rmaus

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by rmaus 5mo ago
To maintain a fair comparison, GitHub has supported self-hosted runners for several years (maybe that doesn’t work for your specific usage, for whatever reason).
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by rmaus 3y ago
Tangentially related, when I was on the rowing team in college the coxswain commonly replaced ‘seven’ (the only two syllable number in the 1-10 range) with ‘save’, to maintain a smooth cadence for counting 10 strokes.
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by rmaus 3y ago
https://imgur.com/a/wyqPSeo (unsure why this is marked 18+, sorry; it's SFW). You can see my first build (blue) in several of these pictures following similar advice to OP's guide (looping diodes, etc), with
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by rmaus 3y ago
There are certain kinds of fully custom keyboards, such as the one I use (Dactyl Manuform) where the keys do not sit on a single flat plane. Such a build would require a flexible PCB. This is doable for the advanced-amateur EE but the geome
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by rmaus 3y ago
(I'm not the parent commenter), but I believe a defining quality of a senior developer is someone who I can give any problem/project to in the business domain and they return with a solution in the technical domain.
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by rmaus 9y ago
How exactly do you escape the tech world when you want? Just visiting SV for a couple days was borderline oppressive to me! Everyone has an idea for an app, nearly every bar or restaurant patron was discussing something technical. How
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by rmaus 9y ago
Fascinating, did he work there long enough to know Edwin Hubble?
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by rmaus 9y ago
FYI, in this comment section there's a lengthy discussion regarding Start Citizen's development; lots of good answers to your question there.
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by rmaus 9y ago
I think you could say that Star Citizen is the modern spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series (and is being created by the same person, Chris Roberts).
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by rmaus 9y ago
I don't have stake in this one way or the other, but will you argue in favor of Instacart's '$10 service fee' (as mentioned by parent commenter)?
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by rmaus 9y ago
With 'Reachability' enabled (Settings -> General -> Accessibility), you can partially get around this. Activate Reachability (swipe down on home bar), then swipe down on the (now-easier-to-reach) battery/signal area to
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by rmaus 9y ago
This is a great resource for astrophotographers. I always check it prior to traveling somewhere new (particularly the western US) to see if it's worth packing equipment and taking a detour for photo opportunities.
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by rmaus 9y ago
Hah, yes and no. The card said we wanted the money to go to the person we thought needed it the least. However, he knew he was not well-liked, presumably connected the dots, and thought it was funny anyways.
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by rmaus 9y ago
Did something similar to this at a previous employer. We had a problem with a particular weekly meeting starting on time, so we all agreed on a $1 late fee, per minute. At year's end, the collected fees were gifted to one of the firm
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by rmaus 9y ago
You should read Children of Time.
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by rmaus 9y ago
Not only is it wrong, but it's wildly misleading about why dependency inversion is desirable. This article is trash; it's basically a copy/paste of the Wikipedia entry on dependency inversion, rewritten awkwardly (not to men
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Options Exchange CBOE to Launch Cryptocurrency Derivatives in 2017(coindesk.com)
1 points by rmaus 9y ago|0 comments
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by rmaus 9y ago
This is completely off topic, but does it bother anybody else that we live in a world where the CEO of any technologically savvy company disseminates announcements as a picture of text?
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by rmaus 9y ago
And they are sorry they got caught, not sorry they did it. As is tradition.
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by rmaus 10y ago
"Stagnant Edition"