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by orobinson 5y ago
That's because the chances of serious illness with Covid in under 5s is extremely small. Here in the UK nobody under 12 has been vaccinated except those who are extremely vulnerable. The data for England[0] puts the death rate within 2
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by orobinson 5y ago
Skilled senior engineers working for hedge funds or in low latency trading can get paid that much but I've never seen tech salaries that high in any other industry in the UK.
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by orobinson 5y ago
What worked for me is getting a good book and working through it. I’ve been using this one https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2506894
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by orobinson 5y ago
I started learning the piano a year and a half ago. I make electronic music and was becoming frustrated by my limited musical knowledge acting as a barrier to creating more complex arrangements. I've found the best way to get stuck int
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by orobinson 5y ago
Intel Q6600 I presume? Great CPU. PC I a built in 2008 has the same. I recently retrieved it from my parents’ attic and updated it to Windows 10 - still works like a charm.
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by orobinson 5y ago
This is exactly why I started using Apple Music. Some of my music collection isn’t on streaming platforms but Apple Music let’s me host it and stream it in a library right alongside music I don’t “own”. I also generally like the paradigm of
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by orobinson 5y ago
I have the first (2015) version of the 12”, it’s still my main laptop. It’s powerful enough for light coding and music production which is all I need. I love the form factor and if they brought a new one out with an M1 chip I’d buy it in a
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by orobinson 5y ago
At lower data volumes (<10,000 events per minute) it’s perfectly feasible to just use single partition topics and then ordered event delivery is no problem at all. If a consuming service has processing times that means horizontal scaling
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by orobinson 5y ago
One hypothesis is this is due to schools closing for the summer holidays. The month long UK lockdown in November last year where schools remained open did not slow the rate of cases as much as the April 2020 and January 2021 lockdowns where
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by orobinson 5y ago
Well by that logic if you have nothing, there's nothing you can do to it, so you will always have nothing, which reconciles quite nicely with multiplying numbers by 0 resulting in 0.
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by orobinson 6y ago
As someone who’s only managed to put out one single in the past 5 years, I’m intrigued to give this a go.
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by orobinson 6y ago
Iceland seems to have a very relaxed approach to health and safety. I visited in 2006 and remember walking around boiling pools of mud on very slippery ground with nothing but a single token piece of rope to prevent tourists from slipping a
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by orobinson 6y ago
“When you seek advice, first write down everything you’ve tried.” Remote working has made this super easy as often the way of reaching out to people is with a Slack message or equivalent. So many times over the past year I’ve answered my ow
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by orobinson 6y ago
I have an on/off electronic music project that spawned out of the witch house scene back in 2010. I haven’t released anything for a while but I’m still making stuff occasionally. Hoping to get something new out this year at some point
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by orobinson 6y ago
Just curious, for what reasons would you choose MySQL over Postgres?
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by orobinson 6y ago
Yup.. I’ve been there and it sucks. Only realising after your load of ~1 billion records has almost completed after several hours that there were a couple of duplicated rows and the PK constraint failed.
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by orobinson 6y ago
Not even retirement, 30 years after graduating. I do wonder how the government managed to sell so many of those loans on when I expect a small minority will ever end up getting fully repaid, given the high-ish interest and earning threshold
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by orobinson 6y ago
Amazing that people will be getting vaccinated against coronavirus before the year is out. Is there any evidence of whether these vaccines prevent transmission of the virus yet? Or so far do we just know that they protect the person who is
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UK approves Pfizer vaccine rollout(bbc.co.uk)
34 points by orobinson 6y ago|1 comments
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by orobinson 6y ago
I’ve always wondered why I found Biology less interesting than Physics or Chemistry at school and this article certainly hits the nail on the head. However I think in more recent years I’ve come to appreciate it at as an interesting subject
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by orobinson 6y ago
Try watching til the end...
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by orobinson 6y ago
The heuristic I use for choosing a statically typed language vs a dynamically typed language for a task is whether or not the code will sanely fit in a single file. If that is the case, then that means I’ll probably be able to keep the stru
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by orobinson 6y ago
I’ve got an ESP32 board sitting in a box somewhere that I’ve been meaning to get out and fiddle with. This has certainly piqued my interest. Are there any good resources you could link to that you found useful when connecting to those kind
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by orobinson 6y ago
As the article mentions, it seems more likely that the decreasing death rate is due to higher rates of young people being infected vs older people. Also due to increased testing catching the less severe cases. Back in April here in the U.K
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by orobinson 6y ago
I've always been fascinated by this event. I would love to see a realistic CGI recreation given the absence of actual footage. However, this write up is the next best thing.
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by orobinson 6y ago
One thing that does seem to be rarely mentioned is the weird rashes Covid can cause. My son and I both had a strange rash on our knees and feet that I’ve never experienced before. It looked exactly like the erythemato-papular or erythemato-
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by orobinson 6y ago
Nothing quite matches that triumphant moment when you finally discover the root cause of an issue that's been bothering you for days.
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by orobinson 6y ago
Great site. I’ve taken a couple of pictures like this as this whole situation really does feel like living through history and worth documenting. I’m glad I started keeping a journal in November last year. Being able to read how the crisis
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by orobinson 7y ago
Neat idea. Little bit of feedback: would be good if you could get the interface working nicely on mobile. It’s very cumbersome at the moment.
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Tips for Designing Iterable HTTP JSON APIs(orobinson.co.uk)
1 points by orobinson 7y ago|0 comments

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