Jedd

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by Jedd 4y ago
You're absolutely right. (Including your predictions.)
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by Jedd 4y ago
You're right, but I don't yet know, and haven't been advised by my telco (who also owns that tower) what will happen during that migration next year. My handset (Pixel 4A original) will need replacing if they go 5G only - I
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by Jedd 4y ago
Oh, yes, I should have mentioned that -- it feels like no difference in performance or availability to me. My use case is web, remote desktop, video conf, phone (carrier->wifi voice is a transparent feature for me), streaming audio, sync
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by Jedd 4y ago
Also Australian - based in Hunter Valley (~ 200km north-west of Sydney). Definitely rural. I replaced our Skymesh (geo-stationary) satellite (the only barely viable alternative) two years ago with Starlink. Skymesh gave me ~600ms RTT to
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by Jedd 4y ago
The numbers, and explanations, are both fascinating and despairing. But, as an outsider (AU) looking in, they're not at all surprising. Getting most of my information about the USA from what might be called (there) as left-leaning (but
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by Jedd 4y ago
For anyone else not hip with the lingo, KSI seemingly refers to 'Killed or Serious Injury'
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by Jedd 4y ago
Potentially angering millions of people is not a compelling reason to not pursue criminals through your legal system, of course. > He literally won half the country ... Well that's not true, no matter how you slice it, or which el
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Untitled Goose Tool – hunt and incident response tool for Microsoft Azure(github.com)
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by Jedd 4y ago
I still fondly recall my English teacher at high school (several decades ago) describing our population here as 'like the scum around the edge of an empty bathtub'. Despite that I do remember him as a cheery chap. Anyway, I'
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by Jedd 4y ago
It's an odd thing to quibble about, but 200km is quite a distance, and not what I'd say 'coastal'. I'm 135km from the coast (I'm north west of Sydney, AU) but that's a 2h5m drive away. I'd not claim
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by Jedd 4y ago
Six months ago they announced plans to grow their headcount in India by 1500 before end-2024. Their worldwide headcount growth since 2019 [0] does feel, in retrospect at least, untenable - year on year - 3600, 4900, 6400, 8800. Arguably th
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by Jedd 4y ago
An interesting approach, especially the hybrid python + perl bundling. Embrace the 'you can't please everyone, all of the time' mantra. At work we're using a combination of Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Grafana Loki (
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by Jedd 4y ago
'To be frank [or candid] ...' seems like a superior phrase, in that case.
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by Jedd 4y ago
Not sure if it's in the exact same category, but one of the most devastating examples was a one paragraph entry in Letters to the Editor, published in 1980 in the New England Journal of Medicine, that I first heard about in the excelle
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by Jedd 4y ago
In terms of annoying-once-you-notice-it idioms, should readers assume dishonesty on all other statements made by people that prefix only some small subset of their claims with 'Honestly ...' and 'To be honest ...'?
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by Jedd 4y ago
You're right. I should have chosen better phrasing - perhaps gene pool instead of population, and diluted (but that still seems awkward) rather than replaced. Is an 11% genetic incursion a lot for ~ 150 generations? I don't know
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by Jedd 4y ago
> None of that stuff happened. Could you please be slightly more specific about what you're contesting?
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by Jedd 4y ago
I enjoyed the book, though I used the audio version which I suspect skews my opinion upwards. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but I understand some HNers have cause to argue with some of his conclusions. Anyway, I looked up the author's name a
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by Jedd 4y ago
It's an emotionally charged subject, which is unfortunate as it's objectively fascinating from a purely historical perspective. The simplified and (generally) commonly accepted narrative is that a cohesive group arrived here 45-
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by Jedd 4y ago
> The metric system doesn't have a nice mil-like unit for those scales; the millimetre is way too crude, and micrometres are too fine. This kind of absurd claim would be more compelling if you hadn't just used 3 decimal places
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by Jedd 4y ago
Yeah, it's a bit of weird disjoint. Almost a tacit admission, in fact. I've heard that in some crazy parts of the world - say 95% of the planet - it's base-10 all the way down . Makes you wonder if they're on to somethi
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by Jedd 4y ago
I don't believe those are functionally / semantically equivalent - couldn't care less does imply a min() value of care. In contrast, the author is suggesting a comparative only. And, on careful re-reading, I suspect the autho
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by Jedd 4y ago
It's weird that Zork doesn't feature on such a list, though I'm not sure what category it might hold, as it was a re-imagining of the Colossal Cave Adventure (also missing from the list). I have two relevant memories from the
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by Jedd 4y ago
Sure, everyone points to France when talking about nuclear fission - adoption, abandonment, success, failure - taken over the past 50 years they've got it all. France would have been subject to pressure from the USA at the time, so it&
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by Jedd 4y ago
> Carter basically stopped the nuclear energy industry by prohibiting reprocessing of used fuel. Without disposal or reprocessing, where does it go? This seems like a stretch. From the article you linked: Ford initiated the policy a year
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by Jedd 4y ago
> Fine. Then I guess it doesn't matter. Is that your point? I suspect parent's point is that the story is a myth, and is demonstrably wrong. The suggestion, and this [0] Slate article repeats it, that it was a ploy by newspaper
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by Jedd 4y ago
The disconnect is fascinating, but it truly was a different era -- though the Brits had a long & glorious history of taking a while to get familiar with new foods (insert the story, which may be apocryphal, regarding the arrival of pota
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by Jedd 4y ago
> This thing has been missing for months. Where are you getting months from? " ... the truck made the journey from 12th to 16th of January, the capsule was not discovered to be missing until the 25th of January." It's been
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by Jedd 4y ago
If you're committed to, and enjoy the combination of, Python & YAML & Jinja2 - but don't enjoy the architecture, performance, and sharp edges of Ansible, you may want to review Saltstack as a config management tool. It&#x2
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by Jedd 4y ago
One Australian's anecdata follows. I hate tipping. It's an unwanted cognitive intrusion with no upside for me whatsoever. It also reflects a broken (wage / reward) system, and obviously my preference is they fix that . In Au

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