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adamretter

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About adamretter

Software engineer and general open source hacker.

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    I'm really surprised I didn't see any mention of LwDITA yet. It can be expressed in XML, HTML, or Markdown. For us it is the sweet spot between the too little provided by Markdown,…

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    Comment #44635887

    Hmmm... How do you mean?

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    Aggh! Sorry. I have contacted the site's admin to let them know. In the meantime there is also a LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2043439/ There is also a registrat…

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    Show HN: Java RingBuffer implementation with optional FIFO like semantics

    Given a stream of events, for any event in the stream I needed to be able to obtain both the preceding and following n events. To achieve this, I developed this RingBuffer implemen…

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    Comment #40038322

    That video is from 2013. Is anyone aware of an update for the last ten years which covers 2013 to 2023? I would like to understand if seL4 is still considered "current" or there ha…

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    I set this up to provide RDP access to 10 Ubuntu lxde VM's that we used for students on a training course. It worked very well in the browser for the most part, but isn't yet quite…

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    Have you considered Meta's RocksDB as an option?

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    By default RocksDB uses a ByteWiseComparator to sort the keys in the SST. However, RocksDB allows you to provide any comparator you wish. So ultimately it will depend on the perfor…

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    @teh_klev That's interesting. I thought I also remembered the DSU being branded with BT ISDN logo, but perhaps I am mistaken, it was a long time ago now!

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    Back around 1996 I was working for a non-profit rural digital project in Devon, Southwest England, called Project COSMIC. If I recall correctly there were 2 main types of ISDN in t…

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    Comment #38433752

    Personally I love my Redis shirt and my RocksDB shirt - both excellent materials and colours.

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    This looks great :-) However reading the How it works section, it states: "Each form needs an email address to be set for completed forms to be sent to when they’re submitted" So..…

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    SoYouStart (which is OVH) have a Singapore region, they also have an "Asia" region, but I don't know where precisely that is located - https://www.soyoustart.com/asia/ We use a mix…