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by rusk 5y ago
Sadly since the majority of these [ONIE] switches are aimed at datacenter deployments they are generally unsuitable for use on my desk. ... On top these switches would be aggressively priced out of my budget ... That was until I found the
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by rusk 5y ago
Minor Quibble: £85 is not a cheap ethernet switch. It's an entertaining and informative read, but it's more like low-end datacentre hardware than that cheap €25 switch I've got in my home office. A little disappointing as I w
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by rusk 5y ago
> The idea an "agile enterprise" is intrinsically absurd. Teams are agile not companies I’m really not sure what you are basing this on. Agile, as I’m familiar with it is framed in terms of lean management which is a well estab
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by rusk 5y ago
> because it helps sell pants. Check the etymology pyjamas, actual pants and shampoo. Though lots was stolen from other cultures I fail to see how these examples of mimicry qualify as theft. They were asymilated because it’s nice to have
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by rusk 5y ago
Presumably what’s meant is it hasn’t improved in 40 years, and even then it was probably just “barely good enough”. This might be considered MVP but that depends on whether you have to actually use it or not.
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by rusk 5y ago
Technically more appropriate than copy as a commit is immutably wedded to its history by the chain of hashes preceding it. FYI replay is the term used in the git docs, which otherwise make little sense.
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by rusk 5y ago
The glassholes have returned. This time incognito.
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by rusk 5y ago
They hide a thousand sins it’s said, so plenty more reasons to wear them round these parts
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by rusk 5y ago
Rebase is just replaying the diff associated with each commit. It’s like a batch cherry-pick and that itself might be a conceptually more straightforward place to start.
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by rusk 5y ago
> we create I think one of the core ideas that is smeared across Curtis’ work is that these narratives are created and fed to us as an explanation of the world that we rarely question.
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by rusk 5y ago
Is it ever likely that something like this could work on legacy Palm hardware like my beloved Palm Prē?
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by rusk 5y ago
It’s manifestly similar. The specific arrangements regarding third party and in house are more surface matters.
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by rusk 5y ago
Commoditised, you might say.
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by rusk 5y ago
> design language, desirability, quality and customer service … is the opposite of that. High volume $40k cars with horrendous quality control Maybe 10 years ago. I don’t really feel as though there’s a Porsche in the computing sector th
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by rusk 5y ago
> Who will be the Foxconn of cars? Again this is also done to death. There’s no new ground to be broken here. Car manufacturers have had their own internal markets in parts and manufacturing for years. If anything Apple was copying the m
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by rusk 5y ago
We’ve spent so long fantasising about living on inhospitable planets it’s not too much of a leap to imagine earth as one. Ala planet of the apes [spoiler alert] though, could a time traveller end up on earth in the future and mistake it for
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by rusk 5y ago
> The exact definition of a unit of measure can change slightly depending on the country, year, and more in general convention How truly wonderful. I’m delighted to see this level of diligence. Too often you see these “clickbait” librari
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by rusk 5y ago
Because it’s the largest market and this is reflected in typical implementations i.e unit converter apps.
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by rusk 5y ago
A question I always ask is how well it handles regional differences in imperial units for instance UK and US have significantly different quantities [0] I’d be presuming this library caters mainly to the US variant? [0] https://e
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by rusk 5y ago
To me this seems like the answer. We don’t need to change the way emacs works, we just need a standard way to do this that is familiar to people coming at emacs from other environments.
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by rusk 5y ago
> It's about time Emacs adopts the concept I find this kind of thinking interesting. Like Emacs is a bold child that needs to shape up … rather than a conintiually evolving codebase developed by enthusiasts. If it doesn’t do “this t
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by rusk 5y ago
> 3. Ability to scroll without bringing point You could probably do this with a transparent indirect buffer with a special “scroll only” mode that reverts once you start typing again.
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by rusk 5y ago
My understanding was in those days copy and paste was a literal thing, so I guess what eventually went to the printer might end up being a frankendoc of sorts …
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by rusk 5y ago
Blue has an established connotation for marking up text. E.g once upon a time a newspaper editor would scribble notes in original copy before sending to the printers. It stands out against black text but is unobtrusive.
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by rusk 5y ago
Remember when Apple had to pay google … ios7 Apple Maps saga.
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by rusk 5y ago
These files are so simple to distribute - there’s no engineering challenge and it’s very hard to justify building a moat. That’s one thing the notables you list did, beyond merely gatekeeping content.
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by rusk 5y ago
I used it in a global telecoms company about 15 years or so. We had all the bells and whistles dynamic snapshots FS integration etc and I found the experience very underwhelming. Clunky and brittle and it never felt fully transparent and fo
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by rusk 5y ago
Natural for who? Perhaps better expressed as “5 fold”.
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by rusk 5y ago
Yeah it doesn’t make sense as the x in 5x I would have thought repetesents a multiplication rather than (divide) It would make more sense for me to say a fifth, or 1/5
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by rusk 5y ago
What you suggest sounds analogous to a flywheel. You’re using the mass of the vehicle to stabilise your speed and drive the propellor when the energy stored in your momentum > the energy you get from the wind. However, this does not acco

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