TheSmiddy

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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
"Everyone who reads HN probably has enough leverage to set boundaries." I'm reading this at work while installing windows updates on a desktop PC for a client, don't be so sure.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
It's only a sample size of 3 but it seems like the candidate with the most edits is an indicator for who is going to win and if your running mate has more edits than you then it's probably not a good sign. Would like to see how th
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
Solar, wind, hydro and grid scale battery storage are all heavily skewed towards CAPEX, not sure where you got the idea that climate change solutions have high OPEX. A carbon tax doesnt make everything more expensive if you give the money s
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
We're running out of IPv4 addresses and need to move to 100% IPv6 ASAP or else we're going to end up with a system where it's NAT all the way down.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
It still is, unless you install a mobile skin. This is the skin I installed, it's nothing to write home about but it does the job: https://github.com/messagerie-melanie2/Roundcube-Skin-Melani... Having said that I
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
and if airbnb discover that you are doing this they can see that you are violating the terms of service and stop listing your place.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
It does, however self driving taxis can be operated far cheaper than human driver taxis. So if the cost of running your car is say $5000 a year and you can get an subscription robocar service for $100 a week then a large number of people wi
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
So instead of fobbing him off they should have said "sorry, on the help desk we can't see that information, I'm escalating this issue to X who will contact you with more information in Y days"
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
works if you select US as your location, doesn't work for AU and presumably some other locations.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
The coal lobby has done a good job of making renewables look like they're a significantly different way of life. At the end of the day your aircon will still run whether it's powered by coal, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro or literal
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
I think the resume filtering practices end up filtering out way too high a percentage of people who are actually good at the job and just bad at writing resumes. A better hoop to force applicants through would be one that demonstrates some
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
A hacker can get around that by also taking a screenshot when there is no mousedown event, it's literally one extra line of code.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
No, they're under pressure to protect their coal supply line. They know that they have to move to renewables soon and eventually coal power generation will be banned, so they're trying to burn as much of their stocks as they can b
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
In his defence it feels like lotus notes development has had at most 2 FTE allocated to it for the past decade.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
At the end of the day everything is just putting atoms in the correct positions so given enough energy anything is possible.
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by TheSmiddy 10y ago
I spend over 30% of my time at work (pleb level helpdesk) doing busy work that generates no actual benefit to the business other than making it easier to track the real work I do. If we were more trusted to do the right thing or the trackin
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by TheSmiddy 11y ago
Twitter considers every link, regardless of length, as 23 characters so they're not even that useful there.
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by TheSmiddy 11y ago
Probably because of this post that hit /r/all on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4b4drk/a_curren...
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by TheSmiddy 11y ago
We are approaching a world where every consumer can have perfect information and thus start acting truly rationally. If im buying something >$50 I'll quickly google it just to make sure i can't get it cheaper at another store.