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by beobab 6y ago
I have GamePass, so I thought: "I'll give this a go. How hard can it be? I'm really good in Elite Dangerous." Turns out: Quite hard. I have a newfound respect for airline pilots. On a related note, even my RAF cadet expe
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by beobab 6y ago
Weirdly, my initial thought there was "that's only 9 years ago", and then did a quick double take when I realised that it wasn't.
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by beobab 6y ago
They already do to a certain extent. Damaged goods often find their way into the "reduced" section.
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by beobab 6y ago
I learned to always have one database with every custom schema change in, and run my database unit tests (tSQLt is my favourite) on that one database.
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by beobab 6y ago
I remember reading "Heirs of Empire" by David Weber, and it casually mentioned that Dakax had a database that was immutable. I remember thinking that was a good idea, and planned to think about it later, but alas I had forgotten a
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by beobab 6y ago
I had to zoom in to 400% to be able to see the detail there.
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by beobab 6y ago
Nice. Bought it and will try it out.
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by beobab 6y ago
The website says: "accurately identifies upto ten Pantone® colors" What is the ten referring to? Total times you can use it?
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by beobab 6y ago
I can confirm anecdotally that having a baby crying at all hours of the day and the night also makes humans less interested.
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by beobab 6y ago
I understand what you mean. There's an incredible amount of tactile information in the real world, and I can't help feeling that there's probably almost as much information flowing in as audio or visual (that we as humans can
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by beobab 7y ago
I never remember to put comments in when I am beer-coding. Caffeine-code is much easier to follow later.
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by beobab 7y ago
You still have to know exactly the same amount of information to know if someone is working or not, but you only have to know one piece of information per moment, because "what time is it now?" is the same for everyone. If everyon
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by beobab 7y ago
You are correct. The typical voter does not vote on how much money goes to schools.
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by beobab 7y ago
One time I had TomTom accidentally switch itself on in my bag on the floor, set to Homer Simpson's voice and trying to redirect me to home. As I got further and further away the "turn left here" and "turn right here&quot
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by beobab 7y ago
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency"
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by beobab 7y ago
You could spin up a virtual machine and try it out on there.
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by beobab 7y ago
Sign language (BSL) uses air keyboard for "programmer": https://www.signbsl.com/sign/computer-programmer
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by beobab 7y ago
"If the headline is a question, then the answer is no." - Betteridge's law.
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by beobab 7y ago
I get a security error clicking the link above. Does anyone have another link?
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by beobab 7y ago
Do you know of a tool which allows two (or more) people to share their screens with each other at the same time? i.e. A can see (at least) one of B's screens, and B can see (at least) one of A's screens at the same time as talking
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by beobab 7y ago
Is it safe to assume that you've never used a car with cameras? I'd be very interested in a camera feed from my front bumper when I'm pulling out on a difficult bend, for example.
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by beobab 7y ago
Agreed. The amount is right on the edge of legality. Should you report it? Should you make an effort to find someone to hand it to? If the first shopkeeper around the corner says "Could be anyone's. Keep it" for a fifty, does
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by beobab 7y ago
I'm pretty sure I read a short story about this in an anthology called "Black Holes" by Jerry Pournell back when I was a youngster. In short, the black hole was a "gift" from some advanced race who dropped it into o
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by beobab 7y ago
Honest people do need to be kept honest. Even the most saintly can be tempted. If you found a twenty on the floor in an abandoned alleyway, would you hand it in to police, or would you steal that money? If your first thought was "It&#x
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by beobab 7y ago
And you'd better do it with ludicrous speed. ;)
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by beobab 7y ago
I like the line in that article which said that they wrote about it "1.5 months ago". It's an oddly precise measurement with an imprecise unit.
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by beobab 7y ago
Hmmm. I definitely don't like the "give me a ton of money, and you might get what you want" payment mechanism. I saw it with PacMan cards and football cards back in the 80's, and then Pokemon cards for my own children. I
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by beobab 7y ago
I do the visual reading thing that is mentioned in the article. I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading, and often become unaware of the words on the page. Sometimes I have to pause to let the action catch up to w
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by beobab 7y ago
And yet, direct witness statements from two helpful people standing next to each other, made immediately after the event can vary so wildly that you would wonder if they are describing the same event. paraphrased from "The Invisible Go
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by beobab 7y ago
Possibly irrelevant to this discussion (you decide): the level of stupidity in any human undertaking is almost always a) higher than you'd think, and b) pretty constant across all cross-sections of humanity. Source Carlo M. Cipolla, Pr

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