cameronh90

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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park is also excellent.
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   I wonder about whether the Silvertown Tunnel will make the average traffic worse but the worst case traffic better. Currently, if the Blackwall tunnel closes, traffic basically grinds to a halt across a huge part of SE London. I was taking
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   If LA is anything to go by, building these large elevated highways wouldn't have fixed anything. Tokyo does have a lot of elevated highways, admittedly, and that has a certain aesthetic appeal there, but it's a very different plac
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   The biggest reason - which doesn't seem to be mentioned - is consistency and stability. I don't like being woken up to debug why the query planner has decided to do something new. Yes, there's always a "good reason"
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   I almost got scammed by a SMS that woke me up. Local couriers often send links by SMS when an international package needs customs duty paid, and they often shorten URLs due to SMS limits. So they might send a URL like couri.er/1ea6dz.
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   There's definitely no steel in my house, however there is lime plaster which is somewhat similar to concrete. I can get 2.4GHz fine, but it's pretty slow for a 1Gb/s connection. 5GHz only within the room of the AP in general
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   My house is solid brick walls throughout. My WiFi is awful in any room without an access point.
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   I have had a Samsung TV, phone and washing machine. All of them were awful and unreliable despite winning wonderful praise from reviewers. I can't help but feel they were reviewing a different device to me. Nowadays it's a running
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   by cameronh90 5y ago

   I suppose it's hard to see what the future will hold, but at least in London there's Gett and Freenow, and a lot of the traditional players like Addy Lee now have apps of varying quality. As you point out, stuff like Deliveroo mig
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    The IoT/smart home devices I've accumulated over the last decade are all still working just as well as when I bought them. In that time, I've gone through multiple TVs, HDMI sticks, laptops, phones and fridges. I do think we
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Do people actually claim Uber is a successful business? In the UK, none of the original companies that built the railroads still exist. Many of the railway companies were never particularly profitable and the railway boom was a stock market
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I can see mine if I sit quietly. I am quite myopic and have a lot of floaters, so maybe that's why? But even in the dark, even if I can't consciously feel it, I can somehow still sense it.
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    You're right, I was mixing it up with the Guatemala syphilis experiments. Clearly the vaccine conspiracy theories are mostly nuts, but I think what GP poster was getting at is that the truth is often somewhere in the middle. Yeah there
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    If you're talking about lizard people, sure. But subliminal messaging is considered a conspiracy theory. Maybe it's not as obvious as messages played backwards, but if it's not happening already, there are definitely people w
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I haven't had caffeine in years. But yes, giving it up did help a bit. Though I'm tired a lot more now.
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Ignoring all the telemetry arguments, just from a corporate perspective, Windows 11 simply isn't ready yet. There are still compatibility issues with various hardware and software (including Teams), critical bugs (especially AutoPilot
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    You can't protect lives at all cost. What's the point of living without quality of life? We certainly don't take the zero risk approach with other aspects of living. Just an anecdote, but I know far more people who are strugg
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I have bad anxiety and I would 100% be willing to give up alcohol for some relief from anxiety. Anxiety already means I can't really enjoy going out. Social pressure to drink can be a problem but usually saying you can't because o
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    > there is a strong emphasis on air tightness and insulation now. Which isn't exactly great without heat recovery ventilation. Either you open the windows to get fresh/non-humid air and lose your heat, or you end up with conde
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    > “Take out anything with a screen in your living room”, the critique goes, “there’s no way to tell if your house was built in the 2010s or the 1970s.” Where I live in the UK, this is very much the case - except my house was built in 18
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I also set up enterprise WiFi at work, but at home I just want WiFi that works with as little involvement on my end as possible. Traffic logs would be wasted on me because I'd never look at them.
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I'm not sure where you live but I found when I traveled to the USA, I was appalled at the level of noise disturbances you put up with. For reference, I live on one of the busiest roads in London, so I'm not particularly noise sens
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    For me, if I go on holiday into the countryside, I basically can't sleep unless I put something on. I can hear all my random body noises, creaks, leaves, whatever else. Obviously that isn't complete silence, but apparently complet
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I haven't read the underlying studies but I wonder if this applies to consistent noise or just intermittent sounds, like the airplanes and railway line examples they focus on. Personally I can't sleep in a quiet room, so I put on
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    I use Eero Pro, don't use any of the content filtering or anything, and would still say it's the best WiFi experience I've ever had, far better than the Unifi network it replaced. However, I do wish it had battery and 4G back
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Indeed, that's what I was alluding to. Given the right infrastructure, we can probably scale cities up to incredible populations. Instead, we stopped building that infrastructure, and everyone started commuting by car. Then we wonder w
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Almost everything you're saying is a symptom of poor investment in public transport. I have no doubt that the car works better for your commute, as is the case for millions of other people. Unfortunately, stick millions of cars on the
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Sure but it got to almost 20 million before it hit that point, unlike Canadian cities. There's also only been one subway line opened this century. We seemed to do better at facilitating growth last century, particular in the first half
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    by cameronh90 5y ago

    > There's only so far you can bus, train, drive, bike, walk, seaplane, helicopter, hyperloop, or transporter in to go to work. Canadian cities are, just like cities in the US, hitting this limit rather aggressively. Canada's l
30. 780.▲
    by cameronh90 5y ago

    Off topic/feedback: I like the look of your service and it's something I've been thinking about looking into recently. I have even used the EC2 instance type list a ton without ever realising that it was attached to your site