TheGrumpyBrit

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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
They're half way there. They've got the first part down to a fine art.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Heroin is the kind of strength where a practised addict can probably eyeball it and get more or less the effect they're looking for. Fentanyl is the kind of strength where a difference in dose the size of a grain of salt could be the d
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Also, dead drug users don't make for good repeat business.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Everclear is around 95%, so it would be more like drinking Everclear when you were expecting a 4% beer. And given the difference between medical and recreational doses, it would be like having 5-6 beers, all at 95%. That would probably leav
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
My side gig, like most sites these days, publishes a privacy policy and terms of service. From the start, I published those documents in a public Git repository - it provides a clear source of what version was in force at the time of any gi
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
It's also completely unrelated to the crime. How would you punish somebody who already doesn't have a driving license?
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I don't think it's possible to find a fair solution that's purely financially based. On the one hand, the poorest members of society might be unable to feed themselves on even a $50 fine. Unless you propose to bankrupt somebo
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I think a better metric would based on actual user behaviour rather than a simple count. For example, the number of posts or comments across the network, or the number of friend requests sent (new connections made). I still use Facebook qui
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
From the article, it wasn't China Telecom who made the initial misconfiguration - it was a small ISP in Nigeria. China Telecom just accepted their BGP update and rebroadcast it.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
The one that stands out for me was my first major IT company. They gave a standard 25 day holiday allowance (about normal for UK), but they had an option right on the intranet where you could buy or sell up to 5 days in either direction for
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I have a plan. I'm not currently in a position to be able to implement it if necessary, but I'm working towards it.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
And as long as you're down the rabbit hole, take a look at UK speed limits in relation to vans. Vans have a lower speed limit than cars, but "Car derived vans" are still considered cars and vice versa. That gives you a strang
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I use Jira at work, and also at home for my side projects. At home it's little more than a self-hosted Trello instance. At work, it's more complex. Both do their jobs well enough. Your problem is that you don't currently have
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Running your own mailserver is easy enough if you have an IP that isn't blacklisted. Most residential IP's will be on the Spamhaus PBL which will cause issues. You can run a mailserver on a $5/month VPS without issue as long
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Not really. If you are under investigation, seizing your server is as simple as a search warrant. The challenge is accessing the data - if you've encrypted it well, it's impossible to access. However, on your own server, you may g
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I have an 8 digit ICQ number. It's probably the only number apart from my SSN that I can still remember.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
A bigger concern is that, if it blocks all LED wavelengths, it may also block brake lights of some vehicles.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Precisely. I use Docker for my personal projects whenever possible, because it keeps the host tidy and avoids conflicts. If I want to play with something new, I can just throw it onto an existing server and start playing, rather than deploy
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Don't count on it. From the Gizmodo article: > I’ve been trying to get Facebook to disclose shadow contact information to users for almost a year now. But it has even refused to disclose these shadow details to users in Europe, wher
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I've been using https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy and https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-compa... to achieve this for a year or two now. I prefer it because the domai
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I have a list called "Low-energy tasks" which I use whenever I'm feeling burned out and can't focus on actual work. Simple things like "Organise my mailbox" or "Review documentation" that aren't
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
If I'm approaching a junction where a vehicle is waiting to pull into my path, I watch their front wheels. I find this often gives an earlier indication that the driver is about to move than their head or eye movements, as you can see
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I like the idea. A few thoughts: - The "sign up for free" button takes me to an inescapable box which demands my phone number. Why can't I sign up using email? - The cancel button on the sign up screen doesn't work. - Th
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Or just modify your goals and your definition of failure to reflect the fact that the other party is an actual human being, not some video game boss who you can keep trying different things with until something sticks. Most of the people yo
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
38 here. I was learning Turbo Pascal in around 96. I'm sure there was a lively community around it, but it would have been on IRC and usenet, which was still a little daunting to me. My primary resource was the SWAG archives, and I hon
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
I not only have no problem with their opinions, I wholeheartedly encourage them. It's by expressing them that the poster gets to read contrasting (and complementary) opinions and consider another point of view - and what better way to
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Every generation has the same pattern, it's just the details that change. Kids are always lazy. This generation always have their heads in their phones, but we had video games and before us it was TV, music, and dancing that was rottin
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
Often, it's a simple case of business need. As long as the offices are clean, the business doesn't really care if the cleaning cupboard is tidy. It applies to a lot of business areas. If you want to introduce new processes or fix
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
In the meantime, use an issue tracker to keep a handle on all the stuff you actually need to do to bring this code up to speed. If a test needs creating, add an issue for it. I'd personally not keep this in a tracker that your manager
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by TheGrumpyBrit 8y ago
1. As others have covered, you need a market. Find something that interests you, or you won't stick with it. For me, I manage an events guide for local bands and pubs to compile their free-to-the-public gig listings. It's taken va

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