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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Russians mainly by my experience.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Metrics are useless in my experience for figuring out a problem. For the most part they only tell you that you have a problem. Being able to slice and dice logs that you have faith in is critical in my experience.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I have an M1 at work. Anything off the beaten path fills me with dread and / or poor performance because I end up emulating it.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I haven't got any personal experience of them but aren't there a number of Raspberry Pi clones which offer the same functionality at much lower cost? Seems like that would open the gap up.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I find it quite interesting that we're beyond the point of having an Intel processor being a massive advantage. I think 10 years ago most people would have jumped at an x86 processor with similar specs to the equivalent Raspberry Pi.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I had a play with Dart a while back. It felt like Python with types designed in from the outset. Would quite like to use it more seriously. It's in that funny position though where it is in danger of becoming synonymous with Flutter. L
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
If you are at an airport you will sometimes notice large signs giving Longitude and Latitude of the individual stands at an airport. These are used to give the initial position to the INS via the FMS. Of course these are now all built into
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Same. A pirate copy of VB6 and a download of some website which gave a reasonable introduction of how to do things. I remember doing things like using the Win32 API to get DMA to images so I could do pixel perfect collision detection betwee
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Well, this just opened up a new phase in the captcha wars.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
My ability to write an essay under exam conditions is...poor. Thankfully there were less than a handful of essays I had to write as part of my undergraduate CS degree and I only remember one under exam conditions. I think it's probably
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
As a British person this is always so alien when traveling in the US. You could go one step further and suggest that perhaps tips which are practically mandatory should be included in the headline price but that might be a step too far.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
LLMs really help me with the blank page problem. Just getting something, even partially working, to built upon can be a huge win.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Yeah, someone did that at a place I once worked with the C-word in some JavaScript debug logs. Never put anything in the code, no matter how temporary, that you would be embarrassed to have appear to a customer.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I've never worked in food service. I did however do plenty of minimum wage retail type jobs and only occasionally got a tip, often for lifting something heavy for an older customer. Why is food service any different?
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
In fairness to her - this wasn't a drive by attack. She was in the process of applying for the benefit that the site claimed to be part of. To my mind this is either a complex technical attack, or more likely perhaps, an inside job. Th
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Ask HN: Best way of dealing with fraudulent websites
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Yes, it's was pretty flippant. I didn't expect a series analysis.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
So any time Amazon make any noise about doing something "for the environment" you can basically just point out they are full of shit. It probably takes a dozen electric cars to offset the carbon saving of just not going into the o
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Can I also recommend getting hold of a copy of "seamanship in the age of sail". I've always had a latent fascination for just how they managed to manoeuvre relatively massive ships around well before the steam engine came of
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Surely everyone is aware that driving while speaking on the phone is distracting. My partner occasionally tries to have an inane conversation about nothing while driving and I always cut it short. I think that the main problem is if they we
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
France built out a huge number of Nuclear reactors in the 80s. Some 70% of it's electricity comes from Nuclear. Nuclear has a very low marginal cost so when it's up and running you want to run it at full power as much as possible.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Locking in the model numbers for me is particularly icky. They are leveraging the Android and therefore Linux and open source communities efforts to make this custom display which would have cost them an arm and a leg to have custom built w
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
> people are understandably cautious about breathing a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen Wimps.
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
The box is only unchecked because of the curious decision to allow transferring of a single prop / engine which I'm not convinced has any real value. One thing that isn't stated is what the state of the redundant thrust slide
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Not your customer, just a random person on the Internet, but I hope you can see that a lot of that is through luck more than judgement. I personally would have like to see a bit more contrition rather than trying to minimise the issue.
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> Let that sink in (no pun intended) - the crew is not aware the propellors can spin at different speeds This isn't a very good take. Every mariner is aware of using differential throttle to manoeuvre. It is a primary means of contr
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Similar controls are used on modern ships. They usually though have an option to control both engines with one throttle to avoid having to manually synchronise the speed of both. Not sure if they have a reversion to separate control if some
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
I'm not a mariner but from what I've seen on boats and motoryachts the controls are typically transferred with the engines in neutral. This step ensures that the person who takes control positively knows the state of the engines a
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
The best part of British food is that we're incredibly good at adopting all of the worlds cuisines' as our own. I remember being at the Belgian GP and literally you could have chips with various shaped sausage and one pizza place
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by VBprogrammer 2y ago
Anyone below an international corporation isn't getting cut in on the benefits. Maybe the big hotels and car rental (being large enough for the card companies to negotiate such a thing with in addition to having a significant enough pe

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