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by wobbleblob 4y ago
It was the Electron for me. Bought it new for the equivalent of less than #100 when Acorn discontinued it, the only computer I could afford from my allowance. Incidentally it also forced me to learn German and English as a kid, to be able t
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I just heard energy analyst krutikhin explain on the news that Gazprom could have blown them up using so called "pigs", maintenance drones that move through the pipes.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Isn't that obvious? It's to strengthen Germany's resolve. The temptation to surrender and get the gas turned back on is going to be enormous this coming winter. Germany and several other countries have made plans to shut down
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Start with source control, you can get that done in an afternoon and it could save you 20 million dollars a year.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I know RPG did that. I can't tell you if all programs do that, probably not today, but that was the origin. Keep in mind that at the time, all your data was on tape, punch cards or disk, you only had a few kb of RAM. IBM still churns o
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
What else it is going to do is keep looping until the end of the input file is reached, which was the programming model at the time.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
The problem with this article is the same as with every article about COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, Mainframes etc: The assumption that it is only 50+ year old legacy code running on dependable but obsolete hardware, untouched by human hands
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I guess the raw vegetables contain just enough protein to survive
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Ages ago, I had a colleague who was deeply into hacking of his mTOR pathway. Among other things, this included a permanent calorie deficit and removal of all protein from his diet. I don't know if he's still alive. Maybe it was wo
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Not only that, it would have been highly inappropriate for the US to intervene in another country's domestic affairs uninvited. The assumption everything bad is always our fault is just the other side of the coin of the narcissistic be
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I think you have this upside down. The oligarchs didn't swoop in and ruin everything. The Russian government did not want their resources and industry controlled by foreign share holders, so they were dead set on privatizing the econom
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Automatic transmission is very rare in Europe.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
Github Copilot won't give students anything they couldn't already google. It seems to be a natural part of aging, to start to complain about education and kids these days because it's not the same as when we were in school. I
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I thought people lose their caste when they cross the "black water".
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I can relate to this, I am a dedicated fan of the Toyota Corolla
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
It was just an example, I don't have any special insight into the China-Taiwan situation. Maybe the conflict would be over a TV show, or a sports match, who knows. It just occurs to me that if there's a situation where we cut Chin
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
All the sources I've read agree that this had more to do with the complete absence of a long term strategy on the German side, not the weather. They had resources for 6 months, and went into the USSR with everything they had, no reserv
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
It's more about being reliant on one source under the control of a potential rival.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
That's not what I mean. Half the world's semi conductors are made at the TSMC complex in Taiwan. If China invaded, we would lose access to those.
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
That's a cliche that's not historically accurate. Napoleon's army occupied Moscow by late summer. They started their retreat in early fall, and got stuck in the mud. His army had been mostly destroyed before winter even start
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
It's easy to point at Germany and tell them they have only themselves to blame, for becoming so dependent on Russian gas, but aren't we in the US making the same mistake when it comes to manufactured goods? Even a slight disturban
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by wobbleblob 4y ago
I've seen similar documents about Tito. In the end it doesn't change anything, you deal with the de-facto ruler of a country, not with his ancestors. https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-fea
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by wobbleblob 5y ago
Why? I bring that up in every job interview. None of them have ever found it objectionable. In my experience, except for some startups, it's something every company in tech is at least thinking about. As an industry we are wasting so m
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by wobbleblob 6y ago
You forgot the part where the product owner negotiates the number of story points down for every story, and negotiates up the number of sp in every sprint, and complains that the team gets a velocity of exactly 50% every single sprint.
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by wobbleblob 7y ago
I haven't done a quantitative study either, but here are two examples of extremely influential open source projects that the internet runs on: The spring framework has contributions from many volunteers, but most big contributions and
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by wobbleblob 7y ago
OpenSSL has hundreds of contributors, not just one guy, and the 'heartbleed bug' guy they were referring to wrote the code during his PhD, so it wasn't a volunteer donating his spare time.
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by wobbleblob 7y ago
But they are not working for free, they're doing this work during work hours. Individual volunteer maintainers this article is about are a minority. The majority of contributions to the open source projects that "the internet runs
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by wobbleblob 7y ago
It's funny that now that I don't live a 12 hour flight away from those places any more, I can't go because I don't have any vacation days.
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by wobbleblob 7y ago
As a little boy, I went through the usual astronaut phase. There was this brilliant TIME magazine photo book of the space program up to and including the then new space shuttle that I kept renewing from the library every time. I remember at
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by wobbleblob 9y ago
It turns out that schema-first design is useful. It turns out that having a cross-platform industry standard for such schemas is useful. What developers didn't like about SOAP aren't necessarily the features, it's all the XML

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