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mrbig4545
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mrbig4545
11y ago
running as root??? seriously?????
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11y ago
I always thought HR was there to manage the resources the humans need, e.g. teabags. That and justifying their existence by making more resources for the humans. It really does strike me a non-job that requires a lot of work to keep in exis
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11y ago
That it works. Those gifs have weird layouts and transparency things going on, and to get them to scale correctly is tricky. I guess what I was getting at is they're my acid test for image scaling edit: also I mean the smaller image, o
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11y ago
I can't edit, but here's the code, https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1cecd2288ebef0cf90f1
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11y ago
it's a tricky task, but it can be done. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10054060
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11y ago
No problem, I only know this because I had to use it yesterday. It's not fully supported yet, but it's good enough as long as you keep using src as a fallback http://caniuse.com/#feat=srcset
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11y ago
Nice one for that, I didn't know this existed! seems I pass this one ok, https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/138385/downscale-test Thanks to https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager Altho
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have you looked at srcset? https://css-tricks.com/responsive-images-youre-just-changing...
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failed hard on this gif source https://thisaintnews.com/static/user/pics/1438214400/1438778... resized http://resize.ly/cache/thisaintnews.com/11a454f11a5a6b091c84...
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11y ago
They should just concentrate on making it work properly on android The amount of times it thinks I'm in a call and I'm not is far too many. Or it doesn't dial. Or doesn't ring. And if turn the video on there's a goo
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11y ago
one day at a time ;) but seriously, that's how i do it. i never worry about the future, it'll be right. and if it's not it's not, no point worrying about what might be
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11y ago
And they say we're not in a tech bubble. In what world is this a viable company? It's not, you can get condoms everywhere, and it'll be fsater than this, and cheaper. But because it has an app, millions of dollars will be thr
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11y ago
I don't know, I haven't worked in the south. But I earn £45k, my rent is £650 for a house with a big garden and a garage, a loaf of bread is 75p and a beer is in the range of £1.30-3, usually around £2.20 When I was in London, I c
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11y ago
My rent is low and my pay is high. North England is good for that.
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I did this when I had 3 cats a while back. It's hard work, but it goes like this (over a couple of months!) only move onto the next step when the cat is comfortable 1. move the litter box next to the toilet 2. slowly raise it to
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11y ago
I've taken a chance and decided to trust you. So I've ordered this book, don't let me down random internet stranger!
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11y ago
I'm going to use it to train my cat to close doors after she opens them!
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11y ago
I guess now is a good time to change my ssh keys. joy even though I don't use pdf.js, have ublock and a strong key password, I'm not risking it. I have access to so many servers, I'd rather spend 30 mins changing keys than
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11y ago
we use gitlab, it makes doing pre code review easy. when your code is ready, send a merge request, someone else has to review it to merge it. most of the time it doesn't catch anything, but every now and then it does, so that's co
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sorry, but I can't take someone who doesn't cook because soylent is more efficient seriously. edit: ah, he's the creator of soylent. even less reason to take his seriously. humans are not supposed to live off a drink. I'
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11y ago
Vagrant and puppet. And it's the same puppet we use for production, so we're as close as we can get.
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11y ago
Sure, this is the one I used, with private internet access.com , https://github.com/jbogatay/docker-piavpn I'm sure you could easily change it to work with other VPN providers
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11y ago
This is not something that is unique to docker though. I could just as easily set up a hook to deploy our site without docker, but it's not something I need. I prefer to manually deploy, it's only one command, and I can make sure
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I never figured it out, we could do everything we need in production with LXC, puppet, carton and perlbrew. Combined with a vagrant box for dev, we have no issues. Although I do use docker to run deluge in a container with openvpn on my hom
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11y ago
technology is so advanced that we can now run 19 year games in our web browsers and be impressed by it
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11y ago
The French will riot over anything.
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Here's what's changed https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.22.0/pod/perlde...
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In Manchester, UK (I don't know if it's like this in the rest of the country), uber is a normal registered taxi service, it's not normal people using the app to give people rides. It works really well
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I don't know the wtf metric, but whatever it is it's not about "poop". So I'm going to say it's different.
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I tend to keep him updated with rust news, so that when the day comes, I've laid enough groundwork to be able to do something in it without having to explain what it is and why etc. And part of that is showing flaws, and how they'
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