room271

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Musk's SpaceX hired to destroy ISS space station(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by room271 2y ago|2 comments
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by room271 2y ago
Russell Cox consistently produces excellent technical blogs and proposals (and work). If you want to improve the clarity of your writing and thinking, he is a great place to start.
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by room271 3y ago
Poor GDP is a complex question to answer but lowering the heating by a degree doesn't seem like the best attempt at exploring it(!). Transport might be a better part of the explanation, but more because of the lack of investment in dec
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'Wobbly spacetime' may help resolve contradictory physics theories(theguardian.com)
11 points by room271 3y ago|2 comments
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by room271 3y ago
Go is changing the semantics of its for loops and the user is not a fan of this - at least in the subtleties. Most people, from what I can tell, are very much for this change. And note, Go is introducing quite sophisticated backwards compat
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by room271 4y ago
I am in the process of exploring a switch to become a vicar/pastor, which would obviously be a complete change! It's not clear from your post what it is about tech that is demotivating you and without that it is hard to give good
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by room271 4y ago
I don't understand the almost religious opposition to the telemetry the Go team are proposing. It involves no PII data, would be easy to disable for those who want to do so, is minimal in scope, and the use cases are well articulated.
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by room271 4y ago
There is no chance the competition authorities would allow that.
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Elon Musk announces Twitter mass layoffs to begin Friday(theguardian.com)
8 points by room271 4y ago|2 comments
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by room271 4y ago
go.mod provides a way to introduce the new behaviour incrementally. The key point is the dependencies can (and already do) declare different go versions in their go.mod file. When everything is compiled, each module is compiled with the beh
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by room271 4y ago
Democracy is not simply representatives voting on your behalf; it includes protection of individual rights (including, to some degree, property rights) and also active civil society. But in any case, I wonder if your example is not so stron
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by room271 4y ago
I wonder if the two are not quite as separate as you suggest? Can the market be free without some kind of functioning democracy? Without democracy the market as you say is very unlikely to be free. Even with imperfect democracy we still see
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by room271 4y ago
I encourage you to read this then: https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain . Edit: along with the authors own blog explaining their take: https://kerkour.com/supply-chain-attacks-and-backdoored-depe... . The sh
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by room271 4y ago
In the UK it's very common, albeit not for 30 years - more often 2, 5, or 10. See e.g. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/why-are... (In 2020, more than half of new mortgages were fixed for
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by room271 4y ago
2hrs 16 min is the usual time for London to Paris. So much quicker and nicer than flying all round really.
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by room271 5y ago
Absolutely agree. Speaking as someone who has recently had to upgrade multiple medium-sized Scala/Java apps. Diamond imports are absolutely a big problem. Many of these programs simply couldn't be built on newer Scala versions bec
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Fusion race kicked into high gear by smart tech(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by room271 5y ago|1 comments
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by room271 5y ago
Surprised not to see more mention of MVHR in the comments. This approach constantly brings in fresh air while retaining heat pretty effectively and also filtering incoming air for particles etc. I'm just in the process of retrofitting
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by room271 5y ago
Yes, but also it is not uncommon (I think) for companies to allow you to buy extra holiday. So, for example, my company allows you to buy an extra week, which I always do.
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by room271 5y ago
You are projecting your own desires onto the founder (which is fine, but worth thinking about why they don't want the same thing as you). It seems clear that they are happy with their salary/work. For some people, more money beyon
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by room271 5y ago
It depends - are you a product manager, or something closer to a project manager? If product, then I (as a developer) want you to contribute things that I can't do (or don't have time to do): * detailed market-analysis of competit
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CERN experiment hints at new force of nature(theguardian.com)
16 points by room271 6y ago|3 comments
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Uber loses ruling on worker rights in U.K. high court(nytimes.com)
2 points by room271 6y ago|1 comments
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by room271 6y ago
Checkout also Amazon Prime cancellation (which I did recently), and 3 mobile cancellation in the UK. Both terrible.
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by room271 6y ago
Worth checking Virgin if you haven't already or yeah going for 5g (3 and some others offer this in parts of London). I had thought most of London had access to really good options here but obviously I was wrong!
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by room271 6y ago
'As of December 16, 2020, there were 12,396 health workers over 18 years old enrolled. A total of 253 positive cases were collected during the observation period. After 14 days following vaccination with 2 doses of vaccine following a
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'I suffered anxiety': Monzo founder on the pressures of running a digital bank(theguardian.com)
1 points by room271 6y ago|0 comments
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by room271 6y ago
In the UK museums are publicly funded and free (people also donate and there are special time-limited exhibits that they can charge for). This works really well and doesn't involve selling the family silver.
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by room271 6y ago
You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but it's an important question - though perhaps you could have at least explored some possible answers a bit in your comment. Inequality in society, driven by poor early family life and enviro
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by room271 6y ago
I agree, but a lot of the arguments made seem to hit the wrong target. The issue is not 'First Amendment' rights (this applies only to government, not private companies), but monopoly, which causes many problems - this being just

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