rjmunro

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by rjmunro 10mo ago
My experience of vibe coding is that the agent makes as many mistakes as me, it just types faster than I do. So using the most safe and typed language possible is still a good idea. Also I want to understand the code as much as possible - s
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by rjmunro 10mo ago
> solar and wind are now cheaper than hydro in many places. It's not possible to run a country entirely on wind and solar, you need backup for when it isn't windy or sunny. It is possible to run a country entirely on Hydro. The
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by rjmunro 11mo ago
It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads. I think he should make the files smaller my removing the second half of the hashes, i.e. reduce it from 40 hex digit
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by rjmunro 11mo ago
I think Microsoft Office 2007 moving to a "ribbon" rather than normal menus and an optional toolbar for certain things was the major break in usability. Mac OS has kept the menus, and added a really useful menu search thing in &qu
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by rjmunro 11mo ago
Why is it that when I travel to certain places I need to ensure my passport has at least n months before it expires? So what if it's due to expire next week if I'm only staying until next week. Even if I'm staying 2 weeks and
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by rjmunro 11mo ago
If your job is travel, like you are an international truck driver or maybe aircrew, these kinds of things might affect you a lot sometimes. There's probably special rules for those people in some places, which makes the situation even
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by rjmunro 1y ago
> The internet seems resilient enough... The word "seems" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
This. I wouldn't try to instantly failover to another service if AWS had a short outage, but I would plan to be able to recover from a permanent AWS outage by ensuring all your important data and knowledge is backed up off-AWS, prefera
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by rjmunro 1y ago
You can use mermaid format instead of graphviz, then paste it into a markdown file and github will render it inline.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
I'm not sure about this bit: > As I get to grow compound interest on my money, I will come out much better in the long term. You will pay the capital gains tax rate either way. Either when you buy 15% less additional shares, or when
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by rjmunro 1y ago
The whole point of owning shares is to share in a company’s profits. In simple terms, you make money through dividends or buybacks. Without that, there’s really no reason to own the stock. Sure, prices go up and down, and you can try to pro
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by rjmunro 1y ago
The article "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson ( https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ ), written in 1996 says "The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watch
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by rjmunro 1y ago
The other way to look at Crowdstrike is that it prevented probably thousands of attacks by ransomware and other adversaries. Then it had a bug which meant you had to visit your computer and manually reboot it, with no data loss or leakage.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
There are boxes that can KVM to multiple servers at a time. You don't need to switch cables. They probably cost similar or less than BMC cards on a per-port basis. You might have to combine with some sort of network boot to set up a ma
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Another tip: Use `git log --first-parent` and `git log --merges` to hide the intermediate commits. `--first-parent` also works with `blame` in modern git. These mean you don't have to look at all the small commits when browsing history
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Lawyer had to spend days listing YouTube videos from obvious impersonator(youtube.com)
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by rjmunro 1y ago
I think Elo style rankings would be good for rating e.g. Uber rides and restaurant reviews. Instead of asking to rate out of 5 stars or similar, where everyone basically ends up giving 5 stars, just ask was it better or worse than your last
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Is this a common way to use Claude? Is it how Claude desktop normally works?
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by rjmunro 1y ago
The share buybacks enable and encourage investors to move their money to invest in other things for the future. That's usually a better idea than e.g. Intel, who know nothing about other wind farms, building their own.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
This looks really cool. I'd see it being useful as a headset to talk to camera people and others during a live stream. We already have hardware for this, but if we didn't it would be great. For my use, I'd like to be able to
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NodeJS, React, Typescript, Docker, Python, PHP, SQL, Java Résumé/CV: https://arjam.net/cv.pdf Email: rjmunro@arjam.net Highly exper
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Surely if you ban targeting ads they'd have to catch up the revenue, and that would mean serving you more ads, worse ads and using stronger algorithms to ensure you stay longer. I don't think it makes any difference.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
In terms of energy supply, air conditioning works pretty well with solar power. Normally hot days and sunny days are very correlated. If you are worried about the local heat generated by the air conditioners themselves, there are new coatin
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Surely it's a performance nightmare because whatever is behind the frosting has to be rendered in full. Without this it can see that it's occluded and not have to render. Or does MacOS not do that?
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by rjmunro 1y ago
"Back to the Future: The Ride" was also an Omnimax dome system, but with moving platforms instead of seats. It was installed in 3 locations, with 2 screens at each, so a total of 6 screens. I'm not sure if any later similar r
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by rjmunro 1y ago
It might be that if they sent you the "here's all we know, please add anything else" thing, people would not add things that costs them more tax, safe in the knowledge that they don't know about it.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
But why couldn't they just dedupe the refs from the command line before starting the actual bundling - surely there are never more than a couple of hundred of those (one per branch)?
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Don't some internet providers to large scale NAT (CGNAT), so customers each get a 10.x address instead of a public one? I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. It sounds like it could be.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
I've made a couple of silly browser games, http://matchmoji.arjam.net and http://matchmoji.arjam.net/minesweeper
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Here in the UK it's not as simple as that. In order for your bid to be accepted there are a lot of hoops you go through to try to prove yourself. Unfortunately these make it very hard for people to get contracts with the government, so

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