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by dkarp 6y ago
Is all of that loneliness from WFH or can some be attributed to National lockdowns and limits on social interaction outside your household? In a post Covid world, WFH could involve coworking spaces and cafes. I expect that industry will gro
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by dkarp 6y ago
By anywhere, I expect it means anywhere in the UK. The UK doesn’t have “state” taxes like the US, so it won’t matter where they are
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Casaba-Howitzer(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dkarp 6y ago|0 comments
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by dkarp 6y ago
Short Version: - LeanFIRE in 2015 (~30Kish USD annual spend) - first couple years were great, in the third year cracks started to show - they and their partner's goals were no longer aligned and they ended up splitting - OP was diagnos
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Early-Retirement Update(livingafi.com)
451 points by dkarp 6y ago|430 comments
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by dkarp 6y ago
They’re saying it has little benefit for the environment and yet they’ve stopped developing new ICEs in favour of electric. Seems like it’s working to me
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by dkarp 6y ago
If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. I have sympathy as this man lost a lot of money and it will have a lasting impact on his life. But the scammer took advantage of his greed, so I hope he learnt a lesson. Only gre
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by dkarp 6y ago
It certainly is often fake. I've spotted it hardcoded in some page's javascript
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by dkarp 6y ago
Edit it
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by dkarp 6y ago
And it was a success!
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by dkarp 6y ago
Vinehealth | Software Engineer - Python | London currently 100% REMOTE moving to 90% (1 day every 2 weeks in the office) | Full-time | £40-£55k + Equity We’re a digital health startup using behavioural science and artificial intelligence to
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by dkarp 6y ago
Anecdotal, but where I worked ~5 years ago experienced so many github outages that they started maintaining a gitlab mirror. The outages had blocked enough deployments that it was worth setting up some backup.
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by dkarp 6y ago
I did not! I used it last a couple years ago, so maybe that's new. Thanks for sharing!
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by dkarp 6y ago
I've used https://github.com/pytransitions/transitions in production python systems. It worked great but the system was fairly simple and wasn't changed often. In my opinion, it's nicer when the state ma
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by dkarp 6y ago
integer ids are still often used internally for database primary keys with UUIDs being the done thing for external interfaces. Personally I've never experienced the "whole class of bugs" that starting with a big integer is su
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by dkarp 6y ago
The main issue in my experience are so called "user enumeration attacks", especially with sequential ids that are normally used. This is where an attacker is able to leak information from your system just by guessing ids. If you u
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by dkarp 6y ago
It sounds like these translations are included in git and merged with a pull request like anything else right? In that case require a code review from someone who speaks the language.
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by dkarp 6y ago
This doesn't really answer why bitcoin though. Because we already have money that we've been using for a good long time. The problem is that money now is issued by governments. Governments are on average only governing one country
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by dkarp 6y ago
> Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them & their friends This may be true technically, but if it was not made clear to the users what they were sharing and what their data would be used for th
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by dkarp 6y ago
They weren’t attacking the author. It’s a valid argument regardless of the cost of the book. Free doesn’t mean you can’t criticize anything.
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by dkarp 6y ago
Vinehealth | Software Engineer - Python | London currently 100% REMOTE moving to 90% (1 day every 2 weeks in the office) | Full-time | £40-£50k + Equity We’re a digital health startup using behavioural science and artificial intelligence to
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by dkarp 6y ago
Early on there was also a lot of talk about High Frequency Trading firms being a prime customer. Once they have inter-satellite laser links, the latency over large distances can be significantly less than via undersea fiberoptic cables. I b
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by dkarp 6y ago
I used to work on an investment platform and we used to say that the ideal user logged in once, invested a whole bunch and then wasn’t seen again until they had more to invest. Daily active users and even monthly active users just shouldn’t
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FAA approves SpaceX Starship launch and explains why they held it up(twitter.com)
7 points by dkarp 6y ago|2 comments
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by dkarp 6y ago
Matrix.org is just one server deployment that implements the matrix protocol. You can deploy your own server or even your own implementation, and moderate it how you want. It has nothing to do with element. The apology is apt, as just like
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by dkarp 6y ago
Internet connection was the main blocker for me to move to a rural/off-grid lifestyle. Everything else is a solved problem. It may anecdotal, but not unreasonable to think others feel the same way. Many real estate websites already lis
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by dkarp 6y ago
as in "too extraordinary and improbable to be believed". Incredible that he was allowed to go along like this so long
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by dkarp 6y ago
he lived there almost 18 years - incredible
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by dkarp 6y ago
This is an issue with European GDPR "right to be forgotten" requirements. Some interpretations say that if a user requests their data to be deleted, it must also be removed from backups. If your backups are kept in a binary format
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by dkarp 6y ago
502 bad gateway error on some requests - they must be overloaded with the recent migration away from WhatsApp

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