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by danw1979 6y ago
Ignoring the other flaws in the piss/CO2 analogy for a second: I think “using the toilet” here is supposed to mean switching to EVs, renewables, etc.
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by danw1979 6y ago
Amen to the idea of including host address and port in every log line about connection success/failure. It's a pet peeve of mine to read "Failed to connect to server" or suchlike in an application log and then have to go
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by danw1979 6y ago
As a local, I was thrilled to see Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast mentioned as one of the first places where the idea of the beach transformed from a nightmarish hellscape into an idyllic retreat. I also feel entitled to mention how - at
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by danw1979 6y ago
Caffeine sets my gnashing off too. two cups of strong coffee in the morning result in clenching all night and headaches the next day. Well worth trying to cut it out completely for a few weeks.
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by danw1979 6y ago
> Git flow forces developers to use the develop branch rather than the master. No it doesn’t. > Another frustrating aspect is hotfix and release branches I beg to differ. I know what would be frustrating though: > GitLab Flow is a
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by danw1979 6y ago
It's an absolute brain dump of an article. I went in really interested but couldn't make it past the first few paragraphs. Thanks for summarising...
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by danw1979 6y ago
Fabien Sanglard's blog is a true gem of the Internet. An excellent tech historian, in my humble opinion. If you're enjoying this, you might also enjoy Creatures Of Thought at https://technicshistory.com/ . Their h
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by danw1979 6y ago
If by “the UK” you’re including the citizenry who use the rail network, then we are quite clearly not getting any kind of bargain whatsoever.
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by danw1979 6y ago
I’m no quantity surveyor, but that sounds like someone placed the decimal point blindfolded in that calculation. A quick google says the mass of just the water on Earth is 0.02% of total mass and the mass of the moon is 1.2% of Earth’s. Som
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by danw1979 7y ago
Right. A guy who'd give up fifty grand just so he was free to write a rant.
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by danw1979 7y ago
I know some people have busy lives and back-to-back meetings. I'm not one of them. I'm having trouble understanding why they need someone to do their scheduling for them. Shared electronic calendar software has been around for a
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by danw1979 7y ago
Exactly this. Whatever you call your branching methodology, if they last too long that's when the fun stops. This article is full of bluster about how bad gitflow is, but very little actual reasoning why. I don't like the ceremon
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by danw1979 7y ago
nvie/gitflow is a long dead project. There's an active fork at https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh
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by danw1979 7y ago
Andromeda ? It's closer than you think ! (to the tune of The Specials' Enjoy Yourself)
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by danw1979 7y ago
I don't know why you got down voted for sharing what sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea...
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by danw1979 7y ago
I tend to think owning a overly-powerful car (which includes basically all German turbo diesels) is more likely to encourage you to drive fast. I'm not a great driver... no serious accidents on four wheels in 20 years of motoring, but
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by danw1979 7y ago
Polite reminder that Kent Overstreet is still plugging away at a new copy-on-write FS for Linux called bcachefs. One day, I hope it'll replace ZFS for my uses. I'm not involved with the project in any way, apart from sending hi
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by danw1979 7y ago
Classic Ryanair. You can't fault the consistency of their customer service. Thanks for posting this, it's genuinely useful.
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by danw1979 7y ago
So there's one couple you know and another person who had 8 weeks (?) of anxiety attacks who swear by it ? Hope it was the other commenter who down voted me.
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by danw1979 7y ago
Great idea but come Tuesday evening you'll have a couple who hate themselves as well as each other, who can't remember a word of that deep-and-meaningful they had at the weekend.
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by danw1979 7y ago
the above article on globalresearch.ca was posted a couple of times here and it appears to veer off into batshit conspiratorial nonsense about fake blood and injuries towards the end. pinch of salt required whilst reading. see also https:
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by danw1979 7y ago
If this is targeted at low power microcontrollers, I don't understand how the devices are supposed to recognise the attention word ("Alexa" by default in Echo devices) and filter out unwanted chatter. Our maybe doing that fi
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by danw1979 7y ago
Having learnt the term 'rolling coal' just now, I would sincerely hope the morons doing this are in a minority amongst truck drivers. I find it far more likely that conspicuous consumption is to blame for the truck/SUV trend
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by danw1979 7y ago
Pedestrian or passenger safety ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
We'd be dying on the roads in droves because faster is always better ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
Are you implying that most of the world's trading inventory and working capital is, at any given moment, afloat on cargo ships ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
After reading this article and a quick search, I was pleased to find that the NHS in the UK has recently decided to extend Gardasil vaccination to boys too - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/hpv-human-pap
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by danw1979 7y ago
The article says that "about half" of the world's hydrogen is made by steam reformation of methane, and only 4% is made by electrolysis of water. Where does the other 46% come from ?
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by danw1979 7y ago
You'd need to flood those countries with cheap receiver hardware without it being intercepted by the government, and then provide connectivity to those receivers to local users over a decent size area - larger than your usual WiFi hots
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by danw1979 7y ago
Push on through the hand-wavey bit at the beginning and there's some treatment of your question. haven't finished it yet but it's a good read so far...

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