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by buro9 5y ago
But BBC iPlayer needs the internet to work. If the premise is "do not connect it to a network to make it a dumb TV" then the apps that need the internet won't work anyway. If the only thing is connected to is HDMI (and that d
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by buro9 5y ago
It was published. I removed it recently as I was about to butcher it into the other repo with the front-end and didn't want two wildly different versions. As I haven't done that yet I can put it back up once I get back to a city (
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by buro9 5y ago
For reference, this is roughly what I have... still not looking to sell today (that also takes time and brain cycles) but this is what I wrote in an email to someone enquiring by email after I posted this morning: So I wasn't looking t
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by buro9 5y ago
I'm waiting for my services to die in a similar way. I too will shutter it when it does. 250k monthly users, but all the time and a lot of the costs are borne by me and where I'm at now I don't have the time (the money I coul
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Grafana Labs announces $240M Series D(grafana.com)
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by buro9 5y ago
> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be. I agree with this, o
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by buro9 5y ago
Looks nice... so I tried it. Starting airport: There are 4 around London, can I select any? Destination airport: There are 2 around Lisbon, can I select any? Already I have 8 permutations of things I don't want to think about. Got a se
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by buro9 5y ago
I'm not sure I'm ready to have SaaS models replace core utilities and tools locally. > Announcing Warp’s Series A: $17M to build a better terminal And just thinking about this... it's not clear to me what their moat will b
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by buro9 5y ago
I have done this. During the pandemic I switched jobs and got a new MacBook Pro... it failed, then it failed again, and again. I sent it back a few times and each turn-around took a couple of weeks. Whilst that happened I still had to do so
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by buro9 5y ago
I've recently wondered whether it's worth periodically reprocessing the metadata on music files with musicbrainz Picard. It was all done when added to the catalog, but presumably the metadata could be updated and a periodic refres
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by buro9 5y ago
I have a crude hypothesis that the difference between the old and young is the accrual of profound grief. It never fades, it compounds with the loss yet to come. We learn to live with the living ghosts and daily reminders of everyone and ev
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by buro9 5y ago
Type confusion in V8... May well impact Cloudflare workers too.
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by buro9 5y ago
Well I didn't expect to see Cycle Fit mentioned on HN. They've designed and built several bicycles I've raced competitively on and factor in health issues, individual power output, style of riding, etc. They were one of the f
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by buro9 5y ago
Never put a managed work account on a private device. The inverse is also true, have strong policies that prevent private accounts on work devices. Work have zero right to your private data, and you really really don't want to take any
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by buro9 5y ago
I recently purchased an Asus X570 ProArt motherboard, and it comes with a nice thing... Two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a Display port input that loops in from the discrete graphics card so that the signal can be shipped over Thunderbolt https
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by buro9 5y ago
This doesn't seem unreasonable. If you consider that it is the driver who is liable today for road traffic incidents (including failing to adapt to environmental conditions)... then why wouldn't the "driver" still be lia
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by buro9 5y ago
> Most musicians don't make more than a couple bucks per month Most musicians aren't represented in the sampled plays of radio. Those that are, are getting paid nicely. We don't have to rely on that, given that most risk a
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by buro9 5y ago
Other industries have collections agencies, i.e. the PRS in the UK https://www.prsformusic.com/what-we-do/prs-and-mcps What the PRS does is collect royalties when the works of their members (music) is broadcast on TV o
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by buro9 5y ago
I work at Grafana Labs (Snr Director of Engineering here) and that is not the standard we operate at or aspire to. I'll raise it internally to find out what happened in this case as I care that this is not how we act.
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by buro9 5y ago
I used to do this, and if signing up online it's fine. But IRL I'm not on my phone generating the email address when asked at the checkout. That inconsistency meant duplicate accounts, and TBH I figured I was making things excessi
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by buro9 5y ago
I have this problem. My email is <catchall>@david.kitchen and for most shops I will give them <shop>@david.kitchen . Mostly it works. But when it doesn't work it really doesn't work. And this is OK. If they don't
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by buro9 5y ago
Reviews in question: Incident: https://youtu.be/sbSDsbDQjSU?t=204 Review of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9rM8D3k34
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by buro9 5y ago
Even beyond the risk to the account (a non-zero risk), Google has other issues. Only this week I've had an order for some hardware cancelled by them for "sales terms" with no way to identify what sales terms I was in breach o
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by buro9 5y ago
"It depends". Like so many things there's no hard and fast rule here. Sometimes you are best being dispensable, and sometimes it's best being indispensable. If you're a contractor and like the work... be indispensab
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by buro9 5y ago
Taxes should be doing this. Progressive taxation should be uncapped, when you pass some threshold of "this is more than you need in the lifetimes of you, your partner, your next-of-kin to all live a life of unparalleled luxury" th
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by buro9 5y ago
We'll need to improve our collation and storage of the sum of human knowledge. Today if you took the scrapable internet + wikipedia + all academic journals, you still probably lack enough detail and method to reproduce techniques in ma
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by buro9 5y ago
> How would you build your own radio show if there were no satellite towers or recording studios required, no licensing deals to negotiate, and the tools you needed were already on your phone? Shoutcast?
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by buro9 5y ago
Hot take on WAFs... Your application has to be made secure, the WAF cannot do it for you. At best a third party managed WAF provides speed for sticking plaster to be put over a newly discovered vulnerability, but as all WAFs can essentially
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by buro9 5y ago
Send to the Prometheus alertmanager and utilise the provided notification channels. Then when you wish to reconfigure the channels you use for different notifications you can do so in a zero code way. Alertmanager is available in Grafana Cl
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by buro9 5y ago
I run over 300 forums. These are based in Europe, America, Australia. They are for varied interests from cycling to cars to telescopes. There are threads about the war on every forum. And individuals on every forum are actively cancelling s

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