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4 years ago
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on: Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
GeForce Now already works on browsers. It requires Chrome or iOS Safari (I suspect this one was the driving force behind it due to apples app store rules). Just go to
https://play.geforcenow.com/ and it shows you what to do...
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
Seconding the suggestions that you may be able to turn your history into an asset in the right hands. It might be worth taking a look at some of the IT suppliers for the prison system. Unilink are one I am aware of - they do self serve kiosks that are in use in a number of prisons in the UK for stuff like canteen orders and visit booking. They look to be recruiting at the moment as well, so getting in touch can't hurt!
https://www.unilink.com/vacancies/
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4 years ago
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on: Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
Anecdotally if I’m collaborating/helping a newer programmer with python, I can tell if they are using and have only used PyCharm. PyCharm users never seem to understand virtualenvs or requirements.txt. Collaboration with pycharm users at that level always gets frustrating as they seem to routinely fail to update requirements.txt - as their setup isn’t using it and it isn’t easy for them to do
catbuttes
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4 years ago
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on: AWS BugBust
> We will pay you with exposure...
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4 years ago
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on: Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office
> The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.
I get the impression this was part of the intention...
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4 years ago
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on: Experts suggest AXA’s plan to shun ransomware payouts will set a precedent
Now swing it the other way. Only harvest organs from those guilty of crimes. Would that make you less likely to commit crimes, knowing that your organs will be harvested?
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4 years ago
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on: Peloton recalling all treadmills after reports of injuries, one death
I saw that video as well and what struck me was that the treadmill detected a jam, reversed direction briefly (almost completely freeing the kid) and then resumed normal running (sucking the kid back in). In what world is it reasonable to have that sequence happen on a treadmill a person is running on with no human input?
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5 years ago
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on: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
Go's UI tooling is... not great. It's more aimed at server side and CLI usage. In those niches it is awesome though
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5 years ago
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on: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
Have you considered writing an ansible playbook to set all that up? You could even have it pull down the backup and do a full restore for you...
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5 years ago
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on: On All That Fuckery
Normally I don't support going to peoples employers for shit they do outside of working hours, but I am willing to bet that some of those fucknuggets were using work email addresses/accounts. If I was their boss I would want Kat/Github to reach out and let me know about this.
By using their work accounts, they are stating that the company condones their behaviour - and I suspect that isn't the case in the majority of cases. I would definitely want to know if any of my employees were engaging in this shit so I could explain in very simple terms why it is unacceptable - because they clearly don't get it on their own.
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5 years ago
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on: A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
We do exactly this within SharePoint. We have various react parts that look things up in the database - sometimes quite heavy queries for reporting.
We have put together a small collection of fairly generic react apps that mean we can put one on a page, put in some config and have it displaying a report generated in SQL in about as long as it takes to write the SQL for the report. We have used this approach for generic SQL reports, SharePoint lists, imgage retrival and entry forms. Having the library of options to hand has meant we can confidently assemble a new (fairly complex) page much quicker than previously - and be confident that it will work as it is reusing known good components.
