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by mpettitt 2y ago
Including developer tooling in a Docker image is missing one of the really useful things about Docker: not needing all that stuff. By using a multi-stage build, you can do all the slow dev stuff at image build time, then only include the ou
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by mpettitt 3y ago
I recently bought a WD Red HDD drive for my NAS direct from WD, and it arrived in a crushed box. Now, things do get damaged in transit, but I don't want to install a drive, start using it, then get errors which were caused by damage wh
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Some of these don't look like checkboxes at all, and wouldn't trigger any indication that they could be changed. For example, if I saw number 44 next to a line of text, I'd think "that must be something not available for
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Ever read "The Machine Stops" by EM Forster? Over 100 years old, and it's got Facebook style interactions!
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Well, according to "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O" (Neal Stephenson and Nicole Garland), it was all about magic!
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Was going to mention Interface! It's very much Cambridge Analytica vibes - you feel that there are teams as described doing pretty much the same things, just without the direct brain interface. Personally, I think Anathem is the best o
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Kind of. I picture it as being a function of input to output, so if the input changes, the output does too, but the output change is based on what changes have been made by the player. E.g. if you have a hospital which can handle X patients
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Yes, I imagined that a component could provide some inputs (e.g. Grain) and outputs (e.g. Bread) with some default link between the two, and that would apply to all instances of that component within the world, unless a player took control
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Everything sim. You start with, say, Sim City. You find that your rail network isn't working properly, so you switch contexts to a kind of Transport Tycoon style game, where you can optimise the train schedules and destinations. You re
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by mpettitt 4y ago
Nice - although the coverage locally is a bit spotty (I'm not talking missing shows, I'm talking missing theatres!).
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by mpettitt 4y ago
I have a 5yo and play a wide range of games with her. She has various "learning games" from Orchard Toys. She has some junior versions of various mainstream games (e.g. Scrabble, Dobble) and junior versions of more gamer type game
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by mpettitt 4y ago
This is such a good point. I've been pushing back for quite a while, and have generally had a positive response where the company revises the contract wording to a more acceptable level. I feel that the principle of least privilege wou
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by mpettitt 4y ago
If you link to a page, whatever text you put in as the body of the link will remain. The link itself won't go anywhere, but the content you have added to it will remain. In this case, it's as if the link text also vanished when th
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by mpettitt 5y ago
I was looking at this a couple of weeks ago, and compared to some alternatives (e.g. opencti) it seemed a lot less polished. It was still easier to get running than Cortex though, at least for a basic look.
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by mpettitt 5y ago
The keyboard only shows the top four boards though!
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by mpettitt 5y ago
I've recently switched from using a 15 or 17 inch laptop along with a 27 inch curved screen to a 13 inch laptop with a pair of 28 inch 4k flat screens, and am really liking it. I run Linux, and have various gnome extensions to allow fo
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by mpettitt 5y ago
No, they like @gmail.com, but don't want people getting gmail for their own domains without paying.
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by mpettitt 5y ago
Historically, they've not been able to migrate purchases from g suite to Gmail - I've been asking on roughly an annual basis for the last 5 years. I really hope they are going to change that, although I don't buy much anymore
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by mpettitt 6y ago
Another alternative look at the Frozen story is in Disney's Twisted Tales version ( https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Conceal,_Don%27t_Feel_(A_Twis... ) which shows an alternative way that the parents could have dea
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by mpettitt 6y ago
From looking at the news, the US seems far poorer in day-to-day terms. For example, searching "living in cars" then "uk" or "usa" gives some results for each. The UK ones mostly talk about "hundreds forced
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by mpettitt 6y ago
I would like to see simulation games which work together. For example, combining a transport simulator, a city simulator, a production simulator and a theme park simulator. You build a quarry which digs up clay, and another which produces c
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by mpettitt 6y ago
You mean https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Prog... ?
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by mpettitt 6y ago
Matt Haig's "The Humans" talks about humanity finding the answer to the Riemann Hypothesis being feared universally - it's simultaneously very important to the plot, and a convenient MacGuffin.
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by mpettitt 6y ago
It's definitely on the label of my daily medication (in the UK), but it was interesting to see how the interaction seems to be fairly specific to grapefruit. Do either of the ancestor species have a similar effect? I do wonder if there
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by mpettitt 6y ago
I suspect it may relate to the way it accesses other executable file directories - it scans for the RCT2 data files, which are in another executables folder structure, so rather than just sticking to the install folder and the shared docume
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by mpettitt 6y ago
It's important to note that while there are a lot of skills which can be useful, it's fairly rare to find a job which requires them all. For example, if you have a mobile application specialist, they probably don't need to wo
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by mpettitt 6y ago
It seems to be a very uniquely American game - being from the UK, I've never seen a copy in person. From what I can tell, I'm not missing much - I think my kids would hate it, since they're happily playing Ticket to Ride and
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by mpettitt 6y ago
My 3yo daughter can handle Ticket to Ride First Journey, and even now knows some of the city names (we actually have a German edition, since I couldn't find an English one at a sensible price). It plays a bit quicker than the full vers
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by mpettitt 6y ago
The Aurora Rising books by Alistair Reynolds are set in an environment where this is the case. Basically the only automatic right is that to have a vote.

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