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by thorin 3y ago
This is not really true, my 100 year old house in the UK is one of hundreds in my suburb/village. Each house is slightly different though, in terms of the layout. The fireplace is hardwood and has some columns on it that are handmade o
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by thorin 3y ago
I would personally use a Db to manage application state and Kafka to manage the eventing part. That is in line with my experience of using Kafka mainly in a microservice or integration environment to pass different events between interested
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by thorin 3y ago
If you'd done UUIDs in 1995 ( if that was even possible ) you'd have a had horrendous indexing problems, mainly relating to clustering. This was an issue when I started using SQL Server in around 2006. Was also a concern in Oracle
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by thorin 3y ago
For some reason I seem to struggle with reading more and more with age. As someone says people seem more keen to make video or interactive content for learning, which is a factor. Re-reading books like Dune more recently has made me wonder
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by thorin 3y ago
In the UK, when looking at google drive maps I can already see the speed limit correctly in 99% of situations. This is occasionally incorrect due to recent changes or roadworks, but not very often. It also warns of upcoming fixed and mobile
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by thorin 3y ago
I am reading Abbey Road NW8, a history of the studio and recorded music in general. Pretty good so far in a bill bryson kind of way.
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by thorin 3y ago
Hope long did you spend reading GEB? I ask because I found it pretty dense and reading in detail I feel like I'd need a good few weeks to get through it while having nothing much else to do. I think I read about a third of it a couple
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by thorin 3y ago
If when I started learning about calculus at 14/15 someone had explained why we were doing this it would have made it so much less confusing. Explaining in terms of speed/distance/acceleration seems to make complete sense now
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by thorin 3y ago
The only modern design book that seems to be universally acclaimed is designing data intensive applications. I enjoyed it and I don't remember it being too much along those lines. Martin fowlers writings were reasonably balanced on tha
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by thorin 3y ago
Music recording, just bought a Focusrite audio interface and a microphone and downloaded Reaper. Getting started slowly with bringing in drums and drum sequencing and editing, effects and mixing. I already have multiple instruments so that&
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by thorin 3y ago
They aren't that ubiquitous in the UK/Europe or Asia. I've never used an iPhone. I'm not sure of the market share figures but I'd guess it's about 50/50. Similarly with Mac laptops you get the impression t
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by thorin 3y ago
It's a tough one. I took it as my only distraction on a week long meditation course. I had no technology, phone signal etc and this was the only book I had with me. I managed to read about a quarter of it and would really need to be in
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by thorin 3y ago
Heart of darkness is very short and fits into those great books like L'Etranger and the Old Man and the Sea that can be usefully read in an afternoon and give back way more than they demand from you. Republic is quite long but very app
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by thorin 3y ago
Agree, maybe I'd already heard it's central premise too much before I read it but it seemed like a book on stating the bleeding obvious again and again. It also felt like a blog post rather than a full book. I tend to think that a
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by thorin 3y ago
Music: improving playing various instruments, playing in my band and doing some home recording My kids: watching them grow and change Work: gradually learning new skills after 25yrs in the industry Fitness: up and down, but I like to think
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by thorin 3y ago
Is the free software not being cool / peer pressure thing directed at Apple? I don't think people are buying Windows because it's cool.
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by thorin 3y ago
Sorry just seen your post. Driving from Wrexham to Bala and back on the early hours of Sunday in the rain is probably not a reflective test. There were no changes to road signs that I could see.
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by thorin 3y ago
Wales (UK) did this about a week ago. Setting 20mph as a limit in urban areas. I was there yesterday and now the problem is that it's very unclear where exactly it applies and if it will be enforced. Also satnavs such as Apple and Goog
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by thorin 3y ago
We used Oracle Apex for years with loads of complex business applications. If you already have Oracle licenses it's a must-use. It's definitely lo-code rather than no code as you really need a bit of db modelling, sql, and develop
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by thorin 3y ago
I was thinking the same. Websites for people wanting to set up a small business seem to have died for this reason. Within 10 mins you can have a page on Facebook or Instagram. That is what bands, small bars, cafes etc are using in my part o
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by thorin 3y ago
Correct! Oxford was founded in the 11th century, with Cambridge lagging behind and not getting started until around 1200.
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by thorin 3y ago
In the uk there are a lot of groups set up for popular old tech on fb. Selling on those groups gets the machines to people who will be actively using them or even putting in a museum and there are people that can repair issues and source co
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by thorin 3y ago
True, but surely the point of a startup, with real investors is to make money, not "save the world" or "get your ass to mars". Disappointing really.
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by thorin 3y ago
Is this a US thing? I recently bought a reasonably high end Skoda (which I think would be made in the same factory as VW, SEAT etc). It has a big touch screen in the centre console, but that's really only used for the radio / medi
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by thorin 3y ago
As a few others have said, donate to charity. There are charities that can make way more of an impact with that money than you building some software. Look at Bill Gates! However on a local level you can do a lot, by being kind, helping peo
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by thorin 3y ago
Most of these are global issues though in the developed world, even healthcare to an extent due to ageing population. I'm not sure what this has to do with an air traffic control outage either? It does seem that a lot of infrastructure
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by thorin 3y ago
Is this any different to "blockchain is the solution to everything", "big data", "cloud" etc etc?
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by thorin 3y ago
Interesting to note the progression: Python was initially another scripting / better shell to rival Perl, but it took a long time to do so. It didn't really become popular until way later than a lot of other languages. I think thi
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by thorin 3y ago
I've been climbing on and off for 30 years. Most people are not "free" soloing as it's called in the US (just soloing in the UK). If he's the sort of person that's attracted to those kinds of things he'll
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by thorin 3y ago
I was enjoying Dune and I got through the sequel which was ok, but I'm not really getting on with the 3rd book (children on dune) I've only managed to get through a few pages. I think all of these books are reasonably slow going f

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