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by darrenf 4y ago
> Is the TFL journey planner data exposed via an API? Sure is, complete with swagger UI. https://api.tfl.gov.uk/
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by darrenf 4y ago
Copy protection of tape games took a different form. It wasn’t that you couldn’t make a copy, but there were extra barriers to making it playable. Eg Jet Set Willy came with a card on which was printed a coloured grid, and upon loading the
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by darrenf 4y ago
> `jq` supports `@csv` for output conversion but not input Actually, `jq` can cope with trivial CSV input like your example, - `jq -R 'split(",")'` will turn a CSV into an array of arrays. To then sort it in reverse
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by darrenf 4y ago
> Why is it always so hard to find this information when people discuss 4 day work weeks? The constant vagueness here is extremely toxic to the diaglogue. I don't think I agree that it's hard to find at all. In almost all cov
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by darrenf 4y ago
Individuals get fired. Roles get laid off. Generally a firing will be followed by a backfill, whereas laying off means the workforce is being shrunk. I don't see anything in the Twilio post that looks anything like a firing.
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by darrenf 4y ago
Regarding user serviceability, for the Starbook (which I own) they have a complete pictorial disassembly guide: https://support.starlabs.systems/kb/guides/starbook-mk-v-com... I’d expect the same tbh.
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by darrenf 4y ago
> which seems to be a Yahoo property now Yahoo! bought Overture - the then owners of Altavista - 20 years ago.
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by darrenf 4y ago
> find -name "data.json" | xargs -i bash -c "mv \"{}\" \"\$(dirname '{}')/data.yml\"" Albeit this task needn't involve a shell at all - just `find` and `rename`: find .
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by darrenf 4y ago
> STN (where there's no BA ops) BA did fly from STN in 2017, at the time of the incident - they served short haul tourist routes like PMI, AGP, FLR, IBZ.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I'll add `clone` and `annotate` too.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I visited Dubrovnik in early December expecting to spend mostly euros, given the peg and impending switch. In reality I used only kuna. Almost all restaurants, market stalls and shops were accepting HRK only and none of the ATMs were dispen
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by darrenf 4y ago
Not necessarily a huge flaw and indeed it’s a method I used for a long time too - but what it doesn’t really help with is when there’s a breach and one of your passwords is in a leak. What do you do: make (and remember) an exception and the
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by darrenf 4y ago
From the article (emphasis added): “The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as web
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by darrenf 4y ago
Ugh, I had no idea about that. Thanks for telling me - doesn't seem like I've received any such message from Three themselves. I'll find out for sure in a couple of days time since as luck would have it I went abroad at the s
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by darrenf 4y ago
They renamed it to "Go Roam" and if you've been with them since before October 2021 it's still free in 71 countries (otherwise it's pretty steep): https://www.three.co.uk/go-roam "If you’re on
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by darrenf 4y ago
The BBC have had a podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen", digging into OneCoin and searching for Ruja Ignatova, since September 2019. It's a fascinating listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/
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by darrenf 4y ago
Feels an apposite thread in which to share a link to the Cloud Appreciation Society: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/ (my copy of The Cloudspotter's Guide, their first publication - written by one of the society&#
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by darrenf 4y ago
The benefit to society largely comes from those who have complied, not the punitive damages from those who haven't.
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by darrenf 4y ago
There are 3 retired 747s on an airfield 10 miles from my house (in Surrey, southern England). It isn’t open to the general public most of the time but two weeks ago I ran a charity 10km around the runways and perimeter roads. So beautiful t
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by darrenf 4y ago
At least in the UK (with Cazoo, Cinch, etc) you get 7-14 days to return the car - they come back and collect it. Much longer than just a test drive. https://www.cinch.co.uk/returns https://www.cazoo.co.uk/7-
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by darrenf 4y ago
See also: there are only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I don't recall hearing that SBF donated large amounts to the Republicans, but I do recall that someone else at FTX did, and indeed there's ~$20m in the list if you search for FTX - as well as a third exec donating a further $8m to
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by darrenf 4y ago
Sendmail as Turing machine: https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine...
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by darrenf 4y ago
> Way back, it used to be you got an NNTP server bundled with your ISP which was ok, because you were the only customer who knew what that was and how to use it, so you weren't creating a lot of load on your ISP. Even then, the NNT
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by darrenf 4y ago
Given decades of ~abc for a home directory and xyz.com/~abc/ URLs, perhaps the tilde could be put to use yet again: ~abc@xyz.com
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by darrenf 4y ago
> But there is time I just want to send a damn `curl` to download a S3 file You can use curl's `--aws-sigv4` option, then: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--aws-sigv4
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by darrenf 4y ago
No, I don't use the API (or twitter at all, for that matter). I was just reacting to your statement: > There is not snapshotting of data - it's simply a URL that renders at request - an HTML iframe. "Simply a URL",
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by darrenf 4y ago
Sure, but there's no reason Twitter/whoever couldn't decide to offer a parameter like `at=<timestamp>` - which is really not that different to, say, a link to a file on github at a particular commit.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I was assuming there's a trademark symbol ™ that had been stripped by HN. But since I've managed to post one, I'm apparently wrong!
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by darrenf 4y ago
> The formula is as simple as it is unreplicated: > - Always telling the time > - Good battery life > - Buttons I'm not so sure this is "unreplicated". Since bailing on Pebble I've had 2 Garmin watche

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