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by lbriner 3y ago
There is a principle here that I can't see mentioned and that is how easy it is to discard something as a cause of a problem because it seems so minor, so routine (i.e. removing the "spare" multimeter) and therefore getting b
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by lbriner 3y ago
"Hailed" by many people many times over the last 100 years but the idea has mostly not worked in many countries. From what I can work out, the economics don't scale in the way we would assume. 200 people on a train sounds lik
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by lbriner 3y ago
> Existing transistors and physical switches etc. will also have silly short lifetimes if you do that math Power switching in PWM is often 10s of KHz switching speeds and these are expected to last years so not really true.
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by lbriner 3y ago
If Google are planning to merge the two, why haven't they added the ability to provide real-time feedback to their app? A few times I have met a closed road and have no options. I can't reroute because Google doesn't know the
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by lbriner 3y ago
I did quite like Waze for most reasons but once the ETA started to drift inexplicably, I started to trust it less. I would leave for a 2 hour journey and it would estimate 1hr30, which would creep up to 2 hours by the time I arrived at home
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by lbriner 3y ago
A lot of mud-slinging on here about HA setup and CF's dealing with the problem but I can only assume people are armchair experts with no real experience of HA at the scale of CF. "So the root cause for the outage was that they rel
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by lbriner 3y ago
I think most of us can forgive pretty much any mistake but for a service company, there are two golden rules: 1) Know that you have a problem quickly. We reported an issue yesterday and it took them 3 hours to acknowledge that there was a p
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by lbriner 3y ago
The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their passw
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by lbriner 3y ago
The problem that Western governments have is that everyone in the country has a vote and people don't like inconvenience. If you want to "do the right thing" and e.g. ban ICE vehicles, you get a massive backlash, so instead y
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by lbriner 3y ago
My guess is that it is 2 things. Firstly, as stated by others, accepting these things requires us to accept that our lifestyles are not sustainable, even if we can afford them financially, so we make excuses. Secondly, I think there probabl
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by lbriner 3y ago
Calling nuclear fission "clean" is a bit like calling the National Health Service "free". I am not saying there are better options right now but still!
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by lbriner 3y ago
I seem to remember another problem at NATS which had the same effect. Primary fell over so they switched over to a secondary that fell over for the exact same reason. It seems like you should only failover if you know the problem is with th
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by lbriner 3y ago
To me, it's not about the fact they can be gamed but even the premise is misguided. Unless I trust a particular critic because "I like what they like", then it is like asking everyone what political party they like or which m
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by lbriner 3y ago
Of course they know, just like they know about dirty money from abroad propping up the economy, empty properties owned by rich foreign nationals pushing up house prices for UK residents etc. but there are several steps between that and doin
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by lbriner 3y ago
I'm not sure the question is quite right. Google and Amazon don't use "the cloud" in the normal sense of a third-party public offering. They own the infrastructure that is also used by other customers as a cloud so in on
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by lbriner 3y ago
What about capacitive and inductive losses. These are significant in AC transmission lines, depending on their construction. I believe that's why high voltage interconnects between different countries are usually DC and use rotary conv
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by lbriner 3y ago
Another problem is what is the actual root of the attestation? If it was the means to say, "yes this is a real person" it might be useful but this is simply system attestation so no real way of knowing whether it would stop bad ac
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by lbriner 3y ago
The problem with most of these systems is they can never cope with any edge cases. This means it works fine for 99% of the population but the other 1% can get stuffed. It would be like having a robot deny you access to the office after work
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by lbriner 3y ago
I love this kind of stuff, now if Netflix want to make a documentary out of this, that would be amazing! We had this sort of operation in the UK before WW2 when there were separate companies running trains and even more so pre WW1 when ther
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by lbriner 3y ago
Since I was at college in the second half of the 90s, we still had unix text consoles for reading emails so my favourite prank was to tell others in my dorm that I had worked out how to remotely log in from the dorm (we had to use a compute
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by lbriner 3y ago
The problem for me is not that SO became difficult as all popular/large systems inevitably become, it's the seeming lack of action to solve some of the issues involved. The reputation thing is still nonsense. I can ask a noob ques
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by lbriner 3y ago
Something somebody told me was that it seems really amazing but without the host prompting the listener as to the phrase, "she saw me", most of the time you wouldn't know what it was saying. I heard a sample of "Say, goo
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by lbriner 3y ago
100% this! I was bemoaning this earlier, I am using the S8 to do exactly the same as I did 6 years ago when I bought it but not only is it much slower than it was when I first bought it (for some reason) but various apps and integrations ar
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by lbriner 3y ago
I don't understand this statement. UUIDs rarely have to be unique compared to every other place in the world where they are used, they just need to be unique within the same context. The reason for using NIC addresses and time is to en
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by lbriner 3y ago
You are talking about implementation, the OP was talking about raising the concept with interested parties and seeing whether it is worth even starting to think about it. They could fork, they could add threading to some sub systems and r
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by lbriner 3y ago
Not a great question. Too open-ended so will just illicit a tonne of people's opinions.
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by lbriner 3y ago
I'm not sure what analytics systems you are referring to but most do not use an iframe. In most cases you embed some Javascript and depending on what you want, you might get a simple POST with some data about the page or you might have
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by lbriner 3y ago
I think it's often a case of better the devil you know... Imagine adding a new app. Can you just delete the existing? Not necessarily, maybe some people need to use that so now you are supporting 2 apps. Maybe there is a lot of legal w
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by lbriner 3y ago
Personally, I don't mind if a tool is rubbish as long as I can use the bits I need to use and the rest doesn't get in my way. I don't like Teams but mostly keep to chat and video calls and that works fine. Sure, there is othe
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by lbriner 3y ago
Lots of people complaining about state-run projects or suppliers who do stuff on the cheap but I think the simple fact is that in most people's minds, buying a "IT system" is like buying a car except that the car is built fro

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