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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
I’d start by looking into the company and related companies at companies house. If you have the time and patience you might find something that’s newsworthy enough to make politicians act to prevent misuse of data, cheaper and more effecti
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
From the article: “ So when I talked to Aksu in November, I made sure to use Signal, an encrypted phone app, to protect our discussion” The author apparently then recorded that call and uploaded it to a cloud transcription service. Surely a
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
This is very good advice if the goal is to retrospectively find stuff that is wrong and how it came about. I think there a counter point that if someone else had not deferred or neglected pointing out something was wrong there would be less
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Messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on taxpayers locations(theregister.com)
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
Plantuml can also style as hand drawn with a skinparam https://plantuml.com/handwritten
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
draw.io with embedded plantuml saved as pdf with editable source embedded is a fantastic free alternative to Visio. Plantuml is excellent for some use cases, but not all. They use kroki to enable embedded plantuml diagrams, you can save the
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
A very interesting twist is to play with real money. Set a sensible exchange rate to real money and treat the Monopoly money as “chips”. The tactics and strategy significantly change because there is real external value to the assets and cu
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
This story is about Aedes aegypti - it certainly does spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever. I’m not super comfortable with the unknown risks related to GM insects but having seen the impact of dengue first h
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by flower-giraffe 5y ago
There was a commercial chord keyboard “word processor” in the late 70’s called Microwriter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> we're always looking to lower the barrier of entry to get into PowerShell I’ve used powershell regularly since way back when (it was still called monad when I first tied it). I’m extremely comfortable in the Windows environment bu
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Why on earth would you trust a company with this approach to business? Nudging a customer to accept new terms by putting them to the front of the queue seems morally wrong, and as others have pointed out possibly illegal.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
High speed railway upgrades are really expensive compared with roads. Some numbers to put this into perspective: The interstate highway system is 44k miles of roadway. The current estimate for upgrading one mainline railway in the UK (HS2)
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> if this is solved by using Shopify + It isn’t, plus makes it marginally less painful, single login etc. It doesn’t add anything for multi currency. We did raise this with the plus onboarding guys and they confirmed it was not possible
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
It’s great to see you are here and listening to feedback. While we have you ear can I repeat a long-standing request. Set price multi currency support. We built an Ecommerce site for a leading global brand with thousands of SKUs. The lack o
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> About 1 in 5 of my CI runs fail with mysterious 500 errors. It's infuriating. I see these daily, with errors that suggest the cloudflare layer is unable to connect to origin.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
I use datasette, datagrip and excel to process sales data. - datasette to surface data via rest to excel (power query) - datagrip to get the data how I want it, the json1 extension is so so much easier to work with than power query and for
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
You could just getting a 5v fan with a USB connector and plugging it into a USB port.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
I love the irony that this has reached the 2nd from top on HN in three hours. Presumably from all of us using HN to get a dog procrastination fix. >Edit to clarify fix in the junkie sense, not as in fixing the issue.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> nobodys really addressed the elephant in the room. I think the elephant in the room is actually a more general issue that is cross platform and independent of the product implementation. It’s 2021 and we are still ignoring the fundame
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
User identity has always been a place for big tech to be deliberately divergent from open standards because identity is one of the underlying assets for freemium services. In the case of pay for identity (like phone numbers) it was guarded
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
To me the debate does not seem to be semantics, we simply disagree what is fair and who is deserving. It’s unlikely either of us will change the others view, and HN is not the forum to attempt to do so.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
>I’m defining “high performance” to include those sorts of persons. My point is that you may be confusing the ability to perform a function efficiently with the ability to perform a function that less people can do. I don’t think many he
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
>key concept here is that a low performer is more easily replaced. It’s not easy to replace a low performing worker with scarce skills or domain specific knowledge. It not difficult to replace a manual worker that requires limited traini
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> Whats more relevant to our discussion is that a high performer is not as easily replaced. I agree that a high performing developer is hard to find, but so is a high performing manual worker. Conversely in my experience retaining a high
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> higher performing workers Do you mean the ones that sit at their keyboards earning a multiple of the salaries of those who do the actual physical work necessary to serve customers. I often remind my colleagues that we are very lucky to
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
>> Publishers still often do some kind of promotion. Which is almost certainly how the article about a book due to be published in April came to be written.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Absolutely - standardisation is the path to ubiquity. From the screw thread to the accidental standard (ISA) of the IBM PC. It removes many of the barriers to competition and reduces the risk of large players creating monopolies. I think i
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Cloudflare workers run at the edge along with a simple but fast KV store. We use KV and workers to serve static data (json) to browser based code. This could be used to filter, sort or aggregate that data before sending the client. Perhaps
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Homeless - of no fixed abode. Catchy like vagrant but perhaps a bit insensitive (unless it was used to highlight the plight of the homeless). Less catchy - Poste Restante or General Delivery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> Why like signal? Signal has no protections to avoid the same abuse as WhatsApp. I think something like signal could reasonably have sufficient protections from both a technical and legislative perspective. And for that matter matrix to

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