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by alexfoo 3y ago
1534 was the port used by the license manager (elmd - Elan license manager). The bane of many a Netcool installation until we joyfully ripped it out post IBM acquisition. -Alex (Micromuse 1997 to 2021).
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by alexfoo 3y ago
I’m guessing this will continue to happen until, I dunno, some the execs at Experian continually have their accounts compromised in the same way again and again.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Have you tried Couch to 5k? (C25K) FWIW I did it a few years back after coming back from an ankle fracture that had stopped me doing any exercise for 6 months. Looking at my Week 1 Day 1 activity on Strava my HR was ~105bpm when initially w
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by alexfoo 3y ago
I’m in the UK. Picked up a bad case of what I thought was food poisoning at the start of October. Symptoms started two days after I went swimming in my local council/municipal swimming pool, and lasted about 9 days. Wont go into detail
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Possibly, but it's a dangerous long game to play. You're at the mercy of pretty much every Police patrol car with ANPR once the cloned plates are tagged as such. Getting caught with cloned plates is far more serious.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> You can't enforce a speed limit by simply placing a speed sign and hoping everyone is going to magically follow them. It's not flawless but sticking up signs has a reasonable effect. I'd say at least 50% of the people wh
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by alexfoo 3y ago
A lot of 20mph limits as enforced simply by some motorists driving at <=20mph. This prevents anyone behind from speeding unless they go for some stupid overtaking manoeuvre. So, yes, simply sticking up a sign and not actively enforcing i
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by alexfoo 3y ago
But 20mph is not low enough for that to be a problem. 2 seconds at 20mph is ~18m.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Refresher tests every 10 years would do more to solve the current driving standards problem in the UK. But it'd be political suicide for any Government that tried to introduce it.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
There are three speed cameras in 20mph limits near me in my area of London. Whenever I'm near them I see someone flashed by them about once every 5 minutes (one is opposite a bus stop that I often wait at). It's surprising just ho
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> For something different - cars going at slow speeds emit more fumes and consume more fuel. There's research that refutes this for 30mph -> 20mph limit lowering. https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/lowering-speed-limi
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Useful reminder to sort out my AoC++ donation for this year. Done. Being in the UK I've never bothered attempting to target the global leader-board as 5am is just too early. According to my research I probably could scrape in here or t
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by alexfoo 3y ago
It’s 2% average grade if you finish at the same elevation as you start.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
It does depend on your conditioning though. When I did my first 200km ride I ate like a horse every 50km. After a few years of regular (monthly) 200km rides I could do a 200km ride (~10h elapsed) without eating anything on the way round.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Strava’s calorie estimation is awful. Depends on the elevation gains in your 100km ride but I think that 3,300kcal for a 100km/4h ride is generous. 800kcal/hr is hard work and keeping that up for 4h is even harder. 25kph does not
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by alexfoo 3y ago
No need for a train. I could find conversational French/Spanish/German really easily where I live now in London. I have at least 5 native speakers of each of those languages who are friends and live within a mile of me. Right now
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Brit here, mid 40s. Many Brits were taught a second language at school (11-16, some starting earlier) but there was very little opportunity to use it outside school, so most did the bare minimum and never continued with it. I learned French
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by alexfoo 3y ago
If you can make 46 collide you can mint your own bitcoins. The increase in difficulty is multiplicative not additive.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
In the UK the law is sufficiently vague. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2400/part/I/crosshe... “ Precedence of pedestrians over vehicles at Zebra crossings 25.—(1) Every pedestrian, if he
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Pedestrians are second class in most crossings though (at least in the UK). For traffic lights that are always green except when a pedestrian wants to cross we do have the “beg button” but the problem is that there is usually a reasonable d
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Luckily some countries don’t think about it like this. Many European countries put pedestrians first in cities and towns. Cars can go “quickly” between cities and towns but around pedestrians they really do need to slow down. I wouldn’t wan
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by alexfoo 3y ago
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Engineers-Journal/Civil/coul... (Note that it was a follow up to patently satirical parent comment, but it does remind me that Sweden made the change on 3rd Sep 1967)
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by alexfoo 3y ago
You could phase it in slowly like Ireland did. Cars on a Monday. Lorries and HGVs switch on Wednesday. All remaining traffic on the Friday. Done!
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FTX thief cashes out millions during Bankman-Fried trial(bbc.co.uk)
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Not the London Fox. It’s a lot more diurnal now. They know which day of the week the garbage bins are put out and will often walk about quite brazenly in day time to scavenge. There’s usually a fox sunbathing on my shed roof during the summ
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> Story: a buddy of mine had a gsxr 1000 and would purposely screw with cops on the freeway ... You can’t temp fate that much and not eventually meet yours. An idiot friend used to do similar (in the UK), then one day he did it and the P
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by alexfoo 3y ago
It's just the odd love of the Harley or similar. I got pulled over for noise (in the UK) as my ZX6-R had a hole in the downpipes and it was obviously a bit too noisy. I was trying my best to keep the noise down and (genuinely, provably
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Don't some (not all) of the underlying apps have protection too? Even if my phone is unlocked I need to auth via FaceId to be able to open the Google Authenticator app for example. Wondering if I should into whether more apps have this
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Simple! To prevent it being abused easily you could make it so you would need to send a high number of those packets for a sustained period in order to activate the block.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
If you read the articles it links to they say “non customer facing roles, such as HR” or similar. It’s just badly quoted in this summary article.

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