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Zero-ETL lakehouses for Postgres people(neon.com)
2 points by gmac 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gmac 8mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260126165540/https://www.teleg...
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Sabotage or 'systems failure': What caused the Air India crash?(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by gmac 8mo ago|1 comments
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by gmac 9mo ago
The problem with React IMHO is it’s so dominant and so annoyingly over-engineered for many problems. I use Mithril and find it much less fuss.
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by gmac 9mo ago
Indeed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990786
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by gmac 9mo ago
True. Do you know of any vaguely equivalent resources for learning about those?
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Working with Ruby Threads(workingwithruby.com)
3 points by gmac 9mo ago|3 comments
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by gmac 9mo ago
Wow: horrifying. I've been delaying the upgrade, and looks like I'm going to keep right on delaying it.
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by gmac 9mo ago
This is essentially why I didn’t do English Lit at uni (which had been my initial thought). Up to age 18 I did well at English Lit by discovering that the more outlandish and fabricated the things I wrote, as long as I could find some tenuo
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by gmac 9mo ago
Title is nonsense, content is weak. Many people who use VS Code (me included) probably ignore the features that are supposedly a problem, such as built-in SSH. The idea that basic autocomplete is bad for you is for the birds.
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by gmac 9mo ago
The TV makers all want to sell you an overpriced soundbar too.
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by gmac 9mo ago
Yes, on both macOS and Windows 11. On Mac you have to create/use a simple .mobileconfig profile. On Windows you have to separately provide both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
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by gmac 10mo ago
Not incorrect so much as underspecified? The phrase more commonly starts with a ‘stopped’ clock, which works more clearly.
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by gmac 10mo ago
I wouldn’t dismiss this so easily, the Palestine Action stuff is pretty appalling.
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by gmac 10mo ago
Depends what you’re defending against. Certainly I don’t suggest you get up to bad things using this as your protection! But if your VPS exit-point is outside the UK, it should defend against the indiscriminate traffic-logging dragnet manda
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by gmac 10mo ago
I’m in the UK and have been using a self-hosted VPN for years, since the Investigatory Powers Act obliged ISPs to keep records of what you browse and gave public bodies warrantless access to those records (which I think on principle is enti
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by gmac 10mo ago
This (defining terrorism such that it includes one possibly-unrelated person hitting a police officer with a hammer) is exactly the problem.
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by gmac 10mo ago
I just got an iPhone 17, and presumably because it inherited its Control Centre configuration from the 13 it replaces (which had a physical switch) the silent mode toggle was not present. Tap and hold in an empty space to edit the controls
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by gmac 10mo ago
That’s a worse crime, but still by no means terrorism. And note the ‘alleged’.
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by gmac 10mo ago
I didn't submit it, but I'm part of the audience, and I found it interesting. But you're free to downvote both the post and this comment.
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by gmac 10mo ago
For context: hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people in the UK have now been arrested for carrying banners with messages supportive of Palestine Action, which was 'proscribed' as a 'terrorist organisation' for some acts of
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UK EV owners to face pay-per-mile tax(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by gmac 10mo ago|1 comments
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by gmac 11mo ago
Nope. https://www.brexitcost.org/
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by gmac 11mo ago
Haha. But no, not only that. 90% of economists thought Brexit would be net bad [1]. But at least 50% of economists the BBC put on air thought it would be net good [2]. Edit: here's a longer-form version of this argument: https:/&
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by gmac 11mo ago
This is such a dangerously naïve view. Anyone who's any good at all at politics has learnt that this heuristic is widely applied, and is therefore careful to make a huge fuss irrespective of how well or badly things are going for the
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by gmac 11mo ago
> they were clearly pro-Remain I would say they were a lot less pro-Remain than the facts were, such that they were effectively heavily biased towards Leave. Typically they'd interview someone to factually explain how Brexit would b
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Set up a simple WireGuard VPN: scripts for Ubuntu(github.com)
2 points by gmac 11mo ago|0 comments
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by gmac 11mo ago
> an ideologically driven push for renewables Renewables (especially wind) are now just about the cheapest way to generate electricity, and new battery technologies do much to help with their intermittency, so where’s the problem? (Plus,
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by gmac 11mo ago
Agreed. I have a TypeScript library that attempts something similar: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
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by gmac 11mo ago
Is this unusual in the US? I think almost everyone in the UK for years has been installing ‘combi’ boilers, which are ones that heat the water in radiators and also heat water on-demand.

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