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by jlokier 4y ago
> Like the fella who stated that ‘we didn’t vote for him’ In fairness, we didn't vote for the Prime Minister either. Where was this fella when we needed him in parliament? I think UK democracy has a much bigger democratic problem t
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by jlokier 4y ago
You mentioned that since WFH ended, the team shrunk due to resignations from 8 to 2. Is the total team workload similar to before? If so she's doing what 4 people were doing before and that explains most of the increased time to compl
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by jlokier 4y ago
My Android phone has occasionally prompted me about switching on enhanced messaging features, RCS, but to do so required agreeing to some Google T&Cs that I wasn't comfortable with, so I've consistently declined. RCS is a weir
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by jlokier 4y ago
> The fact that every single compiler typedefs "uint8_t" and "unsigned char" [...] and yet that isn't guaranteed by the standard They don't. The standard is right on this. It's supposed to let authors
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by jlokier 4y ago
Well I don't even have a first home anywhere (can't afford to buy), nor do I have a place to visit. The first item is not relevant to me. But in fact a lot of people in the UK used to regularly access some place in the cheaper EU
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Why would a password manager need so much money? The money isn't for the password manager particularly. In the article they list a number of new things they want to develop. I think there will come a point when most mainstream we
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by jlokier 4y ago
Tailscale comes up here a lot recently, and their article on how they do p2p over routers and firewalls (NAT traversal) is superb: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ Unfortunately it doesn't
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by jlokier 4y ago
> there has been zero change to regular life as a result of leaving the EU Maybe yours. My life has been affected as a result, and I'm a UK born citizen. I think you left out these aspects (some affect me directly): - UK people wi
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by jlokier 4y ago
A lot of small startups don't have a mat/pat policy yet, maybe not a well developed vacation policy either nor a generous one, and the employment may be "at will" meaning they can let you go for no reason, just because t
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by jlokier 4y ago
Last time I recieved a series of marketing messages over SMS, they implied I'd opted in, and included links to opt out. This went on for a year. Not often, about once a week, varying. I thought I must have "opted in" non-con
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by jlokier 4y ago
Heh. I'm known for fixing things that don't work. I do it by looking over someone's shoulder while they show me. I don't have to say anything, just agree to watch. Then I walk away, all fixed. It's like magic.
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by jlokier 4y ago
> it often has no ads At least 95% of what I watch on Youtube is educational or technical. It's self-teaching material, math, science, that sort of thing. Most people would find it dry but I enjoy it. Still, I wouldn't call
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by jlokier 4y ago
The groups writing client software are at least writing open source software, generally under liberal or GPL licensing. So there's that. They aren't selling the software, although they do tend to establish commercial relations
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by jlokier 4y ago
A few years ago someone reviewing a public page I was serving over HTTP came and asked "It is breaking the page on my browser, producing a weird console error, and I don't like the look of some of the things the JavaScript code do
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by jlokier 4y ago
> If $10 comes into my bank account, I get a message saying "$10 was credited into your account". That's because you are a creditor to the bank. After you put cash into your bank account, the bank owes you cash. You are
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by jlokier 4y ago
Yes. In my experience earlier this year, all HR, Accounts and Legal comms with the company was over Discord, except for some onboarding for new people at the beginning. No email was used at the end. They had good departments with high quali
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by jlokier 4y ago
Polio's been found in London sewage recently too. "All children aged 1 to 9 in London to be offered a dose of polio vaccine" https://www.gov.uk/government/news/all-children-aged-1-to-9-...
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's probably not an engineering failure given current-day knowledge, because (as far as I know) nobody knows how to engineer a network that scales arbitrarily to any number of nodes while achieving total consensus (agreement) on all
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by jlokier 4y ago
A short technical answer is the beacon chain network wouldn't function properly if it had too many nodes (unless other parameters were also changed undesirably), so the number is limited. 32ETH was calculated to be approximately the sw
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by jlokier 4y ago
The stakers have to perform consensus network and block building actions continuously online, or they are penalised by losing value from their stake over time rather than gaining it. The penalty is reasonable so a small downtime during upda
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by jlokier 4y ago
> I also think $50m is simply an insane amount of money. To you it is, but Alex Jones is very well off: - "Alex Jones worth up to $270m, expert says, as family seeks punitive damages" https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by jlokier 4y ago
Ouch. Looking at that link, today I discover my late 2013 MBP had that fault and is in the list of machines that was eligible for repair, but of course the time limit has passed. I have a late 2013 MBP whose screen developed visible loss of
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by jlokier 4y ago
If the HDD has failed (but water hasn't leaked into it) there's a fair chance a specialised data recovery lab will be able to recover some of its data from the platters. For a substantial fee of course.
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by jlokier 4y ago
I used to use ICMP Echo tunnelling, and had really fast internet compared to the rest of the 50 person office, which had a heavily throttled link except for ICMP.
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by jlokier 4y ago
I'm in a city center, and my small office network is currently 4G through a Samsung phone because it's faster than anything I can get on the landline. This is a city where some buildings have up to about 200Mbit/s on either c
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by jlokier 4y ago
Similar to how some tax thresholds are determined on a company-group basis, except grouping by beneficial owner (the "ultimate" owner, i.e. the person who owns the LLCs).
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by jlokier 4y ago
> For example, why would I want to spend time learning deeply how to write my own compiler, vs just spending that time to do tutorials for a couple different new frameworks? I feel I can answer that easily: Writing a compiler is vastly
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by jlokier 4y ago
I've heard the opposite: Pure math conferences described as places where the attendees struggle to talk in depth about their work with other random attendees, because everyone's working in different, deeply specialised subfields o
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by jlokier 4y ago
For clarity, most of Oxford University and Oxford the town are strongly anti-Brexit. It's also a very international place. You might not think this if you heard about all the privately-educated and often wealthy Conservative politicia
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by jlokier 4y ago
You might enjoy "The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg

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