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by hkt 4y ago
Hah - one of my first ever network programming tasks was to do this at a UK hosting company. That and SMTP relays. Good that (some) governments are wise enough to try to keep this sort of thing in check. I hope they aren't using a perl
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by hkt 4y ago
3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on. ...is that not most experiences of twitter? As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since
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by hkt 4y ago
I think rather than dragging a HN thread off topic it may be beneficial for you to read about the topics - both the HN post and the idea of elites as it pertains to your question. Sorry to be a killjoy.
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by hkt 4y ago
Given the coefficient of performance of heat pumps is a function of the difference in temperature between the two mediums, if you can use heat recovery on the shower water you can boost your COP further by having both. I'm in the midst
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by hkt 4y ago
Charitable of you to assume it is incompetence rather than malice :/
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by hkt 4y ago
It is worth pointing out that a more modern approach to district heating will use ground source heat pumps on-premise in people's homes, and will circulate fairly low grade heat (20C or less). Top-ups in system temperature can come fro
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by hkt 4y ago
Alas, the UK has the twin problems of poor building codes and lots of old housing stock that nobody puts much thought into maintaining. In the latter case, people will take single skin brick buildings and apply "vapour control" ma
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by hkt 4y ago
You might have benefited from MVHR, dMVHR, or an EAHP: * MVHR extracts air from "warm" rooms like kitchens and bathrooms, runs it through a heat exchanger to warm new supply air, and then pushes the supplied air into other rooms i
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by hkt 4y ago
I suspect any attempt at this will lead to an extremely rigorous cargo-culting of agile and managing to the metrics. It is a silly idea.
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by hkt 4y ago
And yet, Firefox is an antitrust fig leaf for chrome. EU regulators won't take kindly to Google having an effective monopoly on web browsers, all the more so since MS adopted the same browser engine. If the choices became chrome or Web
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by hkt 4y ago
What exactly does Firefox lack in this regard? I'm curious. I've used it for years and the only noticeable difference to me is that it doesn't nag me about having a Google account.
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by hkt 4y ago
I'd wonder if EU antitrust laws could give them something to gain: namely, not being fined. There's a concept of market fairness in EU antitrust law that isn't present in the equivalent US rules, such that price is not the on
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by hkt 4y ago
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the UK we have a woeful record of investing in anything new, at least in recent memory. Offshoring and outsourcing are both cheaper than doing anything new with technology, so companies
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by hkt 4y ago
I would love to be able to run a node that mirrors part or all of an index like this, and to let people query it - a bit like https://torrents-csv.ml/#/ Good luck! I'll be watching your progress and cheering you
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by hkt 4y ago
..correct me if I'm wrong, but Google was started by a couple of postdoctoral researchers, no?
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by hkt 4y ago
I just did a bike tour of Italy using this. It is absolutely fantastic and I've set up a monthly donation to them. Will be even happier when they get GPX imports working!
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by hkt 4y ago
Actually, the fascists are the ones terrorising minorities - as Hitler and Mussolini's brownshirts once did. Cloudflare not allowing them to organise those activities, which include "swatting" people and hacking their account
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by hkt 4y ago
Hiring replacements is such a primitive measure, usually done on salary. In reality, OP will have institutional knowledge that will enable them to be more productive than a new replacement. It takes time to build that up and will without a
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by hkt 4y ago
Location based pay is ridiculous and you shouldn't have to stand for that. You're right to feel resentful. Find a role for digital nomads and make the nomadic decision to stay put while claiming higher pay.
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by hkt 4y ago
Is Maddy's IMAP+object storage setup mature now? Last time I tried it I was testing against minio and trying to get my 25gb inbox synced over. The transfer was in b/s, would've taken forever. I love the project but haven&#x27
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by hkt 4y ago
I hope at some point the routine crushing of smaller providers gains the attention of the competition and markets authority, or its equivalents. It is crazy how Google and MS use their market power in this way and get away with it.
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by hkt 4y ago
I suppose that's why the person you're replying to specified clueful !
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by hkt 4y ago
Not working with fascists (yes, really) makes me much happier about cloudflare. They have their problems but they're not totally amoral.
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by hkt 4y ago
> Ditch the bike chain and traditional propulsion I'd like to remind my fellow denizens of HN that pedalling being an option is a strength of ebikes, making them operable once batteries have discharged, and giving riders the opportu
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by hkt 4y ago
80L pannier bags are available on Amazon for about £50 or so. You could also get a crate on the pannier rack, or even a front rack for another. Trailers of various kinds are an option too - I do click and collect orders once or twice a week
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by hkt 4y ago
What a load of rubbish. I take my kid to school on my bike. I go shopping on it, including weekly food shopping. I commute on it, if I'm not working from home. I have essentially no transport needs it can't meet (that can't a
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by hkt 4y ago
Do you have any sources you can cite on point one? I can see that there could be a reasonable hypothesis that centralised services will reduce costs for drivers heading to pick up customers, or carbon emissions, both due to shorter journeys
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by hkt 4y ago
I've always been confused about the arbitrary lengths of patents. Surely for something like this, six months or a year is fine? Enough time to get to market and make a considerable size of buck, but brief enough that a much needed thin
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by hkt 4y ago
Thank you! TIL :)
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by hkt 4y ago
Is this the highest court in Australia? I'm from the UK and don't know the system there, but know some former colonies use the UK's privy council as their highest court. I'm guessing that's no longer the case, but i

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