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by funnybeam 3y ago
That graph shows iPhone sales year on year. I’d be interested to see recycling stats as I know Apple will recycle iPhones for free but I couldn’t find much with a quick search. How many Android devices are still in use after 7 years? And re
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Including a regular Linux column by Charlie Stross before he started writing novels
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Wouldn’t want to see separate “topics” on hn, but would love to see posting of chatgpt content banned/discouraged - trying to figure out if a comment was written by a human or ai is tiring
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by funnybeam 4y ago
You’ve needed to do that for years to get past HR. No difference here, just automated scanning of keywords with still no actual understanding
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by funnybeam 4y ago
Clearly we should all just use unixtime with seconds from midnight if you want a relative local time of day SI units can then be used instead of minutes, days, etc Makes much more sense https://www.decimalisetime.org/
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by funnybeam 4y ago
No they didn’t. More people voted against the conservatives than voted for them, but due to the first past the post system they got a massive majority in Parliament and can do whatever they want.
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by funnybeam 5y ago
OSSEC is good for monitoring logs, system files, etc. as well as alerting (and blocking traffic if you want) when anything suspicious happens Takes a bit of work to set up but is worth it and includes lots of basic checks by default https:
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Maltron was first, 1976 https://www.maltron.com/
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by funnybeam 5y ago
A lot of it is also due to French pronunciation changes. There are many "french" loan words where the english version is much closer to the original french than the modern french pronunciation is -oyster for example. Then again se
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Actually it should be "onety" and "onety-one". "ten" is as much of a problem as eleven and twelve. Mind you, I've always had a soft spot for dozenal so could quite happily go the other way, but I guess tha
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Nice work. In a similar vein I've considered using twtxt for this kind of thing, having each server/service generate a stream of messages that you can selectively subscribe to. Obviously there a other (and better) ways to do this
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Indeed. Religion may well be the best defence against memetic attacks. And I say this as a lifelong atheist, which is a distressing thought given the amount of deliberate memetic manipulation we are being subjected to.
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by funnybeam 5y ago
G Heavy Industries - the maker of the keyboard used in the article - also makes a keyboard specifically for plover if you are interested. (not involved in the company, just a happy customer) https://www.gboards.ca/
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by funnybeam 5y ago
I love how honest this is about the limitations and the whole design process. Truly a great example of a real hacker project I have a Georgi keyboard (mentioned in the article) which I started getting to grips with then put aside during a w
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Sending multiple queries from your web server will likely put more load on the database server than using a stored procedure. With either technique you are still pulling all the data you need from the DB but with multiple queries instead of
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What personality are you? How the Myers-Briggs test took over the world(theguardian.com)
10 points by funnybeam 5y ago|2 comments
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Agreed and you’ve just described PowerShell which I think is perfect for this. That said, I do also appreciate bash scripts which are cleaner if you just have a long list of commands to execute and no real logic involved
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by funnybeam 5y ago
A lot of the “fun drugs” were originally used for medical purposes and only banned because people started using them for fun
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by funnybeam 5y ago
I tried a Maltron keyboard (very similar to Kinesis Advantage) and loved the concave key wells - its the only keyboard I've ever had that I could confidently hit the number and FN keys without looking. Only reason I didn't buy it
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by funnybeam 5y ago
Is there an open source Remote Monitoring and Management solution though? My company used to use Kaseya but luckily changed to a competitor a few years ago so dodged this particular bullet, but I’ve always said that these are extremely high
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Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue(theguardian.com)
3 points by funnybeam 5y ago|0 comments
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by funnybeam 6y ago
By the Byzantines
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by funnybeam 6y ago
The books are the same. Every time the focus switches to Daenerys the quality plummets. If I were to re read them I’d be strongly tempted to skip all the non-Westeros chapters
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Thanks for educating me - I was unaware of that and have changed my opinion. For anyone else thinking like I was, this is the evidence from the UK government site [1]: Research has shown that DRLs are likely to reduce multiple vehicle dayti
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Just because the waste is small doesn’t mean it is insignificant when you consider how many phones there are. A quick search indicates there are 3.5 billion smart phones in the world, assuming these are all wirelessly charged and wasting 1k
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Fair enough if you don't want to talk about it, but the OP had basically just told the person they were ignorant so probably shouldn't be too surprised at a 'fuck off' response
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Of the cuff comment but it occurs to me that they may have been right. I am pretty well informed politically and follow the news regularly, however, I still vote for the same party I voted for thirty years ago and always have done. Knowing
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Earlier than the Romans the word is originally Greek and basically meant “foreigner” - someone that doesn’t speak Greek I wasn’t aware it came from the “bar-bar” sound though so thanks for mentioning that
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Wow. PIPs should only be used when someone is underperforming so badly they are damaging the team (and the business) at that point you have nothing to lose if they voluntarily leave (which in fact, is probably better for everyone) "wh

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