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by ralferoo 7mo ago
In the UK, all the used oil from MacDonalds is converted into biodiesel. I often walk past the plan where they do this and there's usually a lorry waiting to be allowed in through the gates. A few years back there was some eco-warrior
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Oh wow, it's from Mythical Man Month? I've been meaning to read that for years and still never have.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
It's not really hinted at in the article, which doesn't actually mention whether the rewrite was a net gain - I presume it was or they wouldn't have written the article, and the lead-in picture paints a rosy picture, but the
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
True | False | FileNotFound was a meme about 2 decades ago, and even that was a reference to MSDOS from another 2 decades earlier. I guess things never change, only the language. Even now, I still find myself using true/false/null
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
"I can recompile the entire thing from scratch in ~4.3s. That’s around ~900 TUs, including external dependencies, tests, and examples" In 30 years of using C++ this is the first time I've ever come across "translation un
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The problem is that even if the code is clear and easy to understand AND it fixes a problem, it still might not be suitable as a pull request. Perhaps it changes the code in a way that would complicate other work in progress or planned and
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
We've not had to apply negative leap seconds yet since leap seconds were introduced in 1972, but that wasn't the point. The time period of the Earth fluctuates a lot [0] and actually in 2020 it was less than 24 hours, but not a la
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Lemmings seems as fun as ever. I sped it up on one level and then the next level started at crazy fast speed and I couldn't figure out how to slow it down again. But otherwise looks nice.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The problem is that Earth's rotation isn't consistently faster. Some years leap seconds need to be added, some years they need to be removed. Would be far better to leave them alone, let them average out, and as the GP said let th
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I like the fact he's not just verifying all of them each year. AFAICR, reading the flash causes the row to be rewritten with the values just read. I remember years ago working on the Wii, and there was a restriction on how often you co
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Actually amazing being able to read the text like that, and on two different types of discs. Great video, was much better than I was expecting it to be from the title!
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
One really good alternative to racks is a flight case with integrated 4U / 8U rack. They're meant for musicians transporting audio equipment, so can be a lot expensive, but they're nice with front and rear panels that pop off
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I have an old Lack (20 years) and while I've never used it as a rack, it'd just been retired from under the TV as I got a new one with a wider base. I notice that even though it's never been moved much, it doesn't feel v
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
That 3D printed one is amazing!
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
This is the kind of visualisation that obvious in retrospect, but I don't think anybody's done this before. Very nice. I think the only change I'd make really is to give the top layer and obviously different colour so you can
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
After using git for about 15 years, I still find "git merge" unpleasant and hard to track changes. I've always had better experiences rebasing my branch on top of the current main and then committing the resultant changes. Of
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Agreed. In the UK, I've never been charged a fee to send money within the UK on Revolut.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The final dot indicates that the name is fully qualified. Without a final dot, DNS looks up the name and if that fails, it tries again appending each of the suffixes specified in "search" in /etc/resolv.conf.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Wechat pay in China is interesting. It costs nothing to add money to your balance from your bank, or to pay someone from your balance. It only costs the end merchant who wants to withdraw it from their balance back into their bank. If they
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I don't really understand this article. It seems to centre around the quote "probably the first instance of a robot ever captured in a moving image" when it is quite clearly an actor not a machine. Nowhere does the article re
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
Where I live almost every main road now has average speed cameras, leaving only the small residential streets without, and they are generally short enough that few people are speeding anyway. In general I approve, especially in residential
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
I think I was wrong. Googling suggest that Qwant is owned by Octave Klaba, the founder and majority owner of OVH. Murena seems to be owned by Gaël Duval. It's just from their website a lot of mentions of Murena seemed to say powered by
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
This is only a solution if you think it's fair to have a regular ownership tax on top of the tax paid when purchasing / selling something.
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just se
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
Honestly, I don't quite understand this. I get the appeal of degoogling, but this seems to just be replacing that with alternatives run by another commercial company, just one I've never heard of before. Why does it even need &quo
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
The butchered title makes close to zero sense. The original title "Psychology says people who don’t maintain many close friends often learned independence too early" does.
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
This section very much resonated with me, even though I still haven't tried any of the AI tools: ... most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. Not managing code. Not reviewing code. Not supervising system
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
I sincerely hope the event branding played on calling it a "Block Party". But anyway, as others have said, the tweet seems outrageous at first, but at $6800 per employee for a multi-day offsite, with hotels, travel, etc included,
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
That's true, but I still think it'd be an interesting experiment to see how much it actually follows the specification vs how much it hallucinates by plagiarising from existing code. Probably bonus points for telling it that you&#
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by ralferoo 8mo ago
The problem is that it will have been trained on multiple open source spectrum emulators. Even "don't access the internet" isn't going to help much if it can parrot someone else's emulator verbatim just from trainin

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