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by kitd 3y ago
4 TOPS-capable So, reach out & it'll be there?
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by kitd 3y ago
How do you know if you have invalid utf8?
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by kitd 3y ago
My first experience of these kits was one from Maplin (a now-defunct EE shop here in the UK). It was good, but in the post-Radio-Caroline world, the power output from the radio transmitter project was pretty pathetic. Then my uncle brought
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by kitd 3y ago
I think @KingofCoders is too. Lots of reasons to choose a language. Runtime capabilities are definitely among them but there are plenty more.
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by kitd 3y ago
AIUI the difference between the sexes is less for long distances than it is for shorter, faster events, not that women are faster than men. Therefore the probability of a woman finisher in this race is theoretically not much less than a man
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by kitd 3y ago
I think the point is, they were not so close to the water when they were built.
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by kitd 3y ago
That depends on design and implementation. Elmer Sands on the UK south coast, was badly affected by erosion. Authorities built a series of elongated rock islands parallel with the shore (visible here [1]). These a) protect the shore from wa
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by kitd 3y ago
A spreadsheet is really just an easily accessible, visual, functional programming environment. I think the question is not how to make spreadsheets more programmable, but how to make programming IDEs as simple as spreadsheets.
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by kitd 3y ago
Reminds me of way back when I wrote a simple 8086 assembler in Lotus 123. It even worked for simple uses.
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by kitd 3y ago
First, we've built our own moderation team dedicated to providing around-the-clock coverage to uphold our community guidelines. A partial answer* is that the Bluesky moderation enforces their community standards, so if you don't
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by kitd 3y ago
Both have ASTs are just a DAG of nodes. The only difference is what they look like in human-readable form, and how people expect to use them.
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by kitd 3y ago
Extensive travel required No shit! You'll be telling me the perks are out of this world next.
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by kitd 3y ago
I know. Interesting & educational, isn't it?
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by kitd 3y ago
I suspect he knows snake behaviour better than either of us. Maybe he can spot it is not hunting/has just eaten/is just patrolling its patch/idk, but is not dangerous at that moment. Animals that are hunting are normally hidd
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by kitd 3y ago
Code was usually written out by hand (and code-reviewed) first before being sent off for compilation. If there was no terminal at home, the first part of that could be done over fax/telephone.
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by kitd 3y ago
If you read the article, you'll see he doesn't attempt the optimizations that helped those other languages get to 3-6x faster. Your snark is wasted.
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by kitd 3y ago
If "abuse" means "use badly", it's not too difficult to imagine contexts where "overabuse" makes sense.
438.
by kitd 3y ago
Go easy. The new hamster is taking a while to train up.
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by kitd 3y ago
Indeed. The fundamental concept is "Algebraic Effects" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49626714/what-does-algeb...
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by kitd 3y ago
There is no such thing “truly serverless”. Your code will be executed by a server. This is nit-picky. "Serverless" refers to the "dev", not the "ops", and has done for a while. Fortunately we have Terraform
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Military Convoy to Move Plymouth WW2 Bomb(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by kitd 3y ago|2 comments
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by kitd 3y ago
500kg WW2 bomb found in Plymouth, UK, due to be moved out to sea and detonated.
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by kitd 3y ago
Reminds me of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Tuco is a wanted man, Blondie brings him in and gets the reward money. Then just as Tuco is about to hang, Blondie shoots the rope and they both escape to another state ... where Tuco is also a
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by kitd 3y ago
"... comes round for sale"?
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by kitd 3y ago
UK supermarket Waitrose is named after its founders, Mr Wait and Mr Rose.
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by kitd 3y ago
Go fits in well in the backend where Java would have been, but with a better stdlib, simpler tooling and a smaller deployment footprint. IMHO it's great for docker-based services. And that's a pretty big marketplace.
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by kitd 3y ago
Long ago, I interviewed for a job at a company that wrote race car monitoring systems (ie displaying graphical real-time data about car & engine state and conditions). They wanted to know how I would go about developing such a system. M
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by kitd 3y ago
Charles I was a Stuart. Tudors are off the hook for that one at least.
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by kitd 3y ago
You're missing the whole point of the post. The merits of National Service are not under debate and are thus irrelevant.
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by kitd 3y ago
My kids are self-confessed TikTok addicts. They are aware that now when they watch YouTube, they get 5 minutes in and wonder when the heck it's going to end. Even they recognize the adverse effect on attention spans.

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