vincebowdren

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by vincebowdren 11mo ago
UK, and other regions too; our APAC installation in Australia is affected.
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by vincebowdren 1y ago
https://archive.is/wOP3A (the site seems to be struggling under the load, e.g. not showing images)
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by vincebowdren 1y ago
Nice article, thank you. I've been landed in an SRE role (having been a devops engineer / platform engineer) with an inheritance of various tools I didn't previously know, including Ansible, and this kind of overview is just
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by vincebowdren 1y ago
I am amazed at that too! This is (according to the article) defence industry and government jobs, which you'd thought would take these things more seriously.
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by vincebowdren 1y ago
There's a few things I don't get about this. Are they after primarily the salaries? In which case, the NK worker is going to try and work well enough to keep the job and remain undetected. Or is it for commercial espionage and bla
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UK firms urged to hold video or in-person interviews amid North Korea job scam(theguardian.com)
6 points by vincebowdren 1y ago|3 comments
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A quick review of file watchers(anarc.at)
38 points by vincebowdren 2y ago|13 comments
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by vincebowdren 2y ago
Listing 33 different file watcher programs for linux, with strengths and weaknesses
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by vincebowdren 2y ago
> I.e. common people had access to the land Only in a limited sense. The public did not have access to the land; specific "commoners" (local farmers) had specific usage rights e.g. for grazing.
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by vincebowdren 2y ago
Another bit of ignorance: they refer to 'commons' as if that meant, in English, unrestricted public use or access. It doesn't. A commons is a piece of land with specific usage rights for specific people - e.g. local farmers a
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by vincebowdren 2y ago
This article never mentions the existing access setup: 1. a really dense network of rights of way – almost entirely on privately-owned land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_way_in_England_and_W... 2. open access
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by vincebowdren 2y ago
It's from an Old English toponym, and those are sometimes quite variable across the country; for example locally in Sheffield any steep hillsides are named 'cliffe' e.g. Attercliffe, Brincliffe.
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by vincebowdren 3y ago
Maybe? But a few things count against that hypothesis. Elephants are already very mobile animals, so they can simply move away if they don't like the smell; dislike of the smell would, you'd think, drive them to move away rather t
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by vincebowdren 3y ago
Relevant: https://meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human-evolution/
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by vincebowdren 3y ago
> Take Joyce Higashi, a San Jose homeowner who built an ADU in her backyard. She now rents out her 500-square-foot abode for $3,000 per month to traveling nurses. That's not scalping, though is it? Scalping is when somebody illicitl
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
I realised a while ago that I dislike the "Show, don't tell" rule; I much prefer writers who allow themselves to tell, to be story-tellers. A couple of particular examples: Angelica Gordischer's Kalpa Imperial, and all o
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
The comparison with the previous cathedral, the Basse Œuvre - which is still there - is astonishing. In this photo, that's the tiny-looking red-tile-roofed building on the left: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
In retaliation, the Yorkshire Dales national park are proposing to rename Pen-y-ghent to something more English. (this is a joke; the point is that there are lots of places in Britain with unexpected, non-local-seeming language roots)
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
The discoveries that are being made about plant biochemistry (and soil and fungi and so on)and the implications for agriculture remind me a lot of the debates about diet and nutrition. It keeps on emerging that we have such limited understa
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
The key is to think about it, not in terms of just the money brought in, but the wider benefits to society: keeping traffic off the roads is a big one. That is what makes running national infrastructure difficult; it's never entirely o
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by vincebowdren 4y ago
The studies weren't asking about marriage success, but about mating success. Female preferences can be pretty different between those two.
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
Weaving and making clothing was done mostly within the household, by women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_medieval_clothing#:~:t... .
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Gay Men Earn Degrees at Highest Rate in USA, Study Finds(insidehighered.com)
1 points by vincebowdren 5y ago|1 comments
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
I'll start; I don't often have an inner voice (as in, formed of a sequence of words); my inner world is sometimes abstractions, sometimes words - if I'm rehearsing an anticipated conversation for example - but more often musi
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
Full title: "The last great mystery of the mind: meet the people who have unusual – or non-existent – inner voices"
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The last great mystery of the mind – inner voices(theguardian.com)
3 points by vincebowdren 5y ago|4 comments
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
> The order is not targeted toward actually changing the design of federal buildings. Rather, it is being used to attack modern art and suppress the ideals that it stands for. Strongly disagree: it's both . The makers of the order
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
Indeed. The adversarial court system means that every lawyer involved is on one side or the other; the judge is both neutral and in charge overall, so it makes sense for the judge to make that decision.
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
Naismith must have been a hard mountaineer; I can't keep up with his timings, certainly not in Scottish hill country.
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by vincebowdren 5y ago
The sociobiology debate was a relatively high-profile and personal debate primarily between Wilson and Lewontin and their supporters. A good brief overview is given by John Nerst in his review of Segerstråle's "Defenders of the Tr

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