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by rswail 11mo ago
> ed commands are very similar to vi commands at heart vi was build on top of ed. Ed was the Unix line editor, which is why all the commands after a colon have the form of "start,endcommand", eg "1,$p" would list all
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by rswail 11mo ago
Patterns are needed for languages for which the actual underlying concept is unavailable. For example, prototype pattern is for languages that don't have a way to express interfaces/traits etc as something that can be attached to
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by rswail 11mo ago
The point is that I (as an Australian) don't trust a private organization like D&B any more than any other organization. Corporate existence is dependent on some form of government regulator granting the corporation existence. If
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by rswail 11mo ago
I'm Australian and just had to age verify on X/Twitter. They used some app called "selfie" and took a pic and said I was verified. That was it. This social media ban is not so much about banning kids from social media. I
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by rswail 11mo ago
The pathetic part of EVs is that they should have been issued by whatever the business register/regulator is in the country of issue. Not some arbitrary group like D&B etc. The US/other countries should have ensured that eac
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by rswail 11mo ago
Containers in general as well as palletization dramatically improved the economics and port efficiency around the world. Using containerized energy that can be offloaded and charged and swapped at ports is much more efficient way to spread
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by rswail 11mo ago
Why would you bother with the complexity of containerized nuclear reactors when you have containerized batteries that can easily be loaded/unloaded by standard port facilities?
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by rswail 11mo ago
I've been "work from home" since 2012, mainly because the projects I worked on were actually in overseas cities. Before COVID, I would go on work trips of 1-2 weeks every 2 months or so, which was more than enough "offic
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by rswail 11mo ago
Which is why I also included the comparable BYD model and its price compared to the Tesla Model 3. The Atto1 is the cheapest EVs available in AU market right now.
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by rswail 11mo ago
Nothing to do with cheap labor/materials and everything to do with a very integrated and highly sophisticated and competitive supply chain.
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by rswail 11mo ago
Australia managed to destroy its car industry on its own. The latest BYD Atto 1 is AUD27K including all on-road costs. Tesla 3 base model is AUD60K, BYD Seal base model is AUD50K. You guys are missing out big time by not allowing Chinese ca
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by rswail 11mo ago
Seeing the BYD trucks and other BYD vehicles around where I live in Australia, as well as the other Chinese and Korean brands, they outnumber the Teslas on the street now.
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by rswail 11mo ago
PHEVs mean that half the time your using your battery to drag around an ICE, the other half the ICE is dragging around a battery. A very temporary phenomenon in the evolution from ICE to EV.
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by rswail 11mo ago
This reminds me of Mel: Mel's job was to re-write the blackjack program for the RPC-4000. (Port? What does that mean?) The new computer had a one-plus-one addressing scheme, in which each machine instruction,
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by rswail 11mo ago
Which is similar to i18n for internationalization and l10n for localization.
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by rswail 1y ago
I really enjoyed the first part (say 2-3 weeks) of COVID lockdowns, we had the longest in the world here and it got pretty old by the end of it, but the first few weeks, no traffic, no noise, quiet city. It was like a vacation for our heads
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by rswail 1y ago
I didn't know that. That's actually impressive, both strategically and in terms of our readiness and capability. That puts Jakarta in range. I'm sure the Indonesian military took note as well. Plus we've got Tomahawks no
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by rswail 1y ago
Which is why Australia is re-orienting its defence by moving towards missiles, UAVs, USVs, while still being lumbered with AUKUS. It's also shoring up diplomacy with Japan, South Korea, was trying to with India, when Biden was attempti
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by rswail 1y ago
Australia's naval strategy is to defend our sea lanes that we rely on for trade, primarily our trade with our largest customer, which is China. Conveniently, they need what we have, and we want what they make. On the other hand, the pr
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by rswail 1y ago
Voted up just for the reference to Yes Prime Minister, one of the UK's best contributions to political education and entertainment. On the other hand, there's Sir Humphrey's opinion on Trident. "It's the nuclear det
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by rswail 1y ago
If you're getting to a semver of 145.14.7 with Semver then sack your API designer. Remember the major version bumps when it is not backward compatible. New functionality can be backward compatible. You can keep older semver APIs workin
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by rswail 1y ago
Japan was making tin toys in the 60s, by the 80s, they were one of the largest car manufacturing nations and were buying out US factories. They boomed through the 80s/90s, but then lost their edge as China moved itself up the car manuf
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by rswail 1y ago
Back in my day, we lamented the loss of bang paths for email... and you had to pay Robert Elz to bring in a news group because munnari connected Australia to the world... Yeah, I'm old.
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by rswail 1y ago
As you develop the distribution network, you also establish the recovery network. Make it more advantageous for someone to continue to pay maintenance, on the basis of modular upgrades over time, versus owning outright. Essentially the
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by rswail 1y ago
I have 3 different profiles, one for each of my current customers and one personal. Within the customer profiles, I have containers for things like different AWS accounts (although AWS now has that as part of the console), I can have logins
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by rswail 1y ago
I don't accept that "any user interface as the interface, vs API interface". API has a specific meaning, it is for "Application Programmers", which implies that it is for developers of other systems/applicati
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by rswail 1y ago
The original reasoning behind Semver was that it described the changes from the point of view of the consumer of the interface. If the interface didn't change, then the semver didn't change. So yes, I am arguing it should not be u
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by rswail 1y ago
Exactly. There's nothing specific about the letters after Oracle's RDBMS versions, they're for marketing purposes.
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by rswail 1y ago
Semver is semantic . It tells you about the changes in the API, not in the implementation. So it's relevant to the users (ie developers) of that API. If I fix a bug in the implementation that doesn't affect the API itself, the se
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by rswail 1y ago
Semantic versioning is for APIs, not for functionality. So it's for developers consuming that API (whether a library, or a service). For releases in production, use a calendar version. v2025-11-02 is a clear release tag. Add precisenes

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