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by m-i-l 5y ago
In the UK there's been a £150m refurbishment of the Caledonian Sleeper trains from London to Scotland[0]. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47887656
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by m-i-l 5y ago
I got the flu when I was in my late 20s. Up until that point, in common I suspect with most teens and twenty-somethings, I had thought myself pretty much indestructible, so would never have even thought about getting a flu vaccine - I thoug
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Personally I'd prefer example.com/users/foo, or even example.com/u/foo, because (i) you don't need unusual characters like @ or ~, and (ii) you don't need server config to look for a wildcard in the root.
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Slightly off-topic, but can I say how great it is that there are still people doing things they like for fun, and sharing the experience with others on an advert-free platform without any particular expectations of profit? In my view that&#
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Paradigm shifts, at least in the Khunian sense, tend to happen over a generational scale, which means, firstly, that they take a considerable time to become recognised as the new paradigm, and secondly, that you tend not to see too many in
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by m-i-l 5y ago
@Ketan-fullstack & @jrussbowman Good luck with your projects. I sometimes wonder if us independent search engine developers should set up a discord or something to chat about what we're doing, because there are quite a few of us wo
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The double lives of white-collar workers with two jobs(theguardian.com)
18 points by m-i-l 5y ago|25 comments
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In the UK this recently led to a £100,000 fine: "A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire 'unjustifiably invaded' the privacy of a neighbour ... the devices ... broke dat
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Yes, looks good, although I thought it was going to be a federated search, i.e. you enter your search term and it performs that search on all the sites selected. The simpler way of implementing a federated search would be to show separate
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> who was handling the insurance before this? In the UK, "homeowners insurance" definitely wouldn't cover you for Airbnb style scenarios, and most "landlords insurance" wouldn't either, e.g. because you ne
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by m-i-l 5y ago
According to https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/you-com-523e they have received $20M in funding, so as long as they have a sensible burn rate, they could last for years before having to think about how to make a p
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Don't forget Apache Solr. In common with a number of other search engines including Elasticsearch, it is based on Apache Lucene. There are ports of Apache Lucene to a number of other languages (e.g. I noticed recently that the Rust por
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I was hoping that the paid listings for the search as a service would cover the running costs so it could be self-sustaining, although so far to be honest it is a long way off doing that.
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Didn't downvote, but I do know Scotland's land has been rising for quite a long time, and I believe the sea level rising is a relatively recent thing, so it is possible the land has been rising by more than the sea for a while, ev
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by m-i-l 5y ago
> Does anyone here have experience trying to build a search engine, even a "boutique" one, for the web? Is it something an individual could conceivably operate on their own? Yes, I've built a curated boutique search engi
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by m-i-l 5y ago
The UK equivalent was registered in 1996 for the "well known and respected Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb", allegedly to get around UK name registration rules.
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by m-i-l 5y ago
I can recommend starting a blog. The big thing, at least for me, is it that incentivises you to finish side-projects and complete thought pieces (at least finish/complete them enough to be able to write about them). Prior to starting m
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by m-i-l 5y ago
At first glance the Dujiangyan Zhongshuge Bookstore in Sichuan does look amazing, but if most of the bookshelves are actually bookshelf-patterned wallpaper then that is slightly disappointing.
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by m-i-l 5y ago
> Which search engines in 2021 give you real, interesting websites and not SEO gamed content pages that exist only to serve ads? You could try https://searchmysite.net/ which only includes user-submitted and moderated
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by m-i-l 5y ago
>There are very few things in an ICE car that "can wear out and require servicing" that aren't on the EV unless you count each nut, bolt and rod in an ICE car as a separate part that requires servicing. On the contrary,
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Key point for me was "It’s not a permanent solution, however - the sand is expected to last for about 15 years." It doesn't say whether the full £20m spend will be needed every 15 years though, but it sounds like it just buys
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Yes, it was turnips (known as swedes in England and rutabaga in the US) when I was young too. We also did guising, i.e. the dressing up and going around houses, which turned into trick or treating when it was exported to the US. The US-styl
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Yes, the article refers to what are called turnips (or neeps) in Scotland, i.e. the big yellowish ones that you make neeps and tatties with. I think they're known as swedes in England (although swede in Scotland often refers to the sma
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Does anybody know where to find information on what the "consistently fair algorithm to find relevant information" which "doesn't rank websites based on their authority" actually is? Or any other technical info, lik
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by m-i-l 5y ago
Another Strange article from A16Z. Open banking (PSD2 etc.) is primarily about open data and open APIs, not necessarily open source.
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Great writeup. Writing your own search index and crawler from scratch is a big undertaking, but sounds like the sort of thing you might have to do due to the constraints of Lambda. For the search index, the blog you link to ( https:/&#
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by m-i-l 5y ago
You can also search personal websites on https://searchmysite.net/ - kind of like wiby.me, but searching whole sites rather than individual pages, a little more transparent about what is in the index (e.g. queries to list a
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by m-i-l 5y ago
In the UK we had the IRA bombings[0] up until the mid-1990s which changed architecture and urban design. If you worked in the financial district in London, for example, you would have had to pass through the "ring of steel"[1] to
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Elizabeth Holmes: Has the Theranos Scandal Changed Silicon Valley?(bbc.co.uk)
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> "Scots pretty much is a dialect of English that is phonetically spelt out - it's not surprising that a US teenager could write it." No, there are a number of distinct linguistic features of Scots, and it has its own reg

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