oldie

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by oldie 5y ago
I find a conversation more distracting if it's relevant to me. If we have to cram developers into open plan offices then each feature team should be dispersed throughout the building, so that the discussions each person overhears are
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by oldie 5y ago
2500ppm? Good grief. I notice a slight blunting of my mental edge at about 1000ppm. I always maintain enough ventilation to keep below about 800ppm. I don't guess; I monitor. At work, in our delapidated office, I've seen up to
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by oldie 5y ago
I'm a software engineer. I choose music or silence tactically. If I need to power myself through a task, I use music to do it. If I'm trying to solve a difficult problem or master a complex body of unfamiliar code, I need silen
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by oldie 5y ago
Remember all the ghastliness with code pages that sprang up around Ascii, such that systems configured for different languages didn't agree about what characters most code points were supposed to represent? Well, good news: Ebcdic sup
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by oldie 5y ago
How many people bemoaning Facebook's evils on HN still have Facebook accounts? Do what you know you ought to do. Stop feeding the beast. Set a better example. Close your account and don't look back. And, when people ask you wh
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by oldie 5y ago
The Hart Group is one of a number of overlapping organisations that target children and parents with vaccine-related misinformation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58783711
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by oldie 5y ago
As far as I know, they are. And, since I don't have a Facebook account, I can't find a way to submit a GDPR subject access request.
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by oldie 5y ago
I'm sorry -- slip of the keyboard. Where I wrote "load-balancing" here yesterday (not once but twice), I should have written "traffic-shaping." I have only one Internet connection -- that's all I can get here
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by oldie 5y ago
Take a look at < https://www.gl-inet.com/ >. These boxes come with a nice, simplified GUI, but will run stock OpenWRT, which you can build yourself if you wish. I placed one of these boxes behind my ADSL router to do l
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by oldie 5y ago
I've found myself in a similar situation. What I've learnt is that good load-balancing makes a surprising difference. It won't help you back up your files to the cloud any faster, but it will keep your Internet connection u
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by oldie 6y ago
Regrettably, it can't.
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by oldie 6y ago
Politicians, having long ago squandered their own credibility, are now working their way through someone else's. But it's not an easy partnership. Politicians, especially during an emergency, need to produce fast, clear, consist
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by oldie 6y ago
I voted yes. I get a flu jab every year, including this year.
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by oldie 6y ago
This is an important and under-considered factor when people are deciding about getting vaccinated. Other groups of people who can't currently get vaccinated, at least in my country, include children and pregnant women. They all dese
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by oldie 6y ago
I suggest that Western culture's understanding of risk is immature. Is it the case that driving at the speed limit is safe and driving 5% faster is dangerous? Of course not. Driving at any speed carries risk; driving faster, on a gi
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by oldie 6y ago
For young people, the risk of death is low, but even young people can suffer from long Covid: < https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470 >.
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by oldie 7y ago
I'm really glad it did you do much good. For me, it was the other way round. When I used intermittent fasting (in the form of the 5:2 diet) to get my weight under control, I stopped snoring like a rhino, and my sleep improved. As did
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by oldie 8y ago
I the early Nineties, I had a good idea of what an ideal programming language would be. Then I encountered Perl, which was diametrically opposite to everything I thought I wanted. Perl enabled me to do in a morning what would have taken a