Brakenshire

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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I actually use the touchpad for scrolling even when I’m using a mouse. It’s a much better interface for that purpose.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
It’s not the end of the world, but not everyone who uses Linux enjoys tinkering, some just want solid out of the box support for Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Looks like there’s some good progress for touchpad support on Linux: https://bill.harding.blog/2021/02/11/linux-touchpad-like-a-m... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102894 Many million
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I think the particular problem for devices based on ARM SoCs is they’re not on the mainline kernel, support for hardware and for upgrading software relies on a whole pile of hacks on top of an ancient kernel version, and that means that upg
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I don’t want to reinforce your feeling (I can imagine exactly the pain you’re talking about) but isn’t there a legal requirement for map corrections to be published? They don’t have to go back into OSM, but they do have to be made available
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I find the license very confusing - does any dataset generated from the database have to be released freely to anyone who asks? Or is it only a customer that purchases the dataset? Where is the distinction between a product of the db and th
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Pity they can’t use Servo as the rendering engine, even if it only deals with a small subset of style/layout properties. That kind of parallel layout engine should make building fluid 60fps interfaces a lot easier.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Do you sell them or give them away? Tell me how you haven’t thrown away a whole series of functional vacuum cleaners.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Thanks, that’s interesting, it doesn’t match with my reading of the guidelines, again, glad if I’m reading them wrong and you can correct me. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidel... It says
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I’ll give a contrived example, say you’re a property startup, and you want to produce a walkability rating for each house you sell. You might want to do a calculation on OSM for restaurants within 5 minutes walk, maybe a chef rating for whe
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
The problem I have with OpenStreetMap is the license, it seems you can use an OSM derived base map and then layer anything else on top without problems, but you cannot process the data or mix in proprietary data without releasing the algori
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
That’s from two different producers, one is AZ in Europe, the other the Serum Institute in India. Maybe they just have different costs.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
If anyone has any recommendations for good ways to pick up this knowledge except by attrition, I’d be interested in hearing them!
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Would love for someone to buy up the rights to use the engine and models for Assassin’s Creed and develop stories which are historically realistic.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
You might be interested in this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/waveshares-e-paper-displays-work-...
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
> The big non-EU headquartered institutions have had offices and branches in multiple non-UK EU jurisdictions dating back decades and have served eg local major corporates out of those offices this way for a long time. How does this work
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Ironically the widely proposed alternative to EU freedom of movement is freedom of movement within the CANZUK group of countries. It's got 70-80% popularity in all the proposed constituent countries.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Good point, presumably the UK could just recognize qualifications unilaterally though. It's actually a situation on the import side has a clear an unequivocal incentive to recognize the standards of the other country, to draw in talent
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Surely Goldman Sachs already have an office in Frankfurt. It's interesting to me what would fall foul of the new limitations. If the call is taken from someone in Frankfurt and they forward it on to someone in London, does that count?
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
That actually isn't true: > As an EU member, the UK was automatically part of about 40 trade deals which the EU had with more than 70 countries. In 2018, these deals represented about 11% of total UK trade. > So far, 29 of these
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
"I submit that there is no such thing as an average guy who voted for Brexit because of 300MM per week more for the NHS." It was the overwhelming centrepiece of the Leave campaign, are you really saying it had no effect?
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Priti Patel absolutely was. Rishi Sunak was a Leave supporter but not prominent because he was elected only a year or two before. Sajid Javid was Business Secretary in the Cameron government, supporter of a referendum, and a fairly reluctan
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
I think the "not a bad deal, just a different set of terms" is key. This isn't or shouldn't be about trying to get one over on the other side, the UK and the EU are not in a zero sum game, clearly levels of trade integra
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
How about Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak, current holders of two of the great offices of state. And the previous chancellor Sajid Javid? Or the previous PM Theresa May, or the previous Home Secretary Amber Rudd? Or arch-Brexiteer Andrea Leadso
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
40% of UK to EU exports were services. Although how deep the actual single market in services was in reality, and what the cost is of losing that, is difficult for me to grasp.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
Oh, interesting, I hadn't considered how those territories worked. They're not in a customs union with the US then?
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
you've got to get a visa to go over to the rest of the US now. For business yes, for tourism no. And you'll need to pay tariffs to get good in or out. This is a zero tariff agreement. And you'll need to abide by our laws on t
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
https://www.gov.uk/visit-europe-1-january-2021/business-trav... As well as the actions all travellers need to take, there are extra actions if you’re travelling to the EU for business. Business travel includes activiti
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
It’s like saying to a US state, would you rather have seats in Congress, or would you rather federal law be optional.
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by Brakenshire 6y ago
My understanding is Schengen is about physical infrastructure and managing visas for third parties, and the EU about the actual rights for member state citizens. The UK was never in Schengen, and that meant that a French person coming to th

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