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by dochne 7mo ago
All of my EU friends living in the UK have now applied for citizenship. The risk profile for "I have indefinite leave to remain" has moved from "this won't be an issue at all" to "we have no trust in the govern
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by dochne 11mo ago
I've never quite forgiven python for the time I tried to update it using yum, it failed which is then broke yum - not a fun place to end up. Treating python as a project level dependency rather than a system level dependency is just an
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by dochne 1y ago
The foundation is a very recent affair. The real improvements all came from the hard work of the developers who were around during the 7.* releases who did excellent work. Most importantly at that time we had Nikita Popov who was incredibly
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by dochne 1y ago
One place I would love to visit is the Tower of Hercules which was built in the first century and based on the original plans of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hercules
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by dochne 1y ago
My main beef with HCL is a hatred for how it implemented for loops. Absolutely loathsome syntax IMO
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by dochne 2y ago
I mean, it's asking kids if they want a ball of sugar - that does feel like a pretty sure thing.
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by dochne 2y ago
It's a farsicle example as the bottleneck is getting the council to fix the potholes.
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by dochne 2y ago
Experienced teams know to be careful and sparing with its use.
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by dochne 2y ago
AWS charges instances in 1 hour increments - so you're paying 150% the EC2 costs if you're doing this every 2 hours
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by dochne 2y ago
It must be horrible working for Automattic at the moment having to deal with this seemingly never ending farce.
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by dochne 2y ago
The Insites GDPR checker[1] does this. [1] https://insites.com/free-website-gdpr-check/
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by dochne 2y ago
I had one of the predecessors to this (the Jelly 2) as one of my strategies to cut down on smart phone usage. It was a nice idea (as it introduced pain points of using it as a distraction device), but the battery life ended up being abysmal
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by dochne 3y ago
If you're reading a PR diff on GitHub you can get it to ignore whitespace diffs by adding ?w=1 to the url - complete lifesaver in this kind of situation.
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by dochne 3y ago
MSN Spaces had this feature back in 2006! Makes me feel nostalgic!
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by dochne 3y ago
It still remains a mystery to me why browsers felt they should "fix" this server misconfiguration. It's particularly vexing to me as the main reason that people end up with misconfigured servers at all is because after they&#
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by dochne 3y ago
My understanding is that Postman unfortunately pulled the same thing lately, so that's unfortunately a no-go for you. I've previously had good experiences with Paw (now RapidAPI) - https://paw.cloud/ , but given th
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by dochne 3y ago
Thanks here go to the work done by the awesome-archive[0] project without whom this day would have been much more frustrating. [0] https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1