teh_klev

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by teh_klev 4d ago
>but the quiz is unfair - it assumes there is only one "true way", but a lot of frameworks give you options It says right underneath that quiz: "There isn’t really a right answer, because you were probably right for some l
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by teh_klev 28d ago
This was my experience. Years ago I travelled to New Zealand in what would be their spring time. We stayed in Wanaka but also travelled around Twizel, Tekapo etc. Although it was pretty sunny with clear blue skies, the air temperature was f
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by teh_klev 1mo ago
> I don't get the "everything needs to support dark theme" thing either tbh I started my career when screens were black with text displayed using green/white/amber phosphor and was used to that. I never liked the
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by teh_klev 1mo ago
I don't mind taking a long time to complete a book if the story is good. I just re-read a couple of Peter F Hamilton 1200 page tomes that took me over a month to complete (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained). However they were fun
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by teh_klev 1mo ago
I gave up on the Booker Prize years ago. It's mostly hand wringing, dreary, navel gazing tedium, which is a shame.
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by teh_klev 1mo ago
I own, and have read, quite a few novels from the SF Masterworks series. It's my go to for decent quality reprints of older sci-fi. Can definitely recommend.
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by teh_klev 2mo ago
These are the original articles this re-heat was created from: - https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/magnolias-be... - https://gardens.si.edu/learn/blog/the-botany-of-magnolia
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by teh_klev 2mo ago
That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates: https://github.com/madisongh/blissc
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by teh_klev 3mo ago
> My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run thi
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by teh_klev 4mo ago
> Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers. Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.
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by teh_klev 4mo ago
No, sadly not.
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by teh_klev 4mo ago
When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardwa
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by teh_klev 4mo ago
As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.
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by teh_klev 5mo ago
Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.
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by teh_klev 1y ago
>hides the execution. But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.
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by teh_klev 1y ago
I have a link for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Scroll to the bottom of the page.
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by teh_klev 1y ago
Yes, this is that company. This is the "original": https://github.com/sst/opencode
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by teh_klev 1y ago
This isn't LinqPad's selling point. All that dotnet run *.cs has done is remove the need to have a project file for each "script" you write. LinqPad maybe has this feature but it's selling point is as a scratch pad
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by teh_klev 1y ago
Or, just link directly to the paper which isn't paywalled: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087
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by teh_klev 2y ago
Start here I think: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/264
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by teh_klev 2y ago
I did google "bus-stops-on-a-slope", but nothing jumped out. What are "bus-stops-on-a-slope"?
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by teh_klev 2y ago
Years ago I ended up in a system with a star I couldn't refuel from and was S.O.L. I had vaguely heard of the Fuel Rats[0] and did a google to see if they were real and contactable. I put in a call to them and about an hour later a kin
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Ah, ok :) Don't be so hard on yourself, even after 20+ years of .NET dev there are still things I can be a bit forgetful about, such as this UI annoyance.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> Often in aspdotnet we have programmers Pretty sure this is a problem across many other development platforms. Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> 64 Kbit/s ISDN leased line That would have been Kilostream which wasn't part of the ISDN system. Kilostream pre-dated ISDN. The reason for its high cost was that you could throw as much data as you wanted to 24hrs a day and i
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Minor nitpick...Active Directory didn't appear until Windows Server 2000.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Should we then destroy all legal documents, for example The Magna Carta? Museums aren't just a store of "art", museums are a way to preserve our heritage, preferably in its original form.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> working on tickets while they are on-call That's why they call it "on-call", you only work if you get the call. If you're on-call and being expected to work on unrelated tickets then you're now adding many ho
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work. I partially agree, something needs to be on fire or a complete showstopper for that to happen. My only other reason would be helping out a colleague who
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me. For you, yes. But remember not everyone is a night owl, nor is everyone an early bird. I start work at 930am, we have our stand up, then I warm up with 30-45 mins of coffee, readin

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