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by giobox 5y ago
Dog attacks are common enough in the U.K. to be a topic you can subscribe to on the BBC news site. While it’s definitely pretty culturally acceptable to have a dog off leash there, I’m not so sure it should be, especially in places such as
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by giobox 5y ago
I agree with this, but I'd add that if you have already trusted Amazon enough to purchase and run 24/7 with full access to your home network their remotely controlled and configured internet microphone, drawing the line at this fe
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by giobox 5y ago
Some UK institutions (including some pretty respected ones) adopted the term "School of Informatics" and confer Informatics degrees instead of using the term Computer Science. I suspect the university marketing teams will eventual
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by giobox 5y ago
You’ve answered your own question really! Technologies like containers where configurations and so on should be immutable removes a lot of the need for tools like Puppet/Chef, so much so that I’d argue an app needing a complex puppet&#
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by giobox 5y ago
I think that’s a little unfair - this example implies there are good _and_ bad actors in an unregulated app distribution system, which we already have some evidence for. Given we have seen real malware like Xcodeghost that has successfully
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by giobox 5y ago
While I’ve no doubt the speakers in your Porsche example sound great, the German car industry LOVES to upsell a customer to a speaker with a designer label on it - every single brand in the VW group does it, BMW, Mercedes… I think the Germa
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by giobox 5y ago
Absolutely. To take Ford as an example, It’s not that huge an exaggeration to suggest Ford manufactured cars with virtually no profit margin to help sell profitable loans via its Ford Credit arm at various times in its recent history, rathe
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by giobox 6y ago
> It’s actually slightly thicker because that’s needed for a better display. This would never have happened with Ive at the helm of design. This is verifiable nonsense, given the iPhone increased in thickness between generations several
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by giobox 6y ago
It would still be significant even today. While more good quality dedicated BEV platforms are (finally) coming to market in cars people can actually buy, with the exception of maybe the Nissan Leaf this has only really started in earnest re
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by giobox 6y ago
I’ve started just throwing up a docker container in AWS London region with WireGuard for VPN and Unbound for DNS. It costs next to nothing, manages to sustain superb upload and download speeds to my home in the US and works great with the U
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by giobox 6y ago
JSONPath confers pretty much the same concept onto JSON too with much the same syntax. There are JPath implementations for most languages now. > https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath
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by giobox 6y ago
I feel like every Google sized entity in the computer industry has tried to solve this problem over the past 30 years. Microsoft spent ages at it too: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HealthVault Apple have
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by giobox 6y ago
There's plenty of examples of driverless trains throughout the world. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...
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by giobox 6y ago
This is true of a lot of DOS simulator style games from this era, where they often let the game systems run at uncapped rates. They were typically just targeting a specific 386 or 486 CPU etc, so performance was pretty predictable on the cu
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by giobox 6y ago
I’ve long been of the opinion you must learn JS today regardless of what your preferred language might be - it’s more or less (thanks to browser vendors and the web) the closest thing we have to a “zero” dependency runtime on all platforms.
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by giobox 6y ago
As an electric car owner, do I want to give my limited lithium battery charge cycle lifespan back to the network? This storage isn't "free" to the vehicle owner - charging and feeding back will contribute to the total charge
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by giobox 6y ago
While it can't have helped, I can't "single handedly" blame Google for the death of RSS. By 2013 RSS was already arguably dying all by itself. RSS was awesome in late 2000s during the Web 2.0 mania and it was common to s
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by giobox 6y ago
While you can move the dish today within a limited area around your registered address and it works, the design of the network doesn't allow you to travel greater distances and have your own dish reconnect yet. In a recent Reddit AMA t
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by giobox 6y ago
The game's simple copy protection system required you to look up things in it too, a touch I loved. The later Fate of Atlantis game did a similar thing as well. This is a small part of the charm of these old games newer players on Scum
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by giobox 6y ago
For now... The stories of firing most of the US dev team in San Jose last year to outsource to cheap foreign dev teams and new product pushes like this bizarre frontrow life cam thing give me a lot of concern for the future of Ubiquiti. The
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by giobox 6y ago
I own two of them, I know how it is supposed to be done and I _still_ struggle at times to do it reliably with the bundled remote. I recently discovered my TV's "crappy" IR remote can control the Apple TV, avoiding the touch
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by giobox 6y ago
There's a chance this tale is apocryphal, but the 90s was a pretty dark time for professional cycling and it is of course 100% drug use (EPO etc) related. I've heard this story in several cycling books/pro cycling talks usual
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by giobox 6y ago
Calling it semantics glosses over some realities. Russia’s GDP is roughly 1/10th that of the United States - the size of the US economy and the dominance of the US dollar as a reserve currency have arguably been stronger levers of powe
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by giobox 6y ago
You also 10-gig ethernet and 4 TB3 ports which is pretty nice as well, given TB3 is only way to expand the computer if you want PCI-E devices (more likely if you are a serious customer for a 5k computer...). The standard iMac only has two,
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by giobox 6y ago
> I literally linked to a car manufacturer doing just that :P You literally linked to a car tech startup whose unproven prototype technology has shipped in exactly zero production cars, yes ;) There is no car manufacturer doing this mean
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by giobox 6y ago
12 hours of sun, the best you can hope for any time soon is about 3kwh put back into the car. In other words, a few miles of range can be restored. There is a reason no car manufacturer is currently seriously pursuing solar roofs - it'
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by giobox 6y ago
Not really, as we know the max theoretical power output of solar on earth. Given we know that generally best sun can do is approximately 1kw/square meter, Assuming you had 100 percent efficient conversion (we aren't close to that
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by giobox 6y ago
Time marches on. There's a similar phenomenon in the "top n games of all time" articles - its always what matters to the generation writing it. Your John Carmack example betrays our age. His most important contributions to ga
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by giobox 6y ago
In a similar vein, there was a chap who would appear and end your game very quickly if you stole anything from shops. However, the game let you drag items in stores 1 or 2 pixels without triggering the "crime ghost" (I forget who
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by giobox 6y ago
Exact same experience here. Ultima 8 came free on a CD-ROM that I think accompanied a Creative Sound Card my father had purchased? The same disc had Wing Commander 2... Anyway, I played Ultima 8 to death as a child - explored the map obsess

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