philjohn

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by philjohn 3y ago
Aerosols from pollution could be a culprit?
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by philjohn 3y ago
Would be great to see Wezterm, it's always felt snappy, and Wez is a damn smart cookie.
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by philjohn 3y ago
This feels like something that will be of benefit to the immunocompromised, or with conditions such as Asthma (RSV can be super non fun with Asthma)
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by philjohn 3y ago
Penalties are steep for not using it, and fortunately enough, landlords have property that can have a charge attached to it. Good luck getting another BTL mortgage.
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by philjohn 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/03/why-is-fa...
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by philjohn 4y ago
The calls by deficit hawks always seem much quieter when there's a republican administration.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Saying 48 hours now.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Part of the reason you should always have a long term holdout, so you can see how the win degrades over time, which with dark patterns, it can do.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I'm from the UK, but was in San Fran for a weekend last year. Did I ever feel unsafe? No. Was it sad seeing a lot of, very obviously mentally ill, homeless people? Yes. How to solve this? Hard to say.
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by philjohn 4y ago
This is a pretty good example of the things required to keep a service running reliably that likely would not be done by a commercial company with no delivery guarantee offered. I can't imagine FedEx, UPS et al going to these lengths.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It depends - a great model tuned to your business domain could be insanely valuable as a competetive advantage.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I connect to my Wireguard endpoint, then SSH into my home server and run a script that does etherwake for my desktop computer - a bit convoluted, but works well for when I need it.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It's not collapsed. My father had a TIA a few months ago, the ambulance was there in minutes, and he was treated in hospital and has made a full recovery. If you have a life-threatening issue, MI, stroke, cancer - you will be seen quic
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by philjohn 4y ago
But that covers your healthcare. No copays, deductibles, flat rate for all prescriptions of £9.50 per item (or £10.40 a month for 10 months for a prepayment certificate that covers as many items as needed). Insurance is also less, both cont
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by philjohn 4y ago
It would be interesting to see what the pension is like for this position - you're giving up lifetime earnings for retirement earnings (and "serving your country").
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by philjohn 4y ago
That's a trade-off I'm fine making, because time is in short supply - a snappier experience using my computer is worth it, and I have everything backup up in three places (Backblaze, 6 Drive RaidZ2 array in my home server, and fro
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by philjohn 4y ago
Most on the nose description I've seen. A lot of the "anti woke" brigade might want to try reading the source material, it was woke before that word was co-opted as a pejorative.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Was a heavy Snowflake user at my last company - and this is what we saw. Plenty of profiling tools to show why a query was taking a certain amount of time allowed us to optimise things, and also, the product seemed to get quicker over time.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Another option is to get the iPad (and magic keyboard and pencil) and remote desktop into your home machine. Put it behind a VPN, use wake-on-lan and boom, iPad is essentially a fully blown computer.
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by philjohn 4y ago
If we take the less cynical take, it'll end up in Youtube as audio description for people with visual impairments.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I read the ending differently - it's got two distinct parts. The first is a warning on populism - it falls apart quickly in the face of reality. Promising easy solutions to hard problems. The other is the Malthusian trap (explicitly no
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by philjohn 4y ago
If you haven't, check out the musical "Urinetown". Private toilets are banned, and all of the public conveniences are owned by a megacord - the UGC (Urine Good Company).
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by philjohn 4y ago
Can still get two Freddo's.
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by philjohn 4y ago
The faster you go, the more fuel you need. You'd have to have multiple refuelling stops to go the same distance.
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by philjohn 4y ago
They do - it's called buying T bills.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I mean - if we have another widespread banking crisis, people will die - literally. When GDP falls, excess deaths go up.
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by philjohn 4y ago
This is what I feel is a killer usecase for the "metaverse" or VR in general - especially as an educational tool. People who've tried certain VR experiences know it's SUPER immersive (seriously, I had a physical adrenali
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by philjohn 4y ago
Not Amazon - the clue is "You know, Cat Pics" - what's a service where you can share photos of things, like your life, your pets etc?
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by philjohn 4y ago
I go one further - the IoT VLAN (Sonos, Philips Hue, wifi controlled light strips, TV's) is hard segmented from my "trusted" VLAN (except for some specific holes punched so things like SSDP and streaming from a media server w
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by philjohn 4y ago
At that point, would a cheap VPS not work instead?

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