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by smileypete 6y ago
Best description I've come across of architecture like this is 'ego driven utopia'...
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by smileypete 6y ago
Or how about the finest luggage money can buy: https://youtu.be/6ljOj6GVcnQ
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by smileypete 6y ago
Protection of housing from wildfires is somewhat a solved problem thanks to the pioneering research of Jack Cohen, and this excellent episode of the 99% Invisible podcast is well worth a listen: https://99percentinvisible.org&#x2
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by smileypete 6y ago
>no, that's exactly the misunderstanding that leads to such security theater. distance does nearly all the work. a mask adds marginal benefit when distancing. FWIW... 'Yuen Kwok-yung, a professor of infectious disease at the Un
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by smileypete 6y ago
It's not really down to Google, it's down to the European 'right to be forgotten' law. The BBC once posted a list of their articles which had been delisted on google: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/inte
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by smileypete 6y ago
> 4 years ago I was at the peak of my weight: 84kgs. For an average tall guy, at 178cm, that is overweight. That's only slightly over weight: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/height-weight-ch...
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by smileypete 6y ago
Refined sugar is fine when used in part to fuel physical activity. Though it's a complete disaster when consumed in excess when sedentary. 140 calories for a can of Coke is pretty modest; I just ate a third of a lemon meringue containi
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by smileypete 6y ago
For a far more nuanced and detailed look at life in London in the 1840s, read 'London Labour and the London Poor' by Henry Mayhew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Labour_and_the_London_P... https:/&
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by smileypete 6y ago
Bookmarked, anything with Aaron Hsu is usually well worth a watch. Thanks.
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by smileypete 6y ago
Another, longer interview with Peter Mertens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__A569KX2c The shorter video in the Cleantechnica article seems to be based on a transcript of the above.
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by smileypete 6y ago
I just wish there was a global switch for disabling new features (where possible) by default. These would then be re-enabled by individual switches, so accepting new updates would just apply security fixes to existing features, and not crea
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by smileypete 6y ago
>Related Article from The Guardian "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier" The author, Rolf Dobelli may be worth checking out, though I don't 100% agree with the article. A good approach may
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by smileypete 6y ago
Maybe worth adding that for lower level software it's well worth baking it in to start with, nothing worse than trying to add logging to a non functional ball-of-mud ;-(
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by smileypete 6y ago
Reminds me of: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/russia-fake-ne... >But civil servants identified a sharp increase in the flow of fake news after the Salisbury poisoning, which continued i
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by smileypete 6y ago
IRLRosie is another one: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0osV_nf2b0sIbm4Wiw4RQ Does wacky voices (she's a voice actor) and sometimes she livestreams the calls to scammers.
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by smileypete 6y ago
Boiled skin-on potatoes are good; complex carbs, Vitamin C and B6, potassium, fibre, water, but maybe lacking in hipster value. Simple carbs are great for physical activity in proportionate amounts, but fairly terrible otherwise. When I had
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by smileypete 6y ago
Sounds reasonable, I should really have said 'informal version control' where it's used to get stuff out the door and piles on technical debt as well :-o
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by smileypete 6y ago
Maybe drawColouredRectangle("red", x0, y0, x1, y1) decideHighlightColour(someDecidingFactor1, someDecidingFactor2) then call separately? Depends on the number of calls to drawHighlightingRectangle I guess. Something
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by smileypete 6y ago
I think that one possible problem with the 'O' in SOLID (open closed principle) is spending excess time second guessing future modifications to the code. The examples are always clear cut, but in the real world it sometimes doesn&
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by smileypete 6y ago
Maybe a deliberate focus on having some 'out of band' information would help, as an antidote to group-think. A good example would be the early attitudes to face masking from the governments, medical experts, and media of certain c
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by smileypete 6y ago
My current diet is: * Run a modest calorific deficit with plenty of moderate exercise. * Optimise food intake for reasonably stable blood sugar levels. Goes against the current orthodoxy of keto or intermittent fasting#, but so far, so good
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by smileypete 6y ago
>Amazon solved a fairly large problem with retailers here. They were shit and abusive to the customers. So what's all this 'comingling' thing about then? I assure you that if AMZN becomes dominant, customer service will ge
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by smileypete 6y ago
No, but their latest podcast covers some of it (from about mid way): https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/ And it turn mentions the following paper: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.
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by smileypete 6y ago
Tangentially related, but relevant to some of the discussion here, and a good read: Christopher Wylie: can fashion save the world? http://www.archive.is/hoUbT https://www.google.com/search?q=Christopher+Wyli
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by smileypete 6y ago
https://outline.com/Kyqa58 EDIT: FT article may be more informative/balanced, go via a google search to avoid the paywall: https://www.ft.com/content/2aec0597-1de3-4181-93a0-1da9483d8...
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by smileypete 6y ago
The best defence for Taiwan against China is to be an indispensible trading partner. Once China is self sufficient in IC fab. then increasingly aggressive moves against Taiwan could be more likely. I fear for Taiwan in the long term. US for
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by smileypete 6y ago
>and now the masks which make it harder to walk outdoors in the heat we have here No big need to wear a mask outdoors unless in crowds or close conversation, in Japan they call it 'the three C's' https://www.you
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by smileypete 6y ago
Coulda given the old guy a heart attack, he looked so crushed...
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by smileypete 6y ago
CraigTube and VinylTV is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saokvQeZwzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVrBZGT4mw No explanation or apology it seems, but at least the channels are back. :)
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by smileypete 6y ago
Yeah, that lady from France was an expert who truly studied the art itself. The opening words of Eric Hebborn in the follow on video are illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKbbajb5pE Some (most?) of his works a

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