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r0bbbo

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About r0bbbo

I'm a Principal Software Engineer from London, working with high-scale, distributed systems and the people who build them. My personal projects are available at https://github.com/robbell. I also occasionally write at https://robbell.io.

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    I assume they mean a similar experience to browsing /r/popular on Reddit. You're getting a feed that isn't tailored to your browsing history, likes or preferences. It's less addict…

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    Comment #45251671

    Has anyone done the joke about "next big cloud platform" yet?

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    Comment #42058560

    Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4 The closing music choices are excellent.

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    Comment #42058442

    There was an Instagram account or YouTube channel that used to make funny videos of the films ending with the credits rolling at the exact point the title of the film was said—anyo…

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    Comment #41389663

    Who does this appeal to and why? I use Rectangle on OSX to give me the layout options I need which basically amounts to switching between full screen and two apps split vertically,…

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    Comment #40115549

    Something I've never been able to wrap my head around is how ROMs are dumped for emulators from cartridges? Dumping instructions and assets makes total sense to me, and packaging t…

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    Comment #39056892

    Are there any implications of the polling rate not quite aligning as the original controller would've?

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    Comment #38366659

    No. And a quick search finds possibly one mention of it from 9 years ago on Reddit. It's not widely used.

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    Comment #38363597

    I lived in Hounslow for thirty years and got the Piccadilly Line daily. I never once heard it referred to as The Tandoor.

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    Comment #37073889

    Right, and that's expected of the model that the author originally bought into. The problem isn't with the users, the problem is with the author's false expectations of the model.

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    Comment #36629120

    My personal blog: https://robbell.io I've had a few posts that have really taken off over the years, although I moved domain some time ago and lost a lot of traffic!

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    Comment #36613652

    https://robbell.io

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    Comment #36524707

    Looks like it's back down.

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    Comment #36492048

    I experienced this myself. I overwrote then deleted all of my Reddit comments during the blackout using PowerDeleteSuite. A week later they were all back. Some people have speculat…

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    Comment #36391047

    What is P/M fit?

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    Comment #36294591

    Bicycles exist in the current game—they were brought in as part of a free update. Roads with dedicated cycle lanes were introduced with an official add-on, but by default pedestria…

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    Comment #36294318

    Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the …

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    Comment #36257925

    I've seen an increasing amount of support for 'nuking' your personal reddit history—posts and comments—in protest of the upcoming changes, taking back what Reddit are profiting fro…

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    Comment #23225430

    For someone just starting to learn about computer architecture at a low level (rather embarrassing for someone who's been in the industry for over a decade), this is a really inter…

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    Comment #22369463

    A lot of people using a lot of fonts from a lot of different browsers. I'm sure the caching techniques aren't perfect but they're probably quite good.

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    Comment #22158861

    How does one even begin to manage a project this large and complex in assembly?

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    Comment #21311386

    And companies respond to those letters? Is there any legal obligation there?

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    Comment #19833217

    Looks like some autocorrect happened to your link: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

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    Comment #19757482

    This is what Microsoft Cognitive Services saw: Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence"…