jdsnape

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by jdsnape 5d ago
I have a letterpress print of this from the Cambridge (UK) museum of technology when I was a kid (so about 30 years ago I guess!). I love the juxtaposition between letterpress and the idea of relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten
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by jdsnape 1mo ago
For sure, but it doesn’t pervade public consciousness in the same way. Not sure why, perhaps because the memory of mass-scale war has faded with the previous generations.
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by jdsnape 2mo ago
I love that I see this on hacker news of all places. As an east-anglian I would definitely second this opinion. Times are a bit harder now but there are still so many great breweries.
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I didn’t say God only wants people to have sex for reproduction. There are two purposes in this philosophy: reproduction, and the deepening of marital unity
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I’m not supporting it, but how is it inconsistent? I can speak more to the Catholic view than the evangelical, but if you accept the initial premise that there is a creator God then the rest follows fairly naturally (you can look the ‘the t
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
Because in their philosophy sex serves a purpose (procreation and the deepening of the marital union). Anything that doesn’t support those two aims (contraception, abortion, gay marriage, pornography etc.) is therefore immoral but there’s n
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I don’t have hard evidence, but when I was a kid I enjoyed the children’s book ‘Five children and it’, written ~1900 The children cart their two year old sibling around with them everywhere (sans parents) and it’s totally unremarkable.
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I knew of Fabrice, and have admired him for many years…but who is DHH?
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
That’s great! It’s very much not the norm here in general tho, in my experience two weeks would be the max people would take off contiguously.
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I think the idea is that while individuals will absolutely find ways round it, it should help to reduce the network effect of everyone a kid knows being already on it. How true that is remains to be seen. One campaign I’ve liked is one in t
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
I agree, another example is the line ‘lots of things had to be done by hand’. I think a more human narrative would be describing the discovery that thing X that we take for granted was missing and tell the story of figuring it out. Giving t
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by jdsnape 3mo ago
Maybe there are different sized pints, but in the uk a pint of beer is about 200 calories. Depends on your social circle of course, but it’s pretty standard to have two or three pints if you meet up with friends in a pub.
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
Thank you for sharing!
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
I’m interested in how this works in practise - I guess you’ve written a skill to do code review, then your Claude.md file tells it to use it after every change as a bg task? So does this work as a background task while Claude is working on
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
There are! https://business.bt.com/public-sector/street-hubs/
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
It’s also a very western view - block printing was a thing in China well before this. I don’t know, but I suspect there are older surviving presses there or in Asia more generally.
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
Yeah I’ve had the same thought. You can get cheap kits but the instructions tend to be vague/machine translated from Chinese. I think there’s a gap in the market for quality kits with good educational instructions - but I think the mar
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
Plants are nice…but, from your link: “These results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a rate that could only be matched by the placement of 10–
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by jdsnape 4mo ago
I also agree co2 levels are super important, but I’m wondering: in your situation isn’t air pollution from the motorway a concern? Not sure how to balance that one
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by jdsnape 5mo ago
I am probably one of the few people here that used this ‘in anger’. Around 15 years ago I would typeset orders of service in tex for our college chapel, and enjoyed typesetting the chant - this tool made it really easy and I could produce I
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by jdsnape 5mo ago
You can…but, won’t the frequency will be stable across the UK grid and these are all in London. Secondly, pretty sure they all use DC motors, so no hum
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by jdsnape 6mo ago
Out of interest, why does that seem a strange methodology?
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by jdsnape 7mo ago
Out of interest, why does it sound kind of crazy? Here, pets have always had to be identifiable: historically with a collar, but microchips have been required for some years now as a more effective method. (That applies nationally, not some
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by jdsnape 7mo ago
I used to work for a large enterprise, and tried to get vim ‘approved’ for internal use. I remember this charityware clause caused our legal department to get tied up in all sorts of arguments about how we could be opening ourselves to liab
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by jdsnape 7mo ago
I think this is probably quite dependent on what’s normal for ISPs in the region. In the UK for example, every ISP router I’ve had runs a DNS server and it’s that which is given out via DHCP. It then forwards onto the ISPs DNS platform.
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by jdsnape 8mo ago
HTTPS does encrypt query parameters, all of the HTTP request goes inside the encrypted session. The only thing outside is the hostname, if the connection is not using the latest versions
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by jdsnape 8mo ago
Owned by Tesla but leased to the public. In the UK it’s common to lease a new car rather than purchasing it, and often the car manufacturer has a financial services arm that manages the lease.
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by jdsnape 9mo ago
probably not so useful in practise, but still fun and interesting. Yes, centralised C2 is definitely still a thing in the malware space, for commodity malware it works well enough that there's little real incentive to move to anything
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by jdsnape 10mo ago
Not quite, it talks about configuring your home network to resist those things (as per the title). It’s just that the home network happens to be in China. It’s a useful writeup, I’ve done similar things outside of China to facilitate split
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by jdsnape 11mo ago
Maybe not on compsci? but when I did electronic engineering it was covered as part of our embedded systems course. There’s quite a lot of info out there on UEFI, and tiano core is open source. I taught myself enough to implement a small gam

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