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by laumars 5y ago
I’m not as familiar with that particular area of London but I do know the city has changed massively since that album was recorded and a lot of areas that you simply wouldn’t walk alone at night have undergone gentrification. Brixton is a
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by laumars 5y ago
A live performance of Thela Hun Ginjeet plus a description of how it came about is included in this submitted article.
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve found most private English firms have no difficulty letting people go if they need to. It seems a different story for public orgs like schools and government positions. But private companies have a lot more freedom than some in here ha
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by laumars 5y ago
Your second point is what I first assumed this paper was doing before I read it.
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re missing the point. The GP was commenting on their impression of the slant the article was taking (and I agree with their point there). They were not suggesting the article’s slant was correct, in fact they specifically stated that th
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by laumars 5y ago
I know you’re joking but I’ve literally tried that before and wouldn’t recommend it.
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by laumars 5y ago
Different motives. Think of it like encryption: when someone finds a weakness in a cypher people will generally move onto a new cypher that’s harder to crack. The difference here is the purpose of writing those tools isn’t to improve securi
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by laumars 5y ago
If you want your spend to be capped then there’s nothing stopping you from setting a CloudWatch alarm at a budgeted threshold that then scales down your infra. AWS is like Lego. You’re supposed to build on it to create the behaviour you wan
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by laumars 5y ago
> Consider a scenario where you're consulting on someone else's small- or medium-sized project and your bug costs the client a huge amount of money in the middle of the night You can also set alarms that warn you of projected
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by laumars 5y ago
> > and at an individual level it’s very manageable > And yet, we have horror stories of students and even experts being hit by surprise AWS bills. They obviously didn’t bother to manage it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not manageabl
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s not entirely fair. While I’m not going to defend the complexity of billing in enterprise cloud services it’s also not really that hard to set an billing alert in CloudWatch and track spend in Cost Explorer. Sure it requires a little
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re getting an invoice emailed surely? You can sign in with that email and close the account down. Happy to help you if you need any assistance Disclaimer: I don’t work for Amazon but I do work heavily in AWS.
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by laumars 5y ago
There’s plenty of graphical versions of DF. You’re not stuck with the console version if you dont like it. I’m fact there is a graphical version on Steam already
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by laumars 5y ago
I had no idea it was a named technology, though I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. Thanks for sharing that link.
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by laumars 5y ago
This reminds me of how we used to type on pre-smart phone era phones. Eg https://phonesdata.com/files/models/Nokia-E51-807.jpg The funny thing with those little handsets was, with a bit practice you could actually
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by laumars 5y ago
Personal opinions about censorship aside, Google aren’t breaking any free speech laws because free speech doesn’t mean anyone can post anything on private channels. No, the law is a lot more specific than that, eg the government cannot cens
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve never understood them either. But then one of the motivations for taking a career in IT was so I could automate repetitive tasks. Little did I realise at the time that a whole industry would form around that basic motivation.
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by laumars 5y ago
> You're missing the point. If the AI is consistently penalizing drivers for looking in the mirror, then it'll affect them all equally and not be unfair. If it treats some drivers worse than others, why didn't they mentio
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by laumars 5y ago
You clearly didn’t read the article then. The drivers are open to dialog. It’s the maintainers of the software and/or Amazon who are assuming the system is perfect. I’ve worked on smart interfaces for cars by the way. My experience not
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by laumars 5y ago
And there’s time when even C isn’t sufficient and a developer needs to resort to inlined assembly. But most of the time the starting language (whatever that might be) is good enough. Even here, the issue wasn’t the language, it was the impl
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by laumars 5y ago
This is where profiling helps more. Find the weak parts of the code, try to optimise those. If the language proves to be a barrier then you have a justification for a rewrite. All too often people don’t understand how to performance tune so
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by laumars 5y ago
This comment reminds me of a, thankfully small, subset of developers who believe their code is infallible and it must be the users fault if the application has bugs. What the AI is attempting to solve is a complex problem. I’m willing to gi
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by laumars 5y ago
This isn’t a native desktop app. It’s running Chrome in the background (even downloading it if Chrome isn’t found). This isn’t meant as a criticism against this project though. Just that “native desktop app” means something specific and tha
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by laumars 5y ago
That feels like a rather insincere interpretation but you’re arguably right. And in fact a great many people don’t lock their front door at night.
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m of the opposite opinion. I hated MSR, it’s looked cool but the all the tracks seemed to have stupid right angle bends. I found most of the Dreamcast racers seem to fall short in significant ways. Whereas the Saturn had games with more p
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by laumars 5y ago
OS maps is really good for hiking :) That’s what I mostly use it for (well running more than hiking, but that’s effectively the same use case)
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by laumars 5y ago
The interesting thing about conspiracy theories are that those few which have merit quickly get talked about in the open by credible researchers rather than trivially debunked by the average person after about 5 minutes of internet research
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by laumars 5y ago
At this point there are already hundreds of readline alternatives across various different languages as it’s actually surprisingly easy to write a readline library. Given the capabilities of computers these days, I think if one is stuck cho
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by laumars 5y ago
> OS map styling is beautiful, but folding maps is the work of devils. I don’t miss folding paper maps but my comment was about the mapping data not the physical medium. Thankfully you can now have OS maps electronically. Best of both
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by laumars 5y ago
Loving the inclusion of a image from an Ordinance Survey (OS) map. For those who haven’t heard of them, maybe the younger members on here or anyone from outside the U.K., OS maps were the U.K. standard before GPS and Google Maps et al. We w

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