chrisbuc

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by chrisbuc 10mo ago
Perhaps "uncapped" rather than "unlimited" would be a better term for us to start using
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by chrisbuc 1y ago
I'm sure someone can get it smaller than this (save as .html) <input id="i"> <button onclick="l.textContent='Now do '+i.value">Do This</button> <button onclick="l.te
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
Been giving me the error tvq-pb-101 on my TV when trying to play. Seemed to be working on the Android app, though.
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
I'm thinking of building a lego punch card reader for my 8 bit breadboard computer, and I like going down rabbit holes like this... And I ended up here: https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ - virtual keypunch machine
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
Saw a Tekever AR5 [1] fixed wing UAV on flightradar [2], and that led me to a Serious Incident report where both engines switched off as it was preparing to land. Fortunately an external pilot had line of sight and was able to land the UAV
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AR5 UAV report (2021,PDF): A single bit error switched off the engines(assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
2 points by chrisbuc 3y ago|1 comments
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
Ha - did the same phishing thing with our RM Nimbuses in the school computer lab. Wrote a turbo pascal program that showed the same login UI as the Nimbus. Logged into my own account on all machines and ran the program. When someone &quo
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
This is what I tell our junior devs. I remind them that the "next developer" may well be themselves in a year's time.
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
He only finished last week - all goes into the research project. More here: https://monicawilde.com/the-wildbiome-project/
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
A forager friend of mine has just completed participating in a gut biome study (in conjunction with the UK Zoe project), where he and other foragers have been only eating wild foraged food for 3 months. A pretty good achievement for him (a
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by chrisbuc 3y ago
I semi-regularly refer colleagues to this article I read some years back "The Interruptible Programmer" - it argues that it's hard to stay in the zone, so instead accept that you're going to be interrupted and embrace it
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/627/ (Tech Support Cheat Sheet)
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
I've always thought of baking as a science and cooking as an art (although both are on a spectrum from art to science).
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
https://www.androidcentral.com/what-else-can-i-do-my-stadia-... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054216 )
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
I remember using dogpile [1] (which was a search engine aggregator) - the results from google were consistently better than altavista, so over time I gravitated directly to google for results. These days I'm on Kagi... [1] https:&#x2
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What else can I do with my Stadia controller (2021)(androidcentral.com)
2 points by chrisbuc 4y ago|0 comments
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
> If anyone did have a credit card attached to their account, they're looking at it from the fraud angle. Everyone else is wondering if they're going to try to force some kind of debt collection because we are not going to pay,
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
Prior to this the contract let the employer claim rights over all IP I created unless specifically exempted. From this: https://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/insight/briefings/2020/intel... " The general posit
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
Urgh - I got one of these - completely forgot that I'd set up a fogbugz account years ago. Don't know if these invoices are as a result of a hack, or whether it's because it's now owned by another company and they'
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
I've managed to get specific exclusions for IP I've worked on as a side project, and more recently got my employer to include the majority of the github "balanced employee ip agreement" [1] in our employment contracts, w
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
I once went for an interview, setup by a recruitment agency, in a town nearby. The job looked great, and it was a step up for my career. It was for a mature company that made software for the oil drilling industry amongst other things. Th
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by chrisbuc 4y ago
lol, haven't seen that for years, although I was expecting a rickroll :)
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
Yes, even getting copy /paste functionality to allow a user to click a button to copy a piece of text needed a bit of flash. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6355300/copy-to-clipboar...
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
Fun to play. Any reason consolas isn't there? (My winner was Anonymous Pro)
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
Seems like it... Searching for "google" brings back a load links to images (that might be hosted on some google static url perhaps), with some random summary text that seems to have nothing to do with the image...
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
It was actually as throwaway comment [1] that Joel made in a talk I went to back in 2011 that brought me to hacker news. It was something like "when a link starts getting multiple posts on hacker news that's when we know we'v
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
Inevitable XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
At which point you might not care if its _your_ car. Any passing empty self drive car will do. Once you've got out of it, it can go and do other things. Reduced need to actually own a car, and fewer cars on the road (or parked) as empt
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Dracula Daily – Starts May 3 – read Dracula in real-time(draculadaily.substack.com)
1 points by chrisbuc 5y ago|0 comments
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by chrisbuc 5y ago
> "Looking around the codebase and see if you have any questions" ... getting up to speed... I like to do this (explore the codebase) with any new code. My approach is to pick a piece I'm interested in (eg, auth, orm, some

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