RossM

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by RossM 1y ago
It's got to be pure marketing - the British media certainly loves a buzzword, but I suspect that's more to do with their clickbait strategy. ("What is blishing? Have I fallen for it?"). Perhaps it helps some people compa
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by RossM 2y ago
I can't find any good information post-privatisation, but at least before 2013 the postcodes themselves were copyrighted by Royal Mail (likely Crown Copyright as with government data). There were attempts to enforce this in 2009[0]. I
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by RossM 2y ago
For context, Thameslink operates a route through central London, and transitions from overhead power in the north to third-rail in the south. This happens when stopped at stations and is fairly quick - the pantograph/shoes are raised&#
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by RossM 4y ago
I did this for a bit. The main issue was that air intake on my older model was through the keyboard, so clamshell mode was inadvisable - not sure if that’s true of the newer models and M1 should run cooler. If you’re wiping it and installin
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by RossM 4y ago
At least in the UK, all financing arrangements for phones, laptops are with Barclays and PayPal Credit https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/browse/financing
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by RossM 5y ago
Correlates with my experience of late 2013 MBP batteries (it might be the same model actually). My original Apple battery lasted until 2019. Both of the iFixit replacements have lasted a year until not holding original charge, and just last
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by RossM 5y ago
> Nobody is forced to install the app at all (at least in the UK's case). Unfortunately, that's not quite right. Citing the latest rules: > The rules on what you need to do when a group enters your venue have changed. You m
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by RossM 6y ago
This feels like it's just designed to encourage rapid replies, like their chatrooms. I've always admired HN's time-delay on posting replies the deeper you get into a thread - it deliberately reduces engagement but seems effec
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by RossM 6y ago
Using Cloudflare with DoH is documented here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ You essentially run a little proxy server on your pihole setup, and configure pihole to use it as your upstream dns res
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by RossM 6y ago
Not OP, but I never got on with forced stops either. I had some success treating it like a mini-deadline to achieve flow-state - work on something for 25 minutes, and if I don't feel like I want to keep going, take a break and try agai
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by RossM 6y ago
I migrated the company's services from AWS to OCI at the startup I was at. The trade-off is simple, if Oracle can say $product runs on OCI, they'll put you in front of the biggest industry players who are using their POS, database
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by RossM 7y ago
At the bottom of the page they list availability of third party services used - Fastly has a warning symbol, and I imagine they put that CDN in front of everything.
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by RossM 7y ago
Interesting details; it would be nice to see how those ulimit/networking numbers were arrived at. The title should have [2015].
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by RossM 8y ago
Adafruit sell a 1-60,000 ppm equivalent-CO2 sensor for £15. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3709
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by RossM 8y ago
Daftness aside, I think the courts/rights-orgs have just correctly identified registrars as the weak link - see the ease of which a number of right-wing sites had their domains dropped. My experience with registrars doesn’t feel like t
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by RossM 8y ago
Turns out 12.1.2 is the non-optional “your phone is updating tonight” I received Wednesday. (Appeared to be mandatory anyway).
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by RossM 8y ago
Same experience here, perhaps there's a different agreement for social visits and commercial meetings.
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by RossM 8y ago
How are you finding it? I've been looking for an alternative registrar - currently with 123-Reg in the UK, and would like to find a reputable, tech-savvy, UK alternative (but at least CF has a UK office).
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by RossM 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this; I infrequently have to write standalone shell scripts but every time I do I spend a while looking around for best practices and often just end up with some contradicting opinions.
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by RossM 8y ago
> But what is the user facing benefit? Syncing bookmarks, recently opened tabs, passwords, autofill(?). These are genuine benefits when you're working with laptops, desktops, phones and tablets. Whether they're worth the cost o
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by RossM 8y ago
A "population explosion".
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by RossM 8y ago
I always liked Reddit's intended approach: downvote comments that don't add to the conversation. Sadly, votes are too easily mapped to agree/disagree or truth/falsehood - see the "1,800 karma" comment below as
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by RossM 8y ago
My favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.
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by RossM 8y ago
This is important (though I'm oddly yet to run into this issue with pip; I've only had conflicts with npm and composer before). Freezing dependency sources in Docker images and using (pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.t
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by RossM 8y ago
Their ML approach is most likely based on their https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely project, which uses instance-based learning (as I understand it, lightweight ML) to scrape other pages from a few examples.
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by RossM 8y ago
If you remember that so, so much old PHP was reliant on global scope included from other files, it explains a lot of the DI obsession. If you were lucky, it was just a single bootstrap.php, but often not.
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by RossM 8y ago
I feel it's worth reminding that there's a difference between autonomous trains, driverless trains and unattended trains. The L train is considered Grade of Automation 2 - it starts and stops itself, though it has someone in the
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by RossM 9y ago
How's the touchpad nowadays? I'm probably spoiled by Macbooks, but that's my one bug bear with the older model. It just feels very cheap and unresponsive.
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by RossM 9y ago
Re: ML - I think it might be possible to do some sort of generic popup-detection: a container that's initially invisible, containing a clickable that the mouse accelerates towards shortly after becoming visible. With opt-in, they could
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by RossM 9y ago
I've done this recently actually. Take a look at the yukinying/chrome-headless-browser[0] image. You'll need to run with the SYS_ADMIN capability and up the shm_size to 1024M (you can workaround the SYS_ADMIN cap with a secco

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