teh_klev

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by teh_klev 7y ago
> don’t extract repetitive code right away, try and build the feature you’re working on with the duplication in place first. Let the code go through a few evolutions and waves of change. This ^^^. I'm in my mid 50's now and wor
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by teh_klev 7y ago
They're just words. You can always turn the TV off. See also: https://youtu.be/78OevDyH7-Y?t=187
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Twitter seems to filter through the prism of US standards of speech. Woe betide you if you're Scottish and use the word cunt. In Scotland there's quite a lot of nuance in the usage of cunt. In fact I go so far as to say that the u
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In Our Time: Coffee(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by teh_klev 7y ago|0 comments
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Eternal September(en.wikipedia.org)
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Ok, look at it this way, if they cancel your flight they can re-book you on a later flight or give you your money back. But they aren't obliged to reimburse your for the consequential losses, e.g. you missed that wedding, or stag night
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by teh_klev 7y ago
That is how it works in real life, you buy additional travel insurance to cover the things that the airline isn't contractually or legally obliged to cover themselves. You just made my point.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> putting backup requirement on customer (when it is your fault) is pretty unfair. Then they need to pay more for their "Simple" hosting. > I think price of the product shouldn't effect minimum requirements. See above.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Key question, is it guaranteed in your contract? Also: > Snapshots do not make a backup of your databases. If you would like to perform a backup of your databases, we recommend you perform an export, or launch a dump script via crontab.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
The key question is, did Gandi offer and explicit backup service for your data on their plans? I just had a look and I don't see this being offered. As a former hosting engineer, at the risk of pissing on everyone's outrage parade
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Thanks for the education :)
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by teh_klev 7y ago
So does that mean if you only have the seeds available you've effectively lost that variety? i.e. it's now extinct? I feel this warrants more research for me.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
You're right, what's for sale are are rootstock trees. But I believe you can get access to seed stock as well.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
That is in fact incorrect. Windows NTFS permissions are strictly enforced and depending on the identity the executable was launched under and that identity's group membership (and perhaps some additional "user rights assignments&q
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by teh_klev 7y ago
This chap's YouTube channel has a good number of videos about growing apples that are less well known: https://www.youtube.com/user/1sustainablehedonist/videos If you're based in the the UK, the National
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> Where are the rest of Apple varieties? No one knows. From the article: Due to the demands of industrial farming, only a handful of apple varieties make it to stores, and even of those, only the most uniform specimens sit on the shelve
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Not that I want to be the "well actually" guy...but MS has a much underrated tool called Log Parser that's been around for years that lets you do this kinda thing and more. If you're a Windows admin and haven't bump
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Hail Eris!
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> why is it that literacy rates in Scotland are falling This accusation has been doing the rounds in the Scottish press for a while and was debunked: https://theferret.scot/one-in-five-children-dont-leave-prima...
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by teh_klev 7y ago
I'm fairly certain the calibre of reader here is able to make that distinction without it being pointed out. Or they could read the article to find out.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> Wow. No tests though These are commits from the "dark ages" and doesn't mean he didn't test his code locally. The "public" TDD culture didn't really surface until Kent Beck et-al published their TDD m
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> There are many people getting great benefit from Amazon other than bezos. Including many of people employed there https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+warehouse+workers
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> The fact that I wrote a toy renderer in Rust five years ago and haven't touched it since then doesn't change this. I ask you in good faith...if you pushed this to a public github repo that was your reasoning? If it was someth
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Speedy Cutover Service, SXS Switching Cutover to ESS Filmed Live(youtube.com)
1 points by teh_klev 7y ago|0 comments
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by teh_klev 7y ago
I'll just point you here: https://wingsoverscotland.com/reference/ https://wingsoverscotland.com/weebluebook/ https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-wee-black-book/ Fully sou
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Don't blame me ;) Perhaps the user I replied to should have provided citations. I suspect you're not wrong, but neither of those two sources I'd recognise as "notable".
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21751762
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Nowhere in the article does it mention these are specifically for "premium" economy, these seats are, according to the article, supposedly meant for your run-of-the-mill economy cabin.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> That story about the boy sleeping on the hospital floor wasn't a setup by the left-wing media? It's been proved beyond any doubt that the boy sleeping on the hospital floor was in fact true[0], despite an army of twitter and
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by teh_klev 7y ago
For many of us in Scotland this is nothing new. The coverage and reporting leading up to the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum was pretty appalling, with the BBC operating in full "Defence of the Union" mode. Both TV and print

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