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A 10 year old quote from Dennis Chao on Doom as a sysadmin tool
On Hacker news, I recently came across this quote from Dennis Chao on the pitfalls of using Doom as a system administration tool: [One] of the problems of using Doom as a tool for system...
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In the good old days of the credit boom, back in July 2007, Cheltenham & Gloucester offered borrowers a tracker mortgage which would charge borrowers 1.01% less than the Bank of England’s base...
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Hadley Wickham is famous. The kind of famous where people at statistics conferences line up for selfies, ask him for autographs, and are generally in awe of him. Sureley that’s the best kind of famous....
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At the time I would probably not have admitted to it in certain circles, but in my teens I was an enthusiastic player of role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Cyberpunk. The rule book for...
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