SimonPStevens

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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
As someone who listens to most audio books at between 1.5x and 2x I'm interested to try this. Although I think it will be problematic for me. I would like the silence between words removed. But the silences betweens higher level struct
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
This exactly. SO is not really a resource to get your personal questions answered. If you are a reasonably senior developer there are close to zero questions that you have that should be asked on stack overflow. You already have enough abil
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Feels like we need something more than just a national bill. Something like the European Convention on Human Rights, ratified into local law by each country. That would be much harder politically to overturn by the next parliament. Can&#x27
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
This is a quote from the Unabomber's manifesto for those who aren't aware.
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
The salary data is interesting. But I found the clear example of title inflation quite shocking. Promoted to "Senior" after only 1 years and 4 months. (Not counting their placement year here) and the "principal" in just
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Bills like this keep coming back. Can we instead look to pass the opposite? A bill that marks the right to use private encryption as a fundamental right? Is that kind of thing possible? Where or how would I support such an activity?
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
On the subject of monopoly, it's also interesting that it's roots are in a game created to teach the negative aspects of monopolies. The original game that modern monopoly is based on had two sets of rules, one that rewarded all p
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Interesting comparing CMR3 to the newer Dirt Rally 2. CMR3 roads are much much wider. I find DR2 almost too hard to keep the car from hitting the side all the time. I wonder why that is. The narrower road seems more true to real life. But I
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I can't find any plans that are actually accepting new customers for less than £0.27/kWh overnight. I'm pretty sure anything as cheap as £0.075/kWh is grandfathered into a legacy plan. I would be happy to be proven wrong
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Can you share what provider you are getting £0.17 at night from? I can't get better than £0.27 currently.
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I'm very sceptical about this claim. Would like to see a source. Sure, we may have enough "money" to redistribute it. But if 99% of the population stops working, who is going to make everything we use, produce food, run power
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I suspect Insomnia or God Is A DJ was probably the first Faithless track I heard, but it was hearing the Reverence album that turned me into a die hard fan of Faithless and Maxi. I practically had it on repeat for months. I saw them live so
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Firstly Asimov's laws aren't inviolable physical laws. They were just fictional idea that were suggested could be programmed into robots as a plot device in his books. The stories were frequently about unexpected side effect cause
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I think it depends a lot on the type of project. If you are working on a web app that you can bisect and retest each new version in a few seconds it's an amazing tool. If you are working on a stack of huge server apps with 1h+ build ti
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd call 85miles extreme distance. It's very low compared to modern EVs. I'd say this Citroen is totally targeting me. My need is less than 20 miles a day, and I'm saying I'd be nervous about how l
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I do love this, and hope more things like it gets made so there is choice. It's exactly the kind of thing I want for most of my day to day traveling. It's competition though is what I did instead. Last year I brought a 7 year old
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I had always assumed that recommendation algorithms didn't work on genres, but instead did a lookup based on something like: "You like X" "Person Y also likes X" "Person Y also likes Z" "I should reco
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Different author, but sounds somewhat similar to 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Although iirc correctly it starts with being able to see other locations in space but at the same time, and the hist
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I really hope Dang or one of the others in charge here is reading this and is willing to consider it. The change suggested here would be one of the greatest single improvements to the signal-to-noise ratio on this site, and even news in gen
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
Regarding number 4, "Don't ride against traffic." Seems pretty obvious, but in my local area they've started building bike lanes for both directions on a single side of the road [1]. It's great that they have nice w
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I think of it more like a learning guide. Initially you include the guide lines and just sketch over them to refine the shape. Once you've become familiar with the shape you can just draw close to the final version with no guide lines,
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I'm not sure I fully agree here. I think for me some level of equality of outcome is what I think would be best. Not complete equality perhaps, but a tolerance band of maximum acceptable inequality of outcome perhaps. Let me elaborate.
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
I agree. They are unlikely to be intentionally exfiltrating entire videos. However, should the software crash, it's reasonable to assume a crash dumb of some kind could be sent. The crash dumb could include portions of memory, which wo
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by SimonPStevens 4y ago
This may be jurisdiction dependant, but in the UK, the small prize fruit machine style games you find in pubs are required by law to payout a fixed percentage of their income over time. I believe it's 70%, but I think there are variati
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
Thank you. Lots to think about here. Can you expand a little bit on why real estate is bad during times of inflation? And why only when RE rates are higher? "Debt locked in at rates below inflation" seems to tie into real estate.
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
What can be done do to prepare for inflation? I've got a job with good income. I save a little monthly and invest in whole market index funds. I contribute decently to my pension, also in index funds. What should I be doing to be best
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
Accepting liability doesn't mean they require the system to be perfect. Accepting liability really just comes down to who's insurance company pays when it fails. If the manufacturer can demonstrate to the insurance company that th
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
My experience was the opposite of this (not saying yours is wrong, just that it might be different for different people) I did a 7 year stint as a contractor in which I worked at 7 different places, plus multiple smaller ad-hoc projects. Mo
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
Nice. I'm pretty sure it's fast charging that is more detrimental to the battery life. The included charge cable that charges from a regular home socket charges at 3.3kw, which is the max you can do with the type1 socket on the ca
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
I looked at a Zoe too, it's an equally nice car that fits the exact same niche for short range or town driving. It mostly just came down to the fact the particular leaf I found was the best balance on price vs age for what was on the m

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