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> every living member of it's military, has never seen a single real battle How I wish for a world where the same could be said for every other army!

I run Qwen3-Coder-Next-UD-Q4_K_XL and other than the initial wait to initialise context (which takes less than 2 minutes) subsequent prompts return in less than a minute, usually l…

Leaving aside the fact that there are not enough octogenarians in the Commons to pass any legislation, there’s no need to for ageist statements like that.

Not really, more like succeed without having to do anything. The key is the perspective of what success is: it’s the state where the resource does not exist, or is the action havin…

> Then you'd return 202 on a request to delete any invalid element, which really doesn't sound right It depends on your use-case if you care about this or not. If you do care you w…

Response is implementation detail: a 404 on second request is one way to do it, a 202 would be another, or 200 with some sort of response to distinguish (e.g. { changed: boolean })…

You’re right - it’s not a campaign as such - it’s a set of scenarios (currently 22) in increasing difficulty. I haven’t played for a while after getting stuck but checking now I go…

I used to play the original TA a lot and BAR is very well done. Much harder than the original though - I had no trouble with TA campaigns but I have not even made it halfway with B…

Sound like it’s time for yoga :) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=txNkzlJ0tc4

I mean there’s nothing stopping you from committing node_modules to git (after running something like https://github.com/timoxley/cruft on it) and reviewing code changes on depende…

I came across this interesting rant the other day: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/blob/master/mi... It does make sense that the right way would be to fork every depe…

It’s not the async loop - it’s interfacing with the system. JS is designed to run in a sandbox and the only way out in say Node.js is to write C++ addons. For example you don’t get…

I am well aware it supports Linux but the vast majority of work still involves being in Windows-only shops which is a circle of hell I am keen to tread only when I absolutely have …

Sure but that runtime is much more general purpose - JS runtimes are focused on network apps. For example you can write an app like Calibre in Python and QT and it is much lighter …

I’m a JS/TS dev (and fan) I don’t think either is a replacement for Python. They are not standalone languages but require some runtime to interact with the world (DOM or Node.js et…

An interesting tangent on this is: how many answers to these (or any number of factual questions) do you (as in anyone) actually know. Not believe you know, but actually know. Know…

I led a project to (successfully) migrate a Vue 2 to 3 app and while that was painful and expensive, I still find Vue more pleasant to work with than React once it was done. But TB…

Random indeed - I’m also just down the road. :)

Me too except I just use rye malt instead of the bread and without making any dough with it. The malt is cheap and easy to get in UK thanks to home brewing suppliers whereas rye br…

If by tourist track you mean several cities each with a population count greater than London then sure. :) But it is true I was there as a tourist to see a few places and China is …

I’m currently travelling in China and the total absence of graffiti and the wide availability of public toilets as well as the general cleanliness of the place is a stark contrast …

As someone who runs a such a VPS this is all a non-issue. Running HTTP service is so trivial that once I set it up I don’t even spend an hour in a year maintaining it. Especially w…

From the article > Analysts concluded that 23 sailors survived the initial blasts and took refuge in the small ninth compartment at the rear of the submarine. > Evidence suggests t…

It is a specialised instrument but a useful one: batch processing and query pagination are first class use cases for generators that can really simplify business logic code. Stream…

I kid you not a few jobs ago I found several race conditions in my code and tests by running them at the same time as a multi threaded openssl burn test. :)