davejohnclark

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by davejohnclark 1y ago
There's a good post about why this isn't as foolproof an approach as it might first seem here https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
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by davejohnclark 1y ago
> If billionaires and aristocrats were actually a sizable amount of a country's wealth I might be misunderstanding your point, but I think they might be? E.g. in the UK: > By 2023, the richest 50 families in the UK held more wea
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by davejohnclark 1y ago
Yeah I think that's a fair shout, the main element being that private banks create the money via loans. Thanks for engaging, I appreciate the discussion. One day I might grok how modern economies hang together, but I've a way to
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by davejohnclark 1y ago
Interestingly that paper from the Bank of England makes no mention of "fractional reserve" anywhere, but they do say: >Another common misconception is that the central bank determines the quantity of loans and deposits in the e
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by davejohnclark 1y ago
> The main source of "money printing" is banks making loan Sounds like a similar mechanism as the UK. I'm not aware if the system is exactly the same or not. It was apparently so poorly understood in the UK that the bank
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by davejohnclark 1y ago
Good write up here https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/stop-saying-a-value-added-t... about how VAT doesn't alter the levelness of the playing field re imports and exports
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
I have exactly this as well. My optician explained it as my brain would use the information from the lazier eye only if there wasn't any information from the good eye. Just tried the eyes crossed trick on the easy image in the articl
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
>I thought the keel only needed to be down when they were something like 70 knots out at sea 60 nautical miles out to sea according to a write up by a former captain of the yacht ( https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024&#
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
> you don't need a license of any kind to listen to the radio. I believe you did once upon a time, but I guess they were phased out as TVs became more popular. >The first supplementary licence fee for colour television was introd
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
I absolutely love Chef John. Great recipes and the cadence of his speech on YouTube (foodwishes) is very soothing, while he cooks up something amazing. If you're a home cook I highly recommend his recipes and his channel.
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
You've articulated how I'd describe my experience as well. I'd not ever describe something in my mind's eye as 'floating like holograms'. "Vague visual imagery appear in my head" resonates with me. E
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by davejohnclark 2y ago
Interesting, maybe it depends on when you were looking? Also central York and we popped outside just after half eleven and the aurora was very visible to the naked eye, not in full multicolour but very clearly not a cloud, quite thick and r
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by davejohnclark 3y ago
Clip for anybody who doesn't know the Futurama reference https://youtu.be/O4RLOo6bchU
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by davejohnclark 4y ago
I was stunned to read that, in the UK, after carefully separating out the microplastics with the solid waste, that waste is then... spread on farmland as fertiliser, microplastics and all. >In the UK, of the sewage sludge screened out by
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by davejohnclark 4y ago
I generally think of this as the same principle of "prefer composition over inheritence". Leave the top-level free to compose the behaviour it requires rather than inheriting the framework's behaviour, for exactly the reason
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by davejohnclark 5y ago
Have you tried using something like telepresence ( https://www.telepresence.io/ ) to get a better debugging story? It's not perfect but I've used it to good effect in the past to help with some aspects of the local
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by davejohnclark 5y ago
> I did a quick trawl through the patents filed by SiTimes, and I’m guessing the MEMS oscillator chip contains at least two separate oscillators. These oscillators are intentionally different, so that their frequency drift with temperat
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by davejohnclark 6y ago
Second this. I first heard about this book in a comment on HN a few years ago (can't find it at the moment to link), and happily pay it forward whenever I can.
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by davejohnclark 6y ago
>"where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Don't say "doing your wife", don't say "doing your wife" "Doing your... son?" Sorry for the cheap laugh. I really needed it right now. Maybe som
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by davejohnclark 7y ago
I found the oatmeal's comic about Columbus enlightening (and disturbing) https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
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by davejohnclark 8y ago
Cool, thanks. No idea how I failed to find it...
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by davejohnclark 8y ago
Thanks! I swear I searched the repo and didn't get any useful results, but yeah it's there plain as day...
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by davejohnclark 8y ago
I could never unsee it in this old easymock logo https://www.javacodegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eas... . They have since changed it to something much more neutral, thankfully!
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by davejohnclark 8y ago
Looks cool, is the source code for promtail available? I can see there's an image available https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/promtail (which is used in the readme) but I can't find the source anywhere.
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by davejohnclark 9y ago
Have you come across https://www.provenance.org ? It's outside the currency/wire transfer space. Looked like an interesting application to me, but possibly too nascent to be a shining example