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by dignick 4mo ago
Location: Holmfirth, UK Remote: Yes (remote-first; UK/EU hours, happy to overlap US), or hybrid if nearby (Leeds/Manchester) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Embedded C/C++, Zephyr RTOS, nRF Connect SDK (nRF5x, nRF9x), B
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Show HN: Code Recap – Generate year-in-review reports from your Git history(github.com)
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by dignick 11mo ago
You can get retaining clips to hold it on. While these can be a bit fiddly, I’ve found them good enough for bench testing with no legs tag connect https://www.tag-connect.com/product/tc2030-retaining-clip-bo...
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by dignick 2y ago
I bought a model Y in ‘22. I had some initial problems like a creaky back seat and the floor popping like a jam lid, but after a few service visits those were resolved and since it has been very reliable and even gained nice new features li
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by dignick 2y ago
I use o1, mainly to - write well-defined and self-contained bash, python, powershell scripts to automate tasks - give it an error (often from a build tool) and ask it to help fix it. Sometimes it figures it out, but if not then it gives me
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by dignick 3y ago
That’s what we’ve been doing for a while now - why hasn’t it worked? I guess we could deregulate and approve more building, but then we end up with a load of empty boxes of substandard/dangerous quality, with inadequate local resources
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by dignick 3y ago
Housing stock is growing faster than population. There are other more complex issues behind our inflating housing market than just ‘not enough homes’, but nobody seems to want to talk about them: https://positivemoney.org/20
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by dignick 3y ago
We actually have excess housing in the UK: https://positivemoney.org/2023/01/more-than-building-new-hou...
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by dignick 4y ago
Like in the US, democracy in the United Kingdom is faltering. Our first past the post electoral system means the Tories can retain power with a third of the (active) electorate voting for them. Labour believes first past the post serves the
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by dignick 4y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8... Yes, but not for drivers (so device manufacturers have to write drivers specifically for ARM)
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by dignick 4y ago
I’m a firm believer in distributed generation and storage, i.e. solar on the roof and battery on premises. This has the added benefits of reducing load on the grid and increasing resiliency. It should be required for all new buildings in re
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by dignick 4y ago
There are several problems with fission (probably fusion too) as I understand it: 1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government is promising to subsidise this to make it viable. 2. Construc
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by dignick 4y ago
> Well yeah, that's a sudden sound. My point precisely. But you are saying that isn’t like an aircraft - why? > So why don't you hear from your observation point the airplane (or all airplanes for that matter) as it takes of
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by dignick 4y ago
Unfortunately, this is very wrong! Why does it have to be a sudden sound? The effect the article describes is the same as eg thunder, except an aircraft is continuously moving and emitting sound. The aircraft in the article is not heading d
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by dignick 4y ago
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.ft.com/content/dbf166ce-...
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by dignick 5y ago
“Swift 5.5 is a massive release” Then shouldn’t it be Swift 6?
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by dignick 5y ago
Same. I struggle to find time to get through each edition, but I don't mind paying the subscription to support quality journalism.
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by dignick 5y ago
As the post office is such an old organisation (350 years), it used to have its own armed guard, has its own investigations branch and conducts its own prosecutions. The police wouldn't get involved because the post office was consider
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by dignick 5y ago
In this fictitious world I'm sure there would be other problems, perhaps some we can't foresee and might look like privilege to us today. We don't complain about "issues of the poor" from the past such as child labo
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by dignick 5y ago
> If 90% of the population had a (sustainable) lifestyle of current dollar millionaires, and the remaining 10% had a (sustainable) lifestyle of dollar billionaires, there would be lots of inequality, but it wouldn't be problematic.
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by dignick 6y ago
I think it’s important to note that due to soil deficiencies (because of intensive farming) and factory farming, 90% [1] of B12 supplements are given to livestock. Regardless of your diet it’s good to make sure you are getting everything yo
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by dignick 6y ago
Same here. Another good quality of the HP instant ink printer I have is that the print head is built into the cartridge - so no more clogged up print heads, which always seemed to be the thing that failed in the previous inkjets I’ve had.
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by dignick 6y ago
>A big part of the contact tracing protocol (which was originally the DP3T protocol) is implemented by Apple-Google in a part of the system called GAEN. This part has no available source code although the law requires disclosure of the s
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by dignick 6y ago
> The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature. I don't think the government deserves the credit they have receive
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by dignick 8y ago
Perhaps IQs would have increased more without pollution?
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by dignick 9y ago
It seems that where companies are outsourcing jobs with a 'gig economy' model, they know these jobs will be automated in the near future and want to be able to easily replace humans with computers. Amazon has the same setup with d
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by dignick 10y ago
Christchurch is actually not on the fault line, and it was a surprise when such a severe earthquake hit in 2011, so they weren't well prepared. All the susceptible buildings collapsed then, and new buildings are earthquake-proof.
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by dignick 11y ago
I won't be happy until the banana can wirelessly notify my Apple Watch that it is now ripe.
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by dignick 11y ago
Cool vid http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/a1ab6f2785e2df2f08f70168413e3a...
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by dignick 11y ago
You can do bi-directional notifications between host app and extension with MMWormhole, which uses CFNotificationCenter: https://github.com/mutualmobile/MMWormhole I think overall Apple has done a fantastic job of v1 o

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