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caiusdurling

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About caiusdurling

http://caius.name/ http://freeagent.com/

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    It's really useful for having a decent screen up in front of me when I'm a passenger trying to do something on the laptop. Saves staring down at my lap, and removes any motion on m…

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    Comment #43037706

    > Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes. Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:

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    Comment #42575988

    Looks similar to https://www.phlex.fun/ at first glance

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    Comment #41839903

    Took me ages to connect the fact the phone was flipping around at hyper-speed on the webpage because I had the cursor over it whilst scrolling down. Had to move to the right side o…

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    Comment #40679223

    I believe they've somewhat fixed this, it prompts you on first-run whether you want to accept analytics or not. Makes it quite explicit if you want to opt-in or opt-out. The docs h…

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    Comment #40158924

    Extremely well, even supports passing arguments (`--HEAD`) through and integrates with services for casks too, so it can restart things like postgresql when homebrew updates it. Ha…

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    Comment #39380903

    Some cron implementations do, it's not portable.

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    Comment #37767325

    I think the MG4 has a brake by wire system, although those are supposed to have a failsafe built in but if it's not electro-hydraulic there might not be a mechanical link between t…

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    Comment #36592854

    https://caiustheory.com/

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    Comment #36585156

    "no longer" suggests it was, but now isn't, which appears to match reality?

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    Comment #36585124

    https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu... appears to be a comment from someone in the project laying out why they've changed.

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    Comment #35615019

    They likely have work issued mobile phones, I know my local force does that. Edit: reading the judgement shows the phones were issued by the force: > While it is acknowledged that …

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    Comment #34253341

    There's also issuance via DNS which took most of the complexity out of it for me. (Especially as the first time I went to deploy LetsEncrypt I had something like four web servers b…

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    Comment #31860855

    The old world still works in those situations, but we have a better experience when the new world hasn’t experienced a fundamental failure. Seems like a reasonable trade off to me.…

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    Comment #31414297

    I've got a lego stand built from a few bricks holding an iPhone 7 in landscape above my screen. The lens is maybe 18mm above the top of the display pixels.

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    Comment #29662893

    I wondered that too, then figured you'd want to exclude non /[a-z0-9]/I characters. They answer what it means and provide the command used to figure it out in the first FAQ: https:…

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    Comment #15594638

    https://github.com/frabcus/house/issues comes to mind, where someone uses GitHub issues to track defects & enhancements to their house.

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    Comment #15347403

    Author here, I'm glad someone else appreciated it besides me. :-) (It's especially pleasing to watch the system calls it generates via strace or dtrace!)

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    Comment #12162459

    Anyone else figure this was the underground auction site Silk Road and not the iconic route? Actual article is somewhat different, given the correct context.

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    Comment #9486324

    Credit link to the original sheep in CSS too.