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by rikkus 11y ago
So on Windows this runs Linux in their isolated environment? I just got excited thinking it meant Windows in Windows but it looks like that's not the case.
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by rikkus 11y ago
Wyse attached to my Linux workstation in the late 90s too. My Linux workstation's monitor was mainly in text-mode too. I used the Wyse to tail some logs and used vim and a shell for 'real' work on 2 VTs, with IRC and mutt on
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by rikkus 11y ago
Did the same and had clicks with a different USB DAC. I'm waiting to hear whether this one works too!
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by rikkus 11y ago
On Windows, they're mounted sync by default , so you can just remove them. Of course, if you do so while it's writing, you'll have a problem - though this was the same with floppies. Windows used to require you to 'eje
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by rikkus 11y ago
If you get a great boss, stay where you are. There's not much more important, IME.
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by rikkus 11y ago
Anything can happen != Everything will happen A universe of infinite possibilities does not have to include a particular possibility or set of possibilities.
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by rikkus 11y ago
Reasons it's still in the game: 1. It works, with fewer problems than any other sync / cloud storage that I've used. 2. It has enough people using it outside of work that it's getting paying business customers (the Linu
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by rikkus 11y ago
Whenever I don't quite understand how something works in a programming language, I try to imagine how I might implement it in C. Or I look up the implementation, or write it myself. This helps me understand from 'first principles&
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by rikkus 11y ago
Actually it can be quite stressful waiting for the transfer when buying a house!
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by rikkus 11y ago
I'd like to know how much .NET code is in Microsoft's products now. I would have expected plenty in Office, Windows 10 and Edge, but I don't know how to actually check.
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by rikkus 11y ago
> There's only one mode you should actually use, which is the random bits. Although if you were using GUIDs in indexes in SQL Server, it made sense for them to have some similarity and allow ordering [1] Last time I benchmarked this
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by rikkus 11y ago
Kipling gave it some thought: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175772
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by rikkus 11y ago
The terminology is important here. If by error handling you mean usual flow control when something off the happy path occurs, that is subtly but crucially different from a condition or event that could not have been foreseen. On all the pla
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by rikkus 11y ago
In the UK we have a company called Boots which used to be a pharmaceutical giant and is now a high street toothpaste and moisturiser giant. At the counter, they always ask if I have a 'Boots card' (purchase tracking card). I say n
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by rikkus 11y ago
At least Qt would be a good candidate to help with all of this. I've written many C++ apps which were entirely Qt and not at all platform dependent
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by rikkus 11y ago
This issue is completely fixed by Maildir and was many years ago. Many clients, including Mutt, for example, support Maildir boxes
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by rikkus 11y ago
I work for a FTSE 100 company and the dev manager and CTO in the division where I work are very well connected. I don't think the size of company is necessarily the only factor here.
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by rikkus 11y ago
In the UK Swiss water decaf is everywhere - maybe 50% of decaf. I buy my coffee through Amazon UK and there are lots of 'safe' decafs there.
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by rikkus 11y ago
Maybe this will be what the UK government do as a 'relaxed' version of 'ban all crypto'.
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by rikkus 11y ago
After I read the article self-destructed!
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by rikkus 11y ago
Choose coffee which has been decaffeinated using a safe process such as Swiss Water. There are even some beans which taste very close to proper coffee after decaffeination.
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by rikkus 11y ago
It would help to give reasons why rather than simply commandments. I'll give one: Performance takes a hit with dynamic allocation. Deallocation also has to occur and if you use GC you may experience pauses as this happens. Your GC may
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by rikkus 11y ago
Coming soon: 'Strong' encryption is illegal in the UK without a licence. Banks and other institutions will pay for licences for their websites and their behind-the-scenes comms but also be required to use backdoored crypto where t
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by rikkus 11y ago
20 years ago, I remember dreaming up a train pulling a cable with a glider at the far end. I'm sure there are many technical issues with this approach, possibly including the cable needing to be incredibly strong, light and flexible. P
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by rikkus 11y ago
Zen agrees: Spontaneity comes naturally. It is impossible to act unnaturally.
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by rikkus 11y ago
I believe in various tests no-one has been able to reliably discern lossless audio from 320kbps mp3, even though mp3 performs comparatively poorly at lower bitrates, compared to more modern lossy codecs.
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by rikkus 11y ago
"Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data." TalkTalk did not take appr
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by rikkus 11y ago
Poor information security is a crime when that information involves personal information. The Data Protection Act requires that personal information is kept secure. Just because no one has been prosecuted yet doesn't mean they couldn
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by rikkus 11y ago
You always have a risk from kids or outsiders who don't know about you, but it's certainly a lot safer being part of a community than an outsider - which is what you're seen as if you start literally putting up walls between
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by rikkus 11y ago
Yesterday I wanted to share a sentence of text from an ebook with two friends on Google Hangouts. I clicked the 'share' button in Nook Reader and chose 'Hangouts' as the destination. It pasted a URL pointing to a barnes

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