r0bbbo

Joined 16 years ago

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Sep 15
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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Comment · 7 months ago
I assume they mean a similar experience to browsing /r/popular on Reddit. You're getting a feed that isn't tailored to your browsing history, likes or preferences. It's less addicting and the company doesn't need to know anything about you to provide the experience.
Comment · 1 year ago
Has anyone done the joke about "next big cloud platform" yet?
Comment · 2 years ago
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4

The closing music choices are excellent.

Comment · 2 years ago
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?
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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?
Comment · 2 years ago
Are there any implications of the polling rate not quite aligning as the original controller would've?
Comment · 2 years ago
No. And a quick search finds possibly one mention of it from 9 years ago on Reddit. It's not widely used.
Comment · 2 years ago
I lived in Hounslow for thirty years and got the Piccadilly Line daily. I never once heard it referred to as The Tandoor.
Comment · 3 years ago
Right, and that's expected of the model that the author originally bought into. The problem isn't with the users, the problem is with the author's false expectations of the model.
Comment · 3 years ago
My personal blog: https://robbell.io

I've had a few posts that have really taken off over the years, although I moved domain some time ago and lost a lot of traffic!

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like it's back down.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.

Comment · 3 years ago
What is P/M fit?

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