slyall

8 ms·

91.
by slyall 1y ago
There will be versions of the machine that automate more of the process. But they will cost money and require maintenance too look after and adjust. I used to work a similar job[1] at a plastics factory. We had about 12 machines in the area
92.
by slyall 1y ago
I suspect it is more likely that rich people will fund their actor-aspirant children more convention ways: When they are younger they could pay for acting classes, acting camps and help them get into local productions. Out of school they pa
93.
by slyall 1y ago
Video isn't region locked according to the tool I normally use https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi
94.
by slyall 1y ago
The "jobs that really excite you" are the ones you apply for in the first week and never hear back from.
95.
by slyall 1y ago
I can't understand how somebody would learn maintain a config written in protobuf. At least hcl is actually readable.
96.
by slyall 1y ago
I think they mean "get to grips with a computer" to mean stuff like Word, Excel, Outlook or being able to fill in online forms and the like. Between say 1990 and 2005 the average 20 year old might never have used a computer for an
97.
by slyall 1y ago
I've been hanging around their discuss mailing list for almost a decade. Almost no traffic anymore (single digits per year). People are still doing the job but move on to new forums. The "Sysadmin" job title tends to feel old
98.
by slyall 1y ago
Many people also watch videos speed up. So clear speech and no music is even more important to them. If you content doesn't depend on visuals also consider releasing episodes as podcasts.
99.
by slyall 1y ago
Thats not how it works normally. The train doesn't get in till around 7-8am. Often sleeper trains will park of a few hours overnight. So you'll be able to sleep for around 8 hours. The idea is you get in around 8am (hopefully in s
100.
GPS Observation of a Western Gull Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck(bioone.org)
2 points by slyall 1y ago|1 comments
101.
by slyall 1y ago
I do an annual post with my charitable contributions https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2024/12/donations-2024/ Projects I'm donating to (not every year): - Syncthing - Internet Archive - Python - Le
102.
by slyall 1y ago
I doubt this is true in most countries. It would introduce all sorts of problems if people stopped working because of illness or their employer went out of business when they were 60. Not to mention somebody who stopped working the day befo
103.
by slyall 1y ago
Well if you have enough money to do all that then you probably have enough to retire a little early. Why not stop working at 60 and fund the first few years of your retirement out of your savings?
104.
by slyall 1y ago
I wonder if there is room for books about day to day professions. There are plenty of books about how an airline pilots or chefs job works. Why not books about how a plumber, librarian, or widget salesmans job happens. Everyone knows when t
105.
by slyall 1y ago
> "most-watched" periods in every video with a little bar graph below it I use that to skip the in-video promotions
106.
by slyall 1y ago
Many years ago the Economist charged just $50/year everywhere for the Digital edition. They gradually increased it though. Then at one point changed it to a reflect the local price of the print edition in your country. I live in NZ so
107.
by slyall 1y ago
They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop. So broken after just 4 years
108.
by slyall 1y ago
https://archive.ph/nfNq9
109.
by slyall 1y ago
Anything gets complex at scale. This is the same software they us to host their SaaS system. Presumably has to scale to many thousands of customer and a huge number of events per second. They have all sorts of caching, autoscaling, distribu
110.
by slyall 1y ago
The are supposed to also filter things like complaints. If somebody complains I'm sending spam and I only pay $20/year then my registrar might lock my domain and then I have to work to get it back online. Mark Monitor will apply a
111.
by slyall 2y ago
When Pope Benedict resigned he announced it in Latin unexpectedly. Many present did not understand what he was saying. https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/pope-benedicts-resigna...
112.
by slyall 2y ago
Yes. I just upgraded and firefox scrolling seems weird. It is freezing for 5-10s every few minutes. Very obvious when I'll using the mouse-wheel to scroll down longs pages like HN
113.
by slyall 2y ago
The author has a great podcast on the History of Astronomy The Song on Urania https://songofurania.com/ It's taking a break for 2025 but there are enough episodes there to give you enough to listen to until he restarts
114.
by slyall 2y ago
Age Laws worry about dates. They don't care about leap years, time of birth or timezones.
115.
by slyall 2y ago
It's also a reason to have multiple hobbies and interests. If you lose interest in one (or have to stop doing it) then you have others already going to fill the gap. Also avoid burnout of doing the same activity all the time
116.
by slyall 2y ago
When I was a kid we had an two-slice electric "Side door Toaster" when we stayed in our caravan on holiday. It had two spring-loaded fold-up doors on each side which you put the toast on. Then they folder vertically to put the toa
117.
by slyall 2y ago
Real Engineering video is here (I posted it then I saw this thread) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_EoZzE7KJ0 Pretty common PR for a company/organisation to reach out to various media to get coverage. There was proba
118.
by slyall 2y ago
The real smart money buys before the launch and dumps in the first minute after. They make their money from you.
119.
by slyall 2y ago
Actually less than 1.5% chance of dying (at least for American men, Brits would be similar). https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
120.
Replace Docker Compose with Quadlet and Systemd(matduggan.com)
23 points by slyall 2y ago|3 comments

More ›