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by dotBen 1y ago
Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.
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by dotBen 2y ago
Planes typically land with little fuel left (obviously enough for emergencies etc but they are practically empty, it's safer and more efficient)
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by dotBen 2y ago
I have had office desks professional adjusted by an occupational safety orthopedic person and that has always been the advice I was told. Another piece of advice was that on a standing desk your forearms should not be parallel to the ground
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by dotBen 2y ago
Success here is the sum of an equation that combines publishing and distribution. The early days of blogging, the distribution came from RSS feed readers. The minute those fell out of fashion, the distribution loop of self-publishing disapp
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by dotBen 2y ago
Stands like this have to be paired with an external keyboard. Raising the monitor so that the top is as close to eye level as possible (while maintaining a straight back) is better orthopedicly. It's impossible to achieve this and a go
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by dotBen 2y ago
Fakespot is not infallible but a useful addition to any Amazon research process. They try to hide it from the front page (a bit of a dark pattern) but you don't need to download the plugin to use it, just visit https://www.f
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by dotBen 2y ago
It’s fascinating that Amazon Web Services have so many overlapping and competing services to achieve the same objective. Efficiency/small footprint was never their approach :D For example, look how many different types of database the
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by dotBen 2y ago
Definitely on T Mobile, then
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by dotBen 2y ago
JD Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel and Peter Thiel his heavily involved behind the scenes in the Donald Trump campaign and presumably administration... Which is how you have Hulk Hogan involved in Trump rallies. It all goes back to Gawker
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by dotBen 2y ago
Sorry, but there's nothing about the NASA space program which has a "deal" to be transparent with the tax payer. From being involved with high altitude spy planes and stealth planes during the Cold war through to thinking abo
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by dotBen 2y ago
I've never vaped (/smoked/done drugs/etc I'm v boring) but can someone ELI5 why disposable vapes have been the preference? Don't you just buy the capsules and put them into your regarchable vape? Or if you wa
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by dotBen 2y ago
The UK isn't a 'free country' in the way American's use the term. It took me a few years of living in America to understand the nuance. I think the 'freedoms' Americans have raises it's own problems for
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by dotBen 2y ago
How would you explain to a UI/UX designer how to do the data and BE work that you do? As someone who has been a hiring manager for both roles I would suggest that they are reasonably different skillsets and personalities and not sure t
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by dotBen 2y ago
"large commercial entities" should (should from a moral, not legal standpoint) "pay back" to the open source software that makes them money. ... I know some of the developer team at ACF personally - they're excel
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by dotBen 2y ago
Can you add BCAAs or at least make a distinction between sports protein vs other uses (high greens, etc). This is great though, thanks!
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by dotBen 2y ago
Very few people want to interface with a wearable locally and store the data locally (esp via a mobile app given the use case here). I have spent my entire career messing around with APIs and platforms and I have no interest in doing this D
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by dotBen 2y ago
RIP Google Reader
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by dotBen 2y ago
That one you got is stunning value! (it was priced for a more basic spec than in the title. If you played with the configuration the spec in the title came to $219.99. You can make your own determination whether that was as good value)
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by dotBen 2y ago
Lenovo ThinkCentre M Series (minis) are an absolute sleeper and way better value than Raspbery Pis. I run one in my home network closet with a bunch of docker containers on for home networking, crawler projects that need to run from a non-
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by dotBen 2y ago
That's your reason to use something 'freer'? To avoid a screenshot sound? I mean, you do you but that's kind a extreme.
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by dotBen 2y ago
Or just wast built to the correct tolerances. We loved our Snoo but it had a life of about 4 months before our son grew out of it. It doesn't feel like those rollers need more than a year or two of life, even with multiple owners.
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by dotBen 2y ago
I have a ton of issues with Elon, and growing, on his social and political views, BUT... ...when you look at the zero-to-one of standing up Tesla and SpaceX from nothing, he's achieved something quite amazing - twice. Boeing has over
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by dotBen 2y ago
Do you think purchasers within enterprises especially care if it's a proprietary or commercially-supported FOSS offering?
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by dotBen 2y ago
I can't emphasize enough how much of a genuine issue this is, especially where package managers are being used on production environments or within CI/CD pipelines. There's enough publicized cases of Chinese CCP operatives g
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by dotBen 2y ago
Are you asking for shits and giggles or are you looking at doing a business here?
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by dotBen 2y ago
I already owned the house free and clear. Was offered stupid (good) terms for a mortgage so I took it. Used the money to create a return that pays back the monthly interest and principle while still creating a return AND tax deduction.
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by dotBen 2y ago
No one but they have to return to base to recharge pretty quickly, whereupon someone can clean and tidy them.
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by dotBen 2y ago
I live in perpetual wonder that here in the US I have locked in a 30 year 2.3% mortgage, which I use for leverage, whereas back home in the UK people have to refinance every 2-5 years and so their mortgages trend roughly over the prevailing
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by dotBen 2y ago
Yes including commercial airspace these days...
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by dotBen 2y ago
That wasn't the point I was making

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