solraph

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by solraph 5y ago
Best: Catch up, or go home. There's always more to learn, and if you don't apply yourself, you will get steam-rollered and you won't even know why. Worst: The more confident someone is, the more likely they are to be full cra
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by solraph 5y ago
I grew up in that era as well - but I realised it doesn't matter. I used to have compile my own kernels and fumble around with downloading and installing the nVidia drivers, and now my distro deals with that for me. I can go look if I
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by solraph 5y ago
I recently had the opportunity during the lock down to make use of around kg of saffron milk-cap saffron (aka, red pine mushroom, or Lactarius deliciosus), and it utterly changed my concept of what mushrooms could be. Until that point, I wo
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by solraph 5y ago
Depends on where you live. Sure, if you an apartment heavy area like Singapore, then no - but based on some very quick googling, it looks like globally around 60% to 80% of the population live in detached or semi-detached houses, where they
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by solraph 5y ago
As an example of internationally known brand/quality, here's a complete installed 6.6kw system from IKEA for AUD$5047 (AUD$3197 after subsidy). That includes panels, inverter, mounting system, and installation. https://
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by solraph 5y ago
Oops, you are right, I confused it with ownCloud
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by solraph 5y ago
For lost cost Wordpress stuff sure, but for higher end senior type work I think it's worse than other languages. While this is obviously location dependent, over the last year or so I've had dozens of calls from recruiters asking
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by solraph 5y ago
Ironically, Nextcloud is moving to Golang. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/16726
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by solraph 6y ago
This sounds like someone who has been in their field so long they've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. They've utterly missed the point of Arduino. It's not for them, it's for beginners, and hobbyists, opti
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by solraph 6y ago
I can't speak for React, but I found adding VueJS was perfect for adding JS functionality incrementally to a section of a site. See my other comment on this thread on using it to create a dynamic contact form to an otherwise static sit
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by solraph 6y ago
> When you just want to add a small bit of interaction to a mostly-static site, jQuery can help. For very small amounts, perhaps, but honestly, even then I think it has limitations. As an anecdote, about six months ago, I needed to add a
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by solraph 6y ago
I'm with you on this one. I just find them incredibly difficult to use long term, despite multiple years across the various Macs and PC laptops I've used. I strongly suspect most of the complaints about PC trackpads are a bit like
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by solraph 6y ago
`git add -p` will take you through all the changes in your files, and let you add them selectively. I find this makes for much cleaner commits.
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by solraph 6y ago
Honestly, I suspect they have the same plethora of issues, they just ignore them. I've had fifteen years of gut & digestive tract issues, which I eventually narrowed down to fructans (garlic & onion being the worst offenders),
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by solraph 6y ago
> Are Sydney and/or Auckland emptying out? Sydney and Auckland aren't, but Melbourne (in the State of Victoria) is, which endured highly restrictive lock downs for 7-9 months. From friends and family there, it sounds like apar
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by solraph 6y ago
Given Australia's general stance on biosecurity, I imagine would not only refuse to pay him seizure of property, but consider fining him for breaching biosecurity rules. Causing an international incident would be considered a bonus for
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by solraph 6y ago
> The pigeon has not yet been caught, but the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment says it will have to be put down because of the _danger of infection to local birds_. The problem (in this case) isn't the bird breed
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by solraph 6y ago
An more charitable explanation is the parent poster is someone who puts their principles and a long term view above short term convenience. Seems like good marriage material to me.
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by solraph 6y ago
> The research world, just like every other social circle, is full of people who are just parroting each other, repeating to each other what everyone already believes, and patting themselves on the back. I'd be curious to know what
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by solraph 6y ago
> So alot of the benefits only kick in after residing in the country for minimum 1 year. What benefits? I'm not aware of any benefits Kiwi's arriving post 2001 get, apart from some reciprocal medical care, and some allowances t
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by solraph 6y ago
While I'm a fan of the single open network with multiple access model, I really wouldn't use nbn as an example of a government provided network, because of the politicking that went on during it's inception, the corruption th
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by solraph 6y ago
> Make is not a "wrapper" it's a "translucent layer on top of" since it doesn't hide the deps on the underlying tools. For me, that's kinda the point. If (when!) the underlying layers break, I can open
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by solraph 6y ago
Not the GP, but I'd recommend Merkur Classic Safety Razor 33C, or any of the Merkur models that are generally discussed as beginner friendly, and an sampler pack of blades. The sampler pack is key. Every person is different, and every
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by solraph 6y ago
> It's been gone for years! That's simply not true. It was there until earlier this year[0]. Regardless, even if it had been removed years ago. It wouldn't have made any difference to my remarks or decision. It's just
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by solraph 6y ago
This mirrors my experience. I've been a mostly happy Ubuntu user since 5.04/Hoary, baring a few bumps like Unity and pulse audio becoming defaults before they were polished enough for general release. But after upgrading to 20.04,
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by solraph 6y ago
Per gallon. $1.30 / L => $5.85 / gallon. Petrol is/was always more expensive in NZ though, around ~70c/L from memory. On the flip side, registration and insurance is much cheaper.
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by solraph 6y ago
I'm a massive fan of unit testing, but I mostly agree with the observations. However, I (mostly) disagree with the conclusion. The problems with unit testing I've seen to come from the following anti-patterns in various combinatio
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by solraph 6y ago
To me, that sounds like you've hit a ceiling in your current stack, and probably workplace, and lack examples of people around you to learn from. What the solution to that is depends on your situation. Change of workplace? New career d
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by solraph 6y ago
From my personal experience, are you still writing things the same way you were six months, a a year, two years ago? I look at code I wrote a couple of years ago, and not only can I identify how I would write it differently, I can identify
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by solraph 6y ago
> Many people haven't moved outside of "enterprise" programming languages, so they don't even realize how bad stuff like PHP is at converting business logic into code. Try doing a real project in Kotlin if you like st

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