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by jonatron 6y ago
I actually don't have a battery. I have a large hot water tank with immersion heaters, heated overnight. I'm already on "economy-7", which is where the price is cheaper for 7 hours overnight.
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by jonatron 6y ago
Half-hourly electricity pricing exists in the UK: https://octopus.energy/agile/ I'm considering switching to it actually.
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by jonatron 6y ago
Some video production companies use tape for archiving. If internet speed isn't fast, it can be the only realistic and cost effective option.
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by jonatron 6y ago
Firefox makes a fuss about anti-fingerprinting, and I have "Enhanced Tracking Protection" set to Strict, yet I see uncommon values for WebGL Vendor and WebGL Renderer in https://amiunique.org/fp . Unless this stud
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by jonatron 6y ago
More than 10 Trading Halts in just a couple of hours. https://www.nyse.com/trade-halt-current
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by jonatron 6y ago
Slock is the only one I use, but it's great.
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by jonatron 6y ago
I keep seeing sums like £50k and £100k per flat for cladding. How is that possible? Isn't that multiple times what a new roof would cost on a house? Or a substantial extension.
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by jonatron 6y ago
Two sources: https://www.cogconsortium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Repo... https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4857
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by jonatron 6y ago
Someone probably just ran the numbers and said we'd save X if we delete inactive users and users of the limit.
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by jonatron 6y ago
That put a huge smile on my face, I hope you find someone!
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by jonatron 6y ago
Can I get a TN1 as a citizen but a non-resident of Canada?
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by jonatron 6y ago
The Devuan instructions say to use the apt packages. If you go back in time: https://web.archive.org/web/20200513114445/https://certbot.e... they used to say use apt packages. Not sure why they changed.
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Show HN: Minimal Slack Client in Plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS(github.com)
3 points by jonatron 6y ago|1 comments
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Minimal Slack Client in Plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS(github.com)
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Minimal Slack Client in a Browser Extension(github.com)
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by jonatron 6y ago
See also: the Daily Mail's list of things that give or cure cancer. https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
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by jonatron 6y ago
Ordnance Survey
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by jonatron 6y ago
Covid = Coronavirus disease Covid virus = Coronavirus disease virus
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by jonatron 6y ago
The preference automatically changes back, because they hate their users.
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by jonatron 6y ago
When you decode, you can start from offsets (eg 4,4) rather than 0,0.
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by jonatron 6y ago
If you want watermarks to survive jpeg compression, you have to do DCT block manipulation, not just individual pixel values.
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by jonatron 6y ago
I tried it for a small personal project, just for somewhere to put some small images. On pages of about 30 images, usually one of them just wouldn't load. It didn't look reliable to me either.
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by jonatron 6y ago
Tesseract isn't very accurate, especially with text in photos. It works OK for scanned documents, but that's about it.
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by jonatron 6y ago
As a Kent 2010 CS grad, I can compare the module names. OOP and Functional programming remains Foundations of computing (maths) remains "Algorithms, Data Structures and Complexity" is tweaked into two modules "Computers and t
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by jonatron 6y ago
If you look at the data for UK week ending 8 May, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... People aged 45-49 make up 0.66% of covid deaths. 86.34% of covid deaths are people aged over 70. UK life
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by jonatron 6y ago
I remember needing this 5+ years ago, I used a branch of a fork of python-zipstream https://github.com/longaccess/python-zipstream/tree/streamin...
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by jonatron 7y ago
There's no sports, no events, huge numbers working from home, pubs and restaurants very quiet. Picadilly Circus currently has only a few people walking about. I think more extreme measures would be counterproductive, because clearly th
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by jonatron 7y ago
Django has had an automatic admin site since 2006 or earlier, this isn't a game changer for me.
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by jonatron 7y ago
Most will, you can check on the status at: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview
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Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded(fosdem.org)
401 points by jonatron 7y ago|55 comments

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