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Jane Street propaganda would be better looking

I’m also doing them in F# (again). Hoping to best my past attempts, never gone beyond day 12 before! I’m never gonna do it fast but I enjoy using fparsec to get the input text in w…

At a previous job we adopted Blazor WASM in order to rewrite an interal React-based app that was basically a hardware test ticketing system + asset tracker. It was very productive,…

Given things she's said in the past it's probably best if you take her word on very little. https://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-google-employ-a-pro-sl... https://www.dailydot.com…

On some docks / external displays Metal rendering is really slow. Jetbrains IDEs have an option to disable Metal for this reason.

At least they removed the atrocious "links are spoopy" line when you click a hyperlink

Capital corrupts everything.

The author writes database engines.

There are JS objects you can look for, `window.chrome` for example is present on Chromium browsers but not Firefox.

Nationwide's credit cards use Visa.

Don't make me contort into an awkward position inside a screaming metal disk then :(

Curious how bound I'd be to these terms if I just don't upgrade Docker Desktop. I'm not even signed in to dockerhub and most of our containers are on an Azure private registry.

Yeah. There is an a ticket opened in the `Feedback Hub` app for it that I've been checking but there seems to be no acknowledgement from Microsoft about this, which is one of the m…

At work we have an application that calls `timeBeginPeriod(1)` to get timer callbacks (from `CreateTimerQueue`) firing at 5ms resolutions but we are not seeing the behaviour descri…

It has nothing to do with Glasgow the city other than being named after it.

Not a low-level one but the CLR natively supports multidimensional arrays although I don't think they are exposed to C#. I've written some F# code and for some trivial cases I was …

Not every use-case has an always available high-bandwidth internet connection.

Looks slick, does it support the SQLCipher variants of Sqlite?

I post miniatures I've painted and follow some other miniature hobbyists (Warhammer in this case).

I don't mind the telemetry, I object to advertisements for Windows Store apps on the lock screen. That is clearly about money.