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by slyall 4y ago
In countries like the US around a third of the adult population rarely or never drinks alcohol. But if you are a regular drinker you won't notice them because they won't be hanging around in bars.
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by slyall 4y ago
I think the problem is that the original source needs to use that list as well. Just looked though .nz and they list several sites ( govt.nz , school.nz, gen.nz ) that don't exist since all the domains are one level below. They even li
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by slyall 4y ago
I'd go for Grafana Cloud over Papertrail. The $7/month papertrail account seems to be just 1 GB/month of logs which is pretty trivial. With grafana you get 50 GB/month plus everything else.
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by slyall 4y ago
I'd say partially right. 10 years ago people were running hundreds/thousands of VMs/Servers with full operating systems on them. They would often be long-lived and you needed puppet/ansible to update or run stuff on them
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by slyall 4y ago
Westgate in West Auckland.
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by slyall 4y ago
New Zealand is getting our first store in a couple of months and people are obsessed with it. Stories in the media nearly every week. Long queues for membership. A lot of this is because the local Supermarket Duopoly avoids competing on pri
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Further Details on Communications Issues with NASA’s Capstone Lunar Orbit Probe(blogs.nasa.gov)
1 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
I hard that in the recent book from the Howard brothers. If you are under 18 there are all sorts of restrictions on hours worked, supervision, etc. So it is a lot easier to get a 18+ actor to play a 12-17 year old than someone the actual ag
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by slyall 4y ago
According to Wikipedia LIGO is detecting gravitation waves was small as 10^-22 metres.
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by slyall 4y ago
I like Confluence. It does the job and is simple to use. I use it at home for general household stuff and projects. At work we are using a combination of notion and gitlab wiki and are probably going to move to confluence. Gitlab wiki is es
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by slyall 4y ago
Whereas in my previous job the Devs has a 2 node EKS Redis cluster for just one key:value. There was also the App with an empty database instance cause it was just a front-end to where the actual data was. Usually whoever is pushing Kafka i
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by slyall 4y ago
It just has to drop till it has a price/earnings ratio of around 15-20.
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by slyall 4y ago
OTPP bought the New Zealand Yellow pages for $US 1.6 billion in 2007[1]. Perfectly timed just as the Internet and Mobile phones took over everything (and just before the GFC hit). Just 3 years later it was a complete mess.[2] [1] https:&#
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What does a batsman see? (2018)(thecricketmonthly.com)
64 points by slyall 4y ago|13 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
Brand's comment - https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1535763635531702272 I finally read the whole thing. The word that comes to mind is "unremitting." He must name over a hundred details fro
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Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya of improved outcomes(bfi.uchicago.edu)
1 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
I've read a few workers say that they take up smoking because smokers get a 10 minute smoke break every hour or two. Of source the legally-mandated breaks are often missed.
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by slyall 4y ago
I remember this old quote: " Welcome to the world of strategic analysis, where we build weapons that don't work to counter threats that don't exist. "
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by slyall 4y ago
A friend of mine had a system for getting free calls from New Zealand payphones. He installed a small switch between the payphone and the line before it went into the ground. He then exploited the lack of coordination between the phone and
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by slyall 4y ago
There is a well known article (which I am totally blanking on) arguing that many successful programming languages are the Native/System Languages of a major platform. So C is the System Language of Unix, Javascript is the Native Langua
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by slyall 4y ago
Sure, but just make sure you are Google before you try this. If you are a no-name company paying whatever your HR department defines as "market rate" and you don't get hundreds of very qualified candidates for every role then
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by slyall 4y ago
The book "Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind" by Julie Hall is a fairly good guide to how to handle this situation. Would recommend reading it before you need it.
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Sailor is a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS(github.com)
1 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software(blog.healthchecks.io)
373 points by slyall 4y ago|175 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
The complaint about the ships all going to Long Beach/LA and not to other ports is a little bogus. Various shipping lines would be happy to send a ship to 2 or more US ports to spread out their deliveries and pickups. Except the US Jon
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by slyall 4y ago
Reduced competition. Fewer other businesses are trying to start up at the same time and existing companies have less money to spend to compete against you. Suppliers will also be eager for new business, same with landlords if you have a phy
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by slyall 4y ago
The overflight mode still uses a shaped charge. Even the top armour of a tank is significantly thick enough that a a non-directed explosion from a hand-held weapon probably won't penetrate. "In conventional overflight missiles a k
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Unity lost $110m due to bad data corrupting ML-based user acquisition system(twitter.com)
7 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
Around 20 years ago the Internet suddenly became a thing but you had big hotels that were not pre-wired with RJ45 and the owners did not to spend lots of money running new cables. One solution was to use the existing phone line in each room
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by slyall 4y ago
New Zealanders are moving to Australia because the the wages are 30% high and the houses prices are lower or the same.

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