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by leonroy 7y ago
I obsess about some real nonsense, from buying a Leica to moving to San Francisco and building a startup there. I mean sure, they're not impossible but they take money, planning and no small amount of sacrifice. Maybe it should be do w
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by leonroy 7y ago
> what should a large company do once they find themselves in a dying industry? This will sound snide but if a large company finds themselves in a dying industry it’s already too late. Much like how an ocean liner takes time to change di
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by leonroy 7y ago
I wouldn’t say HN is going down hill but one thing that I’ve noticed more of is downvoting because people disagree with the comment. That was never the intention behind downvoting privileges if I remember right. Down voting exists to bury f
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by leonroy 7y ago
Shameless plug but I’ve built a bunch of water cooled computers and even the more reliable ones like the Swiftech build below with John Guest push fits (rated for 25 years use) do eventually leak. https://www.leonroy.com/old
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by leonroy 7y ago
Inconsistent revenue is one - low price charged per transaction (usually) is another issue. Couple those with small subscription numbers to start with and you can see that it can take a while, if ever, before your SaaS can pay the bills.
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by leonroy 7y ago
I deal with a fair few lawyers here (in the UK) and most of them are in their 40s and 50s - freelancing between multiple firms or their own small one man firm and billing £100-200 per hour. Their businesses make money from their billable ho
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by leonroy 7y ago
I too would recommend consulting until your product can pay the bills. If you can find consulting clients who can potentially benefit from your app so much the better. Clients who commit to pilots or trials without committing cash are not w
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by leonroy 7y ago
To be honest I think they are converting parts of Gmail (or the Calendar part) into a walled garden already. I struggled yesterday to copy a work appointment from my Gmail Calendar in the web browser to my personal Calendar in Calendar.app
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by leonroy 7y ago
The universe is expanding, at a rate which I believe is heading past the speed of light. This limits our ability to reach galaxies further away from us as they are speeding away faster than we could conceivably travel since our engines woul
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by leonroy 7y ago
Assassin’s Creed Origins depicts the pyramids like that. Parts of Northern Egypt including Alexandria and the lighthouse are also depicted and interactive. It was praised enough that the developer introduced an education mode for schools to
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by leonroy 7y ago
It could be something as simple as men going out into the harsh Egyptian sun more and women being discouraged to do the same. In parts of Pakistan at least (where I was born) there is this sense of fairness of skin being a desirable trait (
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by leonroy 7y ago
Any idea how good the Awair monitors are? I recall a report saying they were just so-so but Awair recently updated them to be more accurate. I personally use an IQAir Air Visual which is highly rated and meant to be very accurate as far as
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by leonroy 7y ago
Plex transcoding mainly and yeah SABnzbd would take an eternity. The DS1019+ has no issue with transcoding from what I’ve read, and can handle even up to 4K right? I since switched to an Intel NUC running Ubuntu + Docker. I was able to use
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by leonroy 7y ago
Which Synology NAS are you using? Any SSDs on it? I tried a similar Dockersetup with a Atom C2000 based NAS and spinning disks and it was really easy to setup and maintain but painfully slow.
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by leonroy 7y ago
> The experience makes me not want another dog for which I would have to go through the end of life experience again. Sorry to hear, that’s tough. Our dog was 2 when our first child was born 7 years ago. She is slowing down now a fair bi
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by leonroy 7y ago
It does - kinda. What I’ve noticed is that as I and friends and relatives my age are having kids the pics aren’t going on FB so much. Instead, perhaps fueled by paranoia of over sharing or distrust in these platforms we post our kid pics on
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by leonroy 7y ago
The Economist wasn’t great either. Around 02-03 I distinctly remember them raving at the effective political strategy of the Bush administration in bangig the drums of war as a ruse to bring Saddam Hussein to the negotiating table. It was a
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by leonroy 7y ago
Slightly OT. Whilst the CD-i was a poor seller and far from the best gaming console of its generation it had the best digital video playback of any platform on the market thanks to its excellent MPEG-1 decoding add-on. PCs did have MPEG acc
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by leonroy 7y ago
This is foolish on HP’s part, not just because of the reputation fall out, but the low value of this data coupled with the massive risk it poses to governmental departments or journalists. We don’t know how the data is being sent or stored
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by leonroy 7y ago
Reading about that led me to this article about a water world that was discovered: ‘A giant waterworld that is wet to its core has been spotted in orbit around a dim but not too distant star’ With oceans 9000 miles deep (15000 km). For cont
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by leonroy 7y ago
I purchased a commercial freezer for our home basement. We feed our dog raw and a shelf fully loaded with frozen cubes of meat can weigh a considerable amount. I was skeptical that a consumer grade plastic freezer could hold the weight so I
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by leonroy 7y ago
Windows 10 Debloater is a pretty cool script which strips a tonne of cruft from Windows. Worked very well for me: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
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by leonroy 7y ago
Honestly, you won’t. But until your kid is in full time school a 20-30 minute workout even everyday is eminently doable. Run around the local park, pull ups on a bar in the door way, press-ups, lots of exercises you can do to stave off musc
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by leonroy 7y ago
This is something that bugs me about Old Street/Silicon Roundabout in London. I moved office from the Borough Market area (not exactly the most tree lined part of London) to right near the Old Street roundabout and the lack of greenery
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by leonroy 7y ago
The negative externalities of plastic bags to the environment after use are currently not priced by bag manufacturers into the product. I’d imagine cotton or hemp bags have a very low environmental impact once they’ve become landfill or wor
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by leonroy 7y ago
Reminds me of that quote: ’I’m sorry this letter is so long, I didn’t have time to make it shorter.’
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by leonroy 7y ago
One thing I'd love to know is how leaders who have faced incredibly stressful situations for sustained periods manage to push through. Hannibal the Carthaginian general for example spent nearly 20 years fighting the Romans on their own
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by leonroy 7y ago
The article describes declines in amount of sleep. Having just finished Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep I was surprised to discover that measurable cognitive effects and mental health problems like depression and anxiety occur when slee
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by leonroy 7y ago
> The more money you have, the longer your runway, and the more risks you can take on This resonates for me. It wasn’t until I significantly curbed my spending habits on frivolous luxuries and learned how to save that I was able to do th
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by leonroy 7y ago
Not the OP, but as an engineer I dug into art history too to broaden my outlook with this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280190.Art_History Not a cover to cover thing, but it was fascinating cherry pick

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