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by nvella 3y ago
This is happening right now, on a massive scale in Australia's NEM (National Electricity Market). Our market operator has recently moved to five minute pricing and settlement windows to accommodate the rapidly changing energy mix throu
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by nvella 3y ago
I've only read the abstract, but hasn't this been achievable for at-least the last twenty years with dependency injection? I've seen time and time again developers conflate microservices with the general concept of service ab
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by nvella 3y ago
The concern is not really around disk but memory, opening just a few Electron app instances is enough to bring a machine with 8GB of RAM to its knees. I’m almost convinced that this is some kind of a planned obsolescence plot. A standard in
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by nvella 3y ago
From lived experience, creating a cross-platform application via abstracting the relevant native interfaces versus targeting web with all the _fun_ that entails are effectively equal levels of pain. Developing rich web apps isn’t free eithe
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by nvella 3y ago
I remember reading this site so much when I was eight years old. It's been around for at least sixteen years. Glad to see its still up, looks exactly the same too.
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by nvella 3y ago
There was a similar installation at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne in 2015. Not sure if it’s still there, at least when I was there last it emailed your video in FLV so I gather the setup was pretty dated.
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by nvella 4y ago
Not sure how different things are in other parts of the world, but here in Australia all of our debit cards are on the regular Visa/Mastercard networks; you can use them wherever you can use a credit card online. It's just the tra
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by nvella 4y ago
This is pretty cool! It immediately reminded me of Gary Bernhardt's 2014 talk, 'The Birth and Death of Javascript'[1]. Truly life imitating art. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-
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SerenityOS Update (January 2022)(youtube.com)
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by nvella 5y ago
I actually find the metaphor quite useful–as a developer I can develop a GUI application utilizing a common menu metaphor but _not_ always have a window open; essentially an application is a 'toolbox', presenting its tools via the
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by nvella 5y ago
Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple's moves with macOS and how the hacker 'tide' is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I'll chime in with my two cents. I switched from my 2015 MBP to a Surface Book
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by nvella 6y ago
Cheers :) Yeah, I was one of those kids that spent most of their free time programming or otherwise tinkering with computers. I started with simple systems scripting languages before moving to Ruby and getting a proper grip on basic OOP stu
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by nvella 6y ago
I must say, out of all the things to happen on a Thursday night I wouldn't have expected to read an article where someone referenced my own code that I wrote when I was 15. (5 years ago now... time flies) Here's the file I presu