BayesianDice

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   by BayesianDice 5d ago

   Google Workspace accounts do indeed have less facilities in some areas. For example, a Google Workspace account can't manage a Family Link setup, or be used with Fitbit. I have seen the rationale that Workspace is intended as a workpla
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   by BayesianDice 2y ago

   I (in the UK) used to have a small local restaurant which had a .eu domain. When Brexit was happening, I mentioned this issue to them, and they explained the relevant individual was an EU citizen so they were OK in the short term but they w
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   by BayesianDice 2y ago

   BT in the UK has 17070 which tells you the number and lets you do tests like the "quiet line test". Handy when working out what was going on when I moved into a property with no live phone service (so no normal outgoing calls), lo
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   by BayesianDice 2y ago

   And when the book is ruined, she credits her books account (an asset account) $20 and debits her "depreciation/impairment" account (an expense account) $20.
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   by BayesianDice 3y ago

   And then your text editor might leave a backup copy with filename "xyz.php~" which PHP won't interpret and Apache will happily serve to a curious user as plain text. So I've heard :-)
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   by BayesianDice 3y ago

   There is another perspective to be aware of on this... I have been caught out by a service provider when it became clear the service I was using wasn't their main business - and their interest in properly maintaining and operating that
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   by BayesianDice 3y ago

   I believe that is (or at least was) true at Google - although from what I knew of the role, it sounded like it also covered what I would consider project management. (I think I would often consider program mangement to be coordinating/
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   by BayesianDice 3y ago

   Indeed, "Do you use source control?" was one of Joel Spolsky's 12 questions - in fact, the first of those questions - to judge the quality of a software team in this 2000 article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2
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   by BayesianDice 3y ago

   I think I read about a tool for the Acorn BBC micros which you could apply to your program to remove unnecessary spaces etc. in the tokenised form and shave off a few bytes. This had the side-effect that you could still display and (presuma
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    by BayesianDice 3y ago

    Note the article is from 2018.
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    by BayesianDice 3y ago

    I used to play a lot of Catan and loved the game but then stopped for a few years over COVID (while I played other games online). When I tried it again, that's when I noticed this "drought" problem more obviously. (But that&
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    I use Amazon SES to send system-generated messages from a couple of tiny websites I ran on EC2. When applying I needed to specify the volume, and put in a generous number in case the sites got a busy day - maybe 100-200/day (when reali
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    I wondered if, being a Sunday evening on the British train system, she'd find herself on a rail replacement bus service for some of the return journey. But luckily not - just some diversions because of engineering work adding 60 minute
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    And in London, the Underground closes down altogether overnight, except for some lines running on Friday and Saturday nights. (And that Night Tube service is a relatively recent innovation, starting in 2016.)
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    The amended regulations ( https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/984/schedule/made ) refer to a requirement for connection to a "gigabit-capable public electronic communications network". And a
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    Cyberattackers Torch Python Machine Learning Project(darkreading.com)

    4 points by BayesianDice 4y ago|0 comments
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    I'm guessing a reference to Patreon in September this year: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/09/patreon-security-layoffs/
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    Interesting to learn of the US rule. In the UK, up to £8000 of relocation expenses can be provided tax-free, for "qualifying expenses" (mainly costs of buying/selling home and moving - https://www.gov.uk/expens
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    An alternative approach which I was taught at an enrichment course at school but which became more relevant as life and career progressed - be the minute-taker. A lesson also learnable from top civil servant (good grief, I sound like a head
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    by BayesianDice 4y ago

    In the UK at least it looks like you can still get inflation index-linked annuities - for example, there are entries in the Hargreaves Lansdown "best buy" tables for for RPI-linked annuities: https://www.hl.co.uk/r
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    by BayesianDice 5y ago

    Thanks, I'd found the first edition a really good book when I was early in my security career many years ago, I shall have to check the 2020 edition!
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    by BayesianDice 5y ago

    I did recently discover that the Estonian standards agency makes ISO standards available, not for free, but significantly more cheaply than other sources I found when trying to locate standards (although I didn't end up using it so don
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    by BayesianDice 5y ago

    Thank you for the comment. The site already has RSS, and I'd agree there are good technical grounds for preferring it, but I get the impression that its use among users is declining, which is why I was considering other mechanisms. I f
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    by BayesianDice 5y ago

    I agree with comments saying that a key point is producing content. I'd spent a couple of years of considering starting a blog (with no commercial/monetisation, but somewhere to post thoughts on technology / games / book
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    by BayesianDice 5y ago

    There's lots of speculation here on what the Bank of England means by a central bank digital currency (CBDC) - people may be interested in the more concrete indications of what the Bank is / has been considering in a discussion pa
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    by BayesianDice 6y ago

    An alternative to storing the pw in plain text is to ask the user to provide their current password at the same time as the new password. The password change routine can then check the current password is correct (which protects against the
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    by BayesianDice 6y ago

    "Arcadia" is great, but "The Hard Problem" (2015) may also be of interest - on consciouness and philosophy of mind. I'd coincidentally read Daniel Dennett's "Intuition Pumps and other tools for thinking&qu
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    by BayesianDice 6y ago

    To clarify this - as far as I've seen, so far, 3 of the 45 Oxford colleges/PPHs (Worcester, Wadham, and St Edmund Hall) are accepting all offer-holders regardless of results. (Oxford, along with Cambridge but unlike many universit
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    by BayesianDice 6y ago

    Thanks for that - I certainly agree that's simpler than Lambda@Edge, and option well worth considering. I looked at that approach at the time but didn't go down that route because, as far as I understood (unless I missed something
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    by BayesianDice 6y ago

    Thanks, that makes sense - I've not used ReactJS, but guessed that your site only needed the top-level index.html, so that was handy.