throwaway154

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by throwaway154 3y ago
Corps have a dev environment sitting right in Excel that doesn't need special (management, management's management, adding to a registrar of projects, budgeting or project manager assigned, etc) approval for non-stock software. T
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by throwaway154 3y ago
I'm not impressed by the USB. That it's possible to put transaction details on a USB stick means it's possible for customer data to go walking out the door on a USB stick, too. I'm pretty sure infact this goes against
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by throwaway154 3y ago
I hate scalpers. I'm too busy doing HFT to deal with the problems they make.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
The positive part of snaps, and I don't like snaps for myself, is that snaps keep updating on an unmaintained server. So as a default for VPS providers seeking to hand hold users Ubuntu perhaps makes sense. At least that's what I
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by throwaway154 3y ago
No just major Chinese bank, but the biggest bank in the world measured by assets. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks
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by throwaway154 3y ago
You'd probably be better off downloading an edition of wikipedia for that purpose. Entropy, and stuff.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
+1 useful.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Seconding Zettlr. It also handles citations smoothly with a linked .bib file. The sidebar (a sidebar, there's more than one) also does directory tree structure like your favourite code editor too.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
You mean kicking back over some eggs benedict, a meat and cheese charcuterie board, with some champagne on the side, sitting back in your pine-panelled centrally heated chalet overlooking mountain landscapes relaxing having risen at 4.30pm
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by throwaway154 3y ago
The call-in was an anonymous, apparently, call to the company's switchboard stating a bomb package had been left in the vicinity of the desk. We were evacuated to a separate part of the building for a few hours while it was dealt with
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by throwaway154 3y ago
I once worked with new awful in-house software that (thankfully) depended on 3rd party software. We had the legacy in-house system parallel running, which was even more awful. The legacy's awful came from it being unable to do anythi
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by throwaway154 3y ago
I quit Ubuntu for Debian. It works for what I need: What I need: Browser (Firefox), Email (Thunderbird), Notes (Zettlr) + Reference (JabRef), Python, Postgres, Shell, occasional LibreOffice, the odd podcast (gPodder) and feeds (Liferea),
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by throwaway154 3y ago
An octopus could set my SAAS pricing too. How can I be sure this is not better than an octopus?
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Yes. You choose your god(s). They're in your head.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Paul Graham uses Twitter still?
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by throwaway154 3y ago
> That's exactly what I'd like to be able to do again Dreamhost.com (or one of the many others). Pick 'webhosting' as the option. You may even get a free .com for a year, just like back in the day. Github pages and C
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Skills based education: Learn how to push a button A on a machine to start it, how to push button B to stop it. This can be learnt (and tested) perfectly. It is the ultimate in skills-based education. Along the way, having worked on a few
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by throwaway154 3y ago
It hasn't. Surfing the web without an adblocker is almost as bad as 20 years ago without Firefox or Opera and popups galore. Less immediate, acute security risks than then, more videos on autoplay. There's no need for a 'GD
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by throwaway154 3y ago
The price of a subsidised loan has increased as the subsidy has fallen while the face value of the asset the loan's for purchase of, an asset that's blown up on financing that's been almost free (as in interest, the return on
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Next, whip out a copy of "Beginning Java 2.0". /s Have them set a reasonable end-goal, a thing they'd like to make. Give them the tools to do this. Mark out some steps and scaffold them along the way. When they'v
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Motor racing perhaps. As in, the wheels are on fire. I believe I've heard it in relation to the internet since broadband rollout. But who knows, perhaps that's just past experience fallacy. To see whether or not, try the Wayback
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Just don't drink. Not an easy 'just' if kicking a physiological and peer-pressure habit and especially worth it for these groups.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Are reading articles about being productive a productivity gain?
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by throwaway154 3y ago
It takes tens of thousands of engineers at FAANGs to... do webmail... doing IM takes one FAANG... 30 people?... to replicate what non-technical local events communities did in posting shared calendars on PHP-driven solutions two+ decades ag
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Please read the article.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
> Nearly nine in 10 killings last year took place in Latin America, with three in 10 occurring in Colombia > Globally, one-third of victims were Indigenous people. It's not about climate activists that 'glue themselves to ro
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by throwaway154 3y ago
Microsoft Windows was likely #1.
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by throwaway154 3y ago
body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.6; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: serif; } That's readable, thus a minimum standard for beauty. Use of c
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by throwaway154 3y ago
I assumed it was an Australian amalgamation of bush and whack that can be imagined to mean exactly what it means, like a lot of words do, perhaps inspired by a loose overheard memory, perhaps not. I can't really imagine an American say
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by throwaway154 3y ago
HN seem to be a fan of oats, as am I.

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