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I tend to go by Binary Large OBject (BLOB) storage to discern between this kind of object storage and “object” as in OOP. BLOB is also what databases call files stored in columns.

Forgot about that GPU cluster you spun up last month and built up an astronomical AWS bill? Don’t worry, you won’t have to sell a kidney, stay at Amazon Workhouse Services until yo…

I’m not sure I have much sympathy for the problem. Copilot is going to force everyone to move up the abstraction stack. I absolutely disagree with how Copilot has been trained on t…

I very much enjoyed the [Vortex Race 3] which is 75% with all the F-keys and the home/delete/pg key cluster in a line down the right. It works really well and lets you switch betwe…

I found it helps to set boundaries and in one instance make it clear that I do not appreciate being called out of the blue. I feel almost everyone understands that a texting before…

The BOFH[1] is prior art in this space, pointing to its previous use referring to sysadmins. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

I tracked down a good condition 2009-2010 vintage A1242 aluminium ten-keyless Apple Keyboard[1] on ebay for £54 last year for exactly that feeling. Supposedly they came with iMacs …

The lede is buried in section "5. Reader Memberships with a 50% Author Revenue Share": > A Leanpub Reader membership ($19/year) or a monthly Standard or Pro plan is now required fo…

This maybe takes “identifying as an Apple user” a bridge too far! And really, who’s going to know (how) to do that, especially in an emergency? It also relies on either your phone …

I agree! In a way... I’ll see a “Hi!“ in a notification or followed by _x is typing_ then safely know that I can start slow context-switching out of whatever mode I’m in, start rev…

That seems to be based on the same idea as the Linnstrument[0], which is fairly widely available now, and sends MIDI data in the standard way over USB or DIN ports without requirin…

Check out “The Last Ringbearer”[1] for an alternate take on the LotR mythology where the orcs aren’t monsters but instead citizens of the renaissance state of Mordor. [1]: https://…

Docker Hub[1] is also blatantly in breach of the GDPR. Wording on the pop-up: > We and our advertising partners use cookies on this site and around the web to improve your website …

I believe it’s used by Docker’s (Moby’s?) DataKit product inside Docker for Mac/Windows: https://github.com/moby/datakit/blob/master/README.md

This article should be catnip to all interested programmers. Particularly interesting is the final tenth or so, drawing attention to the explosion noun-compound constructions in th…

Not been on Tinder in a while, but a year ago there was definitely the option to add a 'favourite track' to your profile, as an extra bit of information on top of your Facebook lik…

IP's the more specific case here. The company both owns and is responsible for anything an employee does during the course of their employment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course…

Do you have any links? I'd love to read more. How did they suggest dealing with changes over time, as members join and leave or shift roles as the organisation changes?

Please correct me if my layperson's interpretation is wrong, but that IP clause is one of the few things I don't worry about in UK employment contracts. When I first came across th…

Combine pure dates and times with timedelta[1]? Python's multiple comparison expressions help here too. For events in the last hour, the following expression should evaluate to Tru…

Python already contains separate date and time objects for this purpose[1][2]! [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#date-objects [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/libr…

Reminds me of Internet Explorer 7(?)'s coloured tab groups. I actually thought they were quite a neat UI idea.

Berlin's U/S-Bahns certainly give the impression of being open 24/7 -- I've never had problems getting to/from clubs or airports at any time of day. London can also claim a useful …