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by jon-wood 3y ago
Fun fact for you, a lot of pubs in the UK are shifting to requiring photo ID to enter, and scanning that ID into a centralised system, often as a requirement from the police to retain their license to serve alcohol. I ended up chatting to o
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I feel like we’re in an ever escalating arms war here, with the result being an internet full of vacuous stuff posted just because that’s what everyone else does. Every blog post, tweet, and event listing must now have a bland stock image t
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Open Banking is in some ways misnamed - you can't as an end-user just do OAuth and get a data feed out of your account, you'll have to go via a third party who've jumped through all the hoops.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
> And yeah, the iPhone has more security updates, but that doesn't really matter to me. I only install reputable, and mostly open source, apps on my phone so I'm not really concerned about security. As much as I’d love this to
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by jon-wood 3y ago
That “just” is doing some very heavy lifting. That could potentially involve having to update almost every financial system worldwide given the US dollar’s position as a global reserve currency.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Everyone being in different sub-cultures doesn’t mean people have nothing to talk about, it makes conversation way more interesting if you’re just willing to step out of your bubble for a bit. Some of the best pub conversations I’ve had hav
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by jon-wood 3y ago
A friend and I would often sleep in his car at LAN parties in order to avoid the endickening that would otherwise happen.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
For years my monitor was a 22” Sony CRT which took two people to carry, which went with my to LAN parties. That thing was terrifying to carry down a flight of stairs.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
We had a long running adage that the games would start at LAN parties about 10pm. Didn’t matter when you arrived to set things up, could be 9pm, could be 9am, technical issues would conspire such that they weren’t resolved until 10.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Depending on who was curating this I’d be up for it, and will now be quite surprised if Substack don’t make it happen at some point. I think there’s a lot of value in being able to delegate to someone who knows a particular field the abilit
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I suspect some of this is why more recent DJI drones have an OS and screen on the controller, because that way they have a single set of hardware to target, and even if some future Android release breaks backwards compatibility they can sim
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Almost all of this already exists: * Apps that offer any form of social login must also offer Apple ID login * Apple ID login can anonymise your email address per-provider * Every app already gets a distinct device ID, and indeed every ap
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Even the ones I would never have expected to work do, I had a couple of potions of speaking to animals, which led to a lovely (fully voice acted) conversation with some oxen.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The theory and the practice of unit tests are often different things. In theory you’ll make changes to the code, and the unit tests will show whether they had the intended effects. In practice, because often the unit tests are mocking out a
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by jon-wood 3y ago
They're less common in the UK now mobile apps have taken over, but in the early 2000s banks would issue a standalone device to every customer. When making payments via online banking you'd put your card in the device, hit a button
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by jon-wood 3y ago
RIP to the productivity all the people discovering this for the first time today.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
At least for me they're compact, reasonably cheap, and yet still much better than a £10 plug in soldering iron from Amazon or wherever. I'm sure if I soldered regularly I'd want something better, but in practice I solder two
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by jon-wood 3y ago
From what I've seen of VyOS using a configuration file that is then used to generate the actual system configuration I'm not really sure its so hard to automate. Take your target state, generate a configuration file in the right f
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Except its generally not the PCB itself that fails, its the components on the PCB.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
While I agree with the mechanics of what you're saying, there definitely is a subset of people who don't really play games, they play a game. There's a few big franchises this applies to, EA's various sports games, F1, F
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I'm almost certain this is the reason. A lawyer somewhere in the company has seen "PII retained indefinitely" and lost their shit over it without ever looking at the context around that. No doubt a bunch of people internally
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I should at some point alias git checkout to throw a warning, git switch/restore are clearly a better choice, but unfortunately checkout is ingrained in muscle memory at this point.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
They all support adding an iCal feed I can see. I want one that other people in the organisation can see the free/busy state from that gets merged with that from my work calendar.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
That Netflix is worth is more than Comcast or Disney is a symptom of people's madness around shares in tech startups. Netflix's entire thing is charging people a few dollars a month to stream video, its a solid service, and they d
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I don't disagree with your initial point, copyright does indeed work to allow people to make income on things they've produced in the past. I think where we disagree is on that being a bad thing. It costs huge amounts of money to
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I’m still not at all sold. If someone put a file in the Ops Team folder of a shared drive then they’re sharing it with all current and future members of that team. The same is true if you post to #ops-team. To be brutally honest people need
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I have some sympathy here, mostly because Outlook's calendering is horrible. I also think most people don't exclusively use Outlook for their calendar, even in environments where your calendar there is meant to reflect your avai
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Why would anyone not think that putting a document in a public channel would result in people who can join that channel having access to it? Isn't that the whole point?
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I think this is a really key thing to take into account when choosing where to work. Where I am now I report directly to one of the founders, and I'm one step removed from the CEO, that means there's approximately zero ceremony ar
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I'm doing much the same, I've got a tiny Python script that I use to interact with GPT-4 to deal with work related programming questions. For my use case its even better than ChatGPT because I can prime it with a default prompt as

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