ralferoo

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by ralferoo 2y ago
> the video I've posted goes into great detail, but you'd know that if you had watched it. Firstly, I'm sure you could have worked out that "your youtube" was shorthand for "the youtube video that you linked
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I presume the article was edited to change its headline after it was submitted to HN, but it's interesting that it doesn't match up with the HN title. It's still a subjective but positive title, but somehow feels like it has
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I too preferred the top right photo. Arguably, it has less detail in the tree line, the city is neither better or worse, just different, but for me the skyline and sky are far superior with the top right photo. Maybe this is prejudiced beca
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't have time to watch your youtube, however it's not really a myth, just no longer true. There was definitely a long period of time when it was kind of true. I say kind of because it's specifically a diocesan cathedral.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
And contradicting myself, I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusal_to_deal > Though in general, each business may decide with whom they wish to transact, there are some situations when a refusal to deal m
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Seems quite pricey to me: CPX11 - 2 shared vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB, 1TB bandwidth, €7.90 + VAT CCX13 - 2 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB, 1TB bandwidth, €21.50 + VAT For comparison with Germany, Finland and US with 20 TB bandwidth: CCX12 is €
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, he might have a case if they were all trying to collectively negotiate a massive discount. But when they all walk away and effectively say "enough is enough, we're done here" and have zero interest in returning to adver
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> Apparently in 2020, Google conducted a study looking to see what would happen to its bottom line if it “were to significantly reduce the quality of its search product.” The conclusion was even if the company made search shittier, the r
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I really dislike the way this slide deck is written. It's rewriting a failure of management (bad project planning, too few people for the workload) and presenting it a failure by all the team members. "The Hero decides that, despi
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> It isn’t their fault ... It’s the fault of ... > It used to be possible ... This is no longer possible. These statements are the very essence of the nihilism in the article. It doesn't matter if a situation is less advantageous
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Replying separately from my other reply, because I think this is a totally different issue and actually gets to the core of the issue in the article. > Rent has increased ... due to collusion among landlords, among other things. > ...
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, the UK is generally much cheaper than the US (at least the bigger cities). I also live in a fairly cheap city, where rents are about 3/4 of the rents of the next city along and probably half that of most of London. I actually jus
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by ralferoo 2y ago
As a late gen-X'er (I feel I have far more in common with millenials than my 12 years older brother, also gen-X), I think it actually is really interesting to see how some millenials and moreso gen Z see their financial problems as int
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's more hassle than middle-click to open something I plan to read in another tab.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
There seems to be a certain irony that working at a fulfilment centre sounds like one of the least fulfilling jobs you could do.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
A line printer sounds nothing like a dot matrix printer. They're much, much louder, and it's a continuous buzzing noise, like a chainsaw. Also, the output appears at a similar speed to a dot matrix doing a form feed. While the sou
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by ralferoo 2y ago
As this happened 40 years ago, it's possible the Austrian is no longer alive. It's also possible he wasn't even Austrian at all, although to be honest, no matter now many details were changed in the story, if any of it was tr
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by ralferoo 2y ago
You're right that there's a problem with recollection. I can't remember going through such a phase either, but I know I did because there are photos of me as a baby sticking things in my mouth (although in the photos these ar
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Not really. Their point was that you need to lick a lot of objects. My point is that it doesn't need to be a lot, just enough to be able to form generalisations based on other observable characteristics. It's about the degree of &
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> [H]ow would you teach that? I think the learner would just have to go lick a lot of things for themself. Actually, I don't agree with that. If I look around the room I'm in now, there are a LOT of different objects, and I can
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by ralferoo 2y ago
That's not quite what I meant, because these are still just single chip machines. I was specifically thinking of data centre use where more cores are obviously desirable, and in previous generations multi-chip designs were common e.g.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I wonder if we'll eventually start seeing a trend for chips to shrink in size. The existing Ampere chips are already massive (see previous STH videos etc), and most of that is because usually each time they double the number of cores,
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> the two-pizza rule: teams focused on a specific goal or project should be lean enough that two pies could suffice as a team meal. Today I learned that teams in Amazon should contain no more than 2 people.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I was going to flippantly reply that of course, it's just the name of a type of road. But then I thought to check Wikipedia [1] about it first. Quite interesting: > In western Europe, [...] ridgeways are a typical feature of long-di
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The King Alfred's Way bikepacking route [1] includes part of the Ridgway. I planned to do this last summer, but didn't get chance, and I'm not really fit at the moment enough having barely cycled since last summer, but maybe
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I guess it'd be harder to retrieve it from the seabed if there was an accident than from a train line, as you can always drive / build cranes to places on land. I doubt it'd rust through any time soon in the sea, but I'd
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by ralferoo 2y ago
As soon as I read the headline, I knew exactly what this was about! I'm not sure if it's still there (I left the area in 1988), but you used to be able to see the flask as it was placed next to the train track running to Heysham 2
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I was reading some discussion of this recently, and it seems that the common factor also seems to be overclocking and the fact that many motherboards are set up to default to overclock instead of running at the approved clock speed. And whe
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> “Le Thière” is French for “the third” Is this true? I know modern French is troisième, but I'd never seen this before, so I googled. There seems to be nothing on the internet about it, and remarkably few matches for Thière beyond
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> All of these clients want to have ballpark numbers of how many people visited the site. You don't need cookies for that. Again, as I've said before, you can for instance log data for technical reasons, e.g. wanting to post-mo

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