scooble

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by scooble 3y ago
I nearly ran around on this. Barrelling towards it in my gaff cutter because my crew read the depth above chart datum as the depth below. Turned aside at the last minute when the waves started looking suspicious. Another friend rescued two
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by scooble 3y ago
I've read a bunch of tutorials promoting env vars to avoid secrets being accidentally checked into git. Step 1 is usually to create a .env file and add it to your gitignore.
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by scooble 3y ago
I made a 14ft oar to scull my sailing boat, a 9ton gaff cutter. Worked surprisingly well.
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by scooble 4y ago
I feel that your last point is underappreciated. I enjoy my work more if I enjoy using my tools, and I enjoy using vim.
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by scooble 4y ago
At a pinch, drilling a hole the external diameter of the plug cutter and clamping that to the board you are getting the plug out of can act as a guide so the plug cutter doesn’t spiral out and cut a hole in the wooden stairs you are using a
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by scooble 4y ago
A really fun feature of herbstluftwm that I’ve not seen replicated is that monitors are virtual and can be reconfigured on the fly, so you can have e.g. a monitor that is bigger than your physical screen, or a little virtual monitor that yo
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by scooble 4y ago
I mostly work with python and drop pdb into my code if I want to step through and see what’s going on. I run tests with the make command so I can use the quickfix list to skip between errors.
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by scooble 4y ago
> multi-file find/replace This is something I’ve found very easy in vim with bufdo , windo, or populating the quickfix list (or args list) and using cfdo/cdo or argdo to be really specific about where the replace should happen
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by scooble 5y ago
Too dangerous compared to what? Cars? If we replaced all the cars with bikes would you expect injuries/deaths to increase or decrease?
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by scooble 5y ago
I find it mildly uncomfortable to hold shift while typing. And as there is a key for that purpose, which is in the same place on all keyboards, it seems more straightforward for me to use it for its intended purpose rather than something el
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by scooble 5y ago
‘Cattle’ always seems to imply spreading your infrastructure across multiple cloud services, and having infrastructure management tools etc. I sometimes wonder whether we need another metaphor, something like a dairy cow, where you only hav
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by scooble 5y ago
For a business account, Metro bank has no monthly charge if your balance stays above £6000, and only charges for some types of transactions (none of which I've used in the 6 years MyCo has been active).
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by scooble 5y ago
I don’t think you can have the same desktop on both screens, but otherwise herbstluftwm allows this. Also monitors are virtual so you can have multiple virtual monitors on one physical monitor. I want to one day try this with a 4K tv to hav
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by scooble 5y ago
> It’s unfathomable to think of a company having 3-4 woodworking teams each with different shops, tools, jigs etc. Not really, depending on the company. Building something complex, like a house, could require at least carpenters, joiners
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by scooble 5y ago
I don’t know why, but I love this and was delighted to find our local redwood.
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by scooble 5y ago
Iirc you can edit the patch in git add -p. So fine editing is possible.
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by scooble 5y ago
And it’s not just about the people’s preference. An office could be the google campus or it could be a crappy cubicle farm. Similarly, wfh could be a studio flat where your workspace is a table shared with a homeschooled toddler, or it coul
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by scooble 5y ago
You also get to write a nice detailed commit message for the merge commit explaining the purpose of the branch being merged, which may not be apparent from the individual commits. Without the merge commit I’m not sure where this would go.
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by scooble 5y ago
I agree, but there can be some exceptions. I got auto-rejected when applying for a law conversion course because of my A Level grades. I have a first class degree, a master’s degree with distinction and a phd.
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by scooble 5y ago
> If the article said it’s only hard for moms, then I’d disagree with it... but it doesn’t. I took the authors claim that dads were less interested in spending time with their children to suggest that this wasn’t such an issue for dads.
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by scooble 5y ago
The data could also be misleading. You could look at the numbers of women in the workplace in the 50s and conclude that women generally aren’t interested in the world of work. But this would completely overlook the barriers they faced - suc
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by scooble 5y ago
Indeed. I don’t think it really helps women in the workplace if we just go along with the assumption that men are more work focussed and women more family focussed.
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by scooble 5y ago
I noted the article unquestioningly accepted the stereotype that men have less interest in spending time with their children than women. It strikes me that questioning this assumption would be a very good thing for improving the situation o
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by scooble 5y ago
It is worth noting that responsive design is required for accessibility. The list of devices offered in the article omits, for example, ‘visually impaired users with zoom set to 400%’.
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by scooble 5y ago
I suspect that one cause of this is the fact that these contracts need to be rendered for, which means stipulating the requirements at the beginning so bids can be produced. So a change of approach would necessitate a change in how how cont
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by scooble 6y ago
There seemed to be a sudden shift in the middle where we went from ‘it’s good for banks to lend people money to start taco stands’ to ‘it’s good for banks to take bets on how many people will default on their mortgage’. To my untrained eye
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by scooble 6y ago
Nice. I use a much simpler format which is basically the task name and the number of minutes worked. These lines are appended to a text file for the day that gives me a timesheet. I start a bash script when I start work which counts the min
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by scooble 6y ago
> Even worse is when you connect an external monitor which is not HiDPI and now everything is bigger than usual. This has been a real bugbear for me. I'm a big fan of small sharp bitmap terminal fonts, but as my new laptop is now t
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by scooble 6y ago
To add to this, a perspective I've heard working in the disability sphere is 'everybody is disabled eventually' - be that through injury, illness, or even just old age. This really challenges the view that thinking about disa
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by scooble 6y ago
To a point. I’ve been asked about the criteria used to evaluate third party suppliers, for example. Or the physical security measures at outsourced data centres.

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