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by lebski88 4y ago
One of the interesting things I found in this article is that I had no idea what the plastic amazon pouches they kept talking about actually were. Here in the UK amazon ship everything in recycled cardboard. Presumably that's from eith
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by lebski88 4y ago
Not in the civil service old bean!
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by lebski88 4y ago
I use starlink here in the UK. I don't get any drops and I spend probably around 4 hours a day on video calls. I've heard people say it can be regional though.
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by lebski88 4y ago
It's really nice to do it this way as you can instantly get the numpad without moving your fingers to it. I'm only on day three with a moonlander but it hasn't been that bad so far. I'm up to 60wpm now so I'm past t
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by lebski88 4y ago
I think you forgot to * 12 for the months. 250,000 customers is approximately $300m a year. 250,000 * 100 dollars a month (approx - maybe less now) * 12
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by lebski88 4y ago
Pianos don't age well. Antique pianos either need an incredible amount of money spending on them to restore or they are furniture at best. Most pianos were cheap when new and are worth negative money once they are old.
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by lebski88 4y ago
Having done both sides I'd say the kids are getting the better deal :-) Palliative care for a parent is draining and can take years but it utterly pales compared to how much effort raising kids is. Doing both at the same time is not re
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by lebski88 4y ago
I'm not an expert but is that true? Road bridges are commonly concrete. In this application they use tensioned steel inside the concrete to help with the tension and other forces.
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by lebski88 4y ago
I grow a large amount of fruit and vegetables. There isn't really a best seed. There are simply tradeoffs. That probably sounds familiar :-) Disease resistance, water tolerance, soil conditions, climate, daylight, tolerance to heat and
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by lebski88 5y ago
It's almost the same time as their incident yesterday too. Although today the scope is wider - yesterday it was Webhooks and Actions. Today core git is broken as well as the APIs.
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by lebski88 5y ago
That can't really be true. I ordered it in November and it shipped the same day. I was just in a location that had capacity.
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by lebski88 5y ago
I found that when I watched it a lot I got much better at it. The style of the questions needs to be learnt. There are also a bunch of writers, composers and painters that come up a lot. If in doubt guessing one of these from roughly the co
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by lebski88 5y ago
Hi Hacker News! Last week I wrote a blog post ( https://blog.atomist.com/comparing-docker-base-image-layers-... ) telling the story of how a container scanning feature came together and started to show us some interesting dat
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Show HN: A container registry vulnerability scanner based around image layers(dso.atomist.com)
6 points by lebski88 5y ago|1 comments
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by lebski88 6y ago
I've worked remotely for 4 years now. We try extremely hard to avoid talking in private chats. Each person has their own channel which we try to use over DMs - this works really well although a few people seem to default to DM.
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by lebski88 6y ago
I actually spent a bit of time learning about Slide Rules a few weeks ago as my Dad had put together a very cool interactive slide rule in JavaScript that I wanted to have a play with. https://adit.co.uk/sliderulev2.html On
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An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule(adit.co.uk)
16 points by lebski88 6y ago|6 comments
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by lebski88 8y ago
That's not really it at all. His point is that this laptop is significantly worse than other laptops in terms of throttling. To the point where the i9 renders slower than the i7 in his testing. That's pretty damning for a $300 upg
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by lebski88 9y ago
> (France, Italy, Britain) probably don't use rear facing seats as much In the UK rear facing is a legal requirement up to 15 months - I think that's being extended to older kids soon. We used rear facing until about 3.5 for ou
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by lebski88 9y ago
Yes I noticed this too: > In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents That's so much more expensive than here. Looking at the pictures you can get the same brands and nappies for half the price here. In the dec
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by lebski88 9y ago
Unrelated to the autopilot stuff - this junction seems like an absolute menace to me. The lines are confusing and that crash barrier seems purpose designed to kill people. I've only driven a bit on US roads but I don't remember se
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by lebski88 9y ago
Brick is by far the most common in the UK. Usually brick outer wall with an insulation gap and an aerated concrete block on the inner wall. Sometimes two concrete blocks if it's to be rendered (stucco?). Oak wooden frame is sometimes (
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by lebski88 9y ago
That's not really true. Having just been through this with my mother there is a huge amount of hospital care required during terminal cancer. For starters radiotherapy is often used to control symptoms. It may not do anything for lengt
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by lebski88 9y ago
I try to keep sugar out of my diet. I also love desert and sweet foods. My rule is that a desert that's home made - by me, my wife or whoever is allowed. It seems to work. If I really want to eat something sweet then I have to cook it
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by lebski88 9y ago
Glossing over the "real lisp" part ;-) Struggled to start with, sure. But ultimately for me those are the best parts. Immutability particularly. It takes a few weeks learn how to solve problems again but I do think it makes things
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by lebski88 9y ago
I introduced Clojure to a Java shop. We took 30 Java developers from zero experience in lisp to 100% Clojure developers. I have to say that my experience agrees with the parent. People didn't struggle with the syntax after a few days.
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by lebski88 9y ago
It sure does help with my, otherwise, 6000 mile commute!
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by lebski88 9y ago
Probably a bit of an impossibility with this format. Adrian writes one of these paper reviews a day on the train into work.
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by lebski88 9y ago
If you live in a hilly city then snow and ice are pretty bad for cycling even if you are wearing the right clothes! Rain is fine though.
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by lebski88 9y ago
I think LOC probably works OK as a very crude metric until you start to measure it. Once you start to measure it all hell breaks loose. If you measure me on lines of code, well I can get you lots of lines to code. No problem at all...

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