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CiaranMcNulty

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    Comment #49240168

    It looks like the data is from OpenStreetMap so maybe you could add them if they’re missing there?

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    Comment #49096663

    I have fond memories of playing Settlers in split screen this way on the Amiga

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    Comment #46400558

    It’s not a loading blink, it’s just some text telling you what the service is

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    Comment #46106751

    Whether 0 is a natural number is still fairly ambiguous; I remember being taught (1990s UK) to be specific about which definition was being used, or to prefer another name such as …

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    Comment #45912071

    Domestic solar is huge in Germany

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    Comment #45238769

    It's good to see more focus on static analysis. With Phpstan and Psalm already in the space I'd like to see more differentiator features than 'written in Rust' - there are certainl…

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    Comment #44394259

    It's sad how the bloat of '00s enterprise XML made the tech seem outdated and drove everyone to 'cleaner' JSON, because things like XSLT and XPath were very mature and solved a lot…

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    Comment #42031743

    The best analogy is a toaster Is it really that hard to grill bread? Nope, but you have to pay attention somewhat to stop it burning. Once you hit a certain volume of usage, an aut…

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    Comment #41818086

    A major difference will be that PeachPie produces a compiled deploy artefact, while mainstream PHP is interpreted (albeit with heavy opcode caching and a JIT in production)

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    Comment #40643821

    I played with this a lot during my degree back in 97-99. A friend used it to render her final year project. Amazing to see it's still going!

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    Comment #39215407

    The majority of existing homes and hot water supplies use natural gas

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    Comment #39207686

    I thought the new GM ICE was going to be developed by Google?

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    Comment #39203188

    Hm I'm not sure if it's correct but here's my logic (here on mastodon https://social.ciaranmc.com/@ciaran/111850662374227629 ) There are N-1 red balls out of 99 remaining, so the p…

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    Comment #38555298

    A friend was in the beta and demoed it to us in a bar.. it was insane In the UK you dialled 2580 from your (non smart) cellphone, it would hang up after a few seconds and you’d get…

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    Comment #37830198

    I've a few DSi in a drawer somewhere... My first question was whether I can turn them into a k8s cluster

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    Comment #37495021

    > If you’re talking about a web system composed of microservice architecture all running on the same datacenter, perhaps sharing the same database We have different ideas what 'mic…

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    Comment #35936861

    Blocking blue ticks also works well for this

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    Comment #35229773

    Yeah car and road-centric culture holds a lot of this stuff back. In any urban area an efficient metro underground/elevated/tram metro system could take up a huge percentage of jou…

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    Comment #35222047

    It'd be pretty tricky for Russia to invade Germany, based on how things are going in Ukraine

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    Comment #35118042

    Well it's not capable of dealing with it because they found apple's zoom was unreliable and it contributed to the guy getting off

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    Comment #35094512

    Cold isn't that much of an issue if you dress appropriately - you're doing cardio work so you can always speed up if you get cold!

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    Comment #34961541

    They both revolve around a coherent concept of what a 'Unit' is - if you have a (shared, project-level) understanding of a Unit then a 'Unit test' is what tests it, and an 'Integra…

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    Comment #34750797

    It's sort of extraordinary that the conclusion of the piece is that the book was published and he was paid in full Poor guy

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    Comment #33779828

    > There is nothing stopping Apple from making the same device, but giving you the keys to install your own software on it You... don't think you can install your own software on Ma…