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by salmonlogs 2y ago
I've submitted many reports through similar apps to my local council and find 25% of them are even acknowledged, 10% at most are "fixed" and the fixes are worthless. A pothole I reported last October was "fixed" in
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by salmonlogs 2y ago
This is great! It really reminds me of https://trailrouter.com/ which I've found amazing for finding new running routes. It would be amazing to have similar functionality to suggest cycling routes of a certain distance
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Strong vibes of US Highway Fatalities vs. Tons of Lemons imported from Mexico https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mexican-lemons-res...
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
> Danish shipping giant Maersk has posted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $30.9bn for the full year ended 31 December 2022, a 57% surge from $19.6bn in 2021. > This is said to be the firm’s best-ever annual result. https
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
The article suggests the solar capacity is aggregate of installs by individuals because the power is so unreliable from the grid
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Azure has some really horrible design patterns from a security perspective If a user creates a resource they have the ability to delete it later, regardless of their permissions. An IT Admin creates a Network/VM/Storage/Whate
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
In the UK I had a minidisc drive in a PC I built, which I used for both data storage and for writing music to play on a minidisc player The technology was so far ahead of its time, it felt like a real step forward
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Why would you need to look at a screen? Surely the feedback from a volume knob is the volume changing? If it doesn't change -> change it more It it changes too much -> change it less If you realise it needs to be moved slowly -&g
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
I can operate physical buttons without taking my eyes off the road. I know where the volume knob is and I can easily grab it and turn it without looking away. If it's slow to respond I can go again and dial it back down, without lookin
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Highly recommend the TV show Black Mirror, which has an episode called “Be Right Back” where a character talks to her dead husband using an AI trained model in an app type setup. Very interesting discussion piece on the real world impact an
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Also own some newer Miele washer/dryer and found the estimated time is almost perfectly accurate I connected the Wi-fi for the app and I get a push notification to tell me the actual time remaining once its done the measurements
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by salmonlogs 3y ago
Miele already offer this on newer washing machine. They can connect to your inverter too and start a load when there is available local solar/battery/low spot prices. It’s called “SmartStart” It works very well in my experience. L
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
In my personal experience, and through my network of friends/former colleagues, it's incredibly easy to find work as a contractor - in the UK at least. I've never met a contractor who was short of contracts and options. There
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
There are some SIGNIFICANT downsides as an employee to using an employer of record. It's another example of companies reducing employee rights and outsourcing risk and responsibiility. 1 - No equity. The legal company structure prevent
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
If you don't manage them directly that sounds like you don't have authority. Without the authority to make changes you this will be very hard to do, given the scope of changes required. Soft skills and influence works up to a poin
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
As someone who has worked for two FAANGs so far, I can tell you that leetcode is a running joke that has almost zero correlation to actual skills. Sure people practice a bit when they play the interview game, but being successful in FAANG i
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Yep, a single digit amount of entities/wallets have majority control over the network. "64% of staked ETH controlled by five entities" https://cointelegraph.com/news/64-of-staked-eth-controlled-b...
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Let's be clear: Bitcoin is NOT reducing methane emissions or carbon emissions. Crypto mining cannot reduce anything. This is just a straw man. The study you reference discussed burning waste methane to turn into electricity, rather tha
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Monitor USB ports also tend to have limited power output too. If you want to use a webcam and a usb Jabra speakerphone for video calls you may exceed the power limits. Took me way too long to diagnose the issue
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
slutsofinstagram.com > Welcome to Slütsof In Stagrâm an online fantasy series about a Princess duck named Slütsof and her adventurous journey across the mystical lands of Stâgram. Join her as she leaves her castle, searches for her long
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I think the chat function is probably even worse than the video calling. It just feels brittle and flaky and awkward. Even small things like trying to insert an image often won't work because the format is unsupported so you have to sc
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I've had the same. When I was using Teams for many meetings I would restart the desktop app every few hours to try and prevent these kind of issues. Not unusual for me to restart it after every meeting.
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I was working for a Venture Capital firm at the time, and it was during COVID when everything was remote so it was a VC platform for our VC to do VCing!
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Microsoft Teams is one of the worst desktop apps I've used - on Windows and Mac. You can see how it's built on layers and layers of badly designed compatibility layers and bad engineering decisions. Massive CPU hog, unacceptable s
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I used to work at Google Cloud, I left about 2 years ago so my advice might be slightly outdated so hopefully it helps someone. I highly recommend anyone running production workloads to get in touch with sales and meet your account manager,
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Shout out to Twitter @StateOfLinkedIn also
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Absolutely. There were multiple daily standups, weekly standups, twice-monthly retros, monthly project updates, bimestrial project updates and quarterly workshops and offsites. Which meant once a quarter you had at least 2 solid weeks of no
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I briefly worked for a large non-tech corporate in between two FAANG jobs. What really surprised me at the corporate was how much they love to TALK about Agile. We had Agile Coaches, an Agile Centre of Excellence, dedicated Scrum Masters (l
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
One of the most frustrating problems I've encountered is arbitrary limits on the number of paired/remembered Bluetooth devices. My Denon amplifier has an arbitrary limit of 8 paired devices. When you pair a 9th the oldest is forgo
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
I agree, I swapped from 2x27" 2K monitors to 1x34 ultrawide and the biggest change for me was the ability to focus on one thing. Being able to just make one window full screen really helps me concentrate. Having a second screen constan

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