tlocke

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by tlocke 1mo ago
Very well put.
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by tlocke 6mo ago
Good to hear Bradford On Avon mentioned, the town where I grew up. Is there a link to the place where they're installing Linux? The Tithe Barn in Bradford On Avon was the medieval equivalent to an Amazon warehouse!
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by tlocke 7mo ago
Could IPFS be the solution here? https://ipfs.tech/
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by tlocke 8mo ago
I'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows, Android and Apple? Not to mention all the dominant cl
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by tlocke 11mo ago
I must confess, the Python driver pg8000 which I maintain doesn't support pipeline mode. I didn't realise it existed until now, and nobody has ever asked for it. I've created an issue for it https://codeberg.org&#x
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by tlocke 1y ago
Exergy is the amount of work that a system can potentially do. It was on my physics course in the UK I'm fairly sure.
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by tlocke 1y ago
The least well-off don't have cars at all, but suffer from their ill-effects the most. So the least well-off benefit the most from congestion pricing.
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Ask HN: Using the TruffleBot to detect bed bugs
2 points by tlocke 1y ago|0 comments
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by tlocke 2y ago
I was 18th on the list, thanks for the donation! There's also the approach to funding that looks at things from another angle, and says we should have a basic income, or negative income tax, for everyone.
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by tlocke 2y ago
I work on Chellow, an open source Web app for checking and reporting on UK electricity and gas bills for large organisations https://github.com/WessexWater/chellow . It's a mature project that's used by two o
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by tlocke 2y ago
For nuclear, the subsidies are often in insurance and decommissioning and long-term storage of waste. So looking at insurance, it's impossible to fully insure a nuclear power station, and so the state effectively insures it. With long
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by tlocke 2y ago
Comparing electricity costs between countries probably says more about government subsidies than the underlying cost of generation. Nuclear fission is an expensive source of electricity (see the high subsidies for Hinckley C) and so I suspe
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by tlocke 2y ago
The Android app StreetComplete is an excellent start for updating OSM I found. There soon become occasions when you have to bring out the big guns and edit it using the web editor at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ , which i
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by tlocke 2y ago
I know the light switch idea as Thomson's lamp: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%27s_lamp I used it as an interview question many years ago. I wasn't very rigorous about it, basically any plausible ans
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by tlocke 2y ago
True, I struggle to think 10 years ahead these days. The horizon for predictions is definitely shrinking.
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by tlocke 2y ago
Yes, fertility is heritable.
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by tlocke 2y ago
I'd like to see an option for automatically adding indexes for performance. Perhaps a background process could re-run the query planner for frequent queries and add an appropriate index if there's a big speedup.
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by tlocke 2y ago
I met Simon once ages ago when I was due to speak at a PostgreSQL conference. It was my first time speaking at a conference and he was a nice bloke and gave me a bit of advice afterwards. He said not to worry about having to be entertaining
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by tlocke 2y ago
For my projects I prefer a permissive licence, specifically the MIT No Attribution Licence. People argue that corporations will just take your code and make it proprietary. They might, but an internal fork like that means that it's dif
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by tlocke 2y ago
The way I think of it is that with permissive licences the freedoms can be removed from the code, but with copyleft the freedoms can't be removed from the code. By freedoms I mean the freedom to study the source code, to run it for wha
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by tlocke 3y ago
> “I’m so fit that I can afford to expend valuable energy to show you how strong and robust I am compared with the other gazelles.” Is this why humans dance?
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by tlocke 3y ago
Out of interest, whereabouts in Europe is that?
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by tlocke 3y ago
Interesting. In the language feature list, what is 'try star' ?
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by tlocke 3y ago
I'd argue that even though it's well defined behaviour in Python, it still appears to me as a programmer as weak typing. For example, Python lets me write: if 23: print('hello') and it'll print 'he
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by tlocke 3y ago
Interesting, so I did a little test: python -m timeit 'sum(1 for age in range(100000) if age > 17)' 50 loops, best of 5: 5.08 msec per loop python -m timeit 'sum(int(age > 17) for age in range(100000))'
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by tlocke 3y ago
Someone else has mentioned it, but I would have gone with: sum(1 for age in ages if age > 17) with the other method you're treating a boolean as an int. Weak typing.
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by tlocke 3y ago
OpenStreetMap does hold opening hours of businesses. Here are the details (including opening hours) of my local cafe https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/485163917 I go round entering OSM data using the StreetComplete app
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by tlocke 3y ago
I work on pg8000 https://pypi.org/project/pg8000/ which is a pure-Python PostgreSQL driver that works well with pypy. Not sure if it would meet all your requirements, but just thought I'd mention it.
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by tlocke 3y ago
Agreed, AI training should respect the licence of the code it's being trained on.
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by tlocke 3y ago
Some open source licenses are fine with AI training, eg. MIT No Attribution https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit-0/ and BSD Zero Clause https://choosealicense.com/licenses/0bsd/ My vi

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