erinaceousjones

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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
This is an article that heavily mentions the BBC, the broadcaster of Panorama, being threatened by the Post Office. Other than the Panorama production company, whom chose to be interviewed by the BBC, in this instance where else would you
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
That so many people are so focused on things "having" to be in a constant state of exponential growth makes me feel uneasy. It's like so many people can't see the forest for the trees - we can't have infinite expon
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
So why is it saddening to you? It's down to preference. Some people are natural feeders (and they are lovely people) but others aren't. The two coexist very peacefully. You can feed your people because you enjoy it, me and my
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
Sadly, agreed. I love the idea of being self-sufficient and permaculture, but even myself as someone who grows vegetables on an allotment and batch-cooks nearly all my meals at home, I can't ignore the idea that, just as with agricult
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
> It has nothing to do with the food, nothing at all, it has to do with intimacy and care. Right. So the act of cooking actually doesn't have much to do with it! Arguably, you are tying the act of making food to "intimacy and
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
Windows has a lot of backwards compatibility it's necessary to support from a commercial POV, I can imagine the further back you go in their constant wheel-reinventing of GUI frameworks, the more difficult it is to patch in fractional
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
This sounds great - and I wish UNIX namespaces were adopted more widespread for things like "local configurtion web UI". As a workaround, (I believe, though only through a cursory web search and haven't tested) you can use ne
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
We went through these loops where I work due to the "you have to use k8s now" thing. Your control plane and worker node can be the same machine. Rancher + Rancher Kubernetes Engine made it a lot easier for us to manage as maintain
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
I conceptually think of Java in the same family of languages as the "scripting" languages as it still (in its default distributions) is a garbage-collected language running on top of a virtual machine instruction set, and allows y
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
Ugh, don't - we're convincing the legions of data scientists to move _away_ from the specialist languages (Matlab, R), because at least in Python, the code they publish with their papers is more repeatable/reproducible/r
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
Sunk cost / laziness - I remember when Facebook wrote their own JIT VM to run PHP on top of (HHVM?) to speed up all that PHP code. Probably was easier to have one crack team of software developers write something new which could interp
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by erinaceousjones 3y ago
> If you cannot fit the query into URL, because it has a complex structure, you are likely requesting a significant amount of work from server. But - are you asking the server to create/update a resource (POST and PATCH semantics),
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
To be honest I think we should be adopting the full ecosystem we've been busy building around containerization. Imagine calling up breakdown assistance because your car won't start, mechanic comes out, cracks the hood and is like
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
Yes, that's fine. cURL isn't a HTTP client. It's a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs :-)
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
Ritalin is one form of methylphenidate - a short-active version. Formulations with longer dose/release profiles exist - Concerta XR and Elvanse/Vyvanse are the same active stimulant (methylphenidate), but spread over the course of
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
Yeah, it's annoying, it's all political reasons too AFAICT. LE is also verboten because of stipulations from Certain Government Departments. There was definitely pushback years ago about just using LE because "it's bad
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
> Shouldn't gov.uk just stick to domains under .gov.uk?(!) Would make it easier to work out who's actually gov.uk and who's merely pretending :) Much smaller scale example: Where I work, our production web app is at `<
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
That to me feels like a very "US-centric" argument, although I'd still say it's a valid point. Over the pond here in the UK we're seeing an emergence more and more of Commuter-Town suburbia too, and personally I fi
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
This makes the assumption that capitalism exists in a vacuum: It doesn't. Companies aren't *always* trying to simply optimise for financial growth at all times. They're made of humans, some of whom aren't necessarily
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
UK public sector websites [1] following the gov.uk design system [2] -- I find everything on gov.uk and nhs.uk suuuuper easy to read. [1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivit... [2] https:&#x
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
I reckon they got a rookie web dev to put it together, and naturally they got excited by carousels, because that's what landing pages for shiny products have on them (annoyingly). Yeah, the site hurts my ADHD brain to read too: - The f
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
Wow, that's whack. I couldn't PUT up working in a place with such a hackneyed firewall limiting my OPTIONS so much, really raises my hackles. I'd HEAD out the door so fast in such a ramsackle establishment, I wouldn'
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
It is nice that they thought of "oil rig bros" though. I can't imagine the publically funded research ships I've worked on will even legally/politically be allowed to use Starlink even when within good coverage are
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
This reminds me of how diagnostic criteria for autism all tends to focus on _presented behaviours_ rather than _internal experiences_. People who have different sensory perceptions of the world get overlooked when they're not getting
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by erinaceousjones 4y ago
> written from my frankenstein arch linux macbook pro oh... oh you poor soul :P I used to use Arch on a high end gaming laptop when I was younger and had time to waste on things like dotfiles and perfecting my vim config and jumping thro
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
Bit late answering this, but projectM for Android does have the chromecast feature! It streams whatever audio is playing on the device along with the visualizations. iirc it does require you leave the phone/whatever open on that thou
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
It's like everyone's forgotten entirely about the (wonderful) madness of Havok which characterises basically every Bethesda and Source Engine 2 game... The sound of agressive slapping and thumping as a corpse or four hundred chee
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
For the visualizations - Milkdrop is alive and well as projectM (which sometimes comes bundled with VLC, sometimes not?): https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm Which has a ridiculous level of cross-platform
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
"Delayed Circadian Rhythm Phase: A Cause of Late-Onset ADHD among Adolescents?" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487490/ "Up to 75% of adults with childhood-onset ADHD exhibit dela
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
Context matters. This entire article is about inner-city suburban streets in Britain, especially London with its high population density, in which pedestrians (i.e. gaggles of school kids, mums with pushchairs, people with dogs, independen

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