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by epanchin 2y ago
We get a lot of power cuts. I have a UPS on the pump for my kerosene fired heating. We also have an aga which uses no power, just kerosene. I’m putting in underfloor heating powered with an air source heat pump, but leaving the boiler and r
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by epanchin 2y ago
I was in Shanghai years ago and we had a pile of menus from local restaurants and the number of someone who would go collect food from any of them for around a dollar. No app needed.
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by epanchin 2y ago
The latter doesn’t request robots.txt
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by epanchin 2y ago
I was recently arguing with a German who thought burning coal was completely fine as long as you were burning less than you used to. He didn’t see the reason for nuclear at all.
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by epanchin 2y ago
The article is dead. Can anyone tell me whether fossil fuels have reduced more than they would have done had nuclear continued? I suspect not.
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by epanchin 2y ago
In a democratic society, laws should exist to protect state secrets. Assange’s imprisonment was widely considered to be caused not by democratically formed laws, but by the whims of politics.
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by epanchin 2y ago
Unfortunately modern buildings in the city are designed for a 30 year lifespan, so there is always one being demolished and replaced.
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by epanchin 2y ago
Old way: two cups and string. New way: chinese whispers.
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by epanchin 2y ago
Talk on zoom to the wife while bathing the kid, stored on recall. VC the girlfriend, stored on recall. Does your browser history store pictures of your family?
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by epanchin 3y ago
I daily drive KDB/Q. This is readily extendable for example in C, which was my previous daily, and Python which I use sporadically. I don’t use LLMs for C or KDB, I do use them for Python. ChatGPT is good in Python. I guess as Python p
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by epanchin 3y ago
Interesting article. Does the average person distrust meta as much as I do? I wouldn’t consider anything made by meta in my house - I imagine this is a common position it’s a shame it didn’t get a mention.
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by epanchin 3y ago
It makes sense for it to be on the rise, the legit landscape now is dire. There are too many platforms to stream or purchase from. If you want to pay it’s difficult. I understand torrenting offers one easy and convenient search, no ads, can
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by epanchin 3y ago
To be brutally honest, it’s badly considered queries like yours that mean these services cannot be free.
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by epanchin 3y ago
“Known open source” But who will check the licences of those softwares to build the corpus?
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by epanchin 3y ago
Walled gardens like Apple’s App Store could charge app developers based on resource usage. At the very least they could add a resource (battery especially) usage traffic light. That said, it would encourage small apps rather than efficient
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by epanchin 3y ago
This seems an easily solvable problem. AI driven licence check on git merge to release?
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by epanchin 3y ago
I loved my blackberry and I’m interested. I’d be more likely to order it if the keyboard was mounted in a case that could be changed when upgrading iPhone.
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by epanchin 3y ago
When Omegle shut down I looked here for when it was launched. All the replies to its first post, ~14 years ago, were negative. For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539753
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by epanchin 3y ago
I upgraded my Thinkpad to Windows 11. Within a few weeks I was so angry with it, that I ordered a MacBook M2 and put my thinkpad on Ubuntu. It’s a horrible OS that tries to remove any sense of ownership over one’s own PC.
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by epanchin 3y ago
As a slight tangent to your question- kdb/Q works beautifully with numpy, it’s very useful being able to work with numpy from the q prompt and pass objects between the environments.
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by epanchin 3y ago
each is a necessary evil of K. It can often be avoided by more thoughtful use of vectors.
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by epanchin 3y ago
Primarily K focuses on applying functions to vectors. If using “each” can be avoided, it is. It’s a wonderful language to work with.
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by epanchin 3y ago
The UK disproves your point. Vast amount of todays housing stock are ex company towns, a point which is quite clear in the article. Company towns don’t always remain company towns.
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by epanchin 3y ago
Just use WhatsApp. It’s not a monopoly if there’s already an alternative.
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by epanchin 3y ago
What three words would be a better solution than a guid, as transmittable over radio.
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by epanchin 3y ago
The point of scrum is to provide employment for consultants and non-engineers. I left engineering for an engineering job in finance. No scrums, no POs, just trader driven development and I haven’t looked back once. Glorious.
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by epanchin 3y ago
Reddit does this as “controversial” and it is a good feature.
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by epanchin 3y ago
I do not downvote for comments I disagree with. I downvote for off topic, or for comments which detract from the conversation. I believe most others with the ability to downvote do the same. Replying to off topic posts would be counter to t
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by epanchin 3y ago
Apple Maps is much better for discovery. Search for “pizza” on Google maps and it shows you the nearest pizza places which advertise with them - for me that misses the two closest pizza places to my house. I have to zoom right into where I
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by epanchin 4y ago
Are you tied to the app?

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