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by taneq 1y ago
It can’t have been trained on THAT much SO because it’s never told me my question is off topic or is a repeat of a different question. :P
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by taneq 1y ago
Much like Agile, or Hungarian notation. When a general principle becomes a religion it ceases to be a good general principle.
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by taneq 1y ago
You gotta admit, though, that a language which strongarms you into writing classes with hidden state and then extending and composing them endlessly is kinda pushing you in that direction. It’s certainly possible to write good code in Java
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by taneq 1y ago
Haven’t tried mpv but VLC is my go to for weird formats and streaming from random rtsp cameras. Maybe it’s outdated but a couple of years ago when I switched over from libffmpeg to libvlc it was because some cameras on site had weird auth p
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by taneq 1y ago
Is that not an absolute win?
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by taneq 1y ago
What criminal mastermind could possibly defeat the DMCA? :D
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by taneq 1y ago
> If the Nazis invaded New York City, they won't find any of the governments gold. Is that because it’s not actually in Fort Knox? :P
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by taneq 1y ago
Or like being a lawyer?
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by taneq 1y ago
Apparently these days it’s sufficient car security simply to have a manual transmission. :D
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by taneq 1y ago
Yep, it’s like those security screws, they’re not used to stop you opening the box, they’re used to prove that you knew you shouldn’t be opening the box.
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by taneq 1y ago
Reminds me of high school when people were buying expensive locks for their lockers. These locks, no matter how tough, all still locked onto a flimsy 1.5mm steel hasp that you could bend with your fingers.
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by taneq 1y ago
Hah, I love this sort of story. Recently I was on site and we needed some electrical as-built drawings. They’d been stashed in a tool box, which was locked (and pretty well designed to protect the padlock from bolt cutters / angle grin
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by taneq 1y ago
That’s not a CTO, that’s a dev. I was about to ask how someone in the C suite has time to code at all, ever, but here we are.
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by taneq 1y ago
Yes, if only a tiny amount. The example I use is a toilet cistern, when explaining this to children. It’s probably the closed loop control system with which they have the most firsthand experience, so they understand it best. Also toilet fu
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by taneq 1y ago
How do you get a role like this (even with the 10 year head start) without owning the organisation? Very few places I’ve worked have the kind of long-horizon pragmatism to invest in this kind of role.
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by taneq 1y ago
Integrated circuit, surely? ;)
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by taneq 1y ago
El Chupavispa, if you will. :D
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by taneq 1y ago
True, but these core concepts are very cyclical. Every 7ish years there’s a new coat of paint on an architecture that was invented at Xerox PARC or before.
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by taneq 1y ago
Trying to translate this terminology into normal Aussie speak here. :P So a “heat pump” is reverse cycle aircon, I’m guessing it’s usually a central unit ducted to each room? Am I right in thinking that “mini split” is what we’d call a “spl
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by taneq 1y ago
Gotta be careful, hit them with WD40 and they might start moving faster!
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by taneq 1y ago
I spent my teens explaining to my mum that main memory (which used to be 'core', she interjected) was now RAM, a record was now a row, a thin client was now a browser, PF keys were now just function keys. And then from this basis
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by taneq 1y ago
Pro tip if you're trying to deal with any of these: Do it while it's cold . Do not (as I did the first time) gird your appendages in towels and other random shielding, then do it in the mid-afternoon when it's been warm for
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by taneq 1y ago
I feel like this is more of a wasp sucker. Or even a wasp processor (in the same vein as 'food processor').
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by taneq 1y ago
If it’s projection, wouldn’t they get the same experience with anyone? Or maybe only with someone that’s also projecting that you also “get it”. The proof is in the pudding, though, I think. Collaboration with someone who matches your wavel
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by taneq 1y ago
All questions must now be posed to the Oracle through interpretive dance.
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by taneq 1y ago
Interestingly they don't tell you anything (unless I missed it) about the battery for the non-plugin hybrids, eg. the Corolla Cross: https://www.toyota.com/corollacross/features/mpg_other_price... I was looki
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by taneq 1y ago
“Percel” is still a way cooler and arguably more descriptive term than “token” though.
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by taneq 1y ago
> Imagine an intelligent shade of blue A hooloovoo!
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by taneq 1y ago
First satellite, first lunar flyby, first heliocentric orbit, first lunar landing, first animals returned safely from orbit, first human space flight. Those are some pretty solid goals.
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by taneq 1y ago
Aaah right gotchya.

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