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by jon-wood 5y ago
David Nott’s book War Doctor includes a tale of him being called in to perform urgent surgery in central London, having just finished a flying lesson in Essex. He apparently called 999, asked for the Police, and after explaining the situati
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I'm really disappointed that creators didn't catch on to this and design their shows to run for one or two seasons. Not everything needs to be a decade long odyssey, and in fact a great many TV shows that were great at first were
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> they told me that I was wrong What a bizarre response... somebody who isn't the person you intended to email has replied to you from the address you sent the message to. What could possibly make someone think that the person reply
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Be careful with things like this - it is ultimately an AWS marketing channel, so they’re not going to bring on people who say “we tried running everything on Lambda and it turned out to be a deployment nightmare”. The very best way to do th
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Escape from Colditz has one player acting as the PoW guards, and the other players acting as prisoners trying to escape. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/715/escape-colditz
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by jon-wood 5y ago
There's also a Prometheus exporter for Factorio ( https://mods.factorio.com/mod/graftorio2 ), which of course exposes huge amounts of data about the current state of your factory. Makes me wish you could flag specif
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier has a chapter or two in senior engineering management, and regardless of that is just a great book about being an effective manager in technical organisations.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
There was definitely a period over the last five or so years where Apple went back to largely trading on their name and macOS, for laptops. With the M1 they're now firmly back in the realms of shipping significantly better hardware tha
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The new MacBook Pros hark back to those late 00's ones in more ways than just the appearance. You can tell that Jobs' permanent drive for being ever thinner, lighter, and less adorned with ports is finally losing its grip on the p
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by jon-wood 5y ago
China really does take that to another level - when you order a meal in a restaurant and get the bill it has a WeChat or AliPay QR code on it. Scan the code and you've got a pre-populated payment for your meal that can be processed wit
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Even working as a client of a Chinese company I see the same thing - they only want to communicate via random WeChat groups, and anytime you ask for things to be emailed its a battle to make that happen. Eventually the one specific thing yo
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by jon-wood 5y ago
What's the benefit of this being built on top of Caddy, which unless I'm mistaken has historically been an HTTP(S) server? Maybe there's someone intrinsically great about how Caddy works for this, but on first glance it feels
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by jon-wood 5y ago
What happens when the building the CA is in burns down?
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by jon-wood 5y ago
It Depends. GitHub Enterprise is confusingly both a "call us for pricing" tier of GitHub the website, and also an on-premise version of GitHub that you can run as an appliance in your own data centre. The first of those is ultimat
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I spent a year and a bit raging at the electric hob in my rented flat every time I cooked something. Replaced it with dual ring plug in induction hob and it’s better in every way, I’m actually able to cook food in a controlled manner again
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I haven’t travelled to China since before Covid was a thing, but when I went previously border control weren’t at all interested in our phones, and more or less waved us into the country once they’d checked our visas. To say they mess with
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’ve hired at multiple smaller startups, and the rule has always been that if someone gets referred by an existing member of staff then the referrer isn’t involved in the interview process beyond being a high confidence reference check.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’d argue that in a professional context you should pick the hard things, if it’s a side project do something easy and get some quick wins before you run out of enthusiasm for it.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The RP2040 has no wifi radio or network support unless you add them, so you may be out of luck here.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
My biggest annoyance with the lore was that I'd endlessly find Generic Fantasy Tale (Part VIII), not having found the first 7 parts yet, and so just be left with some out of context nonsense. Either deliver a novel intact, or don'
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Does it ever become clearer? I've tried playing it a few times and never managed to get anywhere, like I'd maybe acquire a single follower, and then shortly afterwards die of malnutrition or something. Its a game that feels like i
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Somewhat OT, but I love the phrasing "Something's gone awry", so much more elegant than the usual "Oops, we dun made a bad".
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by jon-wood 5y ago
It definitely makes a difference knowing you have the option, the startup I worked for exited last year leaving me with a significant but not life changing windfall from cashing out my options. I'm still in the same job, but now workin
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I use 1Password, so it just happens when I sign into my account on a new device. The same is true of the built in password managers from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I think for a lot of the golden geese we're entering a period where entropy is going to force a change to how they're valued, simply because infinite growth is impossible. At some point (and I think we're there or close) you
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by jon-wood 5y ago
ZWave is designed to work without a hub once devices are programmed, but you do need to go the extra mile to make that work - as an example you can configure a ZWave switch to send a message directly to the lights it should be controlling,
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This is a tough one to balance. Ideally you want applications to be able to pull new public keys if the private keys are rotated, but equally you’ve now just introduced a path via which an attacker with control of the domain that we’ll know
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Learning to make actual physical things. I’m trying to get back into building electronic things - mostly home automation bits, and blinkenlights, after an extended hiatus. Just after Christmas I also picked up a 3D printer so I could do cas
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> Many Priuses integrate parts of the power train into the radio. I suspect they'd have serious issues too. I’m sorry, they do what now? Why would you even do that?
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by jon-wood 5y ago
On at least one of my cards magstripe is officially considered a legacy feature, I have to explicitly request that it's enabled if I'm travelling to a place likely to make use of magstripe payments, and it will only remain enabled

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