philjohn

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by philjohn 4y ago
And HFCS?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Having had a trackpoint laptop since the 90's, the only thing that I found I could switch to when moving to a job that gave all engineers Mac's was the MBP track pad - the gestures and precision/feel just about made up for t
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by philjohn 4y ago
I got a highish quality webcam (the Dell one with no mic, I use airpods) for this reason. It looks MUCH better than a built in webcam, not up to the level of a mirrorless camera, but not that you can really tell on a compressed stream.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I feel this may be hyperbole.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Except it's my belief that Apple is doing this so that THEY are the ones collecting and using this data, under the guises of privacy. See also getting into Ads after kneecapping the competition.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Yes - the Sonos Arc + sub + 2 rear channels sounds amazing after using the built in sound tuning, and got a pretty damn good review in What HiFi.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It eats their margin, marginally (typically 5% kickback if a dealership meets sales figures, per car) as they're almost entirely franchises. But that dealer network means when you need your car serviced, or repaired, you're never
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by philjohn 4y ago
Also the Blood Libel against Jewish people, of which QAnon is just the latest incarnation.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Tesla has 14% of the EV market, VW Group has 12% - and closing fast. They also have a much larger dealership network.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Having moved from a Windows Mobile device (MDA Vario 2) to the iPhone 3GS it was clear that the former had no place calling itself a "smart" phone.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Huh - I'm not a million miles away from Cov (Rugby) and never felt particularly unsafe there, then again, I've only been there at night a couple of times.
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by philjohn 4y ago
In what way were you not likely to make it home? This was a place in South Staffordshire, on the chase line.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Until 9 years ago I was living in a 3 bed semi detached within commuting distance of Birmingham, near a trainline, monthly season ticket was £90 - mortgage was around £400 a month - interestingly, houses there are still relatively afforda
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by philjohn 4y ago
I'm STILL salty that Teenage Bounty Hunters got cancelled.
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by philjohn 4y ago
See also Chernobyl being full of actors with British accents ... jarring for about 30 seconds, and then you don't even realise for the rest of the show, because it's just that good.
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by philjohn 4y ago
A lot can happen in 20-40 years, and has happened in 20-40 years throughout history. Industrial Revolution, being a prime example. We've also become far more interconnected in the last 20 years, which plays a large part - whereas befor
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by philjohn 4y ago
I think this is more a feature of people flocking to more shallow documentaries, which pushes them up the recommendation funnel. Icarus was fantastic, for instance, but of potentially limited appeal (which is a shame, as it touches on a lot
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by philjohn 4y ago
Yes - agree here. Father to two Autistic children, both of whom are high functioning, attend mainstream school, excel etc. The sheer burnout my son faces after dealing with social events is palpable - masking utterly drains him.
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by philjohn 4y ago
You could try looking into the Influx stack - I have InfluxDB 2.x running, which has it's own built in dashboarding tool which (I find) has a lower learning curve than Grafana. Then to feed it metrics use Telegraf.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I can't answer for the author, but I can answer for myself. First of all, I have a little bit of fault tolerance with using ZFS and ZRaid 2 with 6 disks - so I'm good until 2 disks have failed. But more than that, everything is ba
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by philjohn 4y ago
Depends what you're optimising for - reliable, collaborative workers, or a visionary CEO.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Unlike others here, my goal isn't to be "google free" or "apple free" but instead to have backups so that I'm not reliant on a cloud platform going away. To that end, my main server (self built around an Asrock
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by philjohn 4y ago
Disparate news agencies?
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by philjohn 4y ago
It's a precis of what an IC has achieved over the last performance cycle. Can't speak for Google, but where I am it's focussed on the impact you've achieved in various axes.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Same as lots of other people writing that it's definitely, 100% a liberal clerk, and even linking to their supposed suspects LinkedIn with 0 evidence?
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by philjohn 4y ago
My money is on Ginny Thomas, seeing the tides shifting and not supporting this, decided to put it out. That news agencies and commentators on the right IMMEDIATELY communicated in Lockstep about "this leak is an egregious affront to th
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by philjohn 4y ago
See also RaspAP - turns your raspberry pi into a wireless access point. I have one setup in a Raspberry Pi 400 for when I travel - it's configured as a wireguard peer back to inside my home network so any devices I connect to it are be
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by philjohn 4y ago
Which is why there being $300 standalone headsets is great for democratising access - and hopefully that price will lower over time.
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by philjohn 4y ago
UK citizen here - yeah, it's supper annoying. It's to verify you're over 18 as that's the age at which you can obtain a credit card. You can though ring the mobile phone provider and tell them to turn off the block - and
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by philjohn 4y ago
I work for one of the companies on the list, and touch Haskell every now and then on the job - maybe it's because I worked with quite a few functional languages when I studied for my degree (Artificial Intelligence, started in 1998), b

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