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by milliams 3y ago
“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.” ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
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by milliams 3y ago
IaaC Do they mean "Infrastructure as as Code"?
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by milliams 3y ago
He's not bitter. He ends the post with: The conference was great, I had a good time. It's a really good starting point for even better conferences going forward. which definitely sounds positive to me. If anything, his re
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by milliams 3y ago
Why, if Ruby has zero-indexed arrays, do the arguments start with _1?
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by milliams 3y ago
I see a lot of vans in the UK with things like: Bobs Builder's web: bobsbuilders.co.uk email: bobbuilder@blueyonder.co.uk And I always think: "you went to the effort to get a domain name and put a website up, but you couldn't
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by milliams 3y ago
I see that they have an lspace.org address. That host doesn't go anywhere, but the much more interesting wiki.lspace.org does - the Discworld and Terry Pratchett Wiki!
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by milliams 3y ago
Thanks for the information. That's pretty embarrassing that it's still not supported.
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Adventure Mode Roadmap Dwarf Fortress Dev Update(store.steampowered.com)
1 points by milliams 3y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 3y ago
That seems like specifically Azure DevOps, not the Azure platform generally? I assume any OS running inside Azure Compute, or any other managed services will support Ed25519 fine?
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by milliams 3y ago
The one that gets me with "couple" is people who say " a couple beers" instead of "a couple of beers". It's like says "a pile coats" or "a queue customers" or "a herd cows".
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by milliams 3y ago
Why does it sound like he's saying "Kodak" instead of "codec" (at ~3:19 in the video)?
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by milliams 3y ago
I found this (old [2016] but still relevant) blog post expanding on this at https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/ which was very useful for describing type-safe state machines in Rust.
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Nushell 0.85(nushell.sh)
39 points by milliams 3y ago|15 comments
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by milliams 3y ago
I believe that it was always open-source.
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by milliams 3y ago
Indeed, they already have https://users.rust-lang.org . But there's a desire for a Reddit-like news sharing site for the community.
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by milliams 3y ago
Even though this will likely prevent OpenTF from connecting to registry.terraform.io to get plugins, the source code for most (all?) plugins is still open source and actually stored on GitHub (e.g. https://github.com/terrafo
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by milliams 3y ago
On the topic of Pratchett, I'm reminded of his thoughts on sin (this is a conversation between Mightily Oats, a preacher, and Granny Weatherwax, a witch): There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of
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by milliams 3y ago
It does, see https://www.nushell.sh/book/custom_commands.html def greet [name] { $"hello ($name)" } They were added in 0.25 in January 2021 ( https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2021-
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by milliams 3y ago
Does anyone know how the `make verify-source` works?
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by milliams 3y ago
Is it really a "zero-day" if it's being used months later?
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by milliams 3y ago
Yes, it it. However, it's a breaking change that happened 14 years ago.
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by milliams 3y ago
This is where I like the FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement ( https://fsfe.org/activities/fla/fla.en.html ). It's more explicit about protecting free software. They solve a different problem to most CLAs,
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by milliams 3y ago
There are recorded problems with painting buildings sky blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DpOa7VPNW0
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by milliams 3y ago
This is why I pay by Direct Debit wherever possible (in the UK). The Direct Debit Guarantee ( https://www.directdebit.co.uk/direct-debit-explained/direct-... ) says: You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time by simpl
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by milliams 3y ago
I'll give some more detail. concurrent.futures is designed to be a new consistent API wrapper around the functionality in the multiprocessing and threading libraries. One example of an improvement is the API for the map function. In mu
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by milliams 3y ago
Why does everyone compare against `multiprocessing` when `concurrent.futures` ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html ) has been a part of the standard library for 11 years. It's a much impr
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by milliams 3y ago
I have been occasionally checking https://www.arewelearningyet.com for where these problems are being solved. It doesn't look like Candle is listed there yet.
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The point here is that they've unified the codebases. The application "Jupyter Notebook" is just a single-document version of "JupyterLab", designed to just do that one part of Lab. Previously there was "Jupyte
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by milliams 3y ago
*[2022]
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by milliams 3y ago
There is a draft JEP (Jupyter Enhancement Proposal) for Markdown-based notebooks ( https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/pull/103 ) which will make it a little more RMarkdown-like.

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