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by saulr 5mo ago
Spectators don't watch the game on the same server that's hosting the game. The host server sends the traffic to a 'relay' on a delay, which spectators then connect to. Similarly for the HTTP streamed games, the game ser
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by saulr 5mo ago
This absolutely still exists - I have a library for reading Source 2 (CS2, Deadlock etc) demo files and streams (HTTP ones like CSTV). https://github.com/saul/demofile-net
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by saulr 8mo ago
Just to add a piece of data to support this: > It turns out the phone signal inside the station can be better than the one above ground I was surprised when I noticed I had 5G in the tunnel, ran a speed test and hit 641Mbps down! https:
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by saulr 3y ago
> the fact that Post Office Ltd has inherited the ability to prosecute crimes committed against itself Any private citizen or business in the UK has a right to prosecute crimes. It just costs a lot of money, so you can imagine how it&#x2
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by saulr 3y ago
This ultimately resulted in a new restriction in a bill making its way through Parliament that "a company must not be registered under this Act by a name that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, consists of or includes computer
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UK competition regulator finds Adobe’s purchase of Figma could reduce innovation(gov.uk)
168 points by saulr 3y ago|72 comments
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by saulr 5y ago
Worth noting that Hadolint[1] raises warnings the issues mentioned in the article. Some examples of warnings: - https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/wiki/DL3007 : Using latest is prone to errors if the image w
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by saulr 5y ago
On Linux, .NET does write ANSI escape sequences to stdout for you. ConsolePal.Unix.cs (Pal in this context referring to 'platform abstraction layer') does the work for you behind the scenes: https://github.com/dotn
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by saulr 5y ago
I believe this tweet has been twisted from the original tweet, which is that _cross origin_ alert (e.g. from an iframe) is the thing being removed. Using alert etc from the main frame will continue to work.
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by saulr 5y ago
iCloud Private Relay, coming in iOS 15, does appear to be native IPv6. I wonder if this will have a noticeable effect on IPv6 adoption stats when it's released to the public[1]? [1] https://www.google.com/intl/en&
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by saulr 5y ago
Edge supports WebDriver: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-ch...
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by saulr 6y ago
If you're in the market for an F# job in London, please reach out to me at Saul.Rennison@gresearch.co.uk. We have an full-time F# engineer open right now.
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by saulr 6y ago
G-Research | F# Engineer | Full-time | London - ONSITE after COVID | https://gresearch.co.uk G-Research is Europe's leading quantitative finance research firm. We hire the brightest minds in the world to tackle some of the
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by saulr 6y ago
The companies using F# are definitely few and far between, but G-Research in London are hiring an F# developer at the moment. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please reach out to me at: im (at) saul.re
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by saulr 6y ago
I have several years of full-time F# experience and I’ve also made some contributions to the F# support for Rider. 1. As part of my job I flip between C# and F# often and with each new release of Rider the IDE-support gap between them is cl
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by saulr 6y ago
I believe newer Valve multiplayer games (e.g. Dota, CSGO) use Steam Networking instead of the game sending UDP itself. Packets sent with Steam Networking are encrypted[0]. Before CSGO moved to Steam Networking, the game itself encrypted the
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by saulr 8y ago
Funny to see someone linking to one of my tutorials :) I'd completely forgotten I wrote all of those!
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by saulr 10y ago
Hey Philip, great post - really informative. Especially happy to see that the nightly releases are coming along considering the pace of improvements by the likes of Vasily and all the rest. I do have a small question about the Visual F# tea
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by saulr 10y ago
WSL does support network adapter enumeration as of build 14965. Take a look at this blog post from November: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/10/ifco...
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by saulr 10y ago
If you disable hibernation then the hiberfil will disappear. With low power states in modern computers, sleep is suffice (hibernate is a relic from old Windows): > powercfg -h off
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by saulr 10y ago
Very interesting. Just to clarify, am I right in saying that 10-bit colour just provides more precise colours within the sRGB gamut? 10-bit colour does not extend the colour gamut in anyway?
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by saulr 10y ago
Check out uswitch, they have a few unlimited data deals: https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/ (Select "Unlimited data" from the filters on the left-side)
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by saulr 10y ago
They definitely do - I signed up to one the other week. Three do "all-you-can-eat" 4G data + 200 minutes = £23/month (50% off first 6 months)
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by saulr 10y ago
Completely agree except the light argument -- having my lights cloud connected allows me to control them remotely. The main use for this is for time or sunrise/sunset scheduling. However you could quite easily architecture this without
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by saulr 10y ago
The standard is only a hint to the user agent, not a MUST.
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by saulr 10y ago
Just to add to this, Mastercard and Visa have set a 2020 limit for all card machines in Europe to support contactless payments.
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by saulr 10y ago
Sanitizing usually means escaping. i.e., sanitizing as to not be dangerous, escape any dangerous sequences.
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by saulr 10y ago
If the author is reading this, I always find it useful to run HTML CodeSniffer [1] to find contrast accessibility violations. It gives you the closest colour that meets the contrast requirements. With a few small colour tweaks, I got the nu
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by saulr 10y ago
Likewise for Computer Science classes in Western Europe (and I imagine North America). This is the issue with arbitrary quotas/targets for hiring female engineers - there is a lack of those qualified. I acknowledge that there is a huge
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by saulr 10y ago
The user isn't changing page, so you definitely shouldn't be using pushState. If you want to update the address bar, use replaceState. After clicking a few of them I certainly didn't expect to have to click back to cycle thro

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