DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
This doesn't read like a neutral analysis to me. On the other hand the UK will mostly continue to support GDPR, in the same way all our phones will be USB-C, EU legislation leaks across borders to every country on the planet. The UK g
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The London Bridge Station (UK) rebuild addressed two main reasons for unreliability - the signalling as you said (some of it was almost a century old, and that's not an exaggeration), and the other things was removing points. Points a
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by DrBazza 4y ago
https://justine.lol/ape.html One of best technical posts I’ve read in a while.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Or a military jet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc .
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Another way of stating that article is that most people in their 20s and 30s have only ever known low-inflation and stability. Those in their mid-40s onwards are possibly young enough to remember how what their parents dealt with in the 70
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Having lived through the MS/IE6 era of being the monopoly web browser, and effectively determined and held back web standards for a long time, it's bittersweet that we now have Google/Chrome era. At least it's not hard w
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The book, Light of Other Days, has a good take on that - everyone can see everything everywhere with wormhole cameras, they "effectively destroy all secrecy and privacy". So prudishness in the generations that grow up with wormca
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Language and bureaucracy? The UK and US both speak English and are closely aligned in terms of business practices, and even the smaller East coast Uk time zone difference has a bearing.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
* "easy" concurrency * rich standard library, particular for internet facing apps * "simple" language * single binaries * massive corporate support * rich or full toolset The first and second point fortunately "coin
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Out of the box, KDE is very close to Windows - a start menu, a dock, and a task tray. I don't use Gnome, but I don't expect it's that dissimilar either. No idea why VSCode doesn't work "out of the box" for yo
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Isn't part of the problem in NYC the sheer number of hard surfaces reflecting sound, i.e. skyscrapers?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
It’s just tulips all over again. It has an intrinsic value because some people place a value on it. It’s just not what it is now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Indeed. But with 7 billion people on the planet, a volcanic winter that lasts just a couple of years would be catastrophic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931... https://en.wikiped
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> We can outsmart, and have repeatedly outsmarted, all sorts of potential disasters. Unfortunately, the main one we can't outsmart is volcanic winter, which has produced planet-wide famines on several occasions, and is all but certa
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Odd isn't it? Could be the roof space? We have no upwards venting of the heat, and the roof space is completely sealed, no vents or anything, and the eaves of any "new" home in the UK is at best 30cm. You can see what I me
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not far enough from Faversham... :) ...where we hit (or were right on) 100F and held the record for a bit (I think the gauge was near Brogdale). The North Downs / Thames corridor seems to have a weird way of being hotter on the north
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by DrBazza 4y ago
That's pretty similar to here in south-east England, in particular with "new build" houses (anything built in the last 20 years, of which there are lots ). I never saw A/C in the UK when I was younger, and in the last 5
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by DrBazza 4y ago
All our new buildings trap the heat. The exteriors are almost always made of dark brick, which retains the heat, and never ever rendered white. Our roofs are dark, high, pitched, and stuffed with insulation. So there's a huge pocket
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Has there been a really bad heat wave in the UK lately? Around 2010 we hit 100F for the first time when there was a Europe-wide heatwave. The very south east corner of the UK closest to Europe (where I grew up), is getting worse year b
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Yes. I was referring to the heatwave in 2018 where the temperatures hit 40C in a few places in (central?) France, vs. "typical" Australia where it's 45C+. Also Australia doesn't have anything like the number of size of
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Nuclear power stations work best by the coast, rather than on rivers due to the water required for cooling, and as France discovered you can't dump hotter water back into a river and kill the wildlife when the country is "hot&quot
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Another reason many leave is that new ideas don’t get funding. So physics, in particular becomes a monoculture. There is always merit in bad ideas even if the only conclusion is that it was wrong.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Standard HN. Henry Ford and his faster horse would be spinning in their graves. Another day another group of people criticising a language they’ve never tried. If you paint a house grab a paint brush. If you need to hang a picture a hammer
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This submission came up because the article author is on twitter today complaining about golang and posted the submission link.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Perhaps? I think so, but I appreciate other people clearly have different (strong!) opinions on it. Coming from academia, I take the definition in the wiki page (I keep quoting, sorry), and for me, that neatly defines, most modern DVCSs.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The basic definition of a blockchain covers the implementation of git. https://stackoverflow.com/a/67090776 > Why is Git not considered a "block chain"? > .... > And this is what Git does, and hence
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I wish these authors would define exactly "which blockchain" they hate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain "A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are securely linked togeth
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm sure quite a few commenters on here only started writing code in the last 15 years. What's interesting is that git is (more or less) the de facto version control system and has been for that 15 years, and that likely means th
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Maybe I'm "misremembering", but there was a version of SunStudio in the very late 90s that had "intellisense" style help for C or C++. It was really basic, but it was there.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I think that Westminster Council's needs and requirements on businesses and landlords on Oxford Street is probably underestimated though. But I agree, there's something really shady going here.

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