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by nerdawson 5y ago
The UK and Norway found oil in the North Sea around the same time. Norway used that revenue to create the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The UK squandered it on tax cuts.
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by nerdawson 5y ago
By focusing on the process, lessons are learned and systems are put in place which leads to a cycle of improvement. When individuals are blamed instead, a culture of fear sets in and people hide / cover up their mistakes. Everybody los
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by nerdawson 5y ago
I’d be frustrated in the author’s shoes but far too much attention is paid to the CEO’s personal finances. Who knows what he walked away with after he’d sold his house and cleared the mortgage. Presumably he needs to buy another house after
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by nerdawson 5y ago
Euro 2020 only reinforced how important the BBC actually is. iPlayer were streaming matches in 4K HDR while ITV were pumping out shockingly poor resolution low frame rate content that was barely watchable. Hard to believe that ITV were the
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by nerdawson 5y ago
That seems like an awful lot of effort to go to for what really ought to be a settings toggle.
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by nerdawson 5y ago
Yeah, very poor judgement. What he did was deeply unethical and almost certainly illegal. You don't get a free pass to break into wherever you like simply because your intentions aren't malicious. That's what professional pen
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by nerdawson 5y ago
They used to but it was as hopelessly unreliable as the old file transfer progress bars.
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by nerdawson 5y ago
There are a million things TV manufacturers could do that would be a problem but I think we should be focusing our attention on what they actually are doing. Hardcoding DNS for example which makes Pi-hole ineffective. That is increasingly
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by nerdawson 5y ago
Automatically connecting to an open WiFi network without being instructed to do so seems reckless to say the least. Are you aware of any TVs that are doing that?
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TV manufacturers are responding, often clumsily and based on their self-interest (data collection), to what consumers want. Trying to find a dumb TV is like trying to find a car without a built in radio. You're welcome to leave it swit
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by nerdawson 5y ago
The deployment process for a site I used to work on would entail changing the owner of a folder. You would change the owner from the web server to your user, upload files, and then change it back. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data [folder] I’