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by arichard123 3y ago
Mentioned in the infinite monkey cage, big things also get smaller when on islands, as though there is an ideal size. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gr7m49
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by arichard123 3y ago
I'm in the UK and have recently started hearing the euphemism "passed" instead of "died". I find it confusing, at least for a moment, as I track back in the conversation to identify a thing the person could have pas
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by arichard123 3y ago
I think you want a lateral join.
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by arichard123 3y ago
Gloomhaven is a cooperative game I've played a lot with my family where we repeatedly thought we were all going to win then we all thought we were definitely going to lose, but decided to stick it out, then won, with a few actions left
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by arichard123 3y ago
According to Tim Harford's book "Adapt" it's wrong to expect a company like shell to be good at renewables. Shell are good at handling liquid fuels and negotiating with governments. These are not useful skills for photov
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by arichard123 3y ago
Their purposes have been served. Values have been signalled. Implementation was never going to be possible, which made it all the better a choice, as it means you don't have to actually do anything except blame tech companies when it d
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by arichard123 3y ago
Working for me now
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by arichard123 3y ago
Me too
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by arichard123 3y ago
I think the article needs to talk more about how you can combine a text search with a non text search criteria. I don't know about elasticsearch, but I guess that limiting it's search results to other bits of data, permissions, da
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by arichard123 3y ago
"You see, officer, the reason I was paying children to play outside my house is because I didn't want them there! It's very clever actually! I got the idea from the internet! It's certainly not what it looks like!"
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by arichard123 3y ago
Just honesty. "Yes I did, I was wrong and this is why" you might get back "ok! skip that bit, it's not so important now after all"
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by arichard123 3y ago
See also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64703976 Enzyme action on plastics
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by arichard123 3y ago
Here's one, postgres default has this: seq_page_cost = 1.0 random_page_cost = 4.0 Which is fine if you are using spinning disks to store your data. It makes postgresql prefer sequential scans over index usage I think it&#x27
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by arichard123 4y ago
> High bus factor You mean "he might get hit by a bus"? Surely businesses die more easily than people. Isn't a "high bus factor" kind of a good thing in this situation?
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Ask HN: OVH – SSH and control panel down
2 points by arichard123 4y ago|0 comments
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by arichard123 4y ago
My wife and I joined a local group of conservation volunteers when we were new to the area. Great fun, new skills, new friends. We had kids and stopped going. I've just recently started going back and nearly all the same people are st
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by arichard123 4y ago
Are we short on good words to describe the moving parts of our systems? We use so many synonyms for "thing" that then get overloaded. Do we not just need to invent some new words with specific and useful meanings? I'm not sur
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by arichard123 4y ago
I'm doing something similar but running a zfs pool off a usb dock and using zfs snapshot instead of hardlinks. Usb is slow but it's still faster than my network, so not the bottleneck.
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by arichard123 4y ago
I use ssh, and a script that manages ssh keys and system user accounts, with a umask change and some symlinks. This means I can add read-only ssh access for deployment keys. The remote address would be of the form ssh://{clientnam
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by arichard123 4y ago
As a UK driver (left) who has driven in Spain and France (right) I'd say remembering which side of the road to drive on is easy when there are other cars around, less so when it's an empty country lane. Roundabouts are tricky. Als
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by arichard123 4y ago
Yikes. That looks dangerous.
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by arichard123 5y ago
Focusing on personal responsibility is a worthwhile thing to say to persons for whom their only contribution can be their own personal consumption. Also, in democracies, this will lead to political pressure for companies and government to m
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by arichard123 5y ago
As a brit, I would say no. But for your last line your thoughts matched mine.
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by arichard123 5y ago
Looks good. I've been using VimWiki and really make the most of it's ability to link to local files and directories with file:// . This makes for a superb way of keeping on top of various admin tasks, as I just write a
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by arichard123 5y ago
Me too. Your comment is one such example.
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by arichard123 5y ago
I've had real trouble with digital ocean as they just don't want to get involved in helping email providers at all. They don't want to do anything with managing IP reputation.
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by arichard123 5y ago
I was in a meeting where the sales logic was explained as "social proof". People would choose a busy restaurant over a quiet one. Similarly they would choose a popular product over an unpopular one.
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by arichard123 5y ago
Yes, Tesco was basically open the whole time.
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by arichard123 5y ago
I still don't understand what multitasking is. When does a series of actions become a single task instead of multiple tasks? Is it purpose?
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by arichard123 5y ago
SPARC is going to be relatively small in size. If they can make the commercial reactors as small as SPARC then they can be created in a factory. Which will make roll out and cost much better than fission.

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