SimonPStevens

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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
£9800. 28,000 miles on the clock. Battery still reporting 12 out of 12 for health. I did look at a few other used models, one a couple of years newer, but a lot of miles on the clock and quite a bit more expensive. This one I got just had t
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
I recently bought a second hand Nissan Leaf (2015 model, so the battery is already 7 years old), and I have to say my experience with it has been fantastic, even through the winter. The range is about 70-80 miles of general town driving 30-
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
No op, but I think I understand what they are getting at. With a quicksort you take one item and compare it one at a time to every other item by just asking this question "does this come before or after". Then you repeat that pro
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by SimonPStevens 5y ago
This still seems no different from giving the employee a payday loan (admittedly at zero percent interest). It's not going to solve anything because they are just taking money early that they will need next month. It might seem attract
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
> demographics is working against asset values in the next twenty years or so. As someone who is about half way towards retirement, how is it best to work with this? My future retirement income seems to be mostly dependant on having the
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Short video by Tom Scott on the subject for those interested. https://youtu.be/HfHgUu_8KgA tldw; Older homes in the UK had a water storage tank in the roof space that fed the water heating tank. This couldn't be classi
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
It's every 15 seconds for Ethereum blocks. https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/blocks/
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Because they are picky and hard to get in to. To a VC who has very few other ways to asses you, having something in you past that singles you out as someone who has already cleared a highly selective process means you are more likely to be
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
This is a good comment, but It's easy to generalise one specific experience that works successful and mistakenly think it applies universally. You may be right within your company, but I can offer an alternative anecdote. I work at a c
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
The real trick is balancing the two. Help enough to build that reputation for being a team player. When you can't fully help, don't just say no, give them some starting pointers and offer to review, or assist more if they get stuc
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
What are some good alternatives that don't do this?
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
While I mostly agree, it is a touch more subtle than this metaphor. Shouting fire in a crowded theatre doesn't typically cause the fire to get worse. A major newspaper breaking news of an impending bank run, does have the likelihood of
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
We'll have to just agree to disagree on this. I don't believe that having bitcoin that was in the past involved in criminal use will cause you any problems at all. I'd be interested to see any evidence you have to the contrar
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Cash is only private if you never put it in a bank. But if the reason for taking the payment is legitimate you're going to have no more problems with Bitcoin than you will with cash in this regard. If your reason for taking the payment
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
I'm not sure of the point here, this seems a bit nonsensical. Do you avoid using cash too because criminals use it? Using or accepting Bitcoin is not dangerous because of this. And you have no more chance of unintentionally recieving f
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
There are some that do address this type of issue. Timescale DB have a license [0] that is basically open source with the one added restriction that you can't use their open source to offer a hosted SAAS version of their product. Basic
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
No, they aren't the same. But they will all change regularly and invalidate their corresponding extractor just as quickly.
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Or easily swappable battery packs. There was a promo/concept video a few years back, from Tesla I think, showing cars pulling up into a battery swap station and a door slid open in the floor beneath the car and a contraption automatica
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Not GP, but I understand what they are getting at. They were shortening to be concise. What was actually meant was... "You will not be able to use it for anything because YouTube and every other video sharing website supported by yout
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
To not include Microsoft when you say 'big tech' is blinkered. They are currently the 2nd biggest company in the world by market cap. Around double the size of Facebook. They might not be cool or trendy in tech circles anymore, bu
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
The eye tracking looks great, just as a regular additional way of using the mouse for things like focusing windows or tapping dialogs. I'm very tempted to get one of those. Does anyone with experience of them know what the multi-monito
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
> we might see another Fall of Rome in our lifetimes. The Western Roman empire took around 80 years to fall. From 395 to 476. The Eastern Roman empire lasted for several hundred years more. It's sometimes thought of as a quick obvio
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Thanks. I'll definitely take a look to see if you've done anything differently to me.
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
I have a ergodox, and while I love it for writing prose in English, I struggle with it a bit for coding. It feels like it needs an extra column or two on the right hand side to have enough space for the symbols and special keys (arrows, hom
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Surely the real problem here is not when face retouching filters are on or off by default for your own photos. It's when other people use them and you don't know if they have them on or off. That's what quietly sets the new b
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
This title is overly misleading. There is no evidence presented in the article to even suggest they paid the ransom. And Garmin declined to comment. It's possible they paid, but it's also possible they are just restoring backups.
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
gp is probably thinking of system.text.json which was only added to .net core in version 3, which less than a year old. But it's not been high priority to add because of a very well established open source project called JSON.net that
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
DataContractJsonSerialiser has been around since .net 3.5 which is 2007, so 13 years. And I think the open source JSON.net has been around for longer, but I can't find a version history right now.
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
I don't understand how this works. If your order to doordash cost $5000, why did they pay the restaurant $20,000? That would suggest their prices are 4 times cheaper to the customer. But I thought everyone complained they were more exp
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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
I spent quite as few years as a contractor and I quickly discovered the best way to be effective was to learn how to be effective with everything in the default settings. At every new place I went I could just jump right in. No need for any

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