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teh_klev

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About teh_klev

Scottish git, likes curry and beer...and trains.

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    Comment #49068690

    These are the original articles this re-heat was created from: - https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/magnolias-be... - https://gardens.si.edu/learn/blog/the-botany-of-m…

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    Comment #48875015

    That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates: https://github.com/madisongh/blissc

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    Comment #48483198

    > My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity price…

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    Comment #48257729

    > Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers. Oh, I think we need a citation for th…

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    Comment #48210001

    No, sadly not.

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    Comment #48208537

    When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick brande…

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    Comment #48208360

    As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.

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    Comment #47974161

    Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.

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    Comment #45082341

    >hides the execution. But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.

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    Comment #44882680

    I have a link for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Scroll to the bottom of the page.

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    Comment #44740992

    Yes, this is that company. This is the "original": https://github.com/sst/opencode

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    Comment #44740710

    This isn't LinqPad's selling point. All that dotnet run *.cs has done is remove the need to have a project file for each "script" you write. LinqPad maybe has this feature but it's…

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    Comment #44119859

    Or, just link directly to the paper which isn't paywalled: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087

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    Comment #43292355

    Start here I think: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/264

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    Comment #42197925

    I did google "bus-stops-on-a-slope", but nothing jumped out. What are "bus-stops-on-a-slope"?

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    Comment #42112529

    Years ago I ended up in a system with a star I couldn't refuel from and was S.O.L. I had vaguely heard of the Fuel Rats[0] and did a google to see if they were real and contactable…

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    Comment #39065579

    Ah, ok :) Don't be so hard on yourself, even after 20+ years of .NET dev there are still things I can be a bit forgetful about, such as this UI annoyance.

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    Comment #39054582

    > Often in aspdotnet we have programmers Pretty sure this is a problem across many other development platforms. Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers.

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    Comment #38993984

    > 64 Kbit/s ISDN leased line That would have been Kilostream which wasn't part of the ISDN system. Kilostream pre-dated ISDN. The reason for its high cost was that you could throw …

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    Comment #38742881

    Minor nitpick...Active Directory didn't appear until Windows Server 2000.

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    Comment #38702087

    Should we then destroy all legal documents, for example The Magna Carta? Museums aren't just a store of "art", museums are a way to preserve our heritage, preferably in its origina…

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    Comment #38660844

    > working on tickets while they are on-call That's why they call it "on-call", you only work if you get the call. If you're on-call and being expected to work on unrelated tickets …

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    Comment #38660817

    > I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work. I partially agree, something needs to be on fire or a complete showstopper for that to happen. …

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    Comment #38660789

    > getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me. For you, yes. But remember not everyone is a night owl, nor is everyone an early bird. I start work at 930am, we have our s…

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    Comment #38600434

    > as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools. That's all fine and dandy if you're a developer (or have some developer skills). But my mate who wants to bl…