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by mattbee 5y ago
The author does seem to bang on about his "reasonable assumptions" for how much Wells and Apple Pay suck, so he should continue the call! Like he's just too clever to follow the advice he'd give everyone else to hang up
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by mattbee 5y ago
That is still Brompton money, and the seat position looks terrifying. For a cheap folding bike with gears, my Tern Link B7 was £400 a few year ago (£600 now) and has been all my London transport when I travel down alone. It's a lump
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by mattbee 5y ago
It is open source, and it's commercial. It's both. The word "Upgrade" is right there at the top of the page. It's not in the last surprising, or hidden, and thousands of businesses here promote themselves with a
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by mattbee 5y ago
Haha yes, and then also: "we want the internet to continue to operate as it was intended: without friction, in compliance with applicable laws — but not confined by national borders." We want the internet to be an unrestricted fre
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by mattbee 5y ago
They already have an abuse team; if they didn't want to host booters they would resource it appropriately. e.g. I imagine they're pretty good at not hosting CSAM, however much gets thrown at them.
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by mattbee 5y ago
Cloudflare are doing some really interesting edge network services, and real competition for the big clouds. But why do they still host network-destroying tools like ipstress.in, str3ssed.co, cybervm.io, instant-stresser.com and stresser.ap
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Drop and Run(cen.acs.org)
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by mattbee 5y ago
I know! I did a sharp I take of breath at that number too!
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by mattbee 5y ago
I meant the term "Jobseeker's Allowance" is a relatively new name for unemployment benefits in the UK, not that the UK is the only place that pays them. Somebody else asked the OP where in Europe they had moved to, which is
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by mattbee 5y ago
(in the UK)
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by mattbee 5y ago
He forgot one: inline the font data (evil cackle). This made sense for me in conjunction with subsetting for a stopwatch app that only needs 10 digits and a colon. I submit it's not so bad if you inline it with the rest of your styling
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by mattbee 5y ago
If this global replicated architecture is now a nice, polished, improving hosting product - how come so many well-funded global brands don't appear to benefit from an architecture like it? Like Airbnb taking many seconds to load many p
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by mattbee 5y ago
£200k / year, in the UK? That's about 2-5 depending on experience.
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by mattbee 5y ago
I'd never heard of it (42) but I asked my wife and she figured it must exist because the Major orders it in Fawlty Towers.
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by mattbee 5y ago
> It’s a subset of a common, but dishonest, technique of using false equivalence to downplay or exaggerate one thing. In the first sentence the author identifies as an "sober addict" - so not without authority, they're cla
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by mattbee 5y ago
Oh I see! Right, yes, that applies to my two inverters, which have an "off grid" mode which I don't use for this reason. The electrician who wired in the system offered to add in an isolator to cut the house off from the main
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by mattbee 5y ago
How cool, I didn't know that was possible. So CHAdeMO lets EVs discharge as well as charge? I assumed you were talking about a hack. So why can't that particular inverter be connected to your home? I have _two_ separate solar
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by mattbee 5y ago
What kind of inverter could you use to connect an old traction battery to supply your house? (I have a Leaf and solar backed by a 4.5kWh battery so... for the future I suppose)
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by mattbee 5y ago
Firstly - software is too cheap to ship, and has removed the economic incentive for quality. Floppy discs or CD-ROMs or game cartridges used to cost real money. Broken software would be publicly embarrassing and long-lived. Some users mig
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by mattbee 5y ago
The illustration is hilarious - appears to be a gigawatt laser scoring a hit on Mothra.
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by mattbee 5y ago
It was a whole new RISC CPU. Lots of co-processors are whole CPUs. Argonaut spun a company off, and it's still shipping - the inventor said it outsold ARM and MIPS before the PS1 (from https://web.archive.org/web&#x2F
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by mattbee 5y ago
Not that it helped Acorn survive, of course! Right up until the end, RISC OS ran on interrupts, too much delicate kernel code, cooperative multitasking, and unprotected memory. They weren't the only CPU pioneers; Argonaut didn't
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by mattbee 5y ago
Pivot is a bittersweet description, and ARM was a new spin-off founded in 1990 alongside Apple. Acorn renamed itself to Element 14 Ltd in 1998 and sold off the assets from their home computer business. They built DSL kit for a couple of y
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by mattbee 5y ago
Yes I thought that was odd too! OP mentions keeping manual records of "docker run" commands and that it might need some improvement... Well apart from that detail that's exactly what I do for my stack of personal sites. &q
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by mattbee 5y ago
This bit me the other way in JavaScript a couple of weeks back! I'd been used to Ruby which never returned negative numbers, but JavaScript follows C and it messed me up for 20 minutes.
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by mattbee 5y ago
I'm thinking of busy British A roads going from 2 to 1 lane, usually the last merge point is at a standstill. I've witnessed insanely aggressive behaviour by drivers trying to block others' merges. My driving instructor alway
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by mattbee 5y ago
Pffff people said this 15 years ago. Hotmail is an occasional pain for the self-adminstered email server, everyone else works fine IME.
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by mattbee 5y ago
Hang on, what's morally wrong with merging late? Speed is lower, and you're using the highway more efficiently.
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by mattbee 5y ago
Absolutely, and I'm sure this is very industrially & culturally-specific experience. I don't blame OP for not being able to distinguish. (though I wouldn't have even read the whole email before hitting delete) Personall
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by mattbee 5y ago
From a British perspective this sound like madness. We have a tradition of referring baseless legal threats to the precedent of Arkell v Pressdram.

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