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by parksy 5y ago
I remember dad's computer at work had Leisure Suit Larry on it with a boss screen. Must have been mid 80's. Also that golf game that spoke to you (I think the Simpsons riffed on it). Probably most PCs were in offices at the time s
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by parksy 5y ago
Thanks, I took a lot of flak from my colleagues and it was always treated like this wart on the outskirts of our COE. The only other options required discarding two month's work and refunding the client, or investing another few weeks
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by parksy 5y ago
Good point, it was a long while ago and I was definitely using COM objects. The network interface was handled by Apache with PHP scripting. I stand corrected, thanks :)
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by parksy 5y ago
Intuitively I agree, from a different angle although I don't know about chemistry either, but from a supply chain perspective, for generations it's all been about optimising delivery to a consumer. Supply lines point directly at h
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by parksy 5y ago
Source?
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by parksy 5y ago
I hated React when I had to jimmy it into a Drupal website, I loved it when I was doing React + Redux on a data-driven project. Pre-shopify, I loved Magento when we were just building basic eCommerce websites. I hated it when we had to prov
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by parksy 5y ago
As a web developer in the open source, PHP (YUCK) environment, the single time DCOM has been useful for me was an insurance company who had a government-mandated PDF document they had to send to customers. Could we just generate a document
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by parksy 5y ago
I think I get what you're saying, and I think I agree - generally I defer to the advice of people who are experts in a field for that reason - it's your profession and what you do for a living. I'm a computer programmer &#x2F
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by parksy 5y ago
(edit: but I almost forgot - it would be mindblowing if it turned out the Earth was somehow tuned to bring itself back to some average. The millions of different chemical combinations and seasonal variations all mediated by the ecosystem -
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by parksy 5y ago
No for sure I'm strongly of the mind that greenhouse gases do their job in creating a greenhouse, which increases temperature over time (which means more energy in the global system, which means everything from stronger storms to longe
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by parksy 5y ago
Gotta give respect to the people who collated and maintained this list, that can't have been easy. Is there a reason why some links like "Water" take me off to another organisation's website or am I just missing things?
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In which case I would have to take a step back and think about the world for a bit. Is there a possibility when it gets warmer / more carbon rich, the carbon-hungry microbes go to town, reducing temperatures (*eventually, maybe not ove
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by parksy 5y ago
Oh don't remind me of JWT. I'm actively pretending it doesn't exist until it gets results because if anything happens, I mean there's different degrees of disaster but in terms of... you know let's just pretend we n
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by parksy 5y ago
That was fascinating. I guess problems of scarcity / economics mean we can't just launch a spherical shell of satellites into the 500ish AU orbit of the sun, not to mention the data retention requirements but man that would be eve
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by parksy 5y ago
Already done, parents are still on there as it's the best way to connect with people they went to school with 50 years ago, as far as I can tell Facebook is burning through the younger ages and it's going to end up a digital retir
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by parksy 5y ago
Cheers for the heads up on cypress, not sure how I've missed it but I've added to my reading list and I'll be doing a deep dive. I'm using redux on my current side project and loving being able to scrub through state cha
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by parksy 5y ago
It's definitely a well-considered approach. I don't have to care about the framework that's been used or set up a custom proxy to capture and replay / simulate API actions, you're literally recording system-level ca
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by parksy 5y ago
That's a big selling point for me, props to the engineering team for accommodating this, I work mainly on integrations and the trickier bug reports are weird edge cases that involve a lot of getting specific descriptions of what happen
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by parksy 5y ago
In my line of work I've found the most difficult issues to debug are asynchronous dependencies on API actions. How nicely does replay work with POST data, if I scrub back and forth will I retrigger POSTs or is the request/response
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by parksy 5y ago
I'm also in Australia, most of my mates had C64 or Amiga, but my parents (possibly by being English) got the Amstrad. I only ever came across one other kid with an Amstrad (his family had the 464 tape variant). I agree it was rare here
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by parksy 5y ago
When you said you got rid of your Microbee stuff, does that mean some collector found and preserved your code years later? That's pretty dang awesome. I had a bunch of old Amstrad games I wrote in the 80s that I'll probably never
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by parksy 5y ago
I can only share my experience, if it's relevant and helps that's great, but as always everyone has different circumstances so take it with a grain of salt. As someone who grew up never able to accept failure (I remember my first
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by parksy 5y ago
Perhaps we could "shotgun" a swarm of tiny cubic reflectors, literally just use a controlled explosion to scatter them through the solar system, then track their movements to spot hidden objects. Some may even be drawn in and atta
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by parksy 5y ago
There are better formats but the change needs to come from the top down, I can't see it working from the grass roots. Put it this way, I'm not going to turn around and refuse a non-technical client who volunteers at a non-profit b
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by parksy 5y ago
The first time I used it was to map parks and facilities for a state parks department, must have been in the early 2010s? The design and data called for thousands of nested POIs all searchable by a range of filters (facilities, activities,
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by parksy 5y ago
From what I've seen the technology can fuse together a remarkable range of outputs, but all of them are essentially fused together from within the training set. If there were enough examples of AI opponents, it conceivably could do it
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> do you really think it could lead in that direction? If you asked me 20 years ago, or even 10, I'd have said it was total science fiction. I wouldn't have been able to imagine how to do it. If you asked me 5 years ago, I&#x2
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by parksy 5y ago
12000 years from now, Cockbert Roachstein, upon examining the peculiar dynamics of a passing moonlet, sets the scientific and philosophical community clicking and chirping with controversy on the suggestion that a mysterious ancient intelli
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by parksy 5y ago
This is just nascent technology leading toward something like this: "Computer, I want to play a game." "Okay, what will the game be?" "I want to be a starship captain, give me a cool space ship I can explore the gal
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by parksy 5y ago
I found it very difficult (edit - after being promoted internally). The company I worked for wasn't huge, probably a small team by comparison to many here of ~30 mainly developers, some designers, and a couple of PMs. As the senior dev

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