batou

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by batou 11y ago
I've been doing this for 35 years. I don't recommend it :)
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by batou 11y ago
Thanks. This is one of the reasons I always read the comments before the article on HN.
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by batou 11y ago
* possibly getting to re-use the rocket. Good luck to everyone involved however; very exciting.
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by batou 11y ago
Doesn't work in the UK. We have to provide Nominet with documents for some domains. We can opt out of publishing them on the whois but the killer is that someone can contact Nominet and just pretty much ask for the data instead. Incide
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by batou 11y ago
So bureaucracy, cost cutting, management being dicks, no appreciation for family, inefficiency, boredom and detachment from the rest of the industry. Sounds exactly like the last 4 non-Google jobs I've had, including the current one. I
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by batou 11y ago
Utterly insane IMHO. If there's a single error in any temporal data, what happens? Even relatively reliable frequency/time standards (HP/Agilent come to mind) aren't 100% available.
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by batou 11y ago
This is not really a problem. Some thoughts: 1. Time is never the same on two different computers. 2. Time is different when you send it and receive it (speed of light). 3. Time isn't necessarily linear (time dilation). 4. Clocks drift
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by batou 11y ago
It may be comforting to know that I did exactly the same thing a few years before that and ended up at a shitty university and quit after 6 months. Best thing I ever did.
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by batou 11y ago
I'm trading an interesting job for plodding as you put it. The positive thing about plodding when you're experienced is that it doesn't kill you so you can do more interesting things.
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by batou 11y ago
Apt timing. I'm in the process of bailing out of London and heading about 200 miles west. Honestly I earn a shit ton of cash but I can't actually find anywhere that I can actually face putting the cash down on. I looked at a new d
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by batou 11y ago
ODBC does this on windows. You can connect to a spreadsheet and issue queries.
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by batou 11y ago
I still believe that but we went past the mark and dissolved our communities into the same pitfalls as the commercial software. I consider windows 7, office 2010 and conversely Ubuntu pre-Unity with libreoffice to both hit the mark perfectl
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by batou 11y ago
A lot of people don't know this but that's pretty much how Windows actually works underneath everything (DCOM, RPC, pipes etc)
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by batou 11y ago
I agree that he should be charged with fraud. However the purchasers should be charged with criminal negligence. It's up to them to check the claims of the device in question and test it before putting it in the hands of people.
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by batou 11y ago
If the base rate was higher then property would be a lesser investment. It's entirely crazy. I just asked for more cash and chucked the money on the commodities market. My portfolio is worth 178% what it was 12 months ago. Sod tax. Sod
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by batou 11y ago
Yes. I work in the finance sector and deal directly with the providers that sell this shit ironically. The tax relief was nullified instantly by the discussion with my employers that sort of went "give me another £10k or I go work some
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by batou 11y ago
Definitely agree there. I worry about the distribution/generation costs however. I think the main idea should be necessary travel only. In 2015 the idea that most of us need to commute tens of miles shouldn't even be a thought; a
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by batou 11y ago
That's because the options for mandatory pensions are: 1. High risk fund backed pension. Probably will decline in value due to fund saturation. 2. Low risk fund backed pension. You pay more in yearly fees and decline in value. I killed
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by batou 11y ago
Not a spec of rust on mine (12 yo Fiat). Think that depends on where you live.
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by batou 11y ago
Very good point. Also, at least here in the UK, cars seem to get scrapped after 12-15 years. They should really consider higher priced cars that are designed for a long life. My first car, a 1974 Land Rover series 3, is still going and will
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by batou 11y ago
I agree to the conclusion but not for the same reasons.
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by batou 11y ago
We're less dicky in the UK and don't have masses of county specific bylaws so this is merely blackmail by threatening to punish.
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by batou 11y ago
Not at all. I'm saying that we should reduce emissions. What could possibly be bad about that? Its what I'm not saying that is important. I don't proclaim an answer nor an idealism, merely cautious scientific thought that sug
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by batou 11y ago
I look forward to the results however I'm not sure they stand as an unbiased controlled experiment and are as factually devoid as the methodology. Many things are observable but the difference between correlation and causation are some
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by batou 11y ago
Indeed. Didn't Feynman say that the real measure of science is experiment? Show me the experiments otherwise we have merely observations and conjecture. They might be right, but at the moment we've established hypothesis and nothi
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by batou 11y ago
What a bunch of total fucking assholes. That's not lobbying, that's blackmail. No joke but this sort of stuff makes a mockery of the positive things they have done recently. Ao much positive spin hiding the same asshattery.
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by batou 11y ago
For that you are subjected to persistent marketing from experience. That turns me off a product right away. Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.
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by batou 11y ago
Yes I know but they are far from radical redesigns in the last 20-30 years. I have a 1985 London Connections map (from my first tube journey!) and it's virtually no different to the current one. Just additions and a couple of removals
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by batou 11y ago
You cant redesign the tube map; its embedded in many minds and most people know it as the logical map of London. Even the London Connections map is based on it.
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by batou 11y ago
It's far more worrying than that. I worked for a pollster and it was obvious the DM was able to set an agenda and influence people based on the statistics collected. It's a heavily weaponised tabloid capable of swinging a politica

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