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by jon-wood 3y ago
I assume you got one of the original M1 MBPs. The more recent models have more display blocks. M1 Pro can drive two external displays, and I think the M1 Max can do three or four. I’m still slightly pissed Apple ever shipped the original M1
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by jon-wood 3y ago
In all of those cases I’m pretty sure you can’t in fact be arrested just for the act as described. You need to be in some way negligent or malicious in doing so, and in most countries at least you have to be extremely negligent to get pro
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Depends what you consider to be large files, and admittedly its not a free for all upload, but gov.uk probably fulfils most of those requirements.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I know what most of those words mean, but I have no idea what they mean in that order. This feels symptomatic of the general state of Javascript, where I've not written any for a year or so and am now wildly out of date.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Replacing headers with a little Flash applet so that you can use whatever fonts you like, rather than being limited to whatever the user had installed.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The government have backpedaled hard from their pogram against EU law, I suspect because someone finally managed to get across that just expunging a huge swathe of legislation without anyone knowing what exactly the result would be is bad f
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by jon-wood 3y ago
It really is amazing how resilient planes are, I'm pretty hooked on this YouTube series in which a guy gets given a plane that's been sitting in the open for 15 years or so on the condition he can make the thing run again. https:
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Having worked in the insurance industry, and spent a fair amount of time chatting to the underwriting team about what goes into their models, they do on the whole use this data in a straight forward way - if you drive well, you'll get
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by jon-wood 3y ago
`python3 -m http.server --help` - its really not that complex.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I’ve found alerting on queue length to be a path to false alarms, what most people care about is queue latency. How long does a message sit in the queue before being processed? For some jobs the upper bound for that can be measured in days,
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This system doesn’t just open a voice line to 999, it dials 999 and then plays an automated message saying something along the lines of “The owner of this iPhone may have been involved in a crash, the device is currently located at [locatio
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by jon-wood 3y ago
A pub may have the ingredients to make a wide range of cocktails, but most of them won't have staff who actually know how to do so well. If you're lucky someone will have had some training in making cocktails and be able to make s
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I just don’t buy it. Even a C-level has limits, whatever was being investigated currently just has the possibility of some big fines and maybe losing their job. As soon as they start colluding to destroy evidence that turns into jail time.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Is it even needed on desktop displays? My experience has been that anything under 32” you need to use scaling to make anything readable on a 4K display. I’m current using a 43” 4K display as my main monitor, sitting not very far from to, I
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This simply hasn’t been my experience with a 43” OLED TV, which I use as both a TV and my main monitor when working. It’s facing away from the window, which I’m sure helps, but I’ve never had to draw the curtains to see what I’m doing. Mayb
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by jon-wood 3y ago
As much as I love the idea of them I've found systems like these never quite work for me in the real world. There's always a ticketing system for my employer where that stuff lives, and for personal stuff I absolutely need first c
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Absolutely agreed, and if they have to think particularly hard about things outside their application space for a CRUD web app then either you’re in an extraordinarily high throughput environment, or the platform engineering needs a bit mor
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by jon-wood 3y ago
> That was the point, but it's not all gravy. [Weeps] That wasn’t the point, the point was exactly the opposite of that, to get developers and ops working as a single team, building an understanding of each other’s domain in order t
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I just can’t understand the US’ rationalisation of the current state of gun regulation being ok. So only 21,000 of the year’s gun deaths were murders… here in the UK where we cracked down on firearms after the first instance of a school sho
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by jon-wood 3y ago
It may have been a factor in a few cases, but I think people are being called out there for blaming a CIA program for school shootings rather than the woeful lack of mental health care and easy access to guns.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I have a bit of a pet hate around the use of words like “insane” to mean “unusual to the general public”. There’s nothing insane about this, they’re applying a tool designed for the job to doing the job. “Insane” would be hiring a team of c
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Then you probably shouldn’t use this. It’s not for you, that’s cool, move on and use whatever you’re currently using.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
And frustratingly they could, if the current system of renewable wholesale prices being pinned to the most expensive, fossil fuel, prices were removed. There’s some complexity there because building of renewable generation is incentivised v
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I have no idea how you’d do this at scale, but you’re not wrong. I bought a Quest 1 around when they were released after trying a friend’s headset, I’d been on the fence before that, but afterwards I was totally sold.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I don’t have any direct insight into this but I’ve read elsewhere that removal of first party content from streaming services could also be because contracts with actors/writers/other crew give them a cut each time it’s shown. By
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Mullvad have made it work, but it’s definitely not smooth. I believe their process is to assign a unique ID to your invoice, which you can then write on an envelope stuffed with cash you mail to the correct address. On receipt they match yo
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by jon-wood 3y ago
As a one-time developer of consumer IoT hardware I’m divided on this. In principle everything should respect the DNS servers provided by your local DHCP server. In practice some of those DNS servers are hilariously bad, because they’re oper
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Which is indeed exactly what happened there. I honestly hadn't expected it to be problem that needed solving at the time.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I don't really know why in-app microtransactions, and especially in-app currencies, like this are even allowed in apps targeted at children. The worst example I saw was when my son was playing a mobile game based on a TV show for pre-s
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Just because I feel more people should hear this early in their career, that’s perfectly normal. I fairly routinely answer questions about how long a piece of work is going to take by saying I’m going to need n days to work out what needs t

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