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by com 4y ago
Carbon emissions in the EU haven’t been so low for 30 years, according to the latest CREA analysis [1] It looks to them like a price-driven transition and if you are a market forces kind of person, the investments in renewables are already
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It’s a perception about cost, no longer really true since PSD2 interchange caps.
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Amsterdam resident in the Red Light District (de Wallen) here. The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They decrease trade for the working women and people of other genders in the windows. My
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It’s quite indicative to me that project culture in Germany has even more foot-draggers than in other places. But when push comes to shove, real speed is achievable, even with the culture of bureaucratic process. It gives me some real optim
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That first laugh at a real joke in a foreign language is precious. I remember reading a collection of short stories for vocabulary, and there was one about a fishing trip going badly anx hilariously wrong. Priceless moment for me and my con
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The argument is akin to the bans on toxic chemicals in domestic products. It worked for lead, mercury, asbestos and a host of other things. These have saved many, many lives. Similar rules around predatory lending, predatory insurance, mand
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by com 4y ago
A spreadsheet fuckup in the sense of “we were handling billions of $$$ … but we didn’t even have a spreadsheet”?
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Doing the game theory - he’s either lying about a failed attempt to defraud a lot of people, or it’s in his interest to be vague and hopeless and to indicate to us all quite how incompetent he may have been. The difference is close to zero
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All this, and more, have been successfully implemented many times. Watch the videos of the DNSSEC key ceremonies to get a bit of an idea about how deeply thought out these processes around hardware roots of trust work. Unfortunately, the HS
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I was a late-80s Usenet user, came on just after the great renaming, and at the start our feed was from overnighted tapes from the NASA downlink on our continent. I felt like I’d been included in a global civilisation that almost nobody in
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Isn’t that the Honeycomb story too?
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I’ve seen this work really well in a successful globally-distributed business with a few thousand employees, the majority being devs. The outcomes of building rapport between people who work intensely with each other a few weeks a year is h
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by com 4y ago
I’ve had good experiences with logical replication and pg_auto_failover. The cool thing is that the libpq-based clients do some of the work during failovers. You’ll need three nodes though.
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Their definition of a small business large enough to talk to was annual $50m in card transactions. At that size, your transaction costs are pretty low and the white glove service starts getting pretty good.
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I know of two scaleups that have left it. As usual, this might just be poor implementation choices rather than product or support issues.
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LCY seems to have gone to the dogs recently too. I like the redevelopment they’ve done on airside, but it’s all so … full and unpleasant now. Food options seem to have gone downhill now that the ok airside restaurant only does burgers. I’ve
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by com 4y ago
I loved Tegel - mostly used the parking structure-turned-into-terminal barracks thing though. Fast in and out, even with the X10 bus connection. The main terminal was weirdly narrow on airside, but from memory apart from having to stand to
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And don’t forget the curious German-speaking region consisting nine municipalities in north-eastern Belgium. Brussels and its exurbs are a fascinating language and politics mashup, held together and functioning in part by a particularly Bel
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Once salary has reached a certain point, the total compensation, benefits and professional satisfaction or CV opportunities as well as healthy work/life balance, in addition to social environment - all start taking on more weight. Peop
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You’re right! I advise my direct reports and people new to work that you should seriously interview every six months. As a manager, the one-to-ones we have when my people are interviewing are much more goal oriented and concrete, and give m
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Makuru was much more suitable than “winter” for the climate in Perth: time to rug up and settle in for cosy nights with your loved ones. I wish the Noongar seasons were more often used in the south west of Australia by everybody, so much mo
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I loved writing NS32k assembly. Ugh I dealt with 8086 before that and it was such a pleasure to jump over to something designed for coder pleasure.
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This is a surprisingly well-written report that an intelligent reader with exposure as an end-user to the mobile phone ecosystem should be able to comprehend, that summarises the risks around malware and app stores and a possible approach t
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by com 5y ago
That’s a good point, about seamless interop with existing social networks. The EU Digital Markets Act looks like it’s designed to force some messaging interop, and it’s regulation-driven, so it can be refreshed a little more dynamically tha
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I find it really tough. I jumped from a very successful post-IPO business where I helped form the global organisational culture, and ran a key part of their business, which in pre-pandemic times, was very in-office and collaborative with a
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“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” A fabulous first line, from The Crow Road by Iain Banks. Doubly good for me since a friend asked me for a recommendation for an interesting read, and I later discovered that he had sent it, unread,
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We used it at the University of Western Australia back in the ‘80s when I’d attend lectures and tutorials for a course without formally enrolling (bureaucratic issues meant that that was often impossible). Some academics were very positive
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Everybody I knew who was a chef working for somebody else has quit and do other very different things now. Long working days, underpayment and stress were big complaints, but the thing that struck me was the correlation between complaints o
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There are countries with prescription heroin, safe injecting rooms and addiction support not just looking at mental health, but also housing, work and relationships. There are indications that this strategy works in decreasing harm, decreas
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I’ve been involved in dealing with pre-employment criminal background check red flags, and the number of times I’ve had to tell our (US) HR people that we don’t care if someone got busted for smoking low-quality pot in their college town on

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