EwanToo

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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   Thanks, I tried to find it but couldn't
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   Boeing 757 cargo door opens after takeoff(twitter.com)

   82 points by EwanToo 6y ago|31 comments
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   You're absolutely right, these are the kinds of questions any team should be asking * Is language X that we all know suitable?" * Is there a language Y that we could all learn in an acceptable time optimal? * What does the tooling
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   For what it's worth, I tried a modified version of the first example you've used above in the sandbox: NOT_FOUND = 404 match get_status(): case NOT_FOUND: print("Here") # this actually ass
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   I think the single biggest thing that OpenOffice achieved was the ODT file format. Showing that an open file format could do everything was a big part of forcing Microsoft to switch from .doc to .docx, which is much more open
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   Astronomers detect extended dark matter halo around ancient dwarf galaxy(news.mit.edu)

   1 points by EwanToo 6y ago|0 comments
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   You can have a lot of fun with Pi's, but I'm not sure I want to build a multi-TB NAS using a Raspberry Pi with a pretty rare addon board.. If you do want something like this, I think the ODROID-HC4[1] is probably a better option.
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   As the post says, "We stand in support of our customers". People who buy and sell stock on Robinhood don't pay them anything, it's the market makers that pay them. In this case, the adage is true "You're not th
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   by EwanToo 6y ago

   For me, Vivaldi has the best vertical tabs implementation in a Chromium-based browser. I look forward to seeing how Edge tackles the same task. The user interface isn't perfect, but the tabs work well, the keyboard short-cuts work well
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    This is the crux of the problem. If you're purely processing internal logs on an internal service, you're probably good. If you're exposing an API or a UI to paying customers which calls Elastic search to run a query, then it
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    There's been quite a few early proposals and drafts. This is the first one that I'm aware of that Google have agreed to implement.
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    Why Does macOS Catalina Use Zsh Instead of Bash? Licensing(thenextweb.com)

    3 points by EwanToo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    This article does seem to skirt around the obvious, that you _can_ buy a decent webcam, if you pay Logitech the money they want. Given how often they've been sold out this year, people are buying them. Both the C920[1] and the StreamCa
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    This is the issue with iCloud backups not being encrypted: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive... Not saying I agree or disagree with it, but it's something worth highlighting
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    Oracle already offers one, depending on your level of trust (or distrust) in future support from them https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
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    South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn(bbc.co.uk)

    220 points by EwanToo 6y ago|408 comments
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    GM pulls out of Nikola equity stake purchase(cnbc.com)

    4 points by EwanToo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    Amazon already has ARM processors with better than Intel price/performance. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    The new mac's ship with USB4/Thunderbolt ports - it's now a cross-platform port (USB4 is a merger of sorts between USB and Thunderbolt) https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-4-faq,38766.html
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    Standing against discrimination, whether it's taking the form of racism, sexism, homophobia, or something else, isn't a political act. It's a human rights act.
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    I don't have any detailed knowledge of it, but I've seen various similar comments based on this article and similar ones: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
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    Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear plants(bbc.com)

    195 points by EwanToo 6y ago|246 comments
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    Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021(androidpolice.com)

    3 points by EwanToo 6y ago|1 comments
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    I don't know about Rabbit MQ, but for redis AWS sends back a lot, so much that one of their developers is now a core team member https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-core-team-update/
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    With the newer Redshift ra3 instances you use S3 backed storage with local SSD caching https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features/ra3/
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    Postgres 9.5 is still getting updates and bug fixes, each major version has 5 years of support. If you want to move very slowly and deliberately, you can do, depending on your requirements. https://www.postgresql.org/docs&#x
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    I don't know if this is a hard constraint, but I believe this is how AWS organise the instances - you'll be sharing hardware with other instances of the same size.
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    Thanks I had exactly this problem!
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    Ethical Vendor Benchmark Manifesto(github.com)

    2 points by EwanToo 6y ago|0 comments
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    by EwanToo 6y ago

    In the UK we commonly have 2 to 5 year fixed interest rates on a 25 year mortgage, with the remaining years at a variable base rate + X%. I think this achieves a similar result, as anyone who leaves their mortgage unchanged beyond the fixed