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“Let’s Go Take, A Closer Look”

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:47:43 +0000

This channel is so kitsch, I’ve grown to love it. I just watched 28 minutes of some English nerd installing Linux, and all the familiar hassles he had along the way. I’m going to assume you just watched this video in it’s entirety, or switched it off after a few seconds. i know you have…

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`npm i -g missingDependency`

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:10:34 +0000

title says it all really. “works on my machine”npm publish

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Fancy laptop with discrete GPU? Afraid of the hassle of setting up Linux properly?

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:04:22 +0000

I’ve got a Dell XPS 15 9560. It’s beginning to get on now – 5/6 years old?? But still full of life and power. The Windows drivers have always been a problem with all the new tech in these things. I’ve had several long episodes over it’s lifetime related to the nvme driver / storage…

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tfjs for M1 very close!

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 02:29:09 +0000

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/4514#issuecomment-974982349 hmm, I think I have a working binary. I probably should have contributed it

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Unit testing

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 06 May 2021 11:03:05 +0000

Spending even a nanosecond chasing down bugs in unit test feels like a raging contradiction. …although if we wrote perfect unit tests, then why couldn’t we write perfect code every time. Still infuriating spending even the slightest nanosecond debugging when writing a test :-D

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Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser.

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:42:25 +0000

Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser. Why did they make a web browser? For exactly the same reasons as I have not and never will use it. They have unrivalled potential to snoop on everything you do with your personal devices. 10 years later, after useful projects like…

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No More Potty Mouth – I will try my best

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:39:50 +0000

I have not been posting here much lately. I guess I am busy! The last few posts seem to be rants on the negative side of things. I hope to decrease my offensive words per post from now on. Thanks for listening and fuck you.

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Fuck Windows 10 – What a Piece of Shit.

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:22:13 +0000

So I was quite proud that I had never had to reinstall Windows since my first Windows XP laptop way back when. Many peers would talk of “refreshing” their PCs – LOSERS! Just look after your PC and it will not get wrecked! You fools!!! I have always said. I had a hairy moment back…

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Hello Firefox 57 (Quantum) !!! … well this is bullshit.

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:22:52 +0000

Not one add-on working. Fucking pathetic Mozilla. These guys really are hopeless. As an add-on developer I have suffered first hand at their underhanded, ill-thought tactics. There is a superior attitude among Mozilla developers, that everybody else must change to suit them. Just look at the history of gmail.com support on Firefox for Android. I…

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Virgin Media Speed Test.

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:51:46 +0000

It seems like a heck of a long time since I have had a proper wired Internet connection. Here’s a CAT 5e connection straight through two floor/ceilings and a wall to the UPC router Virgin Media Hub. Things are on the upswing again :-)

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When are leap card peak fares?

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:41:49 +0000

This information was surprisingly hard to find on my phone, and had to be found by reading a legislative proposal from 2015. Peak hours are 07:45 to 09:30 Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. No thanks necessary.

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New “Projects” Site is Active: HotdogSystems.com

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:01:12 +0000

My new “projects” website is up at http://hotdogsystems.com Currently it is dedicated to a Javascript WebGL project I am working on, but even the site itself is a “project”. The site is built using yeoman, which is a fantastic node-based platform for web development. Sites are served locally, and when you save files the browser…

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One-Click Translate Page Firefox Add-On

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:43:43 +0000

New add-on released, awaiting review from Mozilla. Please leave bug reports in the comments. I made this AddOn as a big shortcut to my usual way of translating a whole webpage with google translate, by simply clicking a button once. I found myself quite repetitively clicking on to the URL bar copying a webpage’s address…

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I have left Hostgator :-(

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:48:15 +0000

They were a pretty good and cheap hosting provider in the beginning. Lots of tools set up and ready to go like ssh, git, and wp-cli. But I am just too poor, and can not keep up with their rising charges. They offered me 20% off on my next bill if I stayed, but it…

Hotdog Field Simulator

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:41:23 +0000

Yeah. Forgot about this. http://mcmonkeys1.tumblr.com/post/128417392100/bigblueboo-hotdog-field-simulator

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Dodgy Website Visitors

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 04:57:57 +0000

I am seeing an unusually large number of hits on two of my websites from Russian Federation & the Ukraine this month. One specific IP in the Ukraine hit rosrants.com site over 1,200 times in one day, some lad called Igor. I CAN SEE YOU! There’s nothing for you here anyway, and nothing of interest…

JavaScript 101

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 28 May 2015 11:19:38 +0000

I have been learning proper, plain old JavaScript. Warts and all. Here is my first program of a simple calculator: (http://rosrants.com/calculator.html) Oh, I have been dabbling with Bootstrap as well for the visuals. More to follow…

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Google Updates Search Algorithm / SEO Rules

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 03:50:24 +0000

OK, so it was supposed to happen on 21st April 2015 and now it appears it is occurring. Google has made a major update to it’s search algorithm. The new changes were purported to be that “google is shifting the way it pageranks sites. The new search algorithm will move away from a backlinks based…

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Gif Time!

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 22:53:25 +0000

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Kung Fu Zombie (1982)

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 06:53:19 +0000

The Bottom Line Hong Kong Chinese, spiritual / magicial, martial arts, B-movie zombies.

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The Problem with Internet Censorship

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:38:32 +0000

If you can think of valid reasons for Internet censorship, the problem is that someone always wants to abuse it. Check out these weirdos: https://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-most-idiotic-copyright-complaint-150222/

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Hexeosis

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:26:25 +0000

This Hexeosis person/people, whoever he/she/they/it are anyhow, they be amazing. The gifs are my favourite [Edit: 2015-03-17] Added some new fav gifs. Hungry for more? Check Hexeosis’ profiles out heres: (https://ello.co/hexeosis) or (http://hexeosis.tumblr.com/) Or there is a best of at (http://www.studiomoh.com/fun/tumblrbestof/?tumblr=hexeosis)

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Crazy-assed Steampunk-looking Wristwatch

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 23:16:49 +0000

Just came across this crazy, steampunk looking watch on deal extreme. Only a tenner with free shipping. Do want! Full link is here (http://www.dx.com/p/dual-dial-zinc-alloy-casing-pu-band-quartz-analog-men-s-wrist-watch-brown-201591)

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Hypnosis for Beginners

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:08:31 +0000

I wrote a tiny website many moons ago and never got back to it at isntthat.greatnow.com. Mainly I was hacking away the ugly ads that are injected into the free website’s page, but there was one gem of info, and I think it belongs here so that I will maintain it. The following is copypasta…

“Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 20:57:43 +0000

So I was just watching a trailer for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar. At first it seemed kinda cool, spaceships etc. Then I realised they were placing a lot of emphasis on Matthew McCaughney’s character leaving his two kids behind. Then they got to the line “Love is the one thing that transcends time and…

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