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by trollied 7y ago
The PCBs are open source too. I purchased 6 from https://www.amazingsynth.com and couldn't be happier. It's good fun trying to do surface mount soldering!
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by trollied 7y ago
This is how it works in Oracle: If you use the TO_DATE function with the YY datetime format element, then the year returned always has the same first 2 digits as the current year. If you use the RR datetime format element instead, then the
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by trollied 7y ago
On a Mac the other way to sort this is with an egpu. I have a 13” 2017 MBP & use a Razor Core X Chroma with an AMD Vega 64. It makes an awesome 1 cable docking station - I have mouse, keyboard & external disks plugged into it, as we
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by trollied 7y ago
> "The horrifically dystopian world of software engineering interviews" If you actually read the linked article, there aren't really any interviews. The OP is just getting let down by recruiters.
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by trollied 7y ago
Things were different before the internet was a big thing. Did anyone else find a BBS file or get passed a disk copy of Jolly Rogers Cookbook back in the day? Something that seemed so innocent at the time has got people locked up for terror
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by trollied 7y ago
Remote meetings are brilliant. People get to the point straight away. There's no messing about. I've had hour-long all remote meetings that would have probably taken triple the time if everyone was in a meeting room.
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by trollied 7y ago
I just let Time Machine do its thing in the background, but I also rsync to a 2nd backup disk just in case... Oh, and all the important things are also backed up to cloud storage.
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by trollied 7y ago
> Other places may use similar terminology but OP is at FB. She's not worked there for nearly 2 years now: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/10/free/
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by trollied 7y ago
Depends on the car. Try a decent sports car with a performance gearbox. My previous car was an m140i. 0-60 for the automatic is actually stated as faster for the automatic gearbox, as the car is better at shifting than a human. I don’t thin
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by trollied 7y ago
I was taking the whole Apple MBP keyboard thing with a pinch of salt, but the keyboard on mine has been degrading significantly over the last few weeks & I'm going to have to take it in for repair. Grr.
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by trollied 7y ago
SAP is shocking. I'm so glad that I now work with NetSuite!
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by trollied 7y ago
I've no idea how they'd even begin to create the infrastructure to support a large amount of electric cars. In a typical street of terraced houses in the UK, there are no driveways - In fact, 32% of the population rely on on-stree
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by trollied 7y ago
There’s an open source teamviewer equivalent that’s free to use if you build it yourself - looked really slick, but I can’t for the life of me find it now. Anyone got any ideas what it could have been? (Wasn’t VNC/RDP based). Dammit, w
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by trollied 7y ago
Don't really get this article. SQL never went away or got less popular. Always been in the background doing its awesome thing.
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by trollied 7y ago
Licensing issues aside, it'd be very dangerous from a security perspective. 0-days would come thick & fast.
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by trollied 7y ago
You'd be very surprised at how many smaller businesses are basically run using Excel spreadsheets. Accountants that are only slightly technical absolutely adore them. I know of a fair few banks that settle trades using Excel spreadshee
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by trollied 7y ago
NHS staff (at least in my local authority) do have cards that they put into their keyboards to login to Windows. It's still a joke that all systems don't hang off their AD/LDAP/jumpcloud/whatever though.
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by trollied 7y ago
I like things like this appearing on HN, it brings all of the HN climbers out of the woodwork :)
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by trollied 7y ago
Enjoyed your story, thank you!
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by trollied 7y ago
Just an aside - how do you go about liquidating a fairly large amount of bitcoin into cash legally?
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by trollied 7y ago
Halt and Catch Fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
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by trollied 7y ago
Sounds like a plot from Silicon Valley :) Twitter PiperNet?
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by trollied 7y ago
Indeed, recurring revenue and customer relationships are what gives a company its worth. It's the hard bit for lots of modern startups, which could be cloned by a couple of devs in a relatively short space of time.
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by trollied 7y ago
I first played with L-systems using Fractint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractint & also learned to code by writing Mandlebrots, Julias, a Sierpinski Gasket, and lots of other things in Pascal. Fun times, and a g
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by trollied 7y ago
Surprised the article doesn’t mention getting all DNS records for a domain via a zone transfer: dig axfr domain.com @nameserverforthedomain.com * The nameserver has to be configured to allow zone transfers.
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by trollied 7y ago
Discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7375043
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by trollied 7y ago
> Competitors have other sources of revenue aside from streaming services, Netflix has just streaming. Netflix have been doing cinema releases of their titles ahead of their streaming debut. Surely that's other revenue?
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by trollied 7y ago
> different words for bread rolls depending where you are from This is also a British thing: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/food/articles-reports/2018/07/19...
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by trollied 7y ago
Crikey, the amount of storage required to keep that will be insane. What's the retention period?
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by trollied 7y ago
But it can be if you require. Billing address verification can be important for higher value transactions. Some sites won't ship to an address other than the billing address.

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