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by steve_gh 3y ago
>> the Volvo V90, which is a nice car but can barely fit 5 people It's a lot bigger than my Prius, and that happily takes 4 (5 with a squeeze) climbers with all their gear!
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Don't know who said it, but: Every country gets an army. The only question is: whose?
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by steve_gh 3y ago
We stand on the shoulders of giants - in this case Shopify. Once they have done things once, it is easier for the rest of us
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by steve_gh 3y ago
This is very good, but I think there is one thing missing: Understand your organisation's DNA You need to understand the way your organisation thinks. Do they sell products or services? Are the products physical or digital. Are the ser
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Another competitor to LORA (and the LORAWAN stack) is NB-IoT - a 4G variant. They all occupy roughly the same space - high penetration, low bandwidth, low power telemetry for IoT systems. The differences (from a development or product persp
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by steve_gh 3y ago
So now they can run Red Route One at high speed. All they need now is to "Engadge je shilent drife"
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Owls are bird hardware with cat software
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by steve_gh 3y ago
> Anyone external had more influence on company direction than the most experienced employees. That's one reason why people employ consultants. A consultant is someone an organisation employs to tell it what it already knows. Someti
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Rails, and have been using it off and on since Rails 2. It's a really good framework, and for someone like me who needs to stand up a website from time to time it really is the path of least resistance.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
We use Makefiles to run our data science pipelines. So my apprentices (yes, we have a data science apprenticeship program with school leavers doing data science degrees on day release) are all familiar with writing and running Makefiles
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by steve_gh 3y ago
So investment firms have bought into appartment blocks as they offered higher returns. They are now being squeezed by interest rates. And their answer ... Raise rents for lower to middle income households by 44% over 3 years. I'd love
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Power consumption. Maybe not so much on the Dev board, but IIRC I can get an ESP32 down to lower power consumption on a custom board. So I might well start developing on an ESP32 board knowing that my final target is an ESP32 custom board.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I completely agree that a bit of discipline does wonders. But it is not just your discipline, it is the team's discipline. What I need to ensure is that anyone picking up a piece of analysis 3 months later can reproduce exactly what wa
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Satire gets closer to the truth than truth does!
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Yeah but jupyter notebooks suck at providing reproducible data science. I encourage my team's not to use Jupyter for data science. Our preferred toolchain is based on make to build data science pipelines. Every step is scripted, and ma
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Interesting take. I've been climbing for 40+ years. Climbing walls (I'm a UKian) have definitely got much better, and there is definitely a huge community of gym only climbers, but I don't get the feeling that the better clim
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The first battery-powered trains have arrived in Europe(cnn.com)
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by steve_gh 3y ago
This is database dependent. For example SQLite does not support SELECT ... FOR UPDATE
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Disclosure: I am a very senior data science consultant in an infrastructure management consultancy Consultancy can be a good thing - or a bad thing, depending on which consultants are brought in, and why. It is one of the oldest tropes that
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Thoroughly recommend Roger's Profanisaurus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger's_Profanisaurus
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by steve_gh 3y ago
TL;DR Iron and Urea can be processed to form very high strength room temperature magnets, but industrial scale requires more work. Not in the article: iron and urea are commonly available without geopolitical worries
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I used to work for Motorola. Even back in the 2000s we were extremely cautious around Huawei. I recall it being pretty standard that any important meetings while overseas and near Huawei folks would always take place in the middle of the ho
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Great writing. Love it
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by steve_gh 3y ago
All my monoliths are named after mountains. Dru, verte, argentera, tacul amongst others.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
IANAL, let alone a Dutch lawyer, constitutional or cybercrime expert. My reading of the intent of this legal change is that if a hacking group distributes malware, then that malware can be an investigative target even if it is on a victim&#
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Not better. Different. Languages make different choices to suit different domains, and with perfectly good reasons. Don't complain, embrace the richness and diversity of programming languages. And choose the right one for each task.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Thxs for the explanation - I'm not USAian, so I don't understand the scope of the 1st amendment
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Then again, if I ask for a ranking by average user rating, or alphabetically, then I (the viewer) are setting the criteria. If YouTube's algorithm is deciding what to show me, then I (as the user) am asking for YouTube's opinion.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I work in a Python shop (heavy data analytics). My experience is that the Python web frameworks (Django, Flask) are so much more cumbersome than Rails. There are arguments both for and against streamlining your tech stack. For me, the addit
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by steve_gh 4y ago
A lot of the problem is statistics Vs emotions. People have been killed in traffic accidents on smart motorways because there has been no hard shoulder available. On the other hand, smart motorways save lives because they reduce congestion

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