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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
"Salarium Argentum" - salt money (or money/allowance towards salt) It would be funny to see my payslip with a tex deductable section saying "Salt allowance". Imagine if modern day employers paid their employees in o
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Nice site, Is there any info on how some of the UIs they make for TV or Movies are done? For example fake search engines like or custom Operating Systems. Is it blue screened or is there actual developers throwing these mock UIs together?
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Surprised with VW being so low. Might be survivor bias but my VW Passat B6 TDI is still trucking and I don't plan on replacing it anytime. Ideally I will run it into the ground.
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Pain does not exist in this Dojo. Kiai!
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Absolutely amazing feat of medicine, even more astounding is the team of 140 working on the patient over a period of 21 hours. Recovery is a scary and awesome thing. When I broke my leg and had surgery I was told it was a 50/50 chance
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
> You can run linux on Windows but still can't install a dual boot system with Linux first. IMO that says it all Long time Kubuntu user dual-booting with GRUB, never experienced this. I have UEFI enabled and both OS's on separa
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
I generally find I write perfect clean code in my own personal projects, however at work my colleagues keep complaining about it ;)
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
I wonder what the cost of implementing this bylaw was on the tax payer, here is a guess: - Health and safety assessment by specialist HSE officer - £10k - Procurement of organic sustainable hay bale - £2k - Consultation with local community
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Do Not Use Floats for Time – The Patriot Missile Mishap(youtube.com)
2 points by tomaytotomato 3y ago|2 comments
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Anyone else immediately think of the movie Freddy got Fingered? https://youtu.be/ZtyxJSGM3x0
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Oryx definitely did a great job, before he was documenting small conflicts but with the Ukraine/Russia war its not a surprise being burned out recording data for that. There was definitely lots of errors accumulated with things like T7
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Nice, Project Loom is often summarised as just incorporating the main feature of Virtual Threads however it will also add a whole bunch of other features or improvements for doing tasks concurrently and not having to worry about blocking IO
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A Visit to id Software (November 1993) [video](youtube.com)
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
AI Mett Porker (I see what you did there) Maybe in my lifetime an AI could generate a few more seasons of Firefly (that got cancelled too soon)? Another AI challenge would be to super-impose Harrison Ford onto Alec Baldwin in the movie Hunt
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Or get a parking fine for staying longer than 2 hours with your jet...
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Has the RAF actually surveyed some of the motorways in the north of England recently? I nearly broke a spring from a dipped pothole on the M6 south. Not to forget all the smart motorway signs every 100 meters and signboards overhead, will m
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
https://youtu.be/TNKmhv9uoiQ This seems pretty conclusive to me
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
To summarise: - Lack of political willpower either due to competing priorities, or lobbying - Banks and economy are tightly coupled to UK housing market - Lots of people aren't willing to move to less desirable areas - Lots of people w
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
I use Yunohost, its a great tool for deployment on a small VPS instance. Some of the apps though require a bit more RAM/CPU but if you stick with email, git and Ghost Blog CMS, then its a great tool to minimise sysadmin overhead.
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Could this be a small step for Cryogenics? Maybe Could this be a step for organ transplantation over longer distances/times? Hopefully
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
This article is extreme, in the case of Java (mockito), using mocks is a great way to infer the path the logic takes. If anything mocking is useful for verifying that something is called whether that be a service or a repository method. Equ
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by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Today I learned from that site; that "okta" is a measurement of cloud cover in a given location. Currently in my area of it would 4 oktas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta