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by roryirvine 1y ago
"I think IT's a hoverboard!", "no, IT's a jetpack!", "no, IT's a Star Trek transporter!"... The speculation about Altman & Ive's new product rhymes perfectly, so it's fair to expect
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by roryirvine 1y ago
On top of that, BSD had a standalone 'dired' in the late 80s and Linux moreutils (not quite a standard, but certainly widespread) contains 'vidir' - which, despite the slightly misleading name, allows you to visually edi
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by roryirvine 1y ago
Ugh, that's a real mess - they've clearly just invented their own clauses and tacked them on to the end of the previous 3 clause BSD license. Technically, they're allowed to do that - the BSD-3 license is itself public domain
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Likely a difference in terminology. "Upper middle class" in the UK comprises the top 5% or so of the population. They tend to be senior professionals or business owners, are likely to be privately educated, will probably speak wit
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Sure, but in those days spellcheckers were separate apps - the most popular at the time being CorrectStar from MicroPro. They weren't integrated into programming-oriented editors, and it would have been unusual to run them against code
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Sure, there may well be various structural factors which may explain some or all of the disparity - but it's worth noting that whenever there's an attempt to fix this, we hear endless complaints along the lines of "it's
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by roryirvine 2y ago
When referring to the metric unit of area - more commonly seen in the form "hectare". But this is all very dialect/accent-dependent. Personally, I'd put a bit of a glottal stop in the middle of "e'er", and
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Similarly, claiming that the SoundBlaster had "22 voice sound" vs the Amiga's 4 voices. Yes, later SBs had a 22 channel FM synth chip, but that's not remotely the same thing! It would have been more accurate to say that
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Small and micro gas turbines are already used in the sort of Combined Heat and Power plants used to power commercial / retail buildings, refrigerated warehouses, light industrial units and the like. There's no reason why they shou
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Most likely because it's not just a single batch job, but a whole series which have been scheduled based on a rough estimate of how long the jobs around them will take. For example, imagine it's 1997 and you're creating a job
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Taking money from the public isn't simply a matter of publishing a payment address - you need to keep records, pay taxes, answer support requests, provide refunds where necessary, and deal with the inevitable instances of fraud. If you
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by roryirvine 2y ago
The demonym 'British' covers people from all four countries of the UK, including Scotland. Are you perhaps confusing British with English?
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Er, Sean Connery was also a white, British male. Sure, he may not have visited Britain often in his later years, but that was for tax reasons and doesn't change where he was born.
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by roryirvine 2y ago
The job posting links contained within the article all appear to be broken but, without having read them, my first question is whether they relate to projects that have committed to using LLMs in production, or whether it's just someth
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by roryirvine 2y ago
That sort of thing would be best handled by your own user's crontab, so would naturally inherit that user's TZ. If you must run it as root, you can specify a CRON_TZ variable on a per-file basis, which will override the default.
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by roryirvine 2y ago
For the register of companies in England & Wales, day 1 would have been the 5th of September, 1844. I think we can forgive the young William Gladstone (who was President of the Board of Trade at the time) for not fully anticipating how
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by roryirvine 2y ago
.uk only exists because UKERNA was already using it (or, rather, UK.) for JANET's own X500-ish system that pre-dates the standardisation of DNS. At one point, it was intended that moving the UK's internet resources to .gb would be
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by roryirvine 2y ago
But this isn't DOS with a hardcoded 8.3 filename. You can have any number of dots in a filename on a Unix-style OS, and there's nothing special about whatever follows the final one. What you think of as file extensions are merely
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by roryirvine 2y ago
What an amazing flashback - I used EIL quite a bit as a student in the mid-late 90s. They were by far the best online record shop at the time, and iirc were one of the first UK retailers to bother using SSL. I'm a little ashamed to adm
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Absolutely. In fact, it's a class of problems that can - and do - arise on any software system comprising more than a sole single-threaded process that's been locked in memory. Some old-timers love to scoff at the inordinate amoun
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by roryirvine 2y ago
Only briefly. Before about 1988, Unix systems (Interleaf and Frame) were still clear leaders, and then Apple began to stumble from around 1990 - the IIfx was the top of the line for a looong time, and soon looked very dated compared to the
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by roryirvine 3y ago
The point this story is trying to make is that the machines themselves are unnecessary - just tap in with your normal contactless credit card, debit card, oyster, or phone to get the best fare.
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by roryirvine 3y ago
I believe the reverse is actually more common - mistakenly touching in with with oyster/contactless for a journey out of zone for which a specific ticket has been purchased. I've done this myself a couple of times - touching in at
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by roryirvine 3y ago
It only launched in the UK a year ago, but is now the "UK's most-downloaded shopping app" according to The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/consumer-rights/what... Sure, not all of tho
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by roryirvine 3y ago
So, at four and a half hours before sunrise. The big driver of renewables in California is solar - check the graph for the whole of yesterday, and you'll see how different the picture is during the day. Yes, there's still a gap ov
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by roryirvine 4y ago
That wiki is about Birmingham in the US. By comparison, there were 93 murders in 2022 in the West Midlands (the UK region encompassing Birmingham, UK). That's a rate of 1.56 per 100,000 population, which I agree is pretty bad - but it&
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by roryirvine 4y ago
Oh yes - Amiga fans were loudly anti-protected memory, Archimedes / RiscOS users poo-poohed preemptive multi-tasking, and Mac owners claimed that neither was necessary.
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by roryirvine 4y ago
Yes - the feed likely consists of things like the canonical product name, description, weight/size, recommended price, pack shots, and nutritional info. Trolley.co.uk might be able sidestep this demand by displaying ONLY the product na