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by kitd 1y ago
My father grew up speaking Welsh at home. Years later, on a family holiday to Brittany, we heard some local old men speaking Breton. My dad was able to understand much of what they were saying. I had never realised the languages were that c
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by kitd 1y ago
JSDoc plays a similar role with Javascript. Moreover it is supported out of the box by VSCode, so add a few JSDoc comments to your types and functions, and intellisense instantly kicks in.
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by kitd 1y ago
I swear I'm about to get dumped by my wife for Claude. He gives her all the answers she wants, whereas I only give her the ones she needs.
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by kitd 1y ago
I hit a retread as it became detached from the lorry I was following on the M25, UK. Scary moment, similar to the video in TFA, + an expensive repair job.
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by kitd 1y ago
I believe what OP refers to as design is largely styling. Design goes much deeper and starts from a position of close empathy with the user. As a dev working on a team that now has professional designers, the difference is night & day.
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by kitd 1y ago
2 selected anecdotes is not exactly an overwhelming argument. IIRC, the golden generation who actually fought in the war voted against Brexit. And why mention race at all? TFA is about fascism. From the surveys I've seen, you're n
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by kitd 1y ago
Interesting. Looks similar to nushell [1] which also is data-encoding-aware. [1] https://www.nushell.sh/
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by kitd 1y ago
From the Guidelines [1]: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one&#x
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by kitd 1y ago
Were you trying them via Chrome, by any chance? ;)
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by kitd 1y ago
When we do the phishing awareness training at $WORK, we are told any sense of urgency is suspicious, especially from an established org. Most would give you at least a month before something as draconian as locking your account.
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by kitd 1y ago
> shadow IT I read somewhere that the number of Excel "programmers" is an order or magnitude larger than all professional programmers in all other languages put together. Makes you wonder which is the "shadow IT"!
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by kitd 1y ago
Maybe it's just me but that always grated with me a bit. It felt sometimes a bit like a Today programme interview where "presenter style" was the product. Not to take anything away from the content though. It's the sort
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It's also the basis for efficient memory usage with the ECS pattern used extensively by game engines.
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I like these technologies. They may not be as energy efficient as using more exotic materials, but what they do use is simple, cheap and often sourced locally. Such economic factors are often as important to the ROI as the purely scientifi
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by kitd 1y ago
No capitals needed. I have written many backend services around raw Vertx very successfully. It's simple, well documented and predictable, mainly because everything is done in code. Deviating from Quarkus's standard behaviour was
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by kitd 1y ago
Vertx uses Netty as the event loop handler for concurrent IO. Vertx adds a simplified asynchronous API on top of Netty (whose API can be pretty complicated), making backend services that need to handle large numbers of concurrent connection
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by kitd 1y ago
Quarkus is just a little too much like magic for me. Too many annotations hides what's going on underneath, which makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. But I'll accept that's probably just me. Vertx on the other hand, which it i
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by kitd 1y ago
Don't believe everything you read on FB/X about Britain. There are problems but they seem to be the same as everywhere else.
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by kitd 1y ago
IIRC Sharon Stone got suspended on Bumbl for impersonating Sharon Stone.
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by kitd 1y ago
You're correct. I didn't spot the legend.
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by kitd 1y ago
Small quibble: the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey all have "(UK)" appended. They are not actually part of the UK, but British Crown dependencies. Possible confusion (as with most things British and overseas).
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by kitd 1y ago
And presumably that implies there's OS context switching going on underneath. Still, I can see a few downsides. Though sqinn-go is pure Go, the forked process is pure C, so you'll need to either download a prebuilt one (Linux and
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by kitd 1y ago
So, from my amateur perspective, Sukunaarchaeum + mitochondria = bacterium?
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by kitd 1y ago
Remains are visible here: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4226201,-0.0739698,953m/data...
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by kitd 1y ago
Really interesting, stepping up and down the "cols" number, seeing the dots align at certain key points, especially at multiples of 30.
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by kitd 1y ago
> I often wonder why some languages succeed while others falter. IME language success has very little to do with syntax, and much more to do with stdlib, tooling, library availability, coverage on StackOverflow and all the other things t
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A weaker type system than Python?
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Palestinian Action are a sanitised, Westernised front for Hamas fundraising. Their founders have praised the Oct 7th attacks and called for repeats. That by most measures counts as being an active part of terrorism. The spray painting was p
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Yes, wrong word. I meant it accurately reflected sentiment at the time.
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> The artist is unknown but the date of composition is given as 1580, which is several years before Mary was executed, so the transformation into a skull seems a little premature. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by the English for a

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