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As I pointed out to the OP on Mastodon, I very much believe that it was a reference to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where they filmed a big door, and the original laser sequence …

you'd first have to program it to take the picture, and look back at the photographer's eye to get the reflection of the screen with the IP address on!

Michael Sheen is apparently such a fan of TRON, that he might have been lucky to not negotiated himself down to a $0 pay packet - just in case someone else might have gotten the ro…

Some of the views their cameras get are fantastic - and the tracking on the last flight test would quite possibly make NASA envious. Cameras on the beach and also just next to Star…

I'll often spend a little time while watching the flight-tests (usually with Tim Dodd / EverydayAstronaut) just doing a search on YouTube for 'spacex live' and usually report 15-20…

They might do some minor optimisation in terms of when the fly to keep some coverage but ... > As of May 2024, there are 6,078 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,006 are work…

Agreed - I'm still using it everyday to view and do some minor editing (trimming and resizing pics). It, along with browsers, VLC, Putty, and SublimeText (and now also ObsidianMD) …

Maybe all the interns that were left in charge didn't properly do what the AI had said?

wow, there. Lets not get crazy there. It's plenty enough to support multiple package managers, but what you are considering is just too much!

I'm also using Obsidian daily notes, with all un-actioned items shown on a page with a dataview API[^1]: ```dataview TASK FROM "VaultName/Journal" WHERE !completed ``` Since at lea…

Just don't use -O2 and -fe unless you want to end up with Rust.

> "The Ocean," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist…

Ever see the video of a guy walking past a Saturn V (lying in it's side), doing a piece to camera and pointing to the rocket behind him? 'Connections' (1978). https://www.youtube.c…

"the way God and Robert Heinlein intended."

I can assure you that as someone that has done a couple Gov-related public-sites, some developers do think about it, and use suitable tools to ensure there's no issues. Before the …

Yes.

previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 (ag/the_silver_searcher)

Every contract of employment I've received initially had a part saying I could not do outside work/projects, or that they would belong to the company. None of them were there when …

I'd expect they would also ensure the Evil bit was set to 0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

I started working for a US-based company a couple of months ago. They pay me through a company that handles the contract. The CEO pays my invoice on Monday and it gets to the contr…

I do enjoy his geeky humour, and the rest of the Festival of Spoken nerd's (@fotsn), and actually went to see him and others just a couple of weeks ago at @AEOUD. It was also the d…

Paging Adam Selene, Adam Selene, please come to the phone...

I applied to them a few weeks ago with years of PHP & Symfony experience. Their comments back to me said that previous FinTech experience was also a requirement.

Much of the time, the software isn't what makes for a great company - it's how that software makes the business work. A company can have the best code in the world, but if Uber had…

For the matter of the Team/Company culture, I'd also add - Do they expect you to come in and merge into a unchanging culture, or would you add to, and change the culture?