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931.
by hkt 5y ago
I second this. What's worse is that being a devops guy, most coding interviews I've ever done are totally irrelevant to the roles I've had. In a good market I can avoid companies using services like this.
932.
by hkt 5y ago
Call me immature but the version numbers are making me wonder if there's going to be a Firefox ME or Chrome 2000 released soon..
933.
by hkt 5y ago
It is fair to say that externalities exist for renewables that people don't like - I recall reading that the real reason China dominates rare earth minerals is because refining them has such toxic byproducts no other country wants to d
934.
by hkt 5y ago
Fair comment, but in the UK we've screwed up nuclear for generations. Our old Magnoz reactors have a century long decommissioning period, and even in the 1960s were more expensive than coal. More modern reactors may differ, but Magnox
935.
by hkt 5y ago
This is essentially the principle of a virtual powerplant - household tariffs like Octopus Agile (price fluctuations every 30 minutes) with a home battery make it possible to do this at quite a small (eg household) scale. A bigger operator
936.
by hkt 5y ago
Offshore wind has been growing quickly for 20 years. Deindustrialisation started in the 80s. None of this is new, really.
937.
by hkt 5y ago
I feel older for the same reason - it sucks watching the internet of my youth slip away.
938.
by hkt 5y ago
Except less coffin like in construction. That was his criticism of pods, and frankly I share it.
939.
by hkt 5y ago
Very much the opposite of Corbosieur, but still great and a really interesting exploration of similar ideas.
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by hkt 5y ago
Quick naps are hugely underrated. 20 minutes of sleep in the afternoon and afterwards I could do my job while juggling knives (figuratively). A manager I worked with once pre-pandemic had his idea of "business hammocks" for the of
941.
by hkt 5y ago
Being a little flippant here, but it is the British and American govts I worry about more. At least I don't share a language with Chinese spies! Plus, I'm fairly sure the pi is a known quantity. PinePhone less so. Probably the mos
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by hkt 5y ago
The solution I have is a wired-in, locked down raspberry pi where I have a separate email account, PGP key, etc. Phones are definitely a writeoff though, with the possible exception of the PinePhone. If memory serves, the 4g modem lacks dir
943.
by hkt 5y ago
Delta is also viable. I use it for IM and it is TOFU based PGP encryption. It works OK for general email too, though that's not the focus. See: https://delta.chat/en/
944.
by hkt 5y ago
Surprised nobody has said Denis Ritchie and C. Also, the architecture of Corbosier. Lots of other examples exist in architecture. Great question, by the way.
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by hkt 5y ago
Don't forget hot water bottles. Excellent recent post from Low Tech Magazine on this: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the... tl;dr is that heating people rather than spaces is a great
946.
by hkt 5y ago
Not exactly a convincing expression of support for people's human rights, especially those of fellow citizens with dual nationality. Wouldn't exactly be a good look. A better solution is to clean up the financial sector, especiall
947.
by hkt 5y ago
I'm writing from the UK where most credit unions don't offer interbank transfers or cards. If you need somewhere to stow cash, it is likely they won't be as heavily overseen by regulators here. Some are less basic but many ar
948.
by hkt 5y ago
If it was another company doing this I'd be in two minds as to whether or not it was creepy. With Facebook doing it, I'm convinced.
949.
by hkt 5y ago
Honestly, I just use duplicity. It is easy to test backups and has a nice GUI if you're that way inclined. I'm too old for bash scripts when the stakes are a lifetime of memories or critical data at work.
950.
by hkt 5y ago
Credit unions are also good for this: they won't necessarly have the modern comforts of a bank, but your local one (if you have one) will do cash based accounts, in person. They still KYC but since they're not plugged in to swift
951.
by hkt 5y ago
Ha - as a kid I definitely didn't pick up on that. I just enjoyed collecting wonders and watching all the videos. The UN one was great. I loved the videos from Alpha Centauri too, another Sid Meier contribution. Wonderful games (pun ve
952.
by hkt 5y ago
Wage theft is endemic in programming. Think of all those colleagues who have worked late on a deadline because somebody pressured them into it. They're reducing their own effective hourly rate and contributing to a long hours culture b
953.
by hkt 5y ago
Likewise. Pretty much everywhere I've worked uses standup as a way of bullying people into working more hours, with a couple of unusually relaxed exceptions. It is a far cry from the origins of agile as a means of programmers defending
954.
by hkt 5y ago
Amen - I tried I convince a group of people I'd been contracting with to set up a partnership model along these lines, specifically so we could carve out that kind of control. No such luck, people were happy because day rates in the UK
955.
by hkt 5y ago
From being a production engineer for many years I can only agree: some of the brightest people of our generation spend most of their time compensating for the poor design choices of others. Not sure if this is better or worse than advertisi
956.
by hkt 5y ago
I can second this: my darling offspring has a raspberry pi and thrives on it - he has never used OSX or Windows. Just Android (on a tablet) and Raspbian.
957.
by hkt 5y ago
25 years ago would probably have been civ II. Source: I was playing it as a 7 year old and vividly remember learning that the UN was really a thing after building it in game.
958.
by hkt 5y ago
I came to Hicks as a 13 year old in 2003.. when his material on the Iraq war got a second lease of life. Looking back, he was a critic of American imperialism - the "look, he had a gun" sketch for instance. That kind of criticism
959.
by hkt 5y ago
This would seem reasonable, but in the UK we commonly have carrier grade NAT, which is to say I share an IP with really rather a lot of people. It'd be interesting to see if that was the case. Maybe I'll send a subject access requ
960.
by hkt 5y ago
There are decentralised exchanges like bisq: https://bisq.wiki/Main_Page Presumably, this would do the trick.

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