tharax

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by tharax 2y ago
But better than this is would be if my go tooling didn't default to trying to pull codebases through a proxy Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't like that out of the box the toolchain tries to pull all the code at `example.c
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by tharax 3y ago
The sport is much more interesting for spectators when the top speed is 50-70km/h than when it’s 10-20km/h
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by tharax 3y ago
In fact, according to her tax disclosures she doesn’t even expect to stay in the UK…
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by tharax 3y ago
Google “houseboats <european city>” and you’ll see how they are moored and connected to services. There’s many good videos on YouTube doing tours of boats if you want to go down a rabbit hole.
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by tharax 3y ago
Are you saying that if massive corporations will probably fight regulation we should just give up before even starting?
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by tharax 3y ago
I think a government blocking a project from existing is by definition a failure. And it also shows that cryptocurrency projects will always be at the mercy of the whims of government(s).
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by tharax 3y ago
“Stored away for long periods of time to minimise fading” is such a polite way of saying “so that future generations have a chance of seeing it, _you_ aren’t able to see it today”.
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by tharax 4y ago
My friends and family who could not afford to buy have almost all left the city completely, so I guess you’re right in the sense they don’t rent _in Auckland_ any more. Last Summer I spent half my time driving between Warkworth, Rotorua, a
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by tharax 4y ago
1. Jacinda Ardern is no longer Prime Minister. This is a recent change without much fanfare, so it’s not unreasonable the author made this mistake. 2. ...Is Auckland suddenly more affordable? As someone who grew up there but currently livin
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by tharax 4y ago
Are you me? Our services with all the best practices are also the worst to work on because the business value is hidden in layers and layers of indirection, abstraction and nested packages. It’s like someone took a recipe card to bake a cak
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by tharax 4y ago
Probably because currently multiple rich people can subjugate humanity, while AI would allow the single richest person to subjugate everyone, even second place
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by tharax 4y ago
Many popular games are free to play. They monetise through targeting whales.
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by tharax 4y ago
This is perhaps the most succinct way I've ever seen this expressed. Agree 100%.
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by tharax 4y ago
That's why in my next start-up, we're making sure that each employee works 168 hours a week. We believe that maximising inputs is the only way to get results.
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by tharax 6y ago
> That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks. I should be able to ignore and dismiss updates for years. I recognise I'm taking on risks, but it's my hardware and my data. Some of these updates are downgra
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by tharax 6y ago
You were frustrated the customer didn't pay you an arbitrary amount to live off based on their mood instead of frustrated that your boss didn't pay you a legally mandated amount to live off. The worst part about tipping culture is
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by tharax 6y ago
If consistency if so important, why do we have: function, func, fun, fn, def, etc... depending the author? For clarity, use "function", for simplicity use "func", other forms are just fancy. "This is the standard we
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by tharax 7y ago
Quake? Doom? Wolfenstein 3D?
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by tharax 7y ago
There is no clickable link in the password reset email.
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by tharax 7y ago
No they are _not_. Salary is for 40 hours a week, +/- 5 hours depending on temporary circumstances. Salary is not 40 hours working + 128 hours on call per week.
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by tharax 8y ago
> 2) Most GitHub users put a lot of value in their repo pages, I think you underestimate how many "Single commit, push and forget" test repositories are out there.
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by tharax 10y ago
Count me in!
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by tharax 11y ago
right, but then so does support - by making sure that your customers are happy and therefore recommend your brand and become repeat customers. so do your cleaners - by making the workplace a tidier building so that your other staff are more
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by tharax 11y ago
SOMEONE will end up managing the team that adds value to the company. I think the point is to play the politics & turf battles so that YOU are that someone.
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by tharax 11y ago
Where do you live? London Which is the state where you live? I don't live in a state Cool, well I do live in a state, even if you don't. Which is the state where you live? ...
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by tharax 12y ago
A fight occurring in a plane is more dangerous than on the ground, specially if people are firing guns.
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by tharax 12y ago
Really? There are a lot of jobs that could be automated. If you are writing software with the goal of improving current processes, sometimes you can get a better result by looking at WHY the process exists, and if it could be replaced entir
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by tharax 12y ago
I think this in the same vein as "We don't interview a psychic every time there is a murder". If you want the BBC to be unbiased, then you could make the argument they have previously being biased towards climate change denia
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by tharax 13y ago
Trade Me has been gamed though, by importers and people using it as a virtual store for selling or trading their niche. I'm not sure what the answer is, but a way to filter out the high-volume sellers would be nice.
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by tharax 14y ago
I remember my statistics lecturer was fond of pointing out that NASA estimated the probability of SOMETHING failing on launch was (1). That is, because of the complexity of the project, there was always something that was missed or broken -

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