mmerlin

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by mmerlin 3y ago
For performance, to use the entire RAM and CPU of the bare metal machine
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by mmerlin 3y ago
Like this one the other day... $5.1MM https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/student-buys-51-million-ho...
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by mmerlin 3y ago
The Dean and someone else above her but below the Dean. She was told several times explicitly to change failure marks to passing grades, be "extra lenient" because they did not have a high-school level of English language ability.
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by mmerlin 3y ago
Yes! My partner eventually quit her job university lecturing because she was explicitly told time and time again she was never allowed to fail any of the international "full fee paying" students. If she lodged a fail mark she was
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by mmerlin 3y ago
Octobase is a new CRDT back-end data synchronizer written in Rust that I am evaluating for a project. It seems quite practical for multi-player document editing and collaboration. Currently AGPLv3 licensed but is apparently changing to MPLv
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Abbott the luddite, gave us copper internet and spent 400% more than promised to hobble the national broadband network purely for Murdoch's profits and favours. Abbott stopped the nationwide FttP rollout (that had just begun after year
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by mmerlin 4y ago
What I would like to see is all the lost/removed keyboard shortcuts from all their bundled apps from Win10, reinstated back into Win11. It feels like dozens of keyboard shortcuts were just forgotten about or purposefully discarded in w
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by mmerlin 4y ago
TikTok is like a spy balloon in your own phone (assuming the 100% clipboard-exfiltration-at-all-times and other data harvesting reports are true). Ironic if people are being spied upon by TikTok whilst watching a spy balloon video.
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Thanks you are correct and I will fact check my posts a bit more next time. I thought our last 15 years of politicians were massively unaccountable and corrupted by self-created taxpayer slush funds plus lobbyist megabucks, corporate kickba
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Thanks to the Wikileaks effect of the internet (rapid info declassification + sharing) more corruption is able to be exposed, and the scale is shocking and enormous. The hardest part is then trying to change a known-to-be-corrupt system, wh
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Some Dilbert Zeno's linked below... The first comic can actually be a pragmatic answer (used slightly tongue in cheek) at status report meetings. I have used this line twice and it sounded plausible enough that no more questions were
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by mmerlin 4y ago
windows 11 removed many of the previous keyboard shortcuts eg ms paint annoys me so much now the keyboard accessibility degraded badly in win 11 Microsofties: Please put them ALL back to match Windows10, acknowledge the heritage of the prev
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Maybe those times when a PharmaBro with zero moral compass connived an exclusive supply chain of a previously inexpensive drug nobody else was bothering to make any more, and jacked up the price x10000 for as long as possible to squeeeeeeez
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by mmerlin 4y ago
One reason: SQLite is slower than LiteDB in this benchmark project created by the LiteDB inventor https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB-Benchmark https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB/issues/291
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Australia could've done this also except for vested interests twisting the narrative via doublethink. Miners and Murdoch media managed to get enough people to vote against the best interests of their country i.e. for Abbott whose first
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by mmerlin 4y ago
I do similar but in Foam+VSCode text files saved as isoDate-named journals git synced across my main desktops and keyword-topic-linked using Foam [0] "Deep Work" by Cal Newport is what I cite as justification/validation when
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by mmerlin 4y ago
BDR = business development representative RevOps = revenue operations / operators i.e. sales ops / salespeople
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by mmerlin 4y ago
The problem is barely anyone with any authority will ever want to investigate anything because they don't want to stop their own personal profits of sales commissions, legal/accounting fees, and the never-ending "equity mate&
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by mmerlin 4y ago
In Australia actual suitcases of cash are allowed and sometimes used for buying houses because Lawyers, Realtors, and Accountants have zero accountability to report anything suspicious to anyone. "Anti Money Laundering" laws to st
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by mmerlin 4y ago
so if Norwegian banks did the same as Turkish banks, the customer is now fully liable for doing the exact opposite of what they've been explicitly told never to do by the warning clause accompanying each 2FA message
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by mmerlin 4y ago
I wonder if criminals didn't have so much money to launder, would bitcoin have ever managed to jump the "belief gap" to the extreme degee it did, from computational bits of cryptographically unique data into actual spendable
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by mmerlin 4y ago
I've referred to the first 3 years as a slow-motion hulk morph of stretchiness. Hulk is grimacing for a reason ;)
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Kitboga is one of the best "shaming vigilantes" attempting to embarrass these kinds of scammers into reevaluating their life choices and choosing a more honorable life path https://youtu.be/6ccdd2HSY30
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by mmerlin 4y ago
and are deploying features and getting feedback from your users 10x faster and ideally uncovering future valuable things that need solving. Good problems to have IMHO... validation quickly and build build build
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by mmerlin 4y ago
it works for debugging but xdebug is definitely harder to configure and... - feels 5x more sluggishly slower than PeachPie in Visual Studio - not giving you any of the other runtime-speedup or deployment and security and scalability advant
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Combine SQLite WordPress with the PeachPie Blazor.NET Wordpress (step debugging the PHP in Visual Studio) and ding ding ding we have a winner for security scalability and resource efficiency https://github.com/iolevel/w
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Twitter character limit makes tweets terse by default, which helps devolve any polarising topic into a frothy flailing ball of flamewar... it's one of the reasons people keep coming back for more IMHO, finding a tribe and an enemy tri
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by mmerlin 4y ago
<rant> i.e. Being a Murdoch cash cow milked by sycophantic weasels known as the Liberal Party. Onion chump Abbott and his frenemy Turncoat being the main beneficiaries of forcing Murdoch's and Telstras decrepit copper/coax
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by mmerlin 4y ago
RTILA is a very useful visual scraper, my recommendation to a similar question from 2 years ago is just as valid today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24421092
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Sounds like a horror movie back-story scene-setter before fast forwarding to the present day when a random group of teenage kids accidentally unleash a CGI soldier-poltergeist-tornado of epic proportions...

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