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by codeduck 4mo ago
A channel called Clickspring on Youtube covers the building of a reproduction and also shows a lot of the tooling that could have been used to make it. Well worth watching.
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by codeduck 4mo ago
"That's adorable, Piglet." - Tissaia de Vries
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by codeduck 4mo ago
Better than my interview at a Apple, where one of the senior engineers who was supposed to interview me didn't show up - twice in a row. I'd been recommended for the role by colleagues who'd moved to Apple; I gave them some r
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by codeduck 4mo ago
> I argue that of all things, law should be as deterministic as possible. It is (probably) impossible to write down a complete list of rules for how to judge even petty crimes. Someone who steals a loaf of bread because their child is s
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by codeduck 4mo ago
This is my favourite kind of post here
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by codeduck 4mo ago
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. No.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
AI-unfucker is likely to be a growth industry.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
That reminds me, I'll need to stock up on rum so I can cheer the more spectacular detonations.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
> Hanker is a private, exclusive app where successful and established men meet attractive and ambitious women. Only for esteemed individuals. The title should really be paraphrased as "What five years of data tells us about sugar da
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by codeduck 5mo ago
It's not about price; it's hedging against the very real risk of petrol rationing and shortages. An EV can charge from any source, and in Europe a lot of power is sourced from non-oil sources
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by codeduck 5mo ago
Given a choice, VictoriaMetrics. It has proven itself time and time again at scale, and requires a very low support investment.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
> given Prometheus’s widespread adoption and proven reliability in diverse environments. I have used Prometheus a lot. Reliable is not a word I would associate with it.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
Ah yes, the old Agile-as-drunken-waterfall pattern
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by codeduck 5mo ago
I sometimes toy with writing the Orange Catholic Bible
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by codeduck 5mo ago
Funny; as a Brit I'd say the above is a classic hallmark of American companies. Brits are masters of malicious compliance.
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by codeduck 5mo ago
German but probably not autistic. I shall go and celebrate with some Dunkerbier.
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by codeduck 6mo ago
There is absolutely a Constitution in the UK, it is simply not codified into a single document. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin... More importantly, the UK is a Constitutional Monarchy, wit
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by codeduck 7mo ago
I suspect this sentiment is growing. I know I'm a Butlerian at heart.
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by codeduck 7mo ago
The ends almost never justify the means. The issue was intended for a human.
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by codeduck 7mo ago
Am I hallucinating? Wasn't there just an identical thread on the front page not even an hour ago?
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by codeduck 7mo ago
Le Guin's characterisation of magic and the power of Names remains one of my favourite treatments of the themes in modern fantasy. Earthsea remains one of my pleasures.
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by codeduck 7mo ago
I think you perhaps misunderstood the meaning of some of the words used.
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by codeduck 7mo ago
I on the other hand await the coming of the Butlerian Jihad.
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by codeduck 8mo ago
This is both painfully hilarious and hilariously painful. It might even be hilarious, but my JVM ran out of memory while trying to build the DOM model.
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by codeduck 9mo ago
Canonically it was winged penises, but yes.
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by codeduck 9mo ago
This was a fascinating read; thank you!
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by codeduck 9mo ago
Germany has passed legislation to permit the police and I believe the Bundeswehr to shoot down or disable unauthorised drones. Denmark is also (I believe) looking into this. I suspect that over the next year more and more EU countries will
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by codeduck 10mo ago
Pretty sure this is illegal under UK employment law. I smell a very uncomfortable period for Rockstar's HR department
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by codeduck 11mo ago
Oh dear. Will make for an awkward thing to have on your resume.
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by codeduck 11mo ago
it does at a macroscopic level by making scraping expensive. If every "valid" page is scattered at random amongst a tarpit of recursive pages of nonsense, it becomes computationally and temporaly expensive to scrape a site for &q

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