keir-rex

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by keir-rex 8y ago
Do HN threads get locked?
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by keir-rex 8y ago
Also, if you can abstract away at a sufficiently low level why not just do it in C where there's already a generation of experience and familiarity?
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by keir-rex 8y ago
I was expecting to see this type of response. I don't program at low levels but it seems like this would be the responding answer. Kernel programmers would be using something else if that's what they wanted to use. Decades of expe
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by keir-rex 8y ago
Not have I seen it, I've been involved in hiring the person for their next role. There's a lot to be suspicious of but I think most people have been in a position where the personal relationship is beyond reconciliation for no oth
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by keir-rex 8y ago
I once worked with a guy who had previously worked for GCHQ doing something with cyphers/cryptography. He said he had never consumed more drugs in his life than during that period. They didn't care he took drugs as long as he was
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by keir-rex 8y ago
I think it might be related to this: https://hackaday.com/tag/logitech-unifying-receiver/
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by keir-rex 8y ago
That statement confused me too... I think she/he means the Game Boy Advanced (ARM7TDMI @ 16.78 MHz): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance
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by keir-rex 8y ago
They also get dumped every where. The oBikes look awful too. Ofo bikes are of a reasonable quality but obikes on the other hand have never tempted me to use them.
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by keir-rex 8y ago
I’m new to Openshift (about a month in) after a year of low level (hand rolled HA cluster) kubernetes experience. I don’t rate the experience in Openshift. It seems like they are trying to tack things on which are superfluous to most teams
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by keir-rex 8y ago
Is the date 2002 correct? Which browser was that released for?
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by keir-rex 8y ago
Grammar police warning: The comma in “if it doesn’t crash, the bug is present” actually makes the intention more difficult to understand.
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by keir-rex 9y ago
It’s a regular occurrence on HN someone dropping an acronym that is so obscure or specific to the topic at hand, and without explanation, that no amount of googleitsu will find the correct decoding. In this case it was pretty easy,nvh = noi
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by keir-rex 9y ago
There’s a subset of drivers in the UK who have a resentment to sharing the road with cyclists. Their primary arguments follow; “car drivers pay road tax...” or “cyclists should be forced to sit a driving/road test...” blah blah. There
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by keir-rex 9y ago
What does this mean in reality... You could make derivative works of the original Mickey Mouse free from copyright infringement? Would copyright still be in place for subsequent Mickey Mouse productions?
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by keir-rex 9y ago
It is a secret if you answer the question incorrectly and only you know what the real-fake answer is!
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by keir-rex 9y ago
Perhaps not targeted at children specifically but probably child friendly (PG?) I enjoyed the Great War series on YouTube. It is giving a week by week account of the events in WW1 as it happened 100 years ago. I haven’t kept up to date with
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by keir-rex 9y ago
Not on my iPad... Which browser are you on? I used the arrows on the side of the slide not underneath.
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by keir-rex 10y ago
Ah, I see it now. Apologies!
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by keir-rex 10y ago
How did you deduce those figures? 50% of 100 is 50. 70% of 50 is 35. Meaning: 1) 50 out of 100 people were infect, 2) 35 of which would die, 3) leaving 50 who didn't get infected, 4) leaving 15 who survived.
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by keir-rex 11y ago
My Nexus 7 (2012) was exactly the same... Lost my phone last week and needed a device to use in the meantime. Installed Cyanogenmod 12.1 on the Nexus and it's measures of magnitude better! Now to fix the rubbish WiFi reception.