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Coronavirus and crime in England and Wales: August 2020(ons.gov.uk)
1 points by jka 5y ago|0 comments
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pg_timetable: Advanced Scheduling for PostgreSQL(github.com)
24 points by jka 5y ago|3 comments
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by jka 5y ago
I've found it really difficult to learn new topics like this comprehensively, and I'm in a similar age range, so I feel the challenge you describe. My perhaps old-fashioned view is that taking some kind of course -- online or othe
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by jka 5y ago
Hey Javier - nice project :) From an application developer perspective, I can see this being very useful when selecting dependencies, and especially when comparing between components that provide similar functionality. From a library author
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Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results: 2020(gov.uk)
13 points by jka 5y ago|0 comments
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by jka 5y ago
No worries, thank you :)
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by jka 5y ago
Maybe worth sending a Request For Package[1] in Debian? (that process involves sending an email, or running 'reportbug' at the command-line if you have it installed). Most of the install steps would be rolled into the dependency
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by jka 5y ago
> I could see an outcome where advances in renewable energy and storage tech occur fast enough to make fossil fuels uncompetitive This has, I think, near enough happened already. What we're battling currently is inertia, vested i
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by jka 5y ago
Can you link to the book, out of interest?
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by jka 5y ago
I think what you're saying has been true in the past: estimates of the cost of solar energy have often overlooked storage. But that has been changing, thanks to people like you raising it as a concern. There are now some fairly good es
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by jka 5y ago
> they are not the main cause Well, perhaps. If multiple different factors (say: car culture, ease of food delivery, prevalence of tasty-if-unhealthy food, peer prestige via excess, and targeted advertising) -- or perhaps more -- combin
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by jka 5y ago
It may be a reasonable assumption; what are typical vehicle occupancy rates? Also, a bicycle-majority traffic mix wouldn't have to conflict with the presence of high-passenger-capacity buses. That may be true that cars can have shorter
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by jka 5y ago
That's a useful perspective: let's say 3% of a service's userbase really loves an obscure feature (they rate it highly), but at the scale of the business, it doesn't make sense to support that feature within the core pro
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by jka 5y ago
This will partly depend on whether the EU also decide to change regulations around cookie consent. You might be interested to follow the EU's ePrivacy Regulation proposals, described here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.
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by jka 5y ago
The EU's upcoming ePrivacy Regulation[1] proposes, among other suggestions, to move cookie consent into the browser: "Simpler rules on cookies: the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for intern
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by jka 5y ago
> Why are we incentivising electric cars at purchase rather than incentivising the use of green energy to charge them? Shouldn't we be incentivising both? (one of the largest incentives I can see at the moment generation-side is tha
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by jka 5y ago
Some ideas for that $10B, that I won't charge for: - Fewer lines of code in production, to reduce attack surface (subtractive problem solving[1]) - Free and open source by default, to help defenders to inspect components before they us
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by jka 5y ago
The effects of this shortage have already begun, and one of the mitigations that is being attempted[1] is to use prison workers to try to bridge the gap, under a scheme known as Release on Temporary License (ROTL). There is evidence[2] (pub
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by jka 5y ago
Hamster[1] has GNOME shell integration, making it relatively easy to use from a Linux-based desktop. It has a few quirks and could do with some UI improvements, but it's nice to be able to switch task (with some basic autosuggestion an
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by jka 5y ago
It looks like the ability to read the CR3 format may be available in freshly-compiled distributions of darktable soon, at least for some cameras. It relies on the exiv2 image library, which added support[1] for CR3 in v0.27.4. That said, t
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Darktable: An open source photography workflow application(darktable.org)
98 points by jka 5y ago|36 comments
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by jka 5y ago
> The new Rav 4 Toyota Plug-in Hybrid is really amazing. 42 miles on electric, gas for the long road trips. For comparison, the Nissan Leaf E+ is quoted[1] at a full-charge mileage range of 239 miles. > Electric still has the issue th
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by jka 5y ago
"The enigma is this: If our property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you - district heating looks like a great topic to learn more about; I hadn't really considered that the same principles behind feeding back into the (electric) energy grid could apply for thermal energy too.
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by jka 5y ago
I'd venture that some of it at least is a combination of two factors: - Compulsive and systematic abusers can make their way to powerful positions in the majority of modern organizations, where hierarchy and a lack of empathy can provi
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by jka 5y ago
In the context of high-performance, revenue-sensitive data transformations, it'd be interesting to see how reusable free/open-source components would fare, especially with regard to licensing. I can see MIT/permissive license
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by jka 5y ago
Which European countries are majority electric-boiler, out of interest? That claim surprised me, but I'd believe it with some references.
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by jka 5y ago
(worth noting for comparison that electric showers can consume 10 kW, albeit for short periods of time) It seems like there's a risk of infrastructure inequality appearing, with high-quality, low-emissions (and perhaps also cheaper) en
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by jka 5y ago
How could/should you visualize the way that a particular food product has been prepared in order to represent this? (it's going to be hard in the context of a blog post or article title, because you need to pick a single word or t
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by jka 5y ago
If threads of conversation were series of git commits, then the way to avoid these would be to stop, apply revert(s), and then resume from the previous good-faith, high-value commit. Sadly that's not particularly applicable to linear t

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