mattbee

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by mattbee 5y ago
Yup, mine got deleted a couple of weeks before my 42nd birthday, as they had determined I was under 13. I'd only been on it a year. The form for uploading my ID didn't work, just said "Sorry, please try again later" un
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by mattbee 5y ago
Also, the set of people with a happy home life and people who are excited by corporate hospitality is a small one.
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by mattbee 5y ago
Kickbacks are a personal payment, an illegal personal incentive to a business transaction. This guy was soliciting cash and stocks! A crummy sponsored trip to a conference would have been arranged through the employer, and is not the same t
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by mattbee 5y ago
I owned a 2002 Celica, the gas pedal got wedged under the floor mat while I was on the motorway. It went from 75 to 95mph before I could work out what was going on. Was I a confused driver? Yes I was. Was it a stupid design fault that coul
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by mattbee 5y ago
For me, the battery-powered vacuums do what they say, but you need to fuss them a lot . The lever to dump the contents broke after a year, so it works but doesn't stay attached to the handle. I have to be careful opening it to avoid
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by mattbee 5y ago
https://github.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscription-for-deve... takes out the StackOverflow clones
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by mattbee 5y ago
e.g. for me on Windows 11, Wezterm updates slower than both cmd.exe and Windows Terminal. It feels like about 300-400ms to give me control back when I hit ctrl+C. Windows Terminal must be about 100-200ms, cmd.exe maybe a tiny bit slower.
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by mattbee 5y ago
A really basic test is just type "base64 < /dev/urandom" in your terminal. How fast does the screen update? And if you press ctrl+C, how long does it take to get your shell prompt back? (ofc the differences might no
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by mattbee 5y ago
Is it more complicated than wanting to update the display as often as its fresh frequency? Faster screen updates, lower CPU & power usage. You might not notice the difference until you accidentally unleash a lot of output at once - then
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by mattbee 5y ago
Indian English is definitely a language with its own grammar and word forms. My favourite phrase from Indian customers confirming they wanted something done - "please do the needful".
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by mattbee 5y ago
My routine for most sites: hit Reader Mode, reload. Quite often it's (still) a script that truncates the article and shows the paywall prompt.
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Wordgrinder: A text mode, keyboard driven word processor(cowlark.com)
2 points by mattbee 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 5y ago
Startup idea: toilets that issue receipts. I don't know what for, the market will find a way.
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by mattbee 5y ago
This is a great answer. If any of the details bore you, don't do it ;) Renting from hetzner and other low cost dedicated suppliers will get you almost all the cost savings, and none of the heart stopping horror of having to drive to th
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by mattbee 5y ago
Head Over Heels was just this big, contiguous, charming world full of puzzles, all contained in my tiny Spectrum. It was a pretty rare feat in the 80s to conjure a huge world so effectively. The whole game just shone. And so few pixels!
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by mattbee 5y ago
Congrats! It reminds me of Gravity Ghost from a few years back.
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by mattbee 5y ago
Surely a game engine = code that supported writing & publishing a single game. Nothing more than that. If an indie author finishes a game on their own steam, without using a popular decades-old engine, I want to hear how they've f
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by mattbee 5y ago
"Hi."
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by mattbee 5y ago
Yeah I meant they mess it up deliberately! I've definitely seen DRM implementations where the game's .exe is not protected at all, but started by a protected (and mostly unnecessary) launcher.
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"messed up"
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by mattbee 5y ago
I am confused by this right now. I built a self-hosted gitlab install years ago for my own use, turned off sign-up, no public project listings - and still it was compromised. The HackerOne PoC URL throws a sign-in redirect for me, so I&#x
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by mattbee 5y ago
Yikes, it would have been nice to have a heads-up email from my Gitlab install that a new user had been created on September 3rd :-O I do occasionally get an email to say my account had been locked for security, but had assumed that was jus
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by mattbee 5y ago
If they fail to revise and as a result do badly at the test, then next time they might actually take the initiative and revise Hahaha no. Have you met an 8 year old? Homo economicus they are not.
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by mattbee 5y ago
(this is from a 35 year-old Emmy-winning documentary series called The Story Of English - all online at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36 )
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by mattbee 5y ago
It's missing Yorkshire! I live in a farming village, you do occasionally hear voices like this one - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis
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by mattbee 5y ago
Why do games need skill or thought to be worthwhile? Quite often they're social spaces for my (8yo) son to play with his school friends, or meditative experiences when he's tired, or just silly jokes that he wants to show us - in
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The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism(michaelhobbes.substack.com)
34 points by mattbee 5y ago|22 comments
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“This should serve as a warning to any company that thinks it is above the law,” said Joel Bamford, a director of mergers at the CMA. Like some people have said - 8 hours of revenue. I think it confirms that breaking the law in the UK is
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by mattbee 5y ago
Since I didn't see this mentioned yet - I was writing a web search for a client's support data, and wasn't looking forward to setting up ElasticSearch. But I found the FTS5 extension built into SQLite. It was trivial to set
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by mattbee 5y ago
No strong feelings on Jobs, but quite a few people here commenting it was sharp practice, and I understand why. Of course it's reasonable for anyone in business to say "you're trying to bullshit me, so I'm not doing busi

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