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by soneil 3y ago
I follow another small project who had to stop shipping from the UK to the EU from Tindie, because Tindie wasn't handling the VAT requirements that brexit opened them up to. I can't promise I'm up to date on that - that was t
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by soneil 3y ago
The communication requirements are minimal. The only real requirement is that we agree on which day to perform the measurement. You and I could sit at Christmas dinner, and conspire to measure the shadow of a 1metre pole at solar noon on E
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by soneil 3y ago
"hello" doesn't show up in https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/... which probably makes it much easier.
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by soneil 3y ago
> This will run on a dedicated core, or in kernel space, or with Xenomai. Most the USP of these is that they have an M-core which is usually where such tasks would live. In automation it's not unusual to find controllers where the e
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by soneil 3y ago
If you tried to hand this off to the transportation department, it'd probably end up under the British Transport Police. Six and two threes really. The Police are already tooled up to issue traffic citations. Tooling up the BTP to do
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by soneil 3y ago
"dozens" is probably underestimating it. That's a 70mph road, so just over 31 metres per second.
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by soneil 3y ago
I believe Revolut is working as intended. The root issue is that BOI have/had an issue trying to retrieve balances. At which point they have two options: prevent transactions if the balance cannot be verified (which would deny people a
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by soneil 3y ago
Sounds like almost the opposite - it sounds like they lived on the border of what would be considered a local call, so people could be geographically local but telegraphically expensive.
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by soneil 3y ago
The theory as I understand it is that you have all the expected rights to the binaries you've been provided. But the only thing compelling redhat to provide you future binaries is your contract with them - and exercising those rights
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by soneil 3y ago
"Temple OS Theme / Rice For Arch Linux" is the description of the repo on the page. I understand the sentiment, but I don't think the title's the right place to correct the original author.
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by soneil 3y ago
This is exactly what I came here to post, too. I believe he's unusually prolific because he's part of the organisation of these conferences - but his delivery pays off regardless. I actually sent exactly the same video to a coll
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by soneil 3y ago
A fun side-effect of their JANET (roughly analogous to nsfnet in the US) hostname pre-dating DNS. I believe anyone can get .uk domains now, they don't have to be .co.uk - but this one's been anomalous since 1985.
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by soneil 3y ago
Honestly, I prefer it. But for one reason or another, MM is the accepted suffix when dealing with money (it comes from mille in latin meaning thousand, not million.)
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by soneil 3y ago
We call this "roll-over", when no-one wins so the pot accumulates. This week's draw doesn't need to be profitable, the overall scheme needs to be profitable. Say $2MM in tickets are sold, putting $1MM in the pot. And n
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by soneil 3y ago
That's pretty standard? Anything that's going straight into 400V (I assume) deserves a good eyeball before it's energised. I doubt their "root of trust" knows how to protect the system from a dead mouse in the bus
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by soneil 3y ago
I really wish they'd do a tour of it, hardware & software. They've gotta be proud as hell of what they've pulled off, it boggles my mind that they're not more eager to show it off.
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by soneil 3y ago
I feel somewhat called out. By time we finished migrating from centos6 to centos8, centos8 was being shot in the face. Talk about "fun times".
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by soneil 3y ago
I've been struggling with this for years - but with a fun twist. My gmail address is first.last, and someone in the UK keeps using it - but they do not have remotely the same first name, and they don't spell their last name the s
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by soneil 3y ago
I think it'd be great if there was a way to push the identity through a different domain. @foundation@mediawiki.org or such. Needing subdomains is so clunky - imagine if you were example@mail.gmail.com, yuck. We can get half way ther
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by soneil 3y ago
Sometimes I think we're far too obsessed with legal. The developer is good to the community, the community is good to the developer. This seems like a much more productive relationship than arguing over what is legal.
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by soneil 3y ago
Passing it on to the users wouldn't have required billing by API key, just gate at authentication instead. Rate-limit unauthenticated requests per API key and authenticated requests per account. Problem solved. Turn $0.12/month
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by soneil 3y ago
https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/110635856662952525 and yes, I totally get that there's a wider point to be made in reddit and twitter both going hostile on the same day.
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by soneil 3y ago
"technically" is a really thin veneer though. The founder of Rocky is also the CEO of CIQ. That's not exactly six degrees of Kevin Bacon. (to be clear: I don't consider this a problem. But I do consider that for RH, t
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by soneil 3y ago
> And IMO, was it worth it? I suspect they're playing with unintended consequences now. One of the nice "features" of buying CentOS, is that it meant CentOS was never going to compete - there was a clear line between commu
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by soneil 3y ago
I honestly haven't seen much of that on HN at all. There's really three things that make this a hugely curious story. One is that it's relatively unique. The same way that car crashes don't make the news but plane crash
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by soneil 3y ago
So the restriction isn't on exercising your rights on what you've received, which would be under the terms of the licence - it's on their willingness to provide you with anything else, which would be under the terms of their
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by soneil 3y ago
I'm a little confused how this new move still complies with many licences. As a paying customer you receive access the sources, as you're supposed to - but under contractual terms that you can't share them. Take the GPL as th
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by soneil 3y ago
Changing the support terms from 10 years to 1 year mid-stream lost them a lot of trust. It's not just what they did, it's how.
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by soneil 3y ago
Not finding the CF cylinder really does seem like the most telling part here. Given they've found the front, the back, and the bottom, you'd think the single largest component would be laying around in the same area. Unless ..
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by soneil 3y ago
10 meters of water is one atmosphere, so they're right - 0 on the inside and 1 on the outside is a pressure differential of one atmosphere. "almost 4000 meters of water" is "almost 400 atmospheres". About 2.7 tons

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