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by roryirvine 5d ago
I was assuming that something of that vintage would only have been able to handle a 10BASE5 transceiver, but a wee bit of googling suggests that an UTP transceiver works well enough. Needs a patched ROM and recompiled kernel, though! See h
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by roryirvine 5d ago
Oh, yeah - this popped up on HN yesterday too and also met with scepticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772362 Oh well, so this PDP restoration probably isn't real. Disappointing.
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by roryirvine 5d ago
Sadly, the site does seem AI-flavoured to a rather off-putting extent. And, as you say, the details are so vague - it's exactly what you might expect if an LLM wrote them based on reading a spec sheet rather than any practical experi
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by roryirvine 5d ago
Agreed. The other comments talking about the "heavy burden" of complying with local laws are missing the point - these ads would still be profitable for Meta even accounting for the costs of compliance (which, after all, are prima
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by roryirvine 5d ago
Yeah, and it wasn't just the "call for pricing" game, it was having to deal with monthly "touching base" calls which were mostly an opportunity to push corporate hospitality and other not-quite-inducements. Whereas
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by roryirvine 5d ago
I realise that this makes me sound like a grumpy old fart, but rather than being a "command line tool", this actually appears to be a full TUI (as was EDIT.COM, of course).
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by roryirvine 5d ago
Traditionally, it's been measured using the Labour Force Survey which has become less reliable as the number of people willing to respond is now so much lower than it was in the 20th century. I can't read the FT article, but there
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by roryirvine 6d ago
Though it does make you sound like a boy scout... Wuh works better, imho, though it does tend to degrade into "wuh'uh'uh" when said quickly. The BBC tried very hard in 1994/5 to persuade people to pronounce "ht
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by roryirvine 6d ago
It's interesting in NI because haitch-vs-aitch is so much more obvious than any of the other common shibboleths that it's become almost a comically exaggerated thing - something that people feel free to comment on or even joke a
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by roryirvine 6d ago
In Linux, I recall the whole Large File Support saga dragging on into the 2.4 era. It certainly wasn't universal until well after 2 GB devices had become commonplace even in consumer-level hardware, meaning that things like creating a
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by roryirvine 8d ago
I suspect Khrushchev was far too sensible to have dreamt of that - he'd have worried about the chaos the sudden American collapse would have unleashed.
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by roryirvine 8d ago
Sure, your personal security posture might very well preclude that. But, again, if you don't trust your phone then how likely is it that you will be prepared to trust a public computer?
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by roryirvine 8d ago
The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription. The number of people sharing GP's concerns for reasons of poverty rather than because of their personal security postur
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by roryirvine 8d ago
That really depends on they type of consultancy, the terms of the engagement, and where the responsibility lies (for both the requirements and the outcomes). If the consultancy was brought in to do the move from Heroku but not build or run
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by roryirvine 8d ago
If you're not happy connecting your phone to the network, then how likely is it that you would you be willing to enter your login details on a machine you don't control?
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by roryirvine 8d ago
If you don't need anything beyond the feature set of ECS and are happy to stick with AWS for the foreseeable future, then I'd advise you to listen to your gut - EKS is more complex, and needs a bit more looking after. Personally,
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by roryirvine 8d ago
Sounds like there's a grandson who's being groomed for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Warren_Buffett They all seem very similar to the British "new nobility" in the mid-late 19th century
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by roryirvine 8d ago
Yeah, but you don't need a thermometer for that. Using zero as the freezing point of water makes sense for everyday use, and using the boiling point for 100 degrees does follow fairly naturally from that - but plenty of other potential
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by roryirvine 9d ago
As someone who ran a tech company in Northern Ireland at a time when violence was much more common than it is today, I can tell you that our force majeure clauses always disclaimed liability for "riot, violent disorder, civil commotion
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by roryirvine 9d ago
Yeah, Debian makes things agreeably dull. Major version upgrades every couple of years will usually bring a new wallpaper and make a few tweaks to the default apps. Annual Firefox ESR updates will bring a handful of improvements to the brow
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by roryirvine 10d ago
Yes - reflexively denigrating anyone who's not motivated by interests that align with their own as an "activist" is likely one of the reasons why politics has become degraded in the way that it has.
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by roryirvine 10d ago
Cephalopod and decapod brains aren't much like human brains either, yet it's still reasonable to regard them as being sentient and worthy of protection from unnecessary suffering.
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by roryirvine 10d ago
Many (most?) politicians were traditionally (at least partly) motivated by public service, so we perhaps should consider how to reinvigorate and reinforce that. One possibility might be to specifically improve pathways into politics from se
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by roryirvine 11d ago
Sure. So you could maybe add the first animals to safely return from space into the list too - the first win on the American side if you're counting sub-orbital flights, otherwise it'd've been Sputnik 5.
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by roryirvine 11d ago
But the finish line did keep changing: first satellite in orbit, first living mammals in orbit, first human in orbit, multiple humans in orbit, spacewalk, moon landing, human moon landing, planetary landing, space station, reusable space
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by roryirvine 12d ago
There's a long tradition of amphetamine use within the British establishment, too. Most obviously, Anthony Eden's reliance on Drinamyl was responsible in large part for the spectacularly poor decision making which led to the Suez
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by roryirvine 12d ago
Nitter existed well before Twitter first experimented with requiring a login wall to read posts. People used it because it provided a lighter, cleaner interface, because it avoided Twitter's user tracking, and because it was reasonably
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by roryirvine 12d ago
I don't think it changes the underlying role and grade structure - it's only about changing the job title. Doesn't really affect anything other than your email footer. It's actually the sort of thing that used to be comm
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by roryirvine 12d ago
When you say OC, I suspect you mean On - their logo has the lower-case 'n' rotated 90 degrees, so looks a bit like Oc. On & HOKA both have huge marketing towards "new" runners in the UK. And HOKA especially have made
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by roryirvine 12d ago
Yeah, this is like Hotels.com suing random hotels. Worth noting the "They won’t let us compromise by using a different case, an ampersand or an ‘and’" bit - so it's not just bnb which they claim to be infringing, it's al

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