bowietrousers

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by bowietrousers 3y ago
Standard single phase grid connection is either 60A, 80A or 100A in the UK. The numbers the OP is quoting here certainly aren't representative.
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by bowietrousers 4y ago
London gets its own way, with its own affairs, a lot - it already has a mayor, an elected assembly, and its own transport governance.
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by bowietrousers 9y ago
Also, as an alternative to massively complex edge compute, read up on the Vary: header: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.4 (Caveat: it's an appallingly vague spec, and Vary is frequently badly imple
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by bowietrousers 12y ago
"You are connecting from IP address: 10.56.111.24, 127.0.0.1" Err, RFC 1918 anyone?
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
"Disclaimer: At the time of writing, I don't have any kids of my own, and I have no firsthand knowledge about how to raise kids. Enjoy reading, though!" Great! So I'm just off to write a blog post on how to produce gold
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
Except that it's not just 'a link' is it? It's billions of miles of copper, fibre optics, routers, switches, media converters, legal agreements, large buildings, nuclear power stations...
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
Sounds like the recipe for a monoculture. And people wonder why the Valley gets stick for being exclusive.
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
No it's not. You're being reductive. Even self-motivated, driven, talented people have shit happen in their lives that can effect their performance and capability at work. Then they will require both formal and informal support fr
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
If only this were true. And yes, it's cutely naive and tunnel-visioned to think so. However, I've been in teams where the drag on the ticket was very much a developer. When that happens, you need processes and experienced people i
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Attack of the Kling-ons(slashdot.org)
5 points by bowietrousers 13y ago|2 comments
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
"World Wide Web" != "Internet".
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
What, hoarding profits is the right thing to do? If everyone acted like that there wouldn't be an economy.
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
I know a few people who, if not live exactly like this, certainly think like it. Walling yourself off from all dependencies (physical, financial, emotional) in order to grow your brain and Just Write Code might seem like a smart thing to do
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
What happened to four lines and '-- '?
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
This is a horrifically simplistic argument that doesn't stand up. We are right to be cynical about everything. Things (technology, products, whatever) need to prove themselves before they are worthy of awe. Especially when the potential ubi
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by bowietrousers 13y ago
This is a cute, facile idea, but not thought through. It's not a problem of technology per se - content itself doesn't want or need to live forever. I reserve the right to alter or remove content that I publish. It's trendy to think of the
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by bowietrousers 14y ago
In 1995, all we had at university had was a bunch of SunOS & HP-UX workstations. Yes, they had X, mwm and (later) CDE, but you just had to learn the command line to do anything particularly useful. Man pages, a few of the IT service's l
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by bowietrousers 14y ago
Kirill Zubovsky - maybe more people would listen to and act on your sage UX advice if you didn't come across as such an entitled dick when you're giving it.
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by bowietrousers 14y ago
This is like SF startup bingo. And I think I just won.