DamonHD

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by DamonHD 3y ago
I can tell you that when interviewing many years ago the 30-page full-colour with photos CV did not go down well. I don't think there is anything wrong with 2 or 3 pages of CV for a (UK) tech job application, but getting it all on 1 (o
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Chats in person, email discussions, agreement, occasional notes and on-line captures of docs and pics, the odd legal thing where needed... I don't know how to answer such a broad question. I've helped manage or create a bunch of s
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by DamonHD 3y ago
At Lehman Brothers development doom was then heralded by the project acronyms being the best part of the while package (FIRE and PIPE are etched in my memory)...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Official versions: JPEG for real-word images, PNG for the rest. Everthing that can display an image can handle those. For compactness, for more capable viewers, usually WEBP versions of those, though also sometimes AVIF (lossy only) and JX
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by DamonHD 3y ago
No. I am still getting useful alerts every day, across multiple topics.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Yes, I write plain HTML, and have done since 199-<cough>, with JS sprinkles in sometimes. Most of the pages of my current main site have no JS at all. Almost all (there are some legit exceptions, but not many, IMHO) pages should be f
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Adapting historic homes for energy efficiency: a review of the barriers(gov.uk)
3 points by DamonHD 3y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Probably Niklaus Wirth's death.
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The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space(toughsf.blogspot.com)
3 points by DamonHD 3y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Well I certainly don't envy you. Hang in there. At least talking about it probably helps.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I'm sure that my kids must have had meltdowns at that sort of age ("terrible twos" are known as that for a reason) but things tend to get better and I have forgotten... (Also, as a primary school governor for over a decade I
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Two at around 40Y: has worked out well. Partly because I was/am more grown up and financially secure than I would have been earlier. It does mean that I'm back at uni while both my kids will be starting at theirs... B^> (Edi
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Kiwi fruit FTW...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Generally the Berne Convention makes that so in most of the world, not just the US.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Edit in a "Show HN:" at front?
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Except that a dynamically updating copyright year without any work having been done may not be legally valid, ie there was no copyrightable step taken... (IANAL)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Doing my end-of-month and end-of-year data curation! https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2023.html#2023-1...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Very interesting, thank you. Some of those feel like the good changes that I have accidentally made for myself!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
RBS / Ulster Bank real life cartoonish multi-day failures from a few years back were alleged to have this as a cause. I didn't work in quite the right part of RBS to observe directly, but what I heard was very plausible!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Geographical spread of wind (and solar) generation helps produce a more consistent overall supply.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Hurrah! I thought that it wasn't coming on-line until January!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Use Show HN (respectfully), else this is just SPAM advertising.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
My preferences (this happens to us): 1) Leave for something to scavenge overnight, eg a fox round here in London. 2) Compost heap. There's enough bird flu doing the rounds that you want to handle it carefully and not feed it to pets, I
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by DamonHD 3y ago
On my list to think about, maybe in the next few days, thanks! My sonification tinkering is here: https://www.earth.org.uk/sonification.html
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Look up your local and national (and in your case, supranational) schemes to support innovation, get on their mailing lists, talk to other people who have used them, tips and tricks and pitfalls, etc. Also be prepared to warp and mold your
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Spend money on delaying and turning away and losing business from people* who unexpectedly find themselves to test positive, even though that will not prevent all (possibly most) transmission risk on site? *Many of them would blame the rest
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Can you add ORCID into the mix for at least some of the papers?
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Perpetual motion / Overunity / nonsense! We have discussed a lot of 'HHO' stuff over at fieldlines.com. Even if you didn't enjoy science at school, the laws of thermodynamics stiull apply to you. If the CEO really
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by DamonHD 3y ago
That's an interesting PS, and I wonder if it's actually related to something that is getting in your way that you aren't seeing? (Though I feel both of those!) But also I think (a) we're in something of a tech downturn
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Happy 30k!

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