DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
And probably leading to the next wave of innovation and/or unicorns. https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-s...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Exactly my point. Based on time to charge vs time to pump gas, let's be charitable and say you need 30 minutes to charge an EV fully, vs. 5 minutes on a pump, so you'd need 6x the number of publicly available EV chargers to replac
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I've never really stopped writing, but buying a quality fountain pen is a game changer. I'm currently practising Copperplate and also the Palmer method and it's rather fun, unlike writing lines at school. US: https:/&#
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Genuinely curious, what EV can give you a comfortable 300 mile with a good threshold, and charge in 15 minutes from a regular EV point? As I said in the other reply, there's a paucity of EV chargers in the UK that are not along a major
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by DrBazza 4y ago
In the UK, in 2023, yes. I drive a part motorway, part countryside route that has very, very, few EV charging points, and on many occasions they've been full or broken, or both. EV cars are good for cities and city to city along motorw
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by DrBazza 4y ago
"Better" how? I want a range the same as petrol car, with a recharging time the same as it takes me to pump gasoline into the tank. Until I have that, EVs aren't 'better' for me in any way. I drive 300 miles poin
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Some of that is also due to Electron for better or worse. Slack, VSCode and so on.
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For non-UK people, particularly American readers, the City of London, and inner London in general has zero public parking. It feels like even saying 'zero' is being pretty generous. Every street is restricted in some way (no par
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by DrBazza 4y ago
There's also the slight quirk of geography that it's next to the Thames, so therefore at the bottom of a hill, almost completely flat. TfL had the good fortune and opportunity to repurpose two lanes of Upper Thames St. and Victori
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The FT is also a left leaning newspaper as it has had to increasingly post 'commentary' articles to stay relevant in the 2020s. Long gone are the days of its dull hard factual reporting that was of actual utility to London trader
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Perhaps you could talk about the quoted comments All the quotes are barely one sentence, and with zero context, and no link back to when or where they were said. I know modern journalism is lazy and just quotes tweets, but the author
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The article is an attack on Peter Thiel, not SVB. Also seems thin on facts, and just "SVB is getting bailed out, and hence some rich guy stays rich". Given that both the Fed and the Bank of England have decades-old laws protecti
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Even now, 10 yrs on, that makes no sense (their justification, not yours). How do you convince a bunch of blog authors to switch from 'free-to-air' and searchable everywhere RSS feeds, to move into closed social media platform? I
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by DrBazza 4y ago
As I said in reply to another comment that suggested that you'd lose 50% or require 2x the space: A typical 'cubicle' has a wide desk and space to move you chair in and out of, plus a 'corridor' between all the cubi
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> After decades and decades there are still no conclusive results about how different types of workplaces influence productivity and mental health, No idea about the latter, though I'm much happier having removed a 3 hour round-trip
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I don't buy that at all. A reasonable sized cubicle has a wide desk and space to move you chair in and out of, plus a 'corridor' between all the cubicles. Change cubicle walls to office walls and have doors open into the ex
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> which most companies can't afford I'm not sure that's the case. Most companies lease their floors space. The offices themselves are built to a standard height or code, so the actual walls needed for internal offices a
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Are those numbers on levels.fyi realistic? And those stock/share grants, presumably vest at one quarter of the amount every year after the award, or something like that? So if you're there for only two years, you might only colle
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by DrBazza 4y ago
"14.39% return"
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by DrBazza 4y ago
As someone who never watched Gavin+Stacey, and cannot be held accountable for James Corden, I did, on the other hand recommend to my Megabank employer, way back in the 00s that we purchase Jira. I know we spent $$$$$ on it, and therefore h
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by DrBazza 4y ago
1, London. https://londonist.com/2016/06/why-does-apsley-house-have-the...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
We still have at least one bridge in the UK with buildings - Pulteney Bridge in Bath - https://goo.gl/maps/5DGDvhwEotkz6Kk47 And just one house in Ambleside - https://goo.gl/maps/ray39NX87SPNcPU19
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Except I run CLion for 8 hrs a day on my newish MBP M1Pro and generally end the day with 20-30% charge left. Maybe I'm not thrashing it hard enough.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
If you visit Hadrian's Wall in the north of England you can see Roman graffiti there. I find it curious that archaeologists or historians (?) seem to take a lot of things like this so seriously and assume everything has some sort of
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The US have approved modular nuclear. But might be too little too late for Europe. And it’s nimby approach to certain things. Especially protectionist France. Can’t imagine they’d ever give a nuclear contract to anyone other than EdF http
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I hope the same EU lawmakers have mandated a huge building programme of nuclear power, wind turbines, solar and storage to keep up. And demand that range hits comparable petrol distances in the same time scale. Of course they haven't.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> The grid is not being upgraded and electricity production is not keeping up Agreed. We need, charitably, a 25% increase in electricity generation, and we're not getting that. We're getting "(shouts) more wind turbines!
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Even a naive calculation based on the total number of vehicles registered with the DVLA (including classic cars, buses, lorries, etc.) and the draw on the national grid, means we'd have to double the current generating capacity in the
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Teams is just bland. That’s it really. We moved from Slack to Teams and we had a huge drop in inter-team communication to the point we moved back. For remote company it’s hugely important. A lack of thread conversations was a huge issue t
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I’ve worked on quite a few codebases over the years. Only two were of outstanding quality and robustness. One was Java. The other was C++. What both of those had in common was a single strong tech lead that would veto code with no argument

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