Delphiza

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by Delphiza 3y ago
I think that 'normal' triathlon, including Iron Man (maybe especially Iron Man) is an endurance sport, not a technical skill sport. Rough sea swim, plus downhill MTB, plus trail run would be a different kind of tri. For 'norm
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by Delphiza 3y ago
I don't think that I ever 'commit a moving violation'. Granted, this is region-specific (UK). - We don't have stop streets really, and none where I cycle. Yields and roundabouts, so no need to stop. - Hand signals are no
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by Delphiza 3y ago
It will be interesting to understand how timing influences this. “Remote communication and collaboration tools like Teams have become indispensable for many businesses in Europe” is true, but only more recently. Before the pandemic you need
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Make it impossible to browse the Internet from urinals. Needs to be added to the list :)
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by Delphiza 3y ago
...and reviews. The amount that the market pays to inject adverts into youtube product reviews versus 'proper' content is staggering. A good guitarist is better doing a review on headphones, than actually playing a guitar. A runne
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Back when personal technical blogging was a thing, I produced a lot of valuable content for myself and my employer. It was valuable in a sense that it was read, and positioned us as expert in the field, which lead directly to sales. Now, co
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by Delphiza 3y ago
alt.binaries killed usenet. Apart from pron clogging up bandwidth, alt.binaries became a good vector to distribute viruses, child pron, and a bunch of other things that ISPs, and their dial-up customers, were becoming increasingly concerned
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by Delphiza 3y ago
First understand what you find about your work that is "uninspiring, pointless, and eroding". The answer may lie in the markets that you work in rather than doing something with your hands. (City-based (finance) products can seem
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by Delphiza 3y ago
Very few American cars, even small ones, will be able to fit in a UK multi-story car park. They are uncomfortably optimised to maximise the use of space and larger cars can barely drive in them, nevert mind actually park.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
The UK government will never pass legislation to increase transparency to their own conduct (I doubt any government would), so encryption and opacity will remain.
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by Delphiza 3y ago
The good thing about making this about WhatsApp is that UK MPs and most political hangers-on use WhatsApp *extensively*. If opponents point out that government scheming, speaker circuit bookings, fast-track lanes for government contracts, a
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by Delphiza 3y ago
The implementation of this was interesting in Switzerland. Because consumers had to pay a lot for waste, they started to remove packaging at the store and dumping it there for the store to deal with. Stores had the cost of removing packagin
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by Delphiza 3y ago
How much does Microsoft pay Apple for Outlook on iOS? This is a half serious question because I dont' pay for it out of the app store, so Apple is not getting a share there. Does Microsoft pay anything other than a developer license? P
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by Delphiza 4y ago
"NUC"s can be fanless PCs. The fanless part makes them quiet. There are no moving parts to make a noise.
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by Delphiza 4y ago
Also, non-floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities.
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by Delphiza 4y ago
COVID did not shut down Apple's revenue generation. Revenue growth was staggering during COVID. Remember everybody buying electronics because of lockdowns? They may have felt less inclined to pay people while they weren't standing
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by Delphiza 4y ago
A few high-tech companies that make really important things that consumers never hear about. * Renishaw. Precision measurement and manufacturing. * Spectris. Scientific instruments. Precision components. * Oxford Instruments. All sorts of h
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by Delphiza 4y ago
Anecdotal on my part, but there are many employees that are terrible working in the office. The more productive ones wear (wore?) headphones all day to try and maintain some level of productivity
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by Delphiza 4y ago
Excess capacity story is a myth. Frequently corrected/debunked by Werner Vogels.
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by Delphiza 4y ago
EdgeMethods | Junior or Mid-level Azure Technical Operations | UK, WFH Azure-based IoT solution operation, security, availability, reliability, devops etc. Cloud-native SaaS service, so Azure capability is essential. EdgeMethods has custome
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by Delphiza 4y ago
It is also the strategy for profit maximisation for many, many software companies. "Change request" is a big deal in outsourced enterprise software dev. It is so bad that 'honest' software development groups that estimat
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by Delphiza 4y ago
"Net negative"? So you're saying that remote workers are uncollaborative? If that were true, all remote companies would have people that un-talked to each other, which is hardly the case. Maybe less efficient, but certainly n
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by Delphiza 4y ago
It is surprising that I had to scroll down so far to see this answer. Unlike government services, street cameras, and things that cannot be avoided, it is reasonably possible to avoid Disneyland altogether. I do it quite easily (but I am in
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by Delphiza 4y ago
EdgeMethods | Junior to Mid-level Azure TechOps | UK, WFH Azure-based IoT solution operation, security, availability, reliability, devops etc. Cloud-native SaaS service, so Azure capability is essential. EdgeMethods has customers in manufac
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by Delphiza 4y ago
They are probably not illegal to put into a contract, even if they are illegal to enforce. I don't know about CA specifically, but we have similar statutory rights UK, which is why employees largely ignore them by signing the contract
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by Delphiza 4y ago
OP refers to a post from Joel Spolsky, but there is a better one that he wrote that I'll include the text below. It was one of those posts that stuck in my head because it makes sense. There may be an overriding reason why an employer
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by Delphiza 4y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. 2005-2010 was the heyday of blogging as I knew it. Maybe you "had to have been there", which would put you in your fourties, at least.
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by Delphiza 4y ago
High-quality blog content, written by people who have a deep understanding of a subject that they want to proudly share with their peers is pretty much dead. I built my professional career on blogging from 2004 to 2012, and attribute my &#x
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by Delphiza 4y ago
The Oz government used some similar loophole (or threatened to use it) with the Djokovic covid saga at the Australian open. As I recall, a judge said that he could get a visa for whatever covid medical exemption reasons, but on his immigrat
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by Delphiza 4y ago
A slight adjustment to this is that the single-cable-operator can become a monopoly because of government regulations. Permits, planning permission, running roughshod over objections (see HS2, Heathrow third runway). So the ideal market can

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