abulman

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by abulman 4mo ago
As I pointed out to the OP on Mastodon, I very much believe that it was a reference to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where they filmed a big door, and the original laser sequence from the first TRON movie. LLL also made an in-house video w
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by abulman 4mo ago
you'd first have to program it to take the picture, and look back at the photographer's eye to get the reflection of the screen with the IP address on!
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by abulman 4mo ago
Michael Sheen is apparently such a fan of TRON, that he might have been lucky to not negotiated himself down to a $0 pay packet - just in case someone else might have gotten the role :D
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by abulman 2y ago
Some of the views their cameras get are fantastic - and the tracking on the last flight test would quite possibly make NASA envious. Cameras on the beach and also just next to StarHopper are in harms way too, they've lost a couple of t
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by abulman 2y ago
I'll often spend a little time while watching the flight-tests (usually with Tim Dodd / EverydayAstronaut) just doing a search on YouTube for 'spacex live' and usually report 15-20 each time. They are very easy to spot w
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by abulman 2y ago
They might do some minor optimisation in terms of when the fly to keep some coverage but ... > As of May 2024, there are 6,078 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,006 are working - https://www.space.com/spacex-starli
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by abulman 2y ago
Agreed - I'm still using it everyday to view and do some minor editing (trimming and resizing pics). It, along with browsers, VLC, Putty, and SublimeText (and now also ObsidianMD) are the first things I will download to a new Windows P
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by abulman 2y ago
Maybe all the interns that were left in charge didn't properly do what the AI had said?
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by abulman 3y ago
wow, there. Lets not get crazy there. It's plenty enough to support multiple package managers, but what you are considering is just too much!
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by abulman 3y ago
I'm also using Obsidian daily notes, with all un-actioned items shown on a page with a dataview API[^1]: ```dataview TASK FROM "VaultName/Journal" WHERE !completed ``` Since at least 2012 I've also
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by abulman 3y ago
Just don't use -O2 and -fe unless you want to end up with Rust.
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by abulman 3y ago
> "The Ocean," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts t
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by abulman 3y ago
Ever see the video of a guy walking past a Saturn V (lying in it's side), doing a piece to camera and pointing to the rocket behind him? 'Connections' (1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ
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by abulman 3y ago
"the way God and Robert Heinlein intended."
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by abulman 3y ago
I can assure you that as someone that has done a couple Gov-related public-sites, some developers do think about it, and use suitable tools to ensure there's no issues. Before the last-and-stolen-passports site went live (that I spent
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by abulman 3y ago
Yes.
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by abulman 5y ago
previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 (ag/the_silver_searcher)
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by abulman 5y ago
Every contract of employment I've received initially had a part saying I could not do outside work/projects, or that they would belong to the company. None of them were there when I started work - as I had them all struck out, o
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by abulman 6y ago
I'd expect they would also ensure the Evil bit was set to 0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
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by abulman 7y ago
I started working for a US-based company a couple of months ago. They pay me through a company that handles the contract. The CEO pays my invoice on Monday and it gets to the contract company on Friday, if I'm lucky. Good for me though
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by abulman 8y ago
I do enjoy his geeky humour, and the rest of the Festival of Spoken nerd's (@fotsn), and actually went to see him and others just a couple of weeks ago at @AEOUD. It was also the day before he posted https://www.youtube.com&
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by abulman 8y ago
Paging Adam Selene, Adam Selene, please come to the phone...
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by abulman 9y ago
I applied to them a few weeks ago with years of PHP & Symfony experience. Their comments back to me said that previous FinTech experience was also a requirement.
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by abulman 9y ago
Much of the time, the software isn't what makes for a great company - it's how that software makes the business work. A company can have the best code in the world, but if Uber had no cars, AirBNB had no houses, or Facebook didn&#
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by abulman 9y ago
For the matter of the Team/Company culture, I'd also add - Do they expect you to come in and merge into a unchanging culture, or would you add to, and change the culture?
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by abulman 10y ago
Since the code already exists, within pi - or tau - surely all you have to do is to find the working code with it. I'm sure that you can do that before noon of the first of next month.
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by abulman 10y ago
'Security Hardening'.
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by abulman 10y ago
I've also called out crappy interviews - while in the interview. I went on to be offered the job - but declined.
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by abulman 10y ago
Location: London (West/Central) - or Remote Remote: Happy to - have done it for years at a time before Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PHP/Symfony, Linux, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Queues, Ansible Résumé/CV: https:&#x
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by abulman 10y ago
Don't be .... Mean.

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