DamonHD

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by DamonHD 2y ago
And it works nicely for users such as me, automatically computing the fare and capping daily costs and so on. But it relies heavily on trusting the operator to do the right thing, and TfL is fairly benign...
572.
by DamonHD 2y ago
How certain is this 'opportunity'? Getting on an approved supplier list of any value is usually a huge pain, and no guarantee of sales...
573.
by DamonHD 2y ago
4SF claim: good job that there were ~10^8 subjects in the study...
574.
by DamonHD 2y ago
I don't, think that I have one, but don't miss it...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Those scroll-to-top links/buttons have always seemed a waste to me, adding page weight and visual clutter. I never use them on my sites and have almost never used them when browsing, IIRC, in decades of surfing...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
This post should probably be labelled Show HN to not look like SPAM.
577.
by DamonHD 2y ago
That has indeed been one successful tactic.
578.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Internal turf wars have always been tiring and never fun* and a huge waste of emotional capital that should have been better used, which is why I spent my entire 'career' avoiding being on anyone else's payroll. *Except for t
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Not necessarily true IMHO. Maybe not as much as a full-on scale-up in its pomp, but optimising and sweating the remaining assets and market can be an honourable creative activity I think.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Did Y! management think that it was a run-off business? Presumably not.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Sounds plausible for growth businesses. But run-off businesses should be a different kettle of fish... (When does centralised black-bix search become one of those I wonder?)
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I was a consultant so was ready to be canned at a day's notice anytime, though only a fewf times got pushed in decades. And IIRC each time (other than one, which was mutual) that that happened the client tried to change its mind and h
583.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Brief on Firefox.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Yes.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Quote: "... brain activity changes during boundary transitions with discernible modulations based on musicianship." From the supporting info PDF: "Three musical pieces were used in the experiment: (a) Stream of Consciousness
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Breaking (musical) boundaries by investigating brain dynamics(pnas.org)
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587.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Yes, make some progress if possible, however little, but stop if it's not working! (And let others know as appropriate, indeed.)
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Please put (2017) in the title.
589.
by DamonHD 2y ago
You aren't in a position to make that choice when it would need to be made!
590.
by DamonHD 2y ago
There are reasons that I will not run financal apps (or anything sensitive) on my phone. That sounds like another for the list...
591.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Hurrah! Thanks!
592.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Obvs I approve this message since I (currently) feature on the first page!
593.
by DamonHD 2y ago
Were you eavesdropping on our conversations? B^>
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Because they repeatedly demonstrated a very poor grip on reality: they seemed to think that inventing a bland two-word phrase (a) gave them all rights to all interpretations of that phrase and (b) made my part as prospective tech/CTO e
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Luckily it didn't get far - co-founding with a fantasist...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
When I was being low-grade DDoSed the other day my off-grid RPi3B server was taken out by ~60 bogus requests per second. It is otherwise entirely happy with normal HTTP loads, plus being primary DNS server, SMTP, NTP, ... One podcaster hal
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Hurrah! I have those listed in likely order of resource/climate impact, so if I could nudge you towards considering (1) sooner then even bettererer! B^>
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I am trying to better assess this number as part of an arXiv paper I am putting together. Maybe even this weekend! RSS/podcast feed polling is a load for which Apple/Amazon/Spotify/Podbean are currently wasting 99%+ of
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by DamonHD 2y ago
How many of my TL;DR points here https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html do you already deal with, out of interest?
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by DamonHD 2y ago
uncencored should be spelled uncensored in the title of your post.

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