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by heurisko 4y ago
Pasting a link from when we previously talked about this, for interest. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31439457 Appreciative of all the work regarding caddy, but the rate limiting seems to be chicken and egg, as few p
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> “The contribution which an organized and living Europe can bring to civilization is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. In taking upon herself for more than 20 years the role of champion of a united Europe, France h
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by heurisko 4y ago
Fair enough if Tate broke ToS. But the difference is that YouTube, FB etc. present themselves as platforms, avoiding the liability of being seen as a publisher. If they start making value judgements on certain content, then they can't
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by heurisko 4y ago
I think the government and the media had a negative feedback loop. I've noticed the media prefers to saturate news with one topic. For years it was brexit, then that stopped completely and it was Covid, then Ukraine, now energy price r
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by heurisko 4y ago
It's the EU that arguably needs to come back to earth, by returning to a trading bloc, rather than a halfway house pan-european state. The shared monetary system with no shared fiscal policy will come apart one day, as it nearly did wi
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The UK has been spending less on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than comparable European countries, Germany and France. I agree more money doesn't solve the issue, especially as so much money was wasted on Covid testing and private
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We nearly had them in England. :( https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/may/20/home-informati...
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by heurisko 4y ago
Yes, personality traits are heritable from what I've read.
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"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time".
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> When you're programming a form on a web page? It's way-ay-ay more effort for dubious gains, with new downsides added into the mix. If you don't mean just HTML but some server side processing, yes, I would. This is still
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by heurisko 4y ago
> Static typing everywhere. I think the industry has generally recognised that static typing makes more reliable software. I started with PHP and have seen its type system evolve. Similarly Typescript. I since moved to other staticly typ
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by heurisko 4y ago
Like this https://www.livestrong.com/article/554158-how-to-stretch-leg...
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> The solution is to just squat more frequently. I've found stretching also is important prior to exercise.
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Similar to how environmentalists conscientiously abstaining from children are just serving to remove conscientious people from the gene pool.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I've never used an ORM (Hibernate, Doctrine) when you can't also write the queries yourself and then leave the object mapping to the ORM. It's not an either/or. Often I'll use the ORM for saving, and SQL for retriev
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by heurisko 4y ago
> as long as you've got another account to pay it into? I'm guessing you would just open up another account. But I understand if you wouldn't want to be without your current account to pay bills etc.
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Wouldn't salting mitigate this?
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> It's telling that I've never felt comfortable trusting Monzo with my salary, because it always feels like it'll fold any moment In which case you will be protected up to £85,000 by the FSCS.
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> And what makes you think Amazon doesn't do that yet? Because I still see a lot of human beings employed picking things in Amazon warehouses.
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Opcache is integrated into PHP since 5.5. It's been stable for around two decades. https://www.npopov.com/2021/10/13/How-opcache-works.html
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I expect this is to gain patents/technology around making autonomous robots, so that Amazon can create a warehouse system similar to Ocado, where robots, rather than people, pick groceries. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by heurisko 4y ago
> That is a ton of wasted work, and there are literally sections in the PHP docs about tools to circumvent this problem.[0] Install opcache, done. No need for hyperbole.
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by heurisko 4y ago
It's trivial to configure PHP to store sessions in redis.
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by heurisko 4y ago
PHP's strength is its architecture: stateless, interpreted, and its rich ecosystem. The language isn't as good as Java, but is familiar, and has made lots of improvements, including around types.
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by heurisko 4y ago
To anyone who believes that in practice, I recommend Yanis Veroufakis's book "Adults in the Room"
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by heurisko 4y ago
There is a demand for fast transportation of medical supplies. A company has already provided services to the NHS, during the pandemic. https://skyportsdroneservices.com/nhs-launches-uks-first-cov... Not really vaporware.
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by heurisko 4y ago
I think people who want "nicer Java" now go to Kotlin.
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by heurisko 4y ago
They qualify their usage of business-speak: > Our growth strategy is obviously not about making profit, but we are a small team at the centre of government and we need to make sure our people and our money are focused on services that ha
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by heurisko 4y ago
I haven't used Calibre GUI but have many times used its tool ebook-convert. Really very useful. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....
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by heurisko 4y ago
Regarding speed limits, I had reducing speed on major roads more in mind. > However, infectious diseases ARE qualitatively different from risks from traffic accidents, as the latter can't spread exponentially. Which is no longer the

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