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by zerkten 1y ago
Blogging on personal blogs was somewhat condoned back then. There was a period when MS was really encouraging personal blogs and then they pulled back from this to focus on blogs hosted on their platform. Channel 9 ( https://en.wi
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>> For example one of the last things I experienced was one of the electricians needed to get a cable through the concrete upper floor, and just couldn't do the calculations on where to drill and ended up drilling into the middle
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I think what you are observing is for it to be more valuable to own any part of the Premier League. The top clubs were spoken for long ago in terms of ownership, so anyone looking for a piece of the pie needs to pick clubs lower down. When
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by zerkten 1y ago
I feel exactly the same way. Scoring, or high scoring draws along with metrics like attempted shots would be an interesting element to look at. A team like Manchester United where there is data for long periods of droughts and success show
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It might not be fully clear to the reader, but many of these Post Office franchises are co-located with a Spar, or other shop. People have to go to the Post Office (IME to a greater extent than here in the US where I now live) and they then
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It's incredible that this is only arriving in 2025.
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Web 3.0 was a synonym for the Semantic Web ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web ), but the term was taken over by crypto folks as it dropped off after the mid-2000s.
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You can be sensitive to both, and good institutions have a duty to check instructors who go strongly in a single direction. I think the point is only to exclude the crutch in contexts where it affects learning. Being prepared for work is on
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by zerkten 1y ago
Interesting app. Planning, expenses, and keeping people on track during the trip are some ways I'd think about using the app. TripIt is what we use for the latter. All things get recorded there starting with flights that bookend the tr
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I've done the same with Windows, but I had a unique bug with Storage Spaces and did some debugging to identify driver issues to include with the report. I guess the reason it was fixed was because there was similar feedback without the
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Does this start up quickly on the first execution? IronPython and other languages have problems with JIT resulting in minor delays to execution which are frustrating for quick scripts. There was a change in IronPython to interpret and not J
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Why is a separate process necessary here?
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I had 15k reputation score at one time on SO. It recently dropped down to due to people deleting their accounts. There are review queues which appear on the top nav incentivizing power users with enough rep to go in and take action like clo
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I think you need to add that many more developers, or even teams of developers, are building these apps. They have their own fiefdoms and it's less common for devs to have a complete understanding of the code base. Over time decisions
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>> they don't support system calls to dialog windows. It's a little unclear what you mean exactly. Do you want the browsing experience changed for the system's file open/save dialogs? i.e. a third-party file explor
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Have you tried xplorer²? I only know about it because I was into Windows programming using the WTL eons ago.
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Product managers will decide to show the thumbnail in situations because it results in more click throughs. In many cases they'll have done their research to know that many customers take steps to restrict what they share (think profit
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I was asking myself the same thing. Is the "CIRCL - Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg" a partner organisation to CERT? I don't follow this very closely, but it felt like there was some kind of global network. I&#x2
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by zerkten 2y ago
The Bat! is a Windows client that focused on those things to a large extent. However, the fact that RitLabs are based on Moldova gives me pause. It did have MAPI support, so it was somewhat workable in company situations which used Outlook.
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A problem is that the proposed audience are individuals who struggle with options. Giving them more options doesn't help them. Enabling a power user mode with user creation, voting, etc. would be valuable for others. I suspect template
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Are tech companies really the ones lobbying hardest for policy changes? I suspect other industries are the ones pushing harder with fallout for tech.
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The same applies to firing ranges, scuba diving, etc. too. I'm not from the US but have some firearms experience before moving here. When I was learning shop from my father, or how to handle firearms the core messaging was very similar
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Thanks! I have to grapple with some markdown across multiple repos and this'll be a helpful tool in the toolchest.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to run dummy detection lines in parallel or through certain tracks to identify negligent activity? Critical cables get hit but it's hard to investigate and take action because the vessels are flagged in the
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It's therapy for a lot of people. The act of organizing helps them deal with information. That act of organizing and storing can help with recall for me but not as much as writing something down on paper does. The number of times peopl
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Agree. The benefit of posts like these is that someone has documented their system and iterated on it. You can then steal ideas that work for you. As a not very organized person, and having struggled with getting personal systems running, g
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They don't want to throw away the extensions and ecosystem. Let's say Jython, or some other modern implementation became the successor. All of the extensions need to be updated (frequently rewritten) to be compatible with and expl
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>> My use of python is somewhat recent. But the two languages that I have used a lot of - Java and JS - have interpreters that were heavily optimized over time. I wonder why that never happened with python and, instead, everyone conti
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If someone scraped those for the sites that are posted and arranged based on number of submissions, comments, upvotes etc. and layer on a bit of ML to classify then you'd have a reasonable blog directory. OP would probably benefit if p
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>> Speaking generally, for a CTO to personally ship more (non trivial code) code ... I think is such a double edged sword and even potentially dangerous. It is dangerous and is likely to cause a range of problems. The challenge is ste

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