mothsonasloth

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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
Bookmarked. Definitely will use this for the Mongol Rally next year
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
There was a scare that BSE time bomb would explode in the UK in the 2010s As prions in children of 1990s brains would develop as they matured into adults. Never happened...
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
I would argue that growing up in a comfortable Western lifestyle is contributing to this infantilism and will be one of the contributors of the decline of the western world. If you are a Syrian refugee, the last thing you are caring about i
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
No stress testing the servers, naughty naughty. Elon please hire me, I can use Jmeter to scale a 1000 users per second on my IBM Thinkpad to put load on the servers. /s
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
No, https://git-scm.com/downloads Github != Git
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git". A recent example from a mid level dev: "I'm gonna branch from the github repository" - when the repositor
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
I currently need to take the car to the gym as I am recovering from a broken leg. I tried walking but by the time I got there I was in too much pain. Once my rehab is complete then I'll cycle or walk. On a tangent; the calf muscle is a
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
Really appreciated Villeneuve adding small scenes to the movie like the gardener watering the date palms and the ecology outpost. It rewards people who read the book and also helps people who are just watching the movie with understanding t
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
"It is I that must remain and bare the heavy burden of their failure..." https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
1. Swag 2. Fancy swag (that is definitely not a bribe) 3. Being wined and dined by sales people (that is definitely not a bribe) 4. Networking 5. Learn niche aspects of a programming language or framework, and prepare yourself for the futur
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
CAN bus is a brilliant thing for car diagnostics and modification but with every good system normally has a sword of damocles. I would imagine my Passat which has a CAN interface on the headlight cluster would be vulnerable to this attack a
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by mothsonasloth 3y ago
Slightly related - https://youtu.be/IQ_6-4MF79U?t=36
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Beko is a Turkish company, not Eastern European.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Really cool, I have often wondered about the "maps" in the Russian helicopter cockpits. I think they also move depending on the heading and direction of the helicopter to show the relative position for navigation. Would be interes
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Another piece of evidence that Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilisation.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Yea and that's the funny side, in UK you will find people trying to walk up mountains in trainers or crocs. However in the UK you are less likely to find someone hiking with a crossbow, flares, military rations and some vitamin pills,
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
A gun for breakfast, lunch and a more formal gun for dinner.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Probably someone just testing a spam bot on your site before deploying it for real.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Always wanted to visit it whenever I was next in Seattle, I guess I will need to wait a while though. In the UK we have a few smallish computer museums; one in Manchester University, one at a London University and then we have the National
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
This is just the ol' media favourite of "violent video games alters human behaviour" but flipped 180 and refreshed with a trendy climate wrapper. Games for years have had dystopian, catastrophic and other themes. Sure they ha
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
As a Java dev who learned C++ at university the hate towards C++ is misplaced. C++ is a no thrills language which lets you have freedom but freedom to also shoot yourself in the foot 100+n ways, but this gives you a good foundation as a dev
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
I'm in the same boat, that I have contemplated starting a business making houmous as a street food vendor. The author's article does resonate with me but to add, I think the software game has changed a lot since the dot-com era. I
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Fundus are SAFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEHXpE
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
It originated from Terry Davis the creator of TempleOS, but okay I get your point.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
I tried to write a Java SE application to be embedded in my retro encabulator to improve sinusoidal malleance, however due to a resonance cascade in 1.4 JVM it terfumbled and produced a cryptic stacktrace.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Perhaps it's me but I have been stung so many times with these controlled zones. Dartford crossing, London - forgot to pay Heathrow drop off - forgot to pay ULEZ Old Street - forgot to pay Mersey Gateway bridge, Liverpool - forgot to p
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
This is not the first and won't be the last case of its kind. The interesting thing politically is if this will be enforced or not, as I am sure there are a lot of Silicon valley founders worrying now. At best they will get some deserv
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
Couldn't you, y'know just get a new job offer and not tell them about it until your 60 days have elapsed?
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by mothsonasloth 4y ago
<on the slim chance anyone from Eidos or Embracer game devs are in here/> Please can you continue with the Deus Ex series, the three games with their Cyberpunk storylines and tech futurism/pessimism are a real gaming treasur

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