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mwaitjmp··on How Dwarf Fortress is built
The official github desktop app is really nice to use as well. At least on a Mac.
mwaitjmp··on Introduction to BigQuery row-level security
Can you explain how authorised views reduce performance and increase costs?
mwaitjmp··on AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
Very true.... I’ve suffered the exact same process for years. Step 2 is the worst, not sure why but sometimes it’s incredibly hard to tap the i button.

New reddit is is a very strange design. I always thought the way it hides comment threads as a link to a new page was just a mobile thing, but no, that’s the design.

The old site is so so much better. Trying to get to it from a google search is infuriating, especially if you are trying to view multiple results. Imagine doing the above steps 5 times for 5 different results!

mwaitjmp··on Get Started with Tmux
Same here for ctrl-a when I tried tmux. After coming from using screen a fair bit it felt so much natural.
mwaitjmp··on OpenSSL Security Advisory
Does anyone know about apache?
mwaitjmp··on Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG
Have a look at Miro. Obviously not as good as in person but it’s very useful.
mwaitjmp··on EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind
The other comment in this chain has the following statement in the link posted:

> The UK signed off its deal with AstraZeneca in June 2020, three months before the EU did

So I’m not sure what to believe.

mwaitjmp··on EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind
Have you got a source for this? Would really appreciate it.
mwaitjmp··on Azure Experiencing an Outage
Seems to have been going on for at least an hour:

https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1371546946263916545...

Apparently they are rolling back an update.

There are a number of people on twitter saying that onedrive is deleting files as it says they no longer have access. Obviously everything should be fine once it all comes back, but might be something to bear in mind if you don’t want to have to download a lot of data once it all comes back.

Edit - mitigation is now being rolled out https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1371571383004590081...

mwaitjmp··on Language Development During Interstellar Travel
That’s a great example. See how Vulgar Latin split off from the written form quite early on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
mwaitjmp··on Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'
By viewing the color of the ball you’re not notifying the other ball to change its state(in a way that can be measured). You will only know that once the ball is observed it will have a certain color.

The only way I can foresee this being used to transmit data faster than light is that if you both agree to perform an action depending on what color ball they see. If you both view the ball at some agreed point in the distant future, you will instantly know what action the other person will do.

mwaitjmp··on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
LG tv here as well, pretty recent model. I’ve never noticed any ads. Works well as a chromecast target.

The in built apps seem pretty decent as well for on demand video.

mwaitjmp··on Teletext Bad Apple
Teletext holidays is still going. It was a place where you could browse for last minute holiday deals as far as I remember.

They have now transitioned to the web.

https://www.teletextholidays.co.uk/

mwaitjmp··on Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
This looks great. Does it support avro via the schema registry?
mwaitjmp··on Show HN: Create diagrams stitching images on a grid using HCL (like Terraform)
There is a command called “terraform graph” which can do this. Apologies if I have misunderstood your post.
mwaitjmp··on Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
I believe the accepted period is around 15,000 years ago, possibly slightly earlier.
mwaitjmp··on Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements
The military menu was always the one which I had difficulty with, training and equipping dwarfs, etc.....
mwaitjmp··on Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, try
Out of interest, how about the proposed check and handle changes proprosed for v2?

Details here: https://dev.to/deanveloper/go-2-draft-error-handling-3loo

mwaitjmp··on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
Can you explain this more? Is this if your lambdas haven’t been hit in a while, in the background aws will scale things down?

Or is it when deploying new code?

mwaitjmp··on Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997
Fantastic game, brilliant first player campaign.

There were a huge number of mods you could get for it from memory. Such as additional maps/campaigns to play through.

One of the first games I played online, the community was fantastic. Never managed to level up to get my crown :-( , it was a tough game to master online.

Is it possible to acquire the game on a steam like site?

mwaitjmp··on How America lost its love for the stick shift
This is what I usually try and do when stuck in a queue, especially on the motorway. First or second depending on the speed of the traffic, clutch up, foot off accelerator. Pointless racing to the stopped car in front of you only to have to stop and start again.
mwaitjmp··on Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)
Found the exact same thing regarding the community cookbooks. We do use some though, it depends on the complexity and how well they work. I've either written some from scratch, taking pointers from the community ones or forked them to make them simpler and better suit our needs. Pull requests have been made where it makes sense.

Glad to hear we're not the only ones who found the community ones not perfect for every need.

mwaitjmp··on The Trouble with D3
Flot is also a good choice. It's old now and hasn't been updated in a long while but if I'm not mistaken, grafana still makes use of it.
mwaitjmp··on Rome vs Greece: a clash of empires
Of course, history is amazing, and I too have devoted much of my time to studying various periods the older I have got. Studying is perhaps too strong a word, it's more of a form of entertainment and as a way of understanding how we got to where we are now.

I think it started with an obsession with the news, and to understand the news, you need background, history.

I think though, it's difficult to covey all this to a child, or even perhaps a teen, and I doubt there is much interest, outside of the gory details. Looking back I found parts of history interesting, but I never felt like a had a holistic view of the past. As time has gone on, you piece it all together, bit by bit, place by place and see how it's relevant to today's world. There is a lot to take in, it takes time.

mwaitjmp··on Habits of Highly Miserable People
Nostalgia isn't all bad...in fact it's believed to improve your mood.
mwaitjmp··on A diary written on castle floorboards
I wouldn't say it's a nessesity to unify into a new political structure for there to be peace.
mwaitjmp··on Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatant
As I understand it currently 50% of the votes come from the public, 50% from judges. Is this not correct ?
mwaitjmp··on Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
This is one feature a blockchain excels at. People have stored the Bitcoin white paper in the blockchain. Anyone can then download it, and verify it is the untouched original.
mwaitjmp··on Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
What's strange on a mac is somehow having the ability to completely lose windows.

Another frustration is trying to view two apps together on the screen at the same time, if one of the apps itself contains multiple windows. I'm not at my desk to try this but let's say you have multiple chrome windows open, all with their own tabs, and you want to view your current chrome window overlayed on a window from another app. To do this you have to manually minimise all of your chrome windows one by one so they will all move of the way, to allow you to switch between apps and view them both at the same time.

mwaitjmp··on Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby
Not only due to the popularity of Rails, Ruby has become popular for sysadmins as config management solutions such as puppet and chef are built on top of it. The resulting syntax is very ruby like, and in some cases you are even required to write a few ruby blocks here and there.

It also has an amazing testing framework in the form of rspec, which can be used for much more than just testing Ruby code.

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