Thedarkb

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by Thedarkb 8d ago
I grew up in an environment where I had high expectations placed on me with a father who was mortally disappointed when I failed to meet them, but the reality was that, even when I gave my all, I still couldn't be what my father expect
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by Thedarkb 3mo ago
Unionisation didn't bring down British Leyland, the management did. There was no upward mobility from the unionised shop floor up to the management and design departments and it led to designs and management strategies that were comple
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by Thedarkb 10mo ago
I've got a '91 Toyota Carina and can attest that it's very easy to work on, my friend and I pulled the engine and gearbox in under two hours with hand tools, but I can't really speak for anything modern.
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by Thedarkb 1y ago
CS 1.5 has been clean room re-implemented GPL Quake engine, just need assets to make a fully free Counter-Strike. https://github.com/eukara/freecs
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by Thedarkb 1y ago
My car ('91 Toyota Carina) has been on 149,999 miles since 2007.
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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat(futurism.com)
17 points by Thedarkb 1y ago|4 comments
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by Thedarkb 1y ago
The framing device for The Legend of Zelda games is that it's a mythological cycle in which Link, Ganon, and Zelda are periodically reborn and the plot begins anew with new characters. It lets them be flexible with the setting, side qu
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by Thedarkb 1y ago
In Ireland, you can't ride a motorcycle above 125cc unless you've held your license for four years. It forces people to get genuine experience before hopping on a litrebike and sending it.
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by Thedarkb 2y ago
When I drive my work van I use a throttle body, when I drive my car I use a carburettor. From my point of view as a user, I'm just driving a vehicle. The point is that users see a holistic system and neither know nor care about the und
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
The ethno-religious conflict in Northern Ireland dates back to the seventeenth century and the question of Irish sovereignty dates all the way back to the twelfth century!
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
Well, it's probably worth your while to update it then.
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
In Ireland you need to have held your provisional license for at least six months and done 12 lessons with a certified instructor before they allow you to take the test.
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
It should always be optional as not everyone using tax prep software will actually be a citizen of the country where they're paying tax or registered with said country's social welfare system. I found navigating bureaucracy a nigh
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
In Waterford we call it Dilisk with a normal S.
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
I had quite a nice introduction to programming when I downloaded ChipmunkBASIC on to the family PowerMac some time in the mid '00s.
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
I also have physical problems writing by hand, and it led to me handing in a lot of unfinished essays after running out of time in exams. If I hadn't gotten a special dispensation to type my exams later on, I wouldn't really have
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
Sven Co-op got portals working on their branch of the GoldSrc engine but I think they abandoned development because of FBO issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbniay4bfJU
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
That's not really consistent across Ireland though, let alone Europe. I was paying €50 a month for two megabit DSL in Kilkenny five years ago as that was all my ISP's backhaul was good for.
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
C had a breaking change this year, pre-ANSI C programs need to have all of their function definitions changed for them to be compatible with C23.
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Ukraine likely to have retaken land occupied by Russia since 2014, UK's MoD says(bbc.com)
2 points by Thedarkb 3y ago|0 comments
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by Thedarkb 3y ago
I owe my career to friends made online. Online friends are no substitute for in-person interaction but it's perfectly possible to have a meaningful relationship with a person over the internet.
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by Thedarkb 5y ago
I assume he means a Gaelic football. Gaelic football is governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association along with Hurling and Gaelic Handball.
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by Thedarkb 5y ago
Ken was represented as being a lot more hot headed and irreverent than he was in reality as well.
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by Thedarkb 6y ago
I fail to see the connection between a child with an untreatable neurodegenerative disorder who was cared for by the NHS free of charge until treatment was ruled as futile due to "total destruction of white matter in the brain" an
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Libfawk, a C89 embeddable scripting library(repo.hu)
1 points by Thedarkb 6y ago|0 comments
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by Thedarkb 6y ago
It takes Little 3.53 seconds to find the 33rd number in the Fibonacci sequence recursively versus 30.23 seconds for Tcl8.6 on my i5-3320M.
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by Thedarkb 6y ago
I asked Oscar Bonilla on Twitter a while ago and he said that it should be the same process as Tcl, but beware I haven't tried.
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Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language(little-lang.org)
192 points by Thedarkb 6y ago|129 comments