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by iso1631 3y ago
Unless HN is equally slow while logged out that's just HN being "really slow"
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by iso1631 3y ago
So one computer is out and the other 2 are giving different answers to the same question?
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by iso1631 3y ago
On a plane or missile I'd assume several computers, with the majority winning the decision
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SMS has been removed from the GitHub.com sudo page(github.blog)
12 points by iso1631 3y ago|2 comments
965.
by iso1631 3y ago
Nice, however "a day ago" isn't particularly helpful. For this local EDT time would be fine, but I'd like to know it it's 8am or 11am
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by iso1631 3y ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parki... "America has eight parking spaces for every car. Here’s how cities are rethinking that land" Wow.
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by iso1631 3y ago
Some don't. Look at the iconic reveal of the Delorian in Back to the Future.
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by iso1631 3y ago
> How can I focus on a threaded conversation if I can't visually see the difference between the participants? Quickly looking at an avatar is easier than reading an email address. You post this on a threaded discussion forum without
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by iso1631 3y ago
I had a series V, I much preferred the keyboard. 2x AA batteries to power it. I remember connecting to the internet via IRDA to my nokia 6210 around 2000, it was an amazing glimpse of the future
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by iso1631 3y ago
You snipped the following line > So that's why you have imputed rent as part of GDP. Fine, I get that. I then came up with other parts where economic activity is not imputed
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by iso1631 3y ago
I use Mozilla VPN rather than Mullvad because it was a nice way of supporting mozilla and thus firefox. I also think that while mozilla may handle my finances, mullvad handle the VPN. Mozilla doesn't get the technical details of mullva
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by iso1631 3y ago
You're clearly not chatgpt then! This morning it confidently told me that BFD packets from a cisco IOS device would be tagged EF. I asked if it were sure it wasn't CS6, then it apologised and said it was CS6. Then I asked if it wa
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by iso1631 3y ago
I remember a week spent working on a corporate helpdesk in 2004 when phoning up to activate windows was a thing. I think it was the volume license key that didn't need activation -- the one we used in the "gold masters". For
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by iso1631 3y ago
That famous Kylie Minogue song
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by iso1631 3y ago
> Yes of course the latter will have an impact on the GDP, and the former not. You are producing more work for money and you are buying more work for money. I neglected to mention I work in an old peoples home. The overtime is the exact
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by iso1631 3y ago
If I own a house (outright) and live in it, I pay nothing, and no impact on GDP If my neighbour owns a house (outright) and lives in it, I pay nothing, and no impact on GDP If I rent from my neighbour for $10k a year, and he rents from me f
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by iso1631 3y ago
Your link says that in 2005 international trade as a percent of GDP was 23% and in 2014 it's 24%, so about the same. Gross World Product was about $43t in 2005 and $78t in 2014, so that would suggest international trade has increased f
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by iso1631 3y ago
New Zealand is always the obvious "lifeboat". It's a long way from populated area so difficult to get there, and it's fairly easy to sink any ships that try. It's in the southern hemisphere so will be protected from
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by iso1631 3y ago
nordvpn (or maybe something more trustworthy than it, like mullvad) is the complete opposite of just routing all your traffic through your own vps, it changes your public IP address making tracking you harder (obviously opsec is important t
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by iso1631 3y ago
The concept isn't new, 20 years ago Futurama had this public info film about the dangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ6knaienVE
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by iso1631 3y ago
However it was present in the release shipped to reviewers, who wrote their reviews which including saying how windows worked better on ms-dos
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by iso1631 3y ago
Perhaps a train then. I buy an annual season ticket for a London-Reading journey with a monthly direct debit. I then decide after 3 months I no longer want to use it, so I cancel the direct debit, and my account is settled The train still g
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by iso1631 3y ago
Been using them since the 00s, never had that experience, I've got 190 permament installs globally and another 50 or so which come and go as the need arises.
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by iso1631 3y ago
I used their rut to provide 2 paths out for comms to 10 locations around the UK for a high profile Outside Broadcast a couple of weeks ago. The RUTs have decent modems and took two sim cards, and could be configured with routing policies to
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by iso1631 3y ago
The vast majority of the cost-per-page for me is the cost of the printer. I reckon it's about £1 a page, or £10 a year (new printer every 5 or so years, 10 pages a year)
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by iso1631 3y ago
> milk delivery subscriptions used to be common. when you'd cancel your membership, they'd just stop delivering. they didn't come back to repossess your unused milk. No, because they charged you $1 for every bottle they d
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by iso1631 3y ago
> Or, instead of surveillance dystopia, we just start having in person tests again, if we want to know, what a person on their own is capable of. Why would I want to test someone's performance at say writing an email without the be
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by iso1631 4y ago
> even with export the CA energy companies run into grid over-saturation problems on clear, sunny days Which day, specifically, had zero natural gas generation?
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by iso1631 4y ago
I guess the question is would an elected head of state mean more lobbying from more corrupt people. Sure Charlie might lobby against something happening in his back yard, and that's a pain, but I'd rather that than have big pharma
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by iso1631 4y ago
Managing any workers is a skill that many managers have never had, especially in companies where the only way to progress (in terms of salary and status) is to become a team manager.

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