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"Subversion was slow and clunky" Lucky you, you never used clearcase or Visual SourceSafe!

Let's hope it doesn't have the third movement in it or else we'll be needing new keyboards.

This is a great kind of thing for getting people into music. There's a piano in my local pub and when people say they "can't play piano" I'll play a 2-5-1 in C and tell them to hit…

caffeinate is on Mac. caffeinate -d -i -u -s

I had to add the fzf plugin in my .zshrc to get this to work

Aaah - back in the day when we used to link 26 Access databases together, one for the first letter of a customer's surname... :)

you're right. Open dev tools and add it yourself. :)

No Saruman vs Gandalf rematch in the original films. It was included in the director's cut but then you could see why they left it out.

I can't believe I didn't know this for all these years. I was just guessing/remembering bits of info.

That sounds the same setup as Nice Guy Eddie has in Reservoir Dogs. Probably you don't want to meet the people who had those cards as they might have a penchant for chopping people…

Yeah same here. Noticed it late last night UK time, multiple attempts at reinstalling webview made no difference. New update now fixed everything. So the faulty version was up for …

this is just an advert for a product? do we allow that?

The best way I found to learn git is to read the first 3 chapters of Pro Git. Yes it's a pain, yes you're going to have to sit through the "distributed source control" speech again…

I went on holiday to Spain once, bought an inflatable dinghy and paddled with a friend for a long time around the coast until we got to a beach. On the beach was a naked man. After…

so you wrote some code that generates a link to a github gist with your bio on. if HN said your post was too long, you could have just posted the link....? :)

Fine, I'll employ myself.

Looks like it depends on WebRTC javascript apis which Brave browser might not support? EDIT: More specifically, it needs to support getDisplayMedia() https://developer.mozilla.org/…

Possibly completely unrelated: PM chief advisor Dominic Cummings seen running out of Downing Street in the last hour https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1243520576007872513

You can try setting up https://www.kurento.org/ Note that all modern browsers support WebRTC. I wrote a simple server to setup WebRTC sessions between browsers that worked, but it'…

Right - the chart shows that there was significantly more ice on average for 1981-2000 than there has been in the last 5 years. Hence the ice is decreasing. Go look at the chart ag…

Pretty sure that graph shows that the sea ice over the last 5 years has been significantly less than the mean value from 1981-2000, even if you allow for 2 standard deviations from…

But they might sell it at different prices in different markets

Upvote for a random Simpson's reference.

I worked at a place once where we were told to pick a naming system for the releases. We chose "Genesis" as the first one. Our boss, whom we didn't know was religious, says, "that'…