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by setquk 9y ago
Ignore the Greenpeace rubbish. There's a picture in the video of what was actually extracted from the whale.
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by setquk 9y ago
Yep pay £100 for a hooky 3rd party copy of an official DVD for your Land Rover at least and then have to fuck around for ages trying to get it to work. That's because the official one is about £300 a year.
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by setquk 9y ago
Yep. Some comments: 1. Most of the MSFT open source stuff is either trash or completely unmaintained. Only a couple of high profile projects are maintained and they jam opt-out telemetry in if you like it or not (despite hundreds of comment
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by setquk 9y ago
w2aew (Alan Wolke) is one of the few youtubers who produces videos with substance and quality. Definitely agree.
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by setquk 9y ago
Oscillators are supposed to oscillate but when you want them to, they don’t resulting in debugging. Amplifiers can have a big phase shift and gain which fulfills barkhausen criteria which is the fundamental requirement for something to osci
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by setquk 9y ago
Yes that’s what I was intending. Should have been clear there. I actually own a genuine Saleae for ref. Although I blew it up :(
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by setquk 9y ago
Best advice here. Totally agree. With respect to oscillators, the old saying of “amplifiers oscillate; oscillators don’t” comes to mind. Electronics is a cruel and unforgiving field. Also burn myself and let the magic smoke out and I’m appa
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by setquk 9y ago
Or you can buy a Chinese clone off aliexpress instead.
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by setquk 9y ago
Thanks for the write up. We evaluated ServiceStack and the license conditions, lock in risk and cost for a supported product across our estate was prohibitive. The only desirable feature was Redis sentinel but we can live without that. Hone
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by setquk 9y ago
Agree on IaaS. I missed that in there.
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by setquk 9y ago
I think it's a matter of luck and/or scale. On tiny projects it seems fine but we're huuuuge.
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by setquk 9y ago
Sorry was 8 years ... ClickOnce refused to launch on over 2000 machines when they removed download prompting from IE9. This sits between the .net framework and the IE team, neither of which would take responsibility for fixing. Eventually w
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by setquk 9y ago
Yes I agree there. I would err towards redis these days myself as well, not necessarily using it for anything persistent unless you need to.
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by setquk 9y ago
I couldn't possibly consider .Net core on a number of reasons I didn't discuss above. Opt out telemetry, constant direction changes, who is in charge of the project and the general abusive nature of the company running the show to
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by setquk 9y ago
It's possibly a summary of my frustration with the last 20 years or so. I've never used vue/webpack so can't comment. I've been shot too many times by javascript framework churn over the years. I wrote a relatively
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by setquk 9y ago
Definitely agree with memcached. This has been entirely bullet proof for us for years. We have had lots of nodes with billions of hits each running non stop for 3 years without a reboot on CentOS 5. Zero maintenance required. Amazing bit of
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by setquk 9y ago
As we're talking business and long lifetime... First point: nothing Microsoft. Done that show for 20 years and been through all the marketoid schizophrenia promoted rewrites for no business value. Now the new "start again" is
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by setquk 9y ago
This isn’t really a surprise. Most modern battery tech has a hell of a lot of energy in it which is what we desire to support long run times. It only takes a manufacturing error or some physical damage to let all that out pretty sharpish. T
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by setquk 9y ago
Yes amazing because for the best part of 20 years, nothing significant has changed and now it’s functional enough to get work done. And I don’t care about the *nix implementations because the first thing I do is start tmux and use that. Sam
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by setquk 9y ago
If it's any consolation what you guys have done with windows 10 is amazing. Big thumbs up here.
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by setquk 9y ago
This was the best thing with PHP. In comparison, I spent most of Thursday digging through a problem with log4net which causes it to block all other web server threads if someone throws an exception and it has to do heavy reflection to gener
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by setquk 9y ago
I was quite happy with those days!
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by setquk 9y ago
I’ve got a T430. Had an X201 before that. It took a month to get used to it but I’ll be honest and say that I’m happy with it now. I dismantled it and wedged some paper under the trackpad though to stop it being pressed. That helps.
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by setquk 9y ago
And there’s a fine example of windows user bipolar disorder, a condition I suffer from also. It’s amazing but it pokes you in the eye ten times a day with ridiculous things that should just bloody well work. If it didn’t poke you in the ey
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by setquk 9y ago
Replying again. I've moved to fastmail and it's awesome. Thank you!
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by setquk 9y ago
It's mainly swatting black hole lists and weird delivery errors. It's probably ok for simple use cases or personal use however. Unfortunately I have some unavoidable contacts on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo like to just defer your emails
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by setquk 9y ago
These are some of the problems I have. I've spent a while now separating everything. It's easy to hit that "log in with google button" but every click just locks you in further.
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by setquk 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. It is a valid one so not sure why you got downvoted. I actually did this for a number of years in the late 1990s to about 2004 and currently am "fix it monkey" for our SES / DKIM / SPF / S
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by setquk 9y ago
Thank you - I will take a look at them.
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Ask HN: How can I escape Gmail and Outlook.com?
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