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by flurdy 7y ago
Slightly further North the much shorter Horten to Moss route across the Oslofjord will be fully electric in 2021 [1]. Though with much smaller ferries. [1] https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/enova-contributes-nok-31-m...
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by flurdy 7y ago
The world's largest hybrid ferry [1] has just been launched to run between Sandefjord (Norway, on the West coast of the outer Oslofjord) to Strömstad (Sweden, on the Eastern side of the Oslofjord) [2] [1] https://www.ship-te
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by flurdy 7y ago
Well I don't really know anyone that has a landline any more, so my correction would be you need it everywhere. Especially with 5G arriving soon.
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by flurdy 7y ago
I have way too many domain names, but I like it. I have several .uk, .no and .com for my own name, e.g. firstname.tld or firstnamelastname.tld. All redirecting to my main site. For the first decade or two that was fine as usually the first
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by flurdy 7y ago
It is partly down to inept politicians and the concessions they dictated to the mobile networks. In Norway, they demanded the networks cover 97% of the geographic areas. It's why you might get 3G or even 4G in the middle of nowhere, on
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by flurdy 7y ago
I have had a non compete clause suggested by my last few clients. Usually initially 12 months. For the last few the conversations have usually been like this: (client): "Here is our standard contract" (me): "Please remove the
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by flurdy 7y ago
For me also the change to "smart shop", i.e. you scan and bag your groceries as you walk around, had meant the end of plastic bags for me. I now have to think for a second how many bags I need beforehand, not just grab them on che
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by flurdy 7y ago
The lock-in with not just all your infrastructure with one provider but also all the skills and proficiencies with one provider's stack is a high risk that I ranted about recently: https://blog.flurdy.com/2019/06&#
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by flurdy 7y ago
Tracking software?! I often have remote contracts and have never been suggested to install any presence or keyboard activity trackers. Sounds horrible. You are a professional, not a teenager. I think that would be such a red flag for me of
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Tesla Bjørn breaking 24 hour electric car distance record [Live](youtube.com)
4 points by flurdy 7y ago|0 comments
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by flurdy 7y ago
Why not both. I don't want to return to the old slothful release schedules of the 2000s, where features and bug fixes was mostly stagnant. You can have staging, scheduled QA signed off releases, that happen every day. I have worked on
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by flurdy 7y ago
TeslaBjørn to the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLMlozXjhk He reckons there is about 20% performance hit during the winter. Ps. his channel over the years is quite informative (and funny)
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by flurdy 7y ago
Norway is already about $2 USD per litre of petrol. In the US it's $0.79. According to https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/ (Or $7.5 per US Gallon in Norway)
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by flurdy 7y ago
It does now, so I guess someone has added it. :) Which reminds me of 10+ years ago when I worked for a consultancy and often on site with one of its main clients. Both were originally Finnish but by then very large multinational enterprises
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by flurdy 7y ago
Very nice summary of the moons. I showed it to my kids. Though I was surprised to find a scientific astronomy related page using inches and Fahrenheit units. Though I guess the target audience it has been made for is perhaps US based schoo
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by flurdy 7y ago
And he boasts about sleeping at the factory. What a dick.
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by flurdy 7y ago
You could wear a wet suit, taped with some gaffer tape, thick balaclava, etc. It might not stop leaches but will reduce the chance of ticks and most other bites. But you would also sweat a lot and generally be quite uncomfortable. Tradeoffs
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All the Eggs in One Basket(blog.flurdy.com)
1 points by flurdy 7y ago|0 comments
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by flurdy 7y ago
Shows if you control Gibraltar and Singapore you have a lot of power over the worlds ship lanes. Guess the British knew that...
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by flurdy 7y ago
And if you don't reply within 24 hour: fired. By me at least. (don't be silly, I don't have the power to fire anyone anymore). Yes, expecting a reply by email sooner than e.g. 4 working hours is futile. But if you work in a t
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by flurdy 7y ago
Yup, back then my way around corporate locked down Windows machines was to only get permission to install VMware Workstation or Virtualbox. Then fullscreen Ubuntu in a VM from then on. Slower but no restrictions. Even better when Workstatio
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by flurdy 7y ago
Different budgets, different departments, different people. In smaller or more nimble companies you or rather your line manager can influence hardware budget as an offset of your salary v productivity. Also in some larger organisations wher
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by flurdy 7y ago
I have never fully understood why people are often upset with SBT. Sure it is not perfect, but the alternatives are much worse and most of the issues people have with SBT projects are other people abusing the build file. The REPL, fast incr
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by flurdy 7y ago
HIBP has little value without Troy, so he has to come as part of the package. But for his own well-being over time he needs to delegate and divest himself as the single bus factor for HIBP. But that does not have to happen instantly and can
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by flurdy 7y ago
I thought the same when I initially was prompted about Firefox monitor at the bottom of Firefox's new tab page. Was a little peeved at what seemed like a copy, but I have now realised it is just building on top of Troy's work [1]
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by flurdy 7y ago
There are a few startups disrupting the mortgage industry. In the UK, Habito [1] is doing pretty well. Though I mostly know of Habito because I have had friends work for them as they have at least some of their systems have been written in
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by flurdy 7y ago
The status page is the kind of thing you expect to be hosted on a competitor network. It is not dogfooding but it is sensible. Reminds me of when I was working with a telecoms company. It was a large multinational company and the second lar
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by flurdy 7y ago
A tiling window manager is a must for me. But I (like the OP's article mentions) prefer to use a standard desktop environment (Gnome or macOS) but add tiling feature only. So, on my macOS laptops, it is Amethyst all day https:/&#
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by flurdy 7y ago
That may be due to my echo chamber but I got the feeling everyone I know loath Linkedin. Partly due to their dark patterns, partly due to it attracts recruiters and therefore a lot more recruiter spam. But only a quarter or a lot less of pe
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by flurdy 7y ago
To quote Paul Lewis [1]: "English is the JavaScript of natural languages: easy to begin with, entirely bonkers, but used so widely you can't really avoid it." [1] https://twitter.com/aerotwist/status&#x2F

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