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by porker 2y ago
The National Health Service communicates with people via SMS. The NHS has an app, but doesn't send notifications through it. My guess is because our population can all cope with SMS by now, but anything more...
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by porker 2y ago
This looks a cool project and it's a shame to see the code already has broken dependencies. Was funding the reason this project wasn't carried on, or was it designed to be a PhD project only?
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by porker 2y ago
As with everything, natural keys are sometimes useful or even good. Where business rules fit, I like using them. But you have to know that the value will never change or be reused.
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by porker 2y ago
According to https://krasjet.com/colophon/ : > The typeface you are reading right now is Garibaldi by Henrique Beier, with some custom tweaks, as you might have noticed. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. If you wa
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by porker 2y ago
It took a bit of digging from the Pdf.tocgen page, but https://krasjet.com/colophon/ tells us how it's created.
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by porker 2y ago
> Does a paper ticket do anything to prevent this? Ticket inspectors used to mark the tickets so they'd know if someone was reusing a ticket. Originally it would be clipped, then date stamped, and towards the end on South West Train
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by porker 3y ago
> Your point about batch vs incremental is spot on, though even for IDEs, I think incremental is usually overkill I'd understood that incremental was used so that as someone writes code the IDE can syntax highlight the incomplete an
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by porker 3y ago
Is Netmaker like Tailscale? From their site I'm unclear what the distinguishing factor is.
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by porker 3y ago
Write that book.
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by porker 3y ago
Yes, that was my takeaway from this that JPEG keeps edge sharpness really well (e.g. the eyelashes) while the jxl and avif smooth all detail out of the image.
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by porker 3y ago
Agreed, really enjoying their writing. And keep trying to guess which country they are in.
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by porker 3y ago
> The government takes 40-50% of your income every year Wait, America now has European levels of taxation?
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by porker 3y ago
> Components and template partials solve this problem much better than CSS-only abstractions because a component can encapsulate the HTML and the styles. One of the often overlooked dividers between those who like Tailwind and those who
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by porker 3y ago
Hey, I'm old enough to have learned CSS from CSS Zen Garden! The one thing I appreciate from Tailwind CSS and I'd like to see added to CSS itself is that I don't have to write media queries everywhere. Nothing destroys the re
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by porker 3y ago
> I quickly found out that IS research had already figured most of this out What is "IS" in this context? I did some Operations Research modules at uni and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it had nothing to say about why projects did
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by porker 3y ago
ezPublish?
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by porker 3y ago
Other dom morphing setups have the concept of "ignore this sub-tree" which means that on first load you can render the ToC and checkboxes for the user, but then on the AJAX requests from Turbo omit that section of the page entirel
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by porker 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this, I've had "look at tracing" on my to do list for months and assumed it was identical to APM. It seems it won't be a direct substitute, which helps explain the cost difference.
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by porker 3y ago
> Why? A tangential answer (focusing on backend not language) is because I'm (we're) going to have to reproduce much of the fronted complexity of the business logic on the backend to validate what the frontend sends. I'm m
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by porker 3y ago
LiveView is optional though and IMO is still overused for tasks that would be better accomplished with client side JS. Where this gets messy is mixing LiveView and client side JS, and I need to experiment further with this (or find people w
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by porker 3y ago
Or ADHD. That means that I wake up thinking about things - work, house tasks - and I don't get to switch off in the way that you do.
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by porker 3y ago
And yet in the politics of a company, an estimate becomes fact, and then if you don't meet it they are angry.
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by porker 3y ago
You're not from the UK are you?
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by porker 3y ago
No. I value a meaningful "Last updated at" timestamp. If I open a word document, redact a few bits, save to PDF and close it - I don't want my changes saved but they are (real scenario from last week. I'd only just moved
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by porker 3y ago
And only works sometimes on Apple silicon.
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by porker 3y ago
People have been saying this about Blazor for years, and it's never reached that point. Where can I see what .NET 8 will bring to Blazor to change this?
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by porker 3y ago
Never let the truth get in the way of good marketing. NativePHP comes from a well-known member of the Laravel community, and the Laravel approach to promotion makes the hype in the early days of Ruby on Rails look tame.
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by porker 3y ago
With the salary difference between US and Europe, no surprise.
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by porker 3y ago
Verio VPS FTW! That was the first proper hosting I had.
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by porker 3y ago
Your experience of FreeCAD is similar to my experience opening SketchUp on MacOS 2 weeks ago. Apparently it's designed for a 3 button mouse, it really doesn't lend itself to trackpad usage. And the UI and iconography... yes. Confu

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