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by johndunne 3y ago
2 days a month isn't a big deal at all. I'm in the UK, and regularly travel anything from 2 to 8 days a month to a role in Germany and the Netherlands.
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think the movie suffers from overly liberal use of creative license. Sure, I t’s science fiction but there needs to be some sense in most of a movie’s events. For example, why did a hulking huge space based invasion force need to show up
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by johndunne 3y ago
Fun game... a nice idea especially since it's a game that can help you imagine hex numbers in relation to RGB colour components.
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by johndunne 3y ago
Should I be envious of any parent who had to actually address this one with a Santa believing kid advanced enough to ponder this one!
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by johndunne 3y ago
Exactly. I think this article is scare mongering, probably part of a larger campaign to sow fear. The Russian army will take at least a decade to get to a point where it could pose an existential threat to the nato bloc. The scary problem i
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Nice explanation of the time-slit experiment of light(youtube.com)
1 points by johndunne 3y ago|0 comments
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by johndunne 3y ago
Interesting points. And, I've not yet decided what I'm going to do as a parent yet. The discussion you guys are having here is kind of what's going on in my head right now and over the last few months :D The general direction
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think the simplest method is to monitor a DNS log and any of the children's devices could be monitored via a DNS log. For me, I just want to know when I need to have a conversation with them rather than scold or punish them based I w
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by johndunne 3y ago
Agreed 100%. I've a homelab, ntop traffic monitoring and considering forcing my son's mobile device (10 years old and about to receive his first mobile device for Christmas) to go via my home network via VPN and I'm still not
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by johndunne 3y ago
Thanks for that one. I've been using HN in autopilot for so long I've been missing out on some of the extra features HN offers. Thanks again!
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think the great thing about HN is how subtle it is in terms of features; they're there if you want them (be it discussion/link aggregator). It's the tribe that makes HN great (like-minded people posting interesting topics)
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by johndunne 3y ago
Very true. I've found new value in HN by rediscovering the new section. There are a lot of interesting topics posted to HN but I tend to have more interest in the comments/discussion. I realise now that I may actually be the minor
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by johndunne 3y ago
I tend to go straight to the front page, a force of habit. I've really only recently started interrupting this habit by heading to the new section more often. I suppose my use case is less link aggregator and more discussion/socia
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Ask HN: Would url submissions work better if an initial comment were required?
2 points by johndunne 3y ago|8 comments
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by johndunne 3y ago
I asked myself this same question when New Horizon sent pictures of Pluto back. I was surprised to learn that NH will never overtake Voyager because of the number of gravity assists Voyager 1 achieved. The planners had to race to achieve th
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by johndunne 3y ago
First, congrats on starting your new career! I’ve been a dev for over 20 years and trucking on still, so I can give you my 2 cents. If you’re just starting out, your boss ought to be taking a more ‘mentoring’ style with you. Your reasoning
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by johndunne 3y ago
The ‘you won’t believe how big the next telescope is’ telescope. Seriously though, I think meta materials could end up creating a new field of optical telescopic lenses over the next few decades.
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by johndunne 3y ago
There isn’t any quantum computer currently that can function beyond a few rounds of computation before decoherence occurs, ending the ability to compute without error. All quantum computer projects are still in the research phase, and tryin
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by johndunne 3y ago
Indeed. It's incredible how important software and networking has become for humanity. Alot of people still don't realise how risky having mobile devices that can sense (GPS/audio/video) on our person and the invisible c
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by johndunne 3y ago
Worth a watch on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_7CGl6VWaQ
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by johndunne 3y ago
I remember first hearing about this while working at a US firewall company. The scale and precision of the attack kept this virus in the minds of everyone who appreciated what it proved capable of and the scale of social engineering employe
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by johndunne 3y ago
To be fair to Wikipedia, it’s come on a long way since its early days when anyone could make whatever edits they wanted. The most popular entries on the site are very well vetted, though not perfect. Just my 2 cents.
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by johndunne 3y ago
The sidereal day is counter-intuitive and when you learn what it is, there's beauty in how such a simple thing can appear complex because of the difference in perspective. This is similar to how Einstein figured out the time dilation a
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1982 SAT question everyone got wrong [video](youtube.com)
4 points by johndunne 3y ago|3 comments
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by johndunne 3y ago
I answered B also and the fact that everyone got this wrong in 1982 because the SAT question creators got it wrong. The correct answer was incorrectly not even listed. The explanation is mind-blowing in its simplicity and complexity added b
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by johndunne 3y ago
If you’d thought about and committed to using a hidden camera, then you should have thought about this answer prior. As a parent, I find this idea disturbing, the potential damage to trust is a no go.
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by johndunne 3y ago
Good question and I arrived at this conclusion myself through experience. Consider this example (I'll keep it brief), I have 3 friends who are 'Pro Palestine' and have attended some recent protests in London and Belfast. We d
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by johndunne 3y ago
I'm seeing a lot of this now in relation to the current Israel/Hamas and especially the Ukraine invasion. I see it mostly in younger people who perhaps don't have the time or interest to really delve into the details of somet
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by johndunne 3y ago
I remember one of my physics professors at uni explaining this theory and for some reason, I had this weird anxiety at the thought. A lonely electron doing all the work of every electron in the universe. Semifun fact, Feynman used the elect
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by johndunne 3y ago
I think the top answerer had a few electric bugbears they wanted to get off their chest. Best skipped over, and time spent looking for simple and thoughtful answers. It's a shame the stackoverflow model isn't proving effective for

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