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by tmcdonald 2y ago
Ollama has a num_ctx parameter that controls the context window length - it defaults to 2048. At a guess you will need to set that.
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by tmcdonald 2y ago
Hey Justin - this is probably one of my favourite talks! https://testdouble.com/insights/the-selfish-programmer Was lucky to be at the conference when you gave it and it's stuck in my head since. When I'm str
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by tmcdonald 11y ago
v4 will compile with libsass by default. You can set the TWBS_SASS environment variable to use the Ruby compiler if desired.
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by tmcdonald 13y ago
Dota 2 has been the most popular game on Steam for a while now, and with the gradual rollout of beta keys the number playing has been steadily climbing - you can see a graph of the number of players on steamgraph[1]. [1]: http://
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by tmcdonald 14y ago
I've had 4 emails in the past month providing information about the phishing emails from my department, JCR and IT services, and despite that a number of accounts still got compromised. Couldn't agree more about education never actually fix
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by tmcdonald 14y ago
Both of them have applied for .search. > The .search gTLD provides Google with the opportunity to differentiate its Google Search products and services by linking them to a unique gTLD. Google will be able to quickly distinguish new pr
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by tmcdonald 14y ago
It was specifically mentioned a couple of times in the post-launch press conference.
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
In general I wait until the new version is merged into master, and I use GitHub's compare view to see all the changes between the latest version and the previous one, which I keep open on one screen and go through each file updating the bit
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
It's using my bootstrap-sass gem. [1] [1]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I thought that he added his public key to the Rails user through his own account settings, which wouldn't give him access to the Rails web admin.
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I'm not sure all the things you list as being possible are true. - Every GitHub Repository could be access by anyone as if they had full administrator privileges. - This means that anyone could commit to master. - This means that a
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I think this is related to an issue he opened on Rails[1] which would suggest that GitHub isn't protecting against malicious mass assignment. By default, if you have an new, create or update_attributes (and more, I imagine) call which chang
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I'd recommend not travelling through Manchester Airport then, which have backscatter machines in place and do not allow for opt-out (although this is as-per DfT guidelines). They do only test a random sample, however. The Department f
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
New Relic has a series of videos on scaling Rails, several of which are about caching. They're a couple of years old but most of the concepts and method calls are still valid. http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
Much appreciated - it's nice to hear and see others using it. There's a few commits to catch up with on the 2.0-wip branch, hopefully I'll get some updates done and pushed today.
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
As someone who went through the Oxford interview process this year (and rather surprisingly received an offer) I do wonder exactly what she was expecting when she applied to Oxford. For me part of the attraction (aside from the academical r
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
Yeah, I spent a couple of hours porting the Bootstrap 2.0-wip branch to SASS yesterday (so bootstrap-sass is half ready when it's released) and I was surprised to see 'Bootstrap 2.0' posted on HN, seeing as I've seen 'a few weeks' quoted as
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I believe that the critical ASP.NET framework update that Microsoft pushed just before the new year was to fix this issue as well, amongst a few others. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-10...
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I have a Desire Z (since June) and what I would call low usage: perhaps a few texts per day, generally no calls & always on (but hardly ever used) wifi. I find I have to charge my phone nightly or the battery will last for a full day &#
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
I was under the impression that attempts had been made to hide any effects of :visited styles on the accessible DOM to stop this from working. There's a particularly good article on Mozilla's attempts [1], and the relevant bug on Bugzilla.
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by tmcdonald 15y ago
Bootstrap has enabled me to work on many more hobby projects than I would have ever done before. As a student developer with a lack of any sort of design talent, being able to whack out a site with the styling Bootstrap provides means I hav
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Serving at the Pleasure of the King(codinghorror.com)
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