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codeduck

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About codeduck

Village idiot with a megaphone.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49187302

    It's called being insulated from the immediate consequences of their actions and hubris.

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    Comment #49169797

    Oh boy, it's a big one.

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    Comment #49167420

    Or even what they were regularly doing to grids of rainforest in Vietnam.

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    Comment #49166668

    Why would no local cache on a laptop hold the IP address for the api endpoint if it's already open in the browser and being posted to?

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    Comment #49091001

    I studied History of Art in school - long ago admittedly, but it was clearly helpful in identifying differences between eastern and western portraiture. It was, however, far less u…

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    Comment #49087391

    Hmm. Hmmm. Hmm. HMMM. Hmm. Yep! I know some of these words.

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    Comment #49081818

    Or perhaps a slop flag on submissions that gets added once enough readers have flagged it as such. I'd love that feature.

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    Comment #49081808

    So... not a new subatomic particle discovery then.

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    Comment #49059813

    I have to ask why someone would choose this over ansible, ssh, and a proper monitoring and metrics stack. Something like this allows unconstrained config drift with no audit trail.…

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    Comment #48998859

    Guess it's time for me to write the first book of the Orange Catholic Bible.

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    Comment #48903641

    There are a few more images omitted from the BBC article in her actual works: https://archive.org/details/Eden30538/page/n5/mode/2up

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    Comment #48861738

    The system grows to stifle itself.

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    Comment #48857625

    > When I want my child to really excel in learning, I would force them into kumon - so they can skip a grade Great - so now they're a year younger than all their peers in terms of …

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    Comment #48857419

    > If you glass the villages and salt the fields, you even win against the taliban and vietkong. You may win tactically, but you lose strategically - firstly by demonstrating that s…

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    Comment #48857278

    > best intentions in mind when they built this That's nice, and it will make a fantastic set of paving stones for the road to Hell.

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    Comment #48857270

    > if implemented right is doing some heavy lifting. The problem is that this is an experiment with a ten year horizon.

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    Comment #48857175

    It is on mine.

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    Comment #48788340

    As a Butlerian, this is hilarious.

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    Comment #48772114

    With VM, I've had great success with just quietly introducing it in one part of the system. People quickly notice how reliable and low fuss it is, and from there adoption grows. It…

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    Comment #48635597

    my Brother in pungnaciousness.

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    Comment #48597178

    I often use over-ear headphones as ear-protectors rather than sound sources. It muffles the outside world, leaving me free to think. I suspect in-ears have degraded my hearing, so …

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    Comment #48584896

    It would be hilarious if it, like Teams, was backed by Sharepoint. It would also explain a lot about how terrible it is.

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    Comment #48504730

    > I don't recall him having any impact on the story. Well, he did rescue the hobbits from the Barrow Downs, and gave Merry Brandybuck one of the swords of Westernesse with which Me…

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    Comment #48477839

    You're arguing with people who don't understand the word Parliament in the term "Parliamentary Democracy". Just nod, tut, and move on, it will be better for your mental health.

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    Comment #48477096

    piss off back to /r/reform mate.