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901.
by jon-wood 6y ago
These endorsements as far as I can tell are very often based on someone with an @google.com address has signed up and used the tool at some point in time, rather than being an actual endorsement.
902.
by jon-wood 6y ago
They have trial areas where they do 1Gbps lines as well, and when I was using one it would reliably hit that.
903.
by jon-wood 6y ago
In the example use case for that they suggested baking the size into the filename, like image_500_240.jpg
904.
by jon-wood 6y ago
We don’t have to imagine GPT3 doesn’t understand maths. It can reliably answer 1+1= because there are so many instances of it in the corpus, but if you give anything more complicated it will just throw out a random, incorrect, answer in mos
905.
by jon-wood 6y ago
And I had a teacher in college who had a standing bet that he would pay out to anyone who was able to find someone else with his name, anywhere in the world, however I remember that because it’s highly unusual. Most people are going to have
906.
by jon-wood 6y ago
These devices don’t have a network connection, tracking is done via BLE which just broadcasts a beacon regularly and is then picked up by nearby Apple devices which do have a connection.
907.
by jon-wood 6y ago
If you're on AWS I strongly recommend EC2 Instance Connect, which uses the AWS CLI and IAM to issue short lived SSH keys that are automatically accepted by EC2 instances you have been granted access to via IAM policies.
908.
by jon-wood 6y ago
If you're shipping commercial products based on Pis and running dist-upgrade you're likely doing it wrong. Using something like [Balena]( https://www.balena.io ) you can ship full update images so that devices are always
909.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I had no idea this podcast existed, but love The Expanse. Listening to the first two episodes last night was great, it’s immediately apparent just how much they love the genre.
910.
by jon-wood 6y ago
With the exciting side effect that some people don’t realise they’re taking ibuprofen so they take ibuprofen + Neurofen Back Pain Relief, and end up overdosing.
911.
by jon-wood 6y ago
You hit on the head with the difference in interest. At that sort of scale you're looking at a difference of almost a million dollars in just a year, even if I were doing that for my own personal account I don't think I'd con
912.
by jon-wood 6y ago
Factorio by its nature does tend to feel a bit like work, whether that's a good thing or not is going to depend on your personality. Whether I enjoy it depends very much what I'm doing in my actual job, if I'm in a period whe
913.
by jon-wood 6y ago
Including Google. Who have now hit a point where that's no longer sustainable, and developed a set of best practices to ensure reliability beyond what you can expect from a NUC in the basement.
914.
by jon-wood 6y ago
The Google SRE approach isn't that different. You can ship systems that don't follow the SRE playbook, SRE just aren't going to take on-call for it. If you want a different team to be on-call for your application though, ther
915.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I wouldn’t normally nitpick spelling, but “analyse” (or “analyze” if you’re in the US I guess) is the word you’re looking for. “Analise” has a very different meaning, one that you probably don’t want to Google on a corporate computer.
916.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I dunno, have you ever read a Dickin's novel? "Great Exposition" sounds about right to me.
917.
by jon-wood 6y ago
It's really not that difficult so long as you allow a bit of flexibility. My team has a general rule that we schedule meetings in the morning, leaving afternoons free for focused work, but obviously if there's something that needs
918.
by jon-wood 6y ago
However you don't have to be there while it runs. Have the automation scrape content you care about into a database on a regularly basis, and then your viewing of it takes however long a few SQL queries take.
919.
by jon-wood 6y ago
Kids TV is really good at this, until quite recently I didn't even know that Paw Patrol was originally a US show which then gets dubbed by a UK cast alongside the more expected regions with entirely different languages.
920.
by jon-wood 6y ago
There’s a few nice touches like that. Fairly frequently there’s references to many different “feeds”, which every time makes me think of the entire solar system clustering around subreddits.
921.
by jon-wood 6y ago
The actual mechanics of phones aren’t really explored in the books, which I kind of like. Going into the physical design of them would be like a novel set in 2021 going into detail about the design of an iPhone. They’re also always referred
922.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I had no idea that detecting coarse pointers was a thing, thanks for calling that out!
923.
by jon-wood 6y ago
The bigger screen is nice, but the benefit is more around proper integration with in-car controls such as the stalk on the wheel for changing tracks etc, and often in-car microphones for voice assistants and hands free which have been tuned
924.
by jon-wood 6y ago
One of the responsibilities of the UK’s Government Digital Service is to review any IT spending by other departments, and are staffed so that in many cases they can implement and support products themselves rather than outsourcing them. My
925.
by jon-wood 6y ago
It really doesn’t take a crystal ball to come the conclusion that the stock value for a dying company isn’t going to remain high. Even less so for the liquidated remains of Bed, Baths, and Beyond.
926.
by jon-wood 6y ago
Yes, but that’s because as a 10 year old I spent many, many hours with a friend playing it on the original NES. Even 25 years on I can still clear the first couple of worlds without really thinking about it. Games back the were really hard,
927.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I had it mildly (as in I didn't feel in mortal danger) early on, and it completely knocked me out for over a week. I'm a software developer and couldn't even have considered getting out of bed and working for the majority of
928.
by jon-wood 6y ago
The ones that aren't full. There's a thriving black economy of squats where you can pay a couple of pounds to share a room with 40 other people. Totally illegal, but given the choice between sleeping in the snow or in an unregiste
929.
by jon-wood 6y ago
I just want to counter the hate you're getting here a bit. "Fuck off" is an entirely appropriate response to someone recommending that people not give an amount of money they're not going to notice to someone to whom it
930.
by jon-wood 6y ago
There isn’t always a better alternative. Almost always, yes, but not absolutely always. Admittedly we’re deep into edge cases here. The only one I can think of is that you have $1,000 today, and need $100,000 by tomorrow. Maybe someone is

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