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by scrapheap 7mo ago
When I first read The Time Machine (by H.G.Wells) I wondered how the split between Eloi and Morlocks happened, and where in the timeline it started. The more I see of people using AI leads me to wonder if perhaps that split started a lot s
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
In fact, I don't think I've ever heard the term "clean eating" used before... I wonder where that term is commonly used?
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
That fear is good, it means you know that you're taking a risk - I'd worry if you had to touch production and didn't feel that fear. If you only have the one or two production systems/databases, and you're having to
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
My personal opinion is that if a team couldn't write something before AI then they should be very careful about writing it with the help of AI. For example a team that couldn't write a new encrypted messaging app without AI, gets
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
Yep, it's a shame that we keep making the same mistakes when it comes to basic security practices.
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
200MB for a desktop sounds massive to some of us :D Back in the day I used to have a desktop running, with applications, in just 512KB. Getting that memory upgrade to a full 1MB was amazing.
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
It always amazes me the number of SaaS solutions that don't implement rate limiting, then tell us not to worry about it when we ask how hard we can hit their APIs, and then complain that we're hitting their API too hard. My favour
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
You can get light spreader kits for the F91-W/A158W that replace the bit of plastic that sits behind the LCD for one that spreads the light from the LED far more evenly than the stock one. I recently fitted one on my F91-W and it certa
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
As a team we use Kanban, so everything being worked on gets a ticket and we walk the Kanban board every morning. So if a task is waiting for someone to review it, then it gets highlighted to the whole team each morning. If a task is block
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by scrapheap 8mo ago
Where possible automate them! From my point of view the power of automation for recurring tasks is less to do with time saved, and more to do with making sure that it will get done and be done the same way every time. Bonus tip: log the out
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by scrapheap 10mo ago
That is the second year of a PhD - the first year you're distracted by your literature survey of the area you're interested in. The second year is where you're trying to dig out a little niche that you can work in and expand
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by scrapheap 10mo ago
Stand out books for me that I've read this year: * The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (Short, but a great read) * The Incandescent by Emily Tesh * The Armchair Universe by A.K.Dewdney (First read this one many years ago, but I'
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Interestingly that would put some UK banks as running code that was written when the currency was still Pounds, Shillings and Pence. In the past I've heard that some banks put a decimalisation layer on top of their existing business lo
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Tags and Stashes are both commonly used features of Git. There's a lot of value of having well defined ways of handling them, especially when it comes to collaborating with others on developing code. With the way Stashes are implement
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by scrapheap 1y ago
A web version of comm, I can see that being useful for a lot of people who don't want (or know how) to use the command line.
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by scrapheap 1y ago
This brings back a memory of when I was given the only copy of an XML file that was large data extract that needed to be restored. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines the XML file had been corrupted in a way that broke most XML parser
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Personally I prefer to be sent a full email thread over a message in chat, because a) I can ignore it until I have time to look at it b) You can see who else has already been involved in the conversation - seeing a fellow team member being
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by scrapheap 1y ago
For anyone interested in this I can recommend the book, The Future Was Here. It really explains the Amiga hardware and how it was used. It even goes into how the bouncing ball demo works, and once you know all the tricks it could use on the
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by scrapheap 1y ago
I hope you responded with "The team is still learning, which is exactly why I shouldn't be quiet about code standards."
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AmigaGuide(en.wikipedia.org)
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by scrapheap 1y ago
One of the many definitions of the word Render is "to cause someone or something to be in a particular state", another is "to change words into a different language or form". Based on that surely a web server is renderi
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by scrapheap 1y ago
I don't tend to use Caps Lock at all - I know a lot of people remap it to be escape, just like OuterVale has mentioned, but for me it's just a key that I never use. Then again I no longer use home, end, page up and page down keys
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Which, to me, heavily implies that you should be taking all feedback as being valid with your best interests in mind. My point is that feedback isn't always valid and sometimes you need to reject it, as accepting it can also mean that
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by scrapheap 1y ago
> I don’t care how smart or ahead you are, but hard work always beats talent. Although you do need some talent or working hard will just be making problems for everyone else, and all management will hear about is you being the cause of p
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by scrapheap 1y ago
You know that you can just press <CTRL+D> at the bash prompt to quit it as well? (In fact <CTRL+D> will quit out of most command line programs as it's the End Of Transmission character)
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by scrapheap 1y ago
`cd -` is great for when you just want to nip out of your current directory for a second and then come straight back - especially as I'm pretty sure that most of us never think about pushd/popd until after we've moved to the
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Find's -exec option is great when you need to automate removing old backups
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by scrapheap 1y ago
This one gets uses a lot to compare two versions a JSON file vimdiff <( jq < /tmp/file1.json ) <( jq < /tmp/file2.json )
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Prometheus fronted by grafana is great and I use it a lot for work, but I can understand why they don't want to deal with it for just monitoring their home network - and writing your own monitoring software can certainly help you appre
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by scrapheap 1y ago
Starting with a program in memory would require that program to have been in ROM and then loaded into RAM on boot, but space in ROM was at a premium back in those days. However machines of that era did the next best thing, they provided so

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