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by ralferoo 5mo ago
Surprised the author didn't even think about the logical conclusion of his closing paragraph: "128 bits is the ideal sweet spot, collision safety effectively forever, and it happens to match the size of a UUID, which means every d
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
I remember getting burned by this a bit over 20 years ago trying to get on the housing ladder. At the time, the going rate for property where I was looking was around £80k, but I'd seen one wreck go for £60k and I was waiting around tr
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
> "a simple microcontroller is usually cheaper than a 555 nowadays, often doesn't require external components," > Often? Every UC I've ever used has required a whole slew of caps and resistors just to get the thing
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
Why is no software so important? If you design your board well enough, you can route the programming ports somewhere you can program it in-situ, possible with other components that also need programming. But in terms of cost, a simple micro
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
Actually, this reminds me of an anti-patten I often see on websites, after they've bombarded me with cookie banners and this that and the other, you get to read about 1 paragraph of whatever it is on the page and a few seconds later a
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
> If someone opens my videoconferencing product 98% of the time it's they've got a scheduled call to join within the next 20 seconds. They're not going to be late for their meeting so they can read my release notes. I&#x27
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
I mean the point the article makes - black plastic has different characteristics to brown and beige plastics, so they need to be developed separately - seems reasonable on the surface, but that doesn't explain why they do the "nov
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
Lots of good points. As for the last point, most review tools seem to be centered on tracking a branch ref over time. The actual merge strategy probably doesn't really matter as long as the tool can see that the watched reference now p
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
There's a good argument to be made that the data for reviews could be held in git repos just as easily as the source. It can be done incredibly easily simply by having a branch per review with a known prefix (although these will rapidl
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
Probably doing so would be against the ToS of the payment providers.
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by ralferoo 5mo ago
You can't do this physically do this yourself in the UK (AFAIK at least), but I've heard of people taking businesses to the small claims court in the UK, getting a default judgment because the company didn't bother showing up
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
I'd argue that even by early 1930, people probably wouldn't have seen it as significantly different from other short market downturns. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that we can see its impact was long lasting and wo
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
Of these, the only language that I know a bit about, in Chinese 青 (blue/green) is the older word and nowadays used less than the more modern 蓝 (blue) and 绿 (green), but actually 青 is still used a lot in specific phrases, and I prefer t
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
The latter tests were all a bit pointless because they were just turquoise, and all looked much the same - a mix of blue and green, so I was pretty much answering based on whether it was bluer or greener than the previous image. The results
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
> A short weekly standing meeting The problem is that management will see that it's useful, and embrace this meeting. It doesn't take long until the meeting is no longer short, switches up to daily, isn't standing because
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
It depends on the road markings and signage. In general double yellow lines mean no waiting or parking, but there is generally a special exemption for loading/unloading or letting passengers in or out. However, there is frequently addi
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
In the UK (which the article seems to be about, although it keeps talking about other cities too), it depends on the specific road markings. If it's a solid white line between the bike line and the road, absolutely no vehicles are allo
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
This is basically the same argument as a drug dealer saying "we can't not sell drugs because some of our customers expect drugs". The law is the law. Passengers should be dropped off somewhere where the car can legally pull o
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
I remember a couple of really good ones that people had at my school. There was Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics that was very good, and I also remember Toccata and Fugue. Can't remember any other titles, but I know we had at least 5 or 6 be
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
Indeed. The article says the family was visiting from Leicester.
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
The shareware assembler a86 used to use this to fingerprint its output so the author could check whether random programs to see if they were assembled using it without having paid the shareware fee.
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
I actually stopped reading after the intro because I fundamentally disagreed with its premise. The "find the C0" took me about 1/4 second with uncoloured. Looking at the coloured took my eyes about 3 seconds to recover from t
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
I prefer to slow down and actually just say hello to them, they'll usually say sorry and I'm back on my way again. Just ringing a bell, or worse a horn, scares them and they need to turn round to figure out where you are and wheth
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
I was about to rush to the defence of Windows 11, thinking it couldn't possibly be that bad , and just checked mine. I booted a couple of hours ago and have done nothing apart from running Chrome and putty, and whatever runs on startu
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
> A lot of food was more abundant That's a good point. Good quality food like meat might be much harder to obtain, you'd need weapons and maybe organised into a group to catch anything large, but the flip side is that subsistin
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
Is there any research about why Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't have Neanderthal DNA? Is the argument that the tribe of humans from Africa was good at repelling outside invaders, but themselves expanded outwards and assimilated (and then
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
(complete sidetrack) I think this graph is a great illustration about how anonymising data is hard. It's very easy to isolate individual authors from this list, because there are clear diagonal lines because the year and age are increa
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by ralferoo 6mo ago
> thus a multi-billionaire today can already clone himself ... and get such a body-clone as a source of parts. One would hope that even the billionaires would feel a little squeamish cutting up a mini-me replica of themselves just to rep
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
It told me I should use Incosolata. I've used Consolas for as long as I can remember, so I guess they must be pretty similar. Also, about half of these fonts look utterly unsuitable for coding to me. Nobody really needs serifs and loop
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I'm not necessarily making the point that vector graphics based games aren't video games, just arguing against the parent comment against the claim that it wasn't a video game because it was stored in RAM. I agree with the as

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