philjohn

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811.
by philjohn 4y ago
Which is going to be impossible, so women need to suffer. Great.
812.
by philjohn 4y ago
I've not been in the space for 6 years at this point, but a lot of the "cool stuff" being done seems to have died down - partly this was some bad decisions (IMHO) taken by the committee looking to replace Marc21 (Bibframe?),
813.
by philjohn 4y ago
They are indeed alive, but the promise of the "web of data" has somewhat fallen by the wayside.
814.
by philjohn 4y ago
It's not so much the data model, as the interlinkedness (for lack of a better term) that was very much posited as the way forward. In the Bib world things like the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) so every system talking abo
815.
by philjohn 4y ago
I spent 6 years working with RDF Quad Stores on a user facing piece of software for the public and academic library market. RDF was an excellent fit, data model wise, for bibliographic data and SPARQL was nice to work with. I wish it had ta
816.
by philjohn 4y ago
Some republican lawmakers want the court to overturn Griswold next, which also relies on the right to privacy this decision seems to be striking down.
817.
by philjohn 4y ago
Because some states lawmakers are unaware that ectopic pregnancy is a thing that will kill both mother and foetus if not handled as a medical emergency (Tennessee)
818.
by philjohn 4y ago
The Amiga hardware was very reliable, an emulator running on another platform would give me pause if I were still performing live.
819.
by philjohn 4y ago
Be utterly rock solid in a live setting
820.
by philjohn 5y ago
But does it have the same discovery mechanisms once things get to a certain size? As much as many people hate "the algorithm" it's a useful tool to be recommended accounts you may be interested in following.
821.
by philjohn 5y ago
Carplay/Siri is a big one - I can send a text, play music, listen to a podcast without taking my eyes off the road.
822.
by philjohn 5y ago
I believe it was immediate, but I don't have the grant document anymore to check.
823.
by philjohn 5y ago
The last place I worked had an explicit clause in the RSU agreement that essentially said "if we get bought the price per share for unvested stock will be given to you as cash".
824.
by philjohn 5y ago
Wonder if their RSU grants have a clause that converts them to cash in the event of a takeover. And having been in a company that was taken over, it's a mixture of emotions - is my job safe, will this be the same culture I joined for e
825.
by philjohn 5y ago
It was a disgrace in the late 90's when I lived there as well - but they tore that one down and the current bullring was a different kettle of fish ... for how much longer though?
826.
by philjohn 5y ago
I work close to Oxford street as well, and yes, it feels seedy now, almost like in the 80's at times. Generally, this is more "death of the high street" stuff. Visit the Bullring in Birmingham and one whole wing is largely de
827.
by philjohn 5y ago
Yes and no. Some of it seems genuine, but then you had the pocket debacle, as well as offering Google as the default search engine. They're all for privacy (which is a selling point) until there's money on the line. Much like Appl
828.
by philjohn 5y ago
How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?
829.
by philjohn 5y ago
Same - and this is really the crux of the matter. You are in control of how toxic your social media experience is. Find that a group or particular person is making your world a worse place? Unfollow/Unfriend. People bemoan the Facebook
830.
by philjohn 5y ago
That's fair. In the end though, I got fed up with my consumer gear (Orbi mesh system) never being very reliable, so had the house wired for Cat 6 and shoved a UDM Pro, USW-Pro-48-Poe and 3 U6 Pro access points in and it's been far
831.
by philjohn 5y ago
With rising energy costs I recently coalesced onto a pared down homelab. 2U server with 6 4TB drives (ZRaid 2 leaving 16TB of usable space) running on an Asrock Rack WSI 246 mini itx board, a Core i3 9100T (35w, can be configured as a 25w p
832.
by philjohn 5y ago
Happens (although less often now) in Formula 1 as well - brand new parts being sent over in a private jet, or commercial, to test and race that weekend.
833.
by philjohn 5y ago
Must vary from manufacturer to manufacturer - this is a Bosch that's now coming up to about 11 years old, and thankfully still going strong after a temperature sensor and heating element swap a few years ago.
834.
by philjohn 5y ago
Not sure if that's a regional thing - I've taken mine apart a few times to repair various things, and the electronics aren't coated in anything (UK)
835.
by philjohn 5y ago
Abolishing right to buy once it had happened was bolting the stable door after the horse had bolted. The council housing stock was already gone. And we're not talking about her foreign policy per se (Pinochet excluded) but the toll she
836.
by philjohn 5y ago
The big issue I have over the whole "chargergate" is that Apple announced it as "being green", which, sure, it is. But the real reason they did this was to maintain their huge margins - cutting the cost of the charger AN
837.
by philjohn 5y ago
You might want to read up on some of the things she did whilst in power. Supported the Pinochet regime for starters, as well as the behind the scenes behaviour in the miners strike. Right to buy leading to a shortage of council houses which
838.
by philjohn 5y ago
Having worked with a remote dev team in Romania it was actually pretty solid. Fast to services locally peered, slower to elsewhere, but still miles better than what I had in the UK at the time. And for telecommunications, which are definite
839.
by philjohn 5y ago
It's patchy - I've got FTTP in Warwickshire, and also have the option of Virgin Cable (I'd rather not). But yes, if an area is in a "not spot" you're stuffed - which is why things like B4RN took off.
840.
by philjohn 5y ago
LLU, and now the successor to it with FTTX where OpenReach manages the last mile and has a capped fee they can charge ISP's has done wonders for competition in the broadband space. You have "pack em in and sell it cheap" prov

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