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It doesn’t resemble the computers of today, but none the less it was indeed a stored program digital computer. The first of its kind. The bombes were more akin to a special purpose…

Yes. This. There are some segments from a few episodes that show that Marco is demonstrably not a super great programmer. I suspect some of his server side code is horrible. But he…

I also didn't get this. Why put photo's on social media of your kids AT ALL if you feel weird about it. Making them look weirder feel a bit strange to me. But now you point out tha…

You've found Casey's next app right there...

The best advice I got was to use Kubernetes in Docker or kind ( https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/ ) as your playground. It contains the K8's cluster and makes it easy…

Isn't this a sample of one person with a very skewed perspective? "... moved from Melbourne to escape never-ending lockdowns..." seems like this person was already of a frame of mi…

Password expiry policies are useless. No one recommends using them. As has been pointed out already, the standards orgs and government cyber security departments advise not to have…

Seems to me that this sort of thinking is predicated on the the idea that infrastructure should still work like it did 10-20 years ago. Cost is not the driving factor, and in any c…

That sir, is a great story, and great advice.

If its not doing it for you and you can support yourself for a bit, quitting is not a bad option. Not enjoying the bulk of something you do every day will destroy you... BUT... As …

I think the fact that the Turing-Welchman machine is called a Bombe in a nod towards the Polish blurs the connection a bit. The British Bombe and the Polish Bomba pretty much only …

The thing the allies did know and the Germans largely ignored was the fact that their Ciphers could be vulnerable. They tested them. Despite some pockets of dissent the Germans tho…

This machine was housed within the Bletchley Park museum for years. It has recently moved to the TNMOC Thanks, James

They dont call it a replica. Its a rebuild. It's not a copy of an existing Bombe is a unique machine built from the ground up. It is identical to the machines used in WWII. Thanks,…

Thats just not true... The British Bombes worked just fine and were VERY effective. You might be confused in thinking that the British Bombe was a single machine. It wasn't there w…