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by orobinson 1y ago
I’ve wanted an app like this for ages. I’ve always suffered from analysis paralysis when trying to work out a good, short exercise routine. This looks like it will be the perfect solution — thank you!
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by orobinson 2y ago
Bin bag, bin lorry. I grew up saying dustbin but most people just call them bins these days. I believe “dustbin” is from the Victorian era where what little rubbish people had was burnt in the fireplace. The “dustbin man” would come by and
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by orobinson 2y ago
I’m not a doctor but perhaps try running with a smart watch that shows you your heart rate and put in an amount of effort that keeps your heart rate at about 60-70% of max. For now that may be a brisk walking pace not even a jog. As you get
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by orobinson 2y ago
When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription. I would happily pay a few quid for a movie if I could down
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by orobinson 2y ago
Read the post. It said that people trade in the wrong direction the majority of the time. So played the game with the strategy that I’d go 50x leverage long or short in the opposite direction to my initial hunch upon reading the headlines.
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by orobinson 2y ago
I love how many neat and handy features are baked into the iOS accessibility settings. Apple should make more noise about these features. I recently discovered there’s a white noise generator baked in which meant I could get rid of the anno
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by orobinson 2y ago
Reminds me of a similar situation I experienced while working on a big project. I came down with the flu and woke up in a delirious, feverish state at 2am feeling like I was trapped in the codebase and I needed to make all the tests pass so
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by orobinson 3y ago
This is cool. It reminds me of a research team I worked in a few years back that had built something like this for mobile devices. It used a camera overhead to provide info about device positions, allowing all the devices to act as a single
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by orobinson 3y ago
But do LLMs dream of electric sheep?
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by orobinson 3y ago
I actually find this acts as a useful heuristic to bound the complexity of a diagram appropriately. For example if I'm making a diagram with Mermaid and find the code is becoming unwieldy, I take that as an indicator that I'm tryi
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by orobinson 3y ago
People do try to throw them away. A good chunk of my kids' lego collection is a mixed selection of blocks we found in a skip.
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Order of the Occult Hand(en.wikipedia.org)
38 points by orobinson 3y ago|7 comments
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UK air traffic control outage caused by bad data in flight plan(theguardian.com)
24 points by orobinson 3y ago|20 comments
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by orobinson 3y ago
https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/ I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.
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by orobinson 3y ago
Comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. Would you rather know a lot about a bit or a bit about a lot. I’m definitely in the latter category.
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by orobinson 3y ago
My grandfather was famously anti-lawn-mowing[0]. His un-mowed lawn eventually sprouted some rare bee orchids among a vast array of other wildflowers. It always looked beautiful when we pulled into the drive when we went to visit. [0] https
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by orobinson 3y ago
I greatly minimise the risks in several ways: - Planning routes that avoid particularly risky roads or junctions and take advantage of separated bike lanes where possible. This is trivial in a city as there's hundreds of possible route
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by orobinson 3y ago
I live in London. We have three kids, no car and an electric cargo bike which they can all fit in. It's brilliant and all we need for getting around London. I've also used it for picking up furniture and building materials - such
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by orobinson 4y ago
They have lost their mojo in that they've failed countless times to diversify their business revenue stream. They're in the same boat as Meta in that regard. Especially if you compare them to Microsoft, Amazon and Apple who have a
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by orobinson 4y ago
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
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Onboarding Driven Documentation(orobinson.co.uk)
1 points by orobinson 4y ago|0 comments
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by orobinson 4y ago
A smoker friend of mine used to carry around one of those little camera film canisters to put his cig butts in. Obviously being careful to extinguish them fully first beforehand so the plastic didn’t get melted.
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by orobinson 4y ago
The iPhone autocorrect has got noticeably worse over the last 4 years or so. I’ve been an iPhone user since 2012 and I’m sure it used to be so much easier to type on despite having a significantly smaller screen. The thing that grinds my ge
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by orobinson 4y ago
There was a good discussion about this a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933603
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by orobinson 4y ago
Yes I’m aware. My point was it’s not that concealed once you’ve invested the time to read the docs and peek at the code of whatever framework you’re using. The time to do that is nothing compared to the time saved using these frameworks. I
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by orobinson 4y ago
> I need to know everything that’s going on in my code. I need simple, straightforward function calls. Nothing else! I want to be able to start at main() and trace through the code. I want to look at callers and find where every paramete
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Will generative AIs curate our history?(orobinson.co.uk)
2 points by orobinson 4y ago|0 comments
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ULID – Sortable Unique Identifier(yadukrishnan.live)
33 points by orobinson 4y ago|23 comments
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by orobinson 4y ago
Goodreads and its “Want to read” shelf is good for this approach with books. I just add any book I see someone recommending to that list then when I need a new book to read I can pick from there. The ratings on there are handy for sanity ch
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Tips for writing long running data processing scripts(orobinson.co.uk)
2 points by orobinson 4y ago|0 comments

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