cyberferret

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by cyberferret 3y ago
I can totally relate. I started programming at around 18, writing games and utilities for DOS and other OSs at the time. I am 56 now and still actively writing code for my own SaaS. I expect that when I eventually retire, I will end up wr
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by cyberferret 3y ago
I don't know if it is guys like me skewing the numbers here, but I have a not insignificant LP collection that I've had for over 30 years now. I got rid of my record player decades ago when moving house but carted my LPs around
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by cyberferret 4y ago
SET BLASTER=RIP SIM WONG 1955 2023
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Building a guitar pedal VST plugin (inc. UX) using ChatGPT(youtube.com)
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by cyberferret 4y ago
Interesting - I was just having a discussion with my son the other day about the term "horsepower". Quick research showed that the average human can generate 1.2 HP in a burst, or 0.1 HP sustained. Is 0.5 HP the accepted measure
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by cyberferret 4y ago
Wow, this is an honour indeed to interact with you! I've actually gone back on Youtube and watched a few episodes again - ah the memories. Loved re-listening to Rendoosian again - wonderful language that has enough of a hint of actual
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by cyberferret 4y ago
Wow. I have a 6 letter Instagram account handle that actually matches a popular (Western) name and initial out there. So far I get about one fairly polite request per month via DM to sell my handle to them, which I always decline, but late
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by cyberferret 4y ago
I concur with this. Whenever I recommend Blackadder to friends or family, I encourage them to start with 2, then move forward, then go back to watch 1 if they become a fan. This was the exact path I took when I became familiar with the se
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by cyberferret 4y ago
You are so right about how the seriousness was always there and revealed itself at the end. I too was fairly young when I first watched it, and I think it really framed my propensity for adding humour to otherwise serious situations as a c
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by cyberferret 4y ago
Someone once told me - "British comedy is about making fun of yourself, whereas American comedy is about making fun of other people", and I have found it to be true in a lot of shows I've witnessed. Probably why I personally
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by cyberferret 4y ago
Pingu was a favourite to watch with the kids when they were younger - so much going on with no words. Also loved "The Flying Adrenallini Brothers" which was an animation with a made up language but so many visual gag laughs.
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by cyberferret 4y ago
I am a long time fan of Rowan Atkinson - though I must say, not of his 'visual comedy' characters like Mr. Bean or Man vs Bee etc. I lean more towards his 'Blackadder' characters (specifically Blackadder 2, 3 and 4. Seri
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by cyberferret 5y ago
Memories! One of the things I had to do in my first ever job was swap the backup discs in a Vax PDP-11 that ran a big pharmaceutical inventory system. All that time waiting for those huge discs to dismount and re-mount...
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by cyberferret 5y ago
Anders was one of my early heroes too - way before people like Gates or Ellison were on the scene. I too graduated from BASIC to Turbo Pascal, and couldn't believe the speed differential, and learning about things like recursion etc.
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by cyberferret 5y ago
Re: Your point (1), I read somewhere that the match took longer than watching the entire "Queen's Gambit" NetFlix series start to finish. (To put it in perspective for readers who may not realise how much time is spent at the
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by cyberferret 5y ago
A friend gave me a copy of Brian Shul's book (where this story came from) decades ago, and it is pretty much my most favourite coffee table book I've ever owned. I believe it went out of print, and I remember seeing copies on eBa
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by cyberferret 5y ago
Expensive? Not really. I was an early purchaser of DevUtils, and in the intervening time, the author has released a steady plethora of improvements and enhancements. Not to mention develop a bunch of other unrelated useful utilities. He k
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by cyberferret 5y ago
Nice work! Reminds me of the old days of the 'Boss Key' in most games of the 80's. +1 on the suggestion to actually make this a VSCode extension so you can have it running in a tab in your actual workspace and check it from
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by cyberferret 5y ago
I'm a 54 year old too, who has been cutting code since I was 18. Currently running my own startup which is doing well, but I find that the long years of long hours have sapped my energy levels quite drastically. I deliberately only wo
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by cyberferret 5y ago
I believe the cheaper blended olive oils cause a lot of problems. I now use only pure, high quality olive oil (from Kalamata, Greece, where I visited a couple of years back and saw them make (and drink) the stuff) and have experienced far
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by cyberferret 5y ago
I bought a couple of cast iron skillets last year after decades of cooking on traditional non stick pans, and I must say I love them and regret not doing so much earlier. It is amazing how, when well cared for they actually work better than
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by cyberferret 6y ago
Revolut is a UK based firm (also here in Australia now) that can set up virtual cards for you under your debit account.
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by cyberferret 6y ago
I've set out on a similar journey in the past couple of years, but been very much doing it 'in the dark' by focusing on learning and watching a lot of tactical videos on Youtube (mainly agadmator's and GothamChess's
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by cyberferret 6y ago
I've been blogging on and off for the past few years now (not going to publish the link here in case it is seen as self promotion). Mainly as a way of leaving my life story and thoughts for my family to have something to remember my l
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by cyberferret 6y ago
Been using Carbon for quite a while now when illustrating code in my blog posts or on Twitter etc. It is even on my Chrome shortcuts bar. Copy and paste aside, it is ideal for showcasing important bits of code such as variable or function
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by cyberferret 6y ago
AFAIK, Medium does support embedded Gists from GitHub etc. At least it did when I last wrote a programming guide in it. Update: Still seems that it does (scroll down) [0] Edit: Oops, I just remembered that HackerNoon moved off Medium to th
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by cyberferret 6y ago
Noticed that too. We just upgraded all our servers from M3 to M5 instances, but all in the us-east-1 region, so looks like we won't save a lot by purchasing more reserved instances. Noticed a huge 20% reduction in some other areas t
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by cyberferret 6y ago
In Europe, the "." and "," characters in a number have the complete opposite meaning to when used in US/UK/Australian etc. numbers.
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by cyberferret 6y ago
A friend of mine was a ferry pilot for the airlines. But essentially, a crew flies the plane out to its storage destination, and there is usually transport arranged out for them - either a bus, or a smaller corporate jet or even a piston e
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by cyberferret 6y ago
Qantas had originally scheduled to retire their last 747's over the coming year, but the pandemic shutdown pretty much made them re-schedule their plans for immediate retirement. Qantas now no longer operate the 747. Which is a strang

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