arichard123

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by arichard123 1mo ago
I had a client and they weren't to bothered if they sold the last item twice, they would call the customer, apologise, and offer a discount on an alternative and keep the sale.
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by arichard123 2mo ago
I've built a site https://www clublaunchpad.com/ It's a Kickstarter for groups that want to feel like they are a club. This helps with the chicken and egg problem. UK only at the moment but that's easily change
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by arichard123 5mo ago
This is good. I picked up a copy of the encyclopedia britannica from 1973 and quite enjoy browsing that rather than the internet. The articles seem well written, and as mentioned here, you have the fact and the history and everything all mi
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by arichard123 9mo ago
We were discussing this last night. The solution seems to be we need to do very boring things each day, like stare at paint, watch grapes grow, etc, but then do that with different people in different places. In this way, each day seems ver
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by arichard123 9mo ago
I've been self hosting it for 20 years. Best technical decision I ever made. Rock solid
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by arichard123 9mo ago
Is this some kind of pre-AI crash long game? Does that make any sense?
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by arichard123 11mo ago
I remember using a TUI for a Bank in the UK, and them switching to a web-based javascript system. Because the TUI forced keyboard interaction everyone was quick, and we could all fly through the screens finding what we wanted. One benefit w
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by arichard123 11mo ago
Xkcd Colour names based on a survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
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by arichard123 11mo ago
I don't think the average horse is heavier than the average cow.
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by arichard123 11mo ago
I'm on the octopus agile tariff that has 30 minute pricing and an API to query it. Prices for tomorrow published at 4pm today. So the pricing bit is sorted. Just need to make the devices understand it now.
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by arichard123 11mo ago
But if you're the only one doing it because the competition haven't figured it out, then you win in until they do. You can outbid on each ad.
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by arichard123 1y ago
Airsoft is probably played in a private woodland.
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by arichard123 1y ago
But "investment" as the water companies define it is every penny not taken as profit. Staffing costs? Investment! Fixing leaks? Investment! So that figure sounds like money above and beyond, but I don't think it is.
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by arichard123 1y ago
The claim was a pub doesn't track your identity. I think I proved mine did.
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by arichard123 1y ago
My local knows exactly who I am, that I'm over 18, where I live, who my kids are, how old they are, what I like to drink etc.
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by arichard123 1y ago
Americans have complex post tax rules. I think their normal is a pre-tax figure. Also, it helps if you are comparing across territories I guess.
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by arichard123 1y ago
Hang on. If they are deterred, then by definition they are not valuable contributors. They have not contributed. If they have contributed, they were not deterred.
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by arichard123 1y ago
How surprising to find this here. I've just started making sourdough bread. It turns out that I can't make it like the local bakery, but actually, that's fine. I had to really think? Do I like open crumb? Actually no! I want
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by arichard123 2y ago
I ran a ssh server for a while to store git repositories. We had some with secrets in and I didn't want them on github. I needed to provide read only access and read write access for only some of the repos. I ended up with a bash scr
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by arichard123 2y ago
Ultra processed people by Dr Chris van tulliken and for for life by Dr Tim Spector are good reading on this. The first is more focused on this issue.
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by arichard123 2y ago
I'm using the AMD version of the framework 13" laptop with a usb dock which cost £30. The dock has power display port usb A and c ports ethernet headphone jack and card readers. It all plugs into the framework laptop with one cabl
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by arichard123 2y ago
I had a similar thing until I stopped eating a certain brand of muesli. A different brand with seemingly the same ingredients was fine. I think it's something to do with processing of dried fruit. I believe there was some reaction betw
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by arichard123 2y ago
I'm trying to solve loneliness and improve civilisation.
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by arichard123 2y ago
If notes are stored as json maybe it would be easy to write a program to transfer notes from the old hash to the new one
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by arichard123 2y ago
This is how I feel actually. I live in the UK and the new government has started doing very sensible things. They are actually dealing with a lot of points made in the comments here. I look at the weakness of the 2 presidential candidates i
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by arichard123 2y ago
I built a pseudo anonymous forum system for a client. He would give out logins, so he could monitor behaviour and participation. It was used when two large UK charities merged. Be then produced a report based on the ideas that came from it.
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by arichard123 2y ago
The article mentions copying databases using templates. Once your database has got big enough, that might not make sense. You could use a zfs fs for your cluster, snapshot it, then mount it in a new cluster. This would prevent copying the d
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by arichard123 3y ago
Well I don't think I should be told what apps they use
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by arichard123 3y ago
I once did work for a UK politician and got a notification when they signed up.
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by arichard123 3y ago
I agree. I use hot keys to bring the app I want into view, rather than bend me neck this way and that all day.

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