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Will Dominic Cummings turn No 10 into a NASA-style control centre?(theguardian.com)
3 points by rikroots 7y ago|1 comments
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by rikroots 7y ago
Is this true only in the US? Or can Facebook argue that the settlement with the FTC effectively indemnifies them across other jurisdictions? I remember there being something about courts in different countries respecting each other's r
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by rikroots 7y ago
This looks - awesome. I'm trying to think of something more constructive to say, some questions about the processes and outputs ... but I'm too busy being jealous at the moment to think of anything.
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by rikroots 7y ago
I still miss AmigaOS ... the emulations are fantastic, but just don't feel the same to me.
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by rikroots 7y ago
In the UK it is against the law to ask people for their age on an application form (eg: no date of birth field). Also against the law to ask questions at interview which can be interpreted as ageist. The only exceptions are for legislated o
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by rikroots 7y ago
> they’re either jaded, stuck in their ways technologically, or obstinate towards being managed by people younger than them Again, (mostly) stereotyping: "jaded" - I'd argue this hits a lot of front end developers after ab
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by rikroots 7y ago
Not my experience. I've learned how to tweak my resume to a job spec while at the same time not giving an impression of my age (getting a degree with the Open University in my 40s really helps with that). It's at the face to face
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by rikroots 7y ago
I read Hacker News. It's a useful distraction from the work I'm supposed to be doing.
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by rikroots 7y ago
As far as I'm aware, browsers have been making use of any available GPU acceleration for rendering 2d contexts since 2012[1]? The example supplied by Google[2] (on the first link) definitely requests a 2d context for the canvas. [1] -
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by rikroots 7y ago
In our household we wash our glass and metal packaging for recycling in the old-fashioned way, with water and suds in the sink alongside the rest of the post-dinner washing up. It's a lot quicker than a dishwasher, uses a lot less wate
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by rikroots 7y ago
The British Plastics Federation have a nice (well, colourful) page on their website detailing the various ways plastic goods and packaging can be reused, recycled, etc - https://www.bpf.co.uk/packaging/recycling.aspx
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by rikroots 7y ago
I went Googling for an answer to refute your statement and came across this article from Science Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180323090958.h... - that supports your argument. In my vi
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by rikroots 7y ago
There will always be a need for landfill sites. And the current standards for their construction, use and end-of-life maintenance are vastly higher than they were 20 years ago. Sadly, making sure operational/new landfill sites stick to
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by rikroots 7y ago
Happily. Old landfill sites are not built to modern standards and are thus liable to erode, with the potential to contaminate the surrounding areas with a range of interesting toxins. They can also collapse (if they contained a significant
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by rikroots 7y ago
As clickbait, I have to applaud the author. tl;dr: As a sustainable (heh!) solution to the current waste crisis, landfilling everything is not a good solution. We tried it for many centuries and are still paying the price for that approach
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by rikroots 7y ago
Glad I checked to see if someone else had posted the link before I did myself. Having been through several careers before finally landing in IT as a web developer, I found the article (it's a long read!) to be very interesting and thou
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Loving and Hating My JavaScript Library(linkedin.com)
2 points by rikroots 7y ago|0 comments
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Scrawl-canvas - Rewriting my HTML5 canvas library from scratch(github.com)
1 points by rikroots 7y ago|0 comments