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by leonroy 7y ago
I think the quote obstensibly attributed to Lincoln is apt: ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.’ The public in aggregate have a per
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by leonroy 7y ago
> The likely driving force that is causing it is the manufacturers BOM costs. Whilst I think this is part of it's about more than just reducing the BOM. There's a trend to move all interfaces from knobs and switches to touch sc
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by leonroy 7y ago
Just spitballing, but as Facebook use declines I'd imagine their huge data center resources will become increasingly less utilised. They clearly have some incredible data center engineers (see https://www.opencompute.org&#x2
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by leonroy 7y ago
Apple were a computing company until they weren’t. Amazon was a bookstore until it expanded into web services of all things. I remember what an eye opener the success of AWS was too everyone on the outside. Google was a search/ad compa
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by leonroy 7y ago
> You should throw out all the games. This resonates a lot. I used to be a huge gamer, but as I moved along my career I had less time and less mental bandwidth to game. In a pique of nostalgia I tried one last hurrah recently and built a
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by leonroy 7y ago
Yes, http://archive.is/3WT8X
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by leonroy 7y ago
This post is gold, thanks @ptrott2017. I've figured out about 50% of the stuff in this post already (hard won), but if anyone's starting out this content pretty much sums up the majority of B2B and B2E sales steps. I'd add th
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by leonroy 7y ago
Reminds me of how the British stationed in 19th century India used to use quinine to ward off malaria. Apparently in its raw form it's incredibly bitter so the soldiers started to mix it with water and sugar and voila - tonic water was
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by leonroy 7y ago
> "The mess we're in" famous talk by joe amstrong For anyone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 Fantastic watch, thanks for recommending. Sad to hear that Joe Armstrong passed away a few wee
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by leonroy 7y ago
Zabbix is a bit opaque to tune and the support forums aren't super helpful unlike say Nagios. That said it does some really cool stuff like tree walking across all the HP switches on our network, auto monitoring all ports it finds and
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by leonroy 7y ago
> Our current planet was made habitable by organisms infinitesimally less intelligent than humans. I'm a big Musk/Bezos fan too and share their dreams of colonizing the solar system but let's be fair, our amoeba ancestors
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by leonroy 7y ago
Giving equal air time to falsehoods and inciteful language is in my opinion dangerous. An anti-vaxxer should not be given the same air time as a scientifically accredited researcher who has decades of research behind them. We don't giv
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by leonroy 7y ago
One thing about Walmart is that whilst the prices are cheap, the quality is actually reasonable. They're certainly not as bad as say Flying Tiger or some of these purveyors of poorly crafted tat. Most t-shirts and bits and pieces which
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by leonroy 7y ago
Did you have any performance issues after enabling pfBlockerNG? I have a pretty hefty pfSense box but running pfBlockerNG caused all sorts of weird slow downs of DNS resolution through the pfSense DNS Resolver for all clients.
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by leonroy 8y ago
Heheh, I ended up in the same boat. Enamoured with tile based rendering (and the lower price) I bought the PowerVR based Apocalypse 3dx which also had a shortage of supported titles. All my school friends had 3dfx cards. Didn’t get to do 3D
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by leonroy 8y ago
That’s surprising about IBM but good to hear - was your experience there before or after Lou Gerstner’s turnaround?
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by leonroy 8y ago
> I have seen in the UK solder used to physically block usb ports on laptops With devices moving to USB-C for data and charging I wonder how security companies are going to prevent physical access to USB ports...
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by leonroy 8y ago
Pretty accurate, there was an air quality report which compared about 3-4 samples of them with commercial air monitors - the lab found them adequate with some but not massive sample variance. They were the best of the consumer models tested
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by leonroy 8y ago
Can’t speak for OP but I’ve been using the IQAir Air Visual Pro and can support everything they’ve said. I try to keep CO2 around 400-500 in my office and home but it spikes surprisingly fast with even one person breathing in a medium sized
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by leonroy 8y ago
You actually only have to go back a year or two to pick up AAA titles for £5 or so. I recently picked up Batman Arkham Knight for £4 and Doom for ~£7. Both absolutely phenomenal games, graphics that rival anything out in 2018 and of course
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by leonroy 8y ago
Dunno...one man band here until very recently. I had Github > CircleCI > Heroku automatic deploys on pass implemented on my own with LogDNA + Sentry.io to catch errors and monitor output. Using Clubhouse to manage mine and the other d
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by leonroy 8y ago
I left after 8.5 years...sometimes you move on for more than money.
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by leonroy 8y ago
So here’s something the boss of my previous company did when I went to work for him straight out of university. First year I earned a low junior dev salary. Third year after delivering a few projects and company financials improving I recei
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by leonroy 8y ago
There have been at least two occasions in the past three years that I remember where Apple had to recall or issue firmware updates for SSDs due to corruption issues. It’s a big IF to depend solely on flash based error checking. I think Ap
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by leonroy 8y ago
I'd say that what you get out of these pieces is what you're willing to put in. For example with this HBR article (which is pretty good) there are some actions you could take and if you wrote them down, re-read the piece periodica
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by leonroy 8y ago
> China is a communist state. Yet its market operates more like a capitalistic one. It's also not entirely fair to point the finger wholly at China on CO2 output when Europe and the US have effectively outsourced their manufacturing
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by leonroy 8y ago
2 hours per day and 66 pickups. I feel I've been curbing my usage a lot since Screen Time got added to the iPad/iPhone. Mainly Slack, Messages, Feedly and Safari.
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by leonroy 8y ago
As an engineer who used to work for other firms I would work at a significant pay reduction to do fulfilling work. Companies who have shady business practises are a significant turn off and I doubt I’m the only one. Now as a manager who has
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by leonroy 8y ago
> The weirdest part about all this is that Obama was deeply religious I really did not get that impression at all from his book Dreams From My Father. A quick Google suggests that both his father and mother were atheists at points in the
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by leonroy 8y ago
I remember this coming out my first year of college and taking the boot disk for a spin. At the time it was pretty cutting edge and the demos made it seem very polished and useful. In actuality the live version was rough round the edges, fo

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