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by jwdunne 4y ago
This was my experience too :) Was a bit more promiscuous with where I helped out, including UN, Graal Kingdoms and Zone, but also spent a lot of time building my own playerworlds. I owe my career to that game!
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by jwdunne 4y ago
Wow lots of people here who played Graal. I spent 10 years of my life on that game and I can credit it with giving me my start in development. Learning to script for the game became my first step towards programming in general. In fact, dev
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by jwdunne 4y ago
I’ve done this too. Quite the contrast to my disorganised life. I have two types: lined and square paper. Both hardback and book bound (find ring binds don’t play nice with me and I lose pages). Get the exact same ones each time, apart from
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Can echo this. A colleague’s node container was maxing out CPU and just removing PM2 and running node directly solved the problem. That was easier than debugging why PM2 was having such a hard time. To be fair, it was a straight up conversi
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I came to realise this too. Using Homebrew and multiple users is excruciating and an eye opener on how system-level software should really be installed. Homebrew insists on avoiding root privileges whilst also installing packages system-wid
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Aye, I noticed this too and I’ve never written a line of production C# in my life. On the projects I’ve worked on recently, the backend often ended up far more complex than the frontend, taking up more time to build and maintain. This is na
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by jwdunne 5y ago
This is my feeling too. I’ve written plenty of bash scripts to automate common tasks. Colleagues won’t open them up and extend or maintain them (some developers won’t touch bash). But if they have an easy to use, well documented interface,
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Interesting how close our timelines match up, minus the 11 years. Smoked from 14 to just before my 30th birthday, which was 6 months ago. If I smell it in passing, it smells pretty disgusting. But if I spend the weekend at my parents (both
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Yeah, I prefer an actual module system over PHP namespaces plus autoloader. It feels like a hacked on module system tbf. BUT I do get lots of real work done using namespaces and a PSR autoloader so it works. I do wish they would extend auto
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by jwdunne 5y ago
This is roughly PHP’s approach. In this case, Illuminate is the vendor prefix and Mail is the package name. This often but not always corresponds to the rules around the composer package name, which would be illuminate/mail in this cas
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Yeah, I was about to mention Doom. There’s a whole subreddit dedicated to running Doom on the weird and wonderful. Even had an eInk device running Doom, which looked painful but cool.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Happened to me with both Bejewelled and Candy Crush. I went to sleep with jewels and candies moving around and matching up. That’s where I drew the line.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Was just about to comment with this link. A useful counterpoint whenever Clean Code comes up. I do think this article makes a lot of valid criticisms and it’s well worth a read. I remember being influenced by it early on but then re-read it
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by jwdunne 5y ago
My mum did but that’s only because there was an insane deal and she got 1,000 rolls for like £10. Sadly, this was right before the toilet roll shortage from panic buying before the first UK wave of Covid and she’d give them all away by that
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Always thought I got a better crust without overcooking because I’d brought them up to room temperature. But I was salting them straight away so maybe it was that!
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Ah, I meant they’re cetaceans and therefore ungulates, albeit non-herbivorous. Should have made that clearer, sorry!
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by jwdunne 5y ago
And killer whales. Big, carnivorous and hooved with lots of teeth. Those are ungulates too. Interestingly enough, Judaism uses rumination, in part, to determine whether an animal is okay to eat. It was called “chewing their cud”. Pigs don’t
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Me and my partner have fallen into this pattern too, down to sharing interesting passages from whatever ebook we’re reading. I’ve read more books in the past month than I have the entire year!
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I get this too! And they are hallucinations - hypnogogic hallucinations. It starts out for me in thought but then blossoms into something that feels very real. Apparently it’s a normal phenomenon, I’ve noticed it’s more pronounced in those
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by jwdunne 5y ago
But once you have that, anything is possible e.g a lucrative ferry contract despite owning not a single boat.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
> I think the "killer use case" will probably be to have a better language for continuous builds and "cloud automation", which on current platforms like Github, Gitlab, and sourcehut use a lot of YAML and shell. I fee
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I used to enjoy this but came back to it recently and sadly seems chock full of promotional content with interesting stuff much harder to find.
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by jwdunne 5y ago
> You (i.e. your body) are clearly aware of yourself (i.e. your body.) QED. Reminds of “I think therefore I am” except a body doubting self-awareness shows the body is aware of the thing it doubts the existence of. Nice.
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The Map of Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by jwdunne 5y ago|1 comments
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by jwdunne 5y ago
I was thinking of this exact documentary when reading the comment above. It was fascinating how the octopus seemed to have trust and opened up to him. Disagreed with his reasoning when she was being attacked - if she’s a friend, help her. S
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Yes, this articulates what I was thinking very well. Binary relations / operators are a good example of 2. Things that could be infix operators but can’t because language. It’d be a nightmare if those functions required an object as an
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Staying in a tent for 2 months in Alaska sounds extremely painful. How did you cope with that?
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by jwdunne 5y ago
Walking cane for plants!
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by jwdunne 5y ago
“You get a toothbrush and tie it to the end of a garden cane” meanwhile, the rest of the world uses a, you know, toilet brush
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by jwdunne 5y ago
“The Streisand effect is idempotent” Only on HN

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