retroflexzy

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by retroflexzy 3mo ago
A significant part of my job, unfortunately, is helping people fix their workspaces when Perforce (p4) goes bad, or creating guardrails and wrappers to stop Perforce doing bad things. In fairness, p4 predates most of the VCSes we consider &
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by retroflexzy 3mo ago
> A writing system that used strict phonetic transcription for everything would be unusably bad. This is, for better or worse, what is being done to incorporate aboriginal names into things like streets and bridges in places like Vancouv
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by retroflexzy 7mo ago
Back in my youth, after the Internet became common but before Wikipedia, I tried to discover the answer to this and came away disappointed again and again. Every article I could find simply stated "because light scattering", and b
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by retroflexzy 10mo ago
After C:, it really is just allocated in order. Between CD/DVD drives, writers, Zip Drives, and extra hard drives, it wasn't unusual for a workstation to naturally end up with G: or H:, before mapped network storage became common.
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by retroflexzy 10mo ago
> Ansible is a complete mess. You're better off managing things with Puppet or Salt, as that gives you an actual declarative mechanism We thought this, too, when choosing Salt over Ansible, but that was a complete disaster. Ansible
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by retroflexzy 1y ago
It was "fun" discovering this the hard way a number of years ago when active US Android user count for a game we were supporting dropped 15% essentially overnight. The TCP stack in the client only did IPv4. The challenge, ironical
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by retroflexzy 1y ago
I once attempted to use XSLT to transform SOAP requests generated by our system so the providers' implementation would accept them. This included having to sufficiently grok XSD, WSDL el at to figure out what part of the chain is broke
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by retroflexzy 1y ago
Or, at least, not giving a fair take on its particular approach to open source. We both self-host and pay for the service. There is ample engagement from the development team with the larger community. There are also a myriad of open sourc
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by retroflexzy 1y ago
There was a period in World Rally Championship history when the top drivers would manipulate the starting order for the following day's stages by intentionally slowing down before the end of the stage. It was bizarre to watch teams in
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by retroflexzy 2y ago
Neat! Takes me back to highschool... https://lostmediawiki.com/Minesweeper_Flags_(lost_Windows_Li...
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by retroflexzy 2y ago
There is a cursor rendering fix in xf86-video-radeonhd (or perhaps -radeon) that flips a single bit. It took the group several years to narrow in on.
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by retroflexzy 2y ago
uv implements PEP 723. https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline... Especially useful if the script has dependencies on packages in private repos.