codeduck

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   by codeduck 5y ago

   In the UK it's possible to see a running estimate of your current tax position and the estimate for the end of the year. HMRC issues you a tax code which is used by your employer to determine how much tax they should be deducting each
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   Humans are more akin to Tolkein's Dwarves than the Elves. Argumentative, proud, and araricious.
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   I've been using jenkins for over 10 years. There is no finer system for turning quick CI hacks into entrenched technical debt. Jenkins gives you the freedom to do things without the burden of asking whether you should do those things.
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   I run a small website on wp. Every time I update it I take a backup first. One every couple of days on average I think about replacing it with something custom. But the sad thing is that I don't know enough of the CSS side to make the
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   Shots fired.
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   I picked up the first book of the assassins trilogy on a whim, and ended up discovering, like you, one of my all time favourite fantasy authors.
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   For broadly similar reasons I have a 650cc twin sports tourer. It is docile, mild mannered, and has enough reserve power at the speed limit should I need it. I don't want or need anything more.
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   Last time I looked at the numbers, the peaks were at 6 months to a year of experience riding, and the second at 3 to 4 years. The first peak being generally due to inexperience, the second to overconfidence. Lack of regular experience is de
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   by codeduck 5y ago

   Inconceivable.
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    by codeduck 5y ago

    Something being legal does not make it right or just.
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    by codeduck 5y ago

    > duck-taping GPT-3 to a mountain of past battlefield data and specs and having it run war games for a while This is a great way for optimising towards winning past conflicts. It is a terrible way to adapt to new developments. A very go
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Or... Just focus on being a good manager and not on saddling them with extraneous bullshit.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    > kubectl rollout restart deploy spacex-falcon9
14. 254.▲
    by codeduck 6y ago

    > these tools protect us from so many footguns present with raw query string manipulation. cough Parler springs to mind.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    >If space exploration is so importanr to the future of humankind, why do Americans have to bear all the expense? Countries other than the United States are actively exploring the solar system, and until recently the United States had no
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    10m/s is a pretty fresh breeze.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    This is only really a viable option prior to launch, of if the probe is coasting and you have enough time. If the probe is already near its destination, you have a very narrow window during which you can adjust its velocity for intercept. I
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    The biggest issue with Rails is remembering how to DISABLE everything you don't want. API-based Rails is really nice.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Sorry, this is false. I'm a Java developer who became a Ruby developer who became an SRE. Ruby is far easier to deploy and use than Java or (in my limited experience) Golang, specifically because it has a single, mature, sane packaging
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    I remember reading the analyses of Stuxnet and being staggered by the sophistication. Solarwinds feels like a script-kiddie job in comparison.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    What a meaningless title.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Texas already has a large enough ego.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Is this a cry for help? :)
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    MMS is not a common technology in Europe.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Masers or lasers. Or, simply, belt-fed automatic shotguns.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Shoutout for RubyMine, Goland and Pycharm - all excellent and reliable.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    I feel like a broken record, but we are having great success with Victoria metrics as a drop in replacement.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Use Victoria metrics. One lightweight agent per cluster pushing to a centralised metrics store makes it so much easier.
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    `openssl rand n | base64` is my go to
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    by codeduck 6y ago

    Rubymine really is a fanatastic IDE.