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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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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—anyone have any recollection of that?

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, then I use the in-built OSX shortcuts for moving apps between screens.

What kind of workflows suit something as advanced as Window Maker? Where does the line sit between this and something like Gnome? I'm struggling to get my head around the nuances.

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 that up in a data file that can be interpreted by an emulator too, but how does an emulator model the hardware of every 'expansion' chip in a cartridge? How is that dumped from an original cartridge?

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 speculated that because of the large outage Reddit had during the blackout they may have performed a data restore.

I've since run PowerDeleteSuite again and most of my comments have remained deleted. A couple from several years ago have just popped back into existence in the last few days though.

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 pedestrians and bikes will share sidewalks. I imagine the new game will roll a lot of their official add-ons into the base game. I also heard that they hired some of the community mod creators which is exciting news.

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 conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry

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 from. I'm hugely in favour of it, anyone else considering it?

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 interesting read, and it's helping concepts like pipelining and caching to gel.

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.

This is what Microsoft Cognitive Services saw:

Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence": 0.719 }, "confidence": 0.716 } ]

Tags [ { "name": "wall", "confidence": 0.9889654 }, { "name": "indoor", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "doll", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "person", "confidence": 0.966689169 }, { "name": "toy", "confidence": 0.5887871 }, { "name": "collection", "confidence": 0.535430968 }, { "name": "bear", "confidence": 0.432904869 }, { "name": "christmas", "confidence": 0.351226926 }, { "name": "animal", "confidence": 0.350886434 }, { "name": "family", "confidence": 0.3459218 } ]

Description { "tags": [ "indoor", "table", "sitting", "food", "dog", "woman", "black", "bear", "holding", "standing", "man", "room", "people", "bed", "group", "stuffed", "red", "kitchen" ], "captions": [ { "text": "a group of stuffed animals sitting on top of a table", "confidence": 0.764803648 } ] }

Times New Roman is fine - serif fonts are supposedly more readable - it's the line widths that kill me here - figuring out which line you're due to start on next really disrupts flow

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:checkered_flag: :globe_with_meridians: My subjec

Using emojis and limiting yourself to 50 chars is really difficult

Edit: Just seen that "Every Raw Emoji Text(:emoji:) is Counted as One Char!" - Great! But I'm not sure how Git CLI will like that.

I don't agree with his negative attitude, but I don't think he's far off in terms of his facts:

- I think nine pounds for two pints of ale is about right anywhere in London. Go somewhere a bit cool and it's easily over ten

- I pay £1400 for a two bed in zone 2 which is cheap, I think the average is around £1600. I recently started looking at one beds in the same area and they are around £1200