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by leonroy 6y ago
I travel on the Northern line on the London Underground to get to work and the sound of the trains nowdays hits 100dBA or more of extremely loud screeching: https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png I went as far as lodging an offici
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by leonroy 6y ago
I really don't get the Dyson hate for their vacuums, are the newer models rubbish or something? My folks have old the DC02 (bought in 1996 or so and still running) and I own the DC25 (11 years on and still works great).
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by leonroy 6y ago
> Dyson is private, and James Dyson doesn’t want to accept investment or inject his own capital into the effort. I think this is it. It's not that Dyson couldn't have made an EV. It's more that this would have been an iPho
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by leonroy 6y ago
> From what I've heard from employees, software is looked down on by management and is not really something they 'get'. Things like app connectivity are after thoughts and not core to their products. That is a surprise - o
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by leonroy 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZcnIEi710
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by leonroy 6y ago
I started as a dev in a small software consultancy and worked there for 9+ years. I too felt the owner was too concerned to saying yes to every customer and contract and gave short shrift to the technical side of the business. I also felt s
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by leonroy 6y ago
WeWork do private glass cubicles - they get thoroughly cleaned daily. I had one for a few years, it certainly has a door but the walls are made of lots of glass panes with nothing to seal the gaps - so you see and hear everything your neigh
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by leonroy 6y ago
> Even I thought Disney plus might be the beginning of the end for Netflix, that it finally met a Goliath it couldn't best, but now even that isnt obvious anymore. I think Disney painted themselves in a corner buying every studio an
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by leonroy 6y ago
> Although my wife's brother has been pushing for the entire family to move somewhere cheaper. He keeps pointing out that if we all sold our houses in California we could buy a mega-compound in Oklahoma. I've seen first hand ho
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by leonroy 6y ago
> if one drinks (I don't), it must be easier. True in the past, but a non-issue these days, especially with younger colleagues. > Also, being "white" helps, I think Maybe in very provincial communities in parts of the c
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by leonroy 6y ago
A few years back I started to get a $12 charge from Lastpass on my Paypal account. I cancelled my account at Lastpass over 6 years ago so was puzzled why, especially since they don’t offer any sort of $12 service. It took a lot of emails an
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by leonroy 6y ago
> The calendar notification is very random. Sometimes it fires, sometimes it does not. I have missed couple of meetings because notification popped after the meeting was over. I see something similar and assumed this happens because Mail
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by leonroy 6y ago
I think you're doing a disservice to the author's pretty in-depth self-study. The author even states at the beginning of their article: > I believe that this experiment provides strong evidence that I experienced no major cog
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by leonroy 6y ago
Good grief, you weren't kidding. Page size is 11.64MB without any ad blocking and 3.91MB with. For a 3 image article with ~600 words 3.91MB is still a bit much.
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How we use Heroku and Git for continuous integration and deployment(boxpeg.com)
1 points by leonroy 6y ago|0 comments
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by leonroy 6y ago
The best signup experience I’ve seen is at nextdns: https://nextdns.io/ I clicked on Try it free expecting to go from a typical startup Wordpress site to a JavaScript signup form where I’d fill in an email, password etc.
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by leonroy 6y ago
I run this on a cron to auto update PiHole: #!/bin/sh LOG_FILE=/var/log/update_pihole.log echo "Starting upate" >> $LOG_FILE date >> $LOG_FILE pihole -up >> $LOG_F
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by leonroy 6y ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080059 sigh
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by leonroy 6y ago
Thanks for that, the Mechanics videos you linked to which deep dive into the machines functionality and hardware are great and what Microsoft really should've included in their blog post. Microsoft Mechanics YouTube channel: https:&#x
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by leonroy 6y ago
One of the things that still chills is me is how Palo Alto city council decided to fell an entire street of old trees to make it look tidy: http://www.paulgraham.com/californiaavenueoaks.html That said if you ever fly over
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Ask HN: Are we downvoting comments because we disagree?
46 points by leonroy 6y ago|39 comments
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by leonroy 6y ago
I too had been scratching my head at the recent stock market performance which seems to be defying gravity. These two sources helped me understand more about what is happening and why: 1. * Sectors of the economy are down, such as energy
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by leonroy 6y ago
Are multiple used smaller drives really more cost effective than fewer new larger drives once you take into account cost of power, HBA, backplane and lifetime of used drives? I'm a data hoarder too (proof): https://i.imgur.c
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Setup up your own Jitsi Meet server in less than 15 minutes(brring.com)
7 points by leonroy 7y ago|0 comments
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by leonroy 7y ago
Your comment is insightful - enough that I shared it with my biz partner but yeah I’d tone it down and keep posting, important to avoid herd opinions.
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by leonroy 7y ago
OP did say ‘rates devs’ - guessing they mean contractors who are typically £550-600 per day which works out to around £130k p/a (before NI, taxes, etc).
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by leonroy 7y ago
Here's the Jitsi architecture: https://i.imgur.com/oDSRzF4.png Screen grabbed from their excellent tutorial videos: https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/ One thing we’ve found in deployin
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by leonroy 7y ago
1. Yes, it has pretty high CPU usage unfortunately and that’s despite the attempts of Jitsi to offload h264 encoding onto the clients. You could in theory lock it to standard definition video though which would reduce CPU usage a lot. 2. We
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by leonroy 7y ago
Hosting cost is the biggest barrier to building a video conferencing solution which scales to millions of users. We setup a Jitsi meet instance and with just 6 parties it pegged a core on the server CPU at 50%. Admittedly one of the users w
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by leonroy 7y ago
Also easy to skin and deploy - we setup a custom branded instance for our customers to use during the pandemic within a couple of days: https://meet.brring.com/ It’s rather incredible what it can do: * SIP gateway to suppor

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