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by leg100 3y ago
It wasn't "artifically" cheap nor was the market "distorted". It was merely the physical reality prior to the innovation of LNG. It would only be fair to say it was artifically cheap, say, if the Australian governme
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by leg100 3y ago
> Gah! Blinded by the intense glare of an LED streetlamp, we bump right into said streetlamp. Fortunately there’s an urgent care across the street, still open in the dwindling dusk. We’re no doctor — at least not until they start giving
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by leg100 3y ago
That's not true. They were handled by normal courts and of course there are records. The post office merely prosecuted the cases.
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by leg100 3y ago
It wasn't ignored by the rest of the press. Private eye was one of many outlets, an important one granted, but the story was repeatedly reported on and investigated over the years by the local papers, Computer Weekly, TheRegister, the
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by leg100 3y ago
Location: Kent, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Golang, Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, Postgres. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-garman-418b95/ Email: louisgarman@gmail.com Git
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by leg100 3y ago
Re the video and the "paper cut" of having to look up the latest ami for cent OS: with a conventional system, would one not merely specify "latest" and it'll use the latest image, depending upon support in the API?
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Impact of BSL on open source, non-commercial, projects(old.reddit.com)
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Atlantis claims exemption from new HashiCorp license(github.com)
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by leg100 3y ago
It uses the terraform providers under the hood. I don't know if the providers themselves are switching to the BSL license but hell, relying on Hashicorp to stick to an open source license for any of their projects is a liability from h
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by leg100 3y ago
No, I don't see how you could arrive at that interpretation. Unless you're providing a "competitive offering" invoking terraform on Github Actions, or on any platform, or on your laptop, going by terms of their BSL that
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by leg100 3y ago
Do they not autogenerate the code for their providers? A recall a big thing being made of that a while back.
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by leg100 3y ago
I've built an open source clone* of terraform cloud. Will it contravene BSL? 1. Under the hood, it runs the terraform binary. 2. Receives API calls from the terraform binary. 3. Uses a modicum of code from the terraform cloud SDK. I th
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by leg100 3y ago
“I stress, this is the euro area. It does not change my suggestion on the role of interest rates, which are a peculiarly UK phenomenon.” A strange remark. I understand that the ECB interest rate is a little behind the curve but I don't
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by leg100 3y ago
The housing crisis is universal. There's been growing inability to build in many countries, as the article readily admits. People can't afford homes across the world: USA, Canada, Australia, even China, where supply isn't a p
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by leg100 4y ago
This is incorrect. This is not the first-ever strike. There were wildcat strikes across the UK last summer, more widespread than today's it would appear: > https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523767/UK-A
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by leg100 4y ago
Fascinating. This is a great book: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Ai... It shows major railway stations from above. As the photos were taken long ago in the 50s and 60s they reveal how freigh
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by leg100 4y ago
God please don't. Turning everything into a playground to tickle infantile superficial tastes: conical shaped nonsense structures covered with primary colours, meaningless naff slogan in neon "Maybe it's because", render
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by leg100 4y ago
What's the issue with bog standard selects? Is it purely aesthetics, or are there accessibility problems?
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by leg100 4y ago
> Flash stores its vector graphics in XML format. You might argue that XML is a poor choice for graphics data, but you weren't a product manager at Macromedia. SVG would beg to differ.
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by leg100 4y ago
> Electricity prices would still be through the roof. The prices are all set on the international markets. Only to the extent that electricity can be imported and exported via international connectors, which are of course limited in thei
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by leg100 4y ago
How does one perform deployments with go+sqlite? With a client-server database such as postgres your app and database are on separate servers, and you can perform a blue-green, canary, etc, deployment of the app, spinning up new servers run
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by leg100 4y ago
No mention of the role and benefit of contributors to your open source project? I would have thought that is the main benefit: many hands make light work. Cathedral and the bazaar etc. In the case of this chap sounds like it never got to th
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by leg100 4y ago
> ...equity is literally communism. That's incorrect. The goal or schema of communism is not "equal outcomes". That might be the crude rubric of some state capitalist societies of the past, e.g. equal wages regardless of r
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by leg100 4y ago
Don't worry, they are pretty interchangeable, depending upon context. The dictionary definitions show both can be used for the same meaning, say for equal rights and for actual equal carving out of resources and means. Or something spe
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by leg100 4y ago
The dollar was 87p ten days ago, it's 92p now. It get you're quoting USDGBP but what you say doesn't make any sense to anyone not sitting at a forex desk.
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by leg100 4y ago
I don't think Bukowski did find it easy. He's saying he could only write poetry for its own sake and for no other motivation whatsoever and reaching that point is hard and may never come but realizing this essential point saves yo
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by leg100 4y ago
I'd be careful with these ideas of countries being generally wealthy these days. Germany and the UK as with elsewhere has a large minority who could only dream of such temperatures in the middle of winter in their home. Many will go wi
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by leg100 4y ago
"...likely open the whole place to libel claims" What rot. Any HN story comment is subject to "libel claims" in jurisdictions with poor free speech protections (e.g. Britain), not only "X is hiring stories". Co
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by leg100 4y ago
There is no average that does not hide information. To point out the obvious, the perfect information is the underlying data. If there are 10 people in the economy then just provide those 10 data points. If there is a million people, then p
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by leg100 4y ago
The crossrail train seats are damn hard on the bum. There is a trend with public transport upholstery to go from the spring-bedded seats of olde to a mere veneer of fabric atop some plastic. Why bother with any fabric? I suspect the new sea

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