easy to miss if you’re in a hurry.
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Kudos for getting this page together. I've only ever had mediocre results with Cotman watercolours which can give muddy results and I absolutely disagree with buying cheap paper. When I started buying the most expensive watercolour pa
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Same here. I bought Procreate for my older iPad Pro and it has proved to be a real game changer for me. It transformed my relationship with the device so much that I installed a few other image tools on there and now it is my go-to for crea
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
John Cage reads from some of his writings in this longish video on YouTube and explains some of the ideas that he was constantly exploring. This video also has Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing three saxophones at the same time. The whole thing i
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by grumblepeet 4y ago
Seeing their predilection for disasters they should name one the ‘Ever Albatross’ and cut out the middleman.
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I’ve been doing this for customers for years now using Microsoft Lists (sometimes I use Excel) as the back end and PowerApps as the front end gui/data entry. Now the language from PowerApps (which is based on Excel) has been open sourc
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I’ve been in computing a long time. In the early days I made build systems to take apart and deliver DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 to student labs based on what they needed in that session. I ran Windows servers by the thousand. I administered thou
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Learning to draw and paint (painting is just drawing with paint in a way) the process is exactly like training AI to do anything. You put into your head all these rules and examples (books about art, images that you like etc) and set off. B

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