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by wastedhours 6y ago
The sad thing about being an England fan over the last few decades has been managers pandering to the egos rather than playing the best strategy. Can never forgive the run of managers who decided playing Gerrard and Lampard next to each oth
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by wastedhours 6y ago
This is why if you're in the Rails world, I'll always recommend Hatchbox [0]. It takes the PaaS layer from Heroku and applies it to generic nodes on DO or AWS - I'm grandfathered into a really good plan price, but even as it
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Thinking of it as payment for helping to train an algorithm and it makes much more sense.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Unless F1 and FE merge, F1 cannot become fully electric until the end of the exclusivity period. It's a gamble by F1 that the world (and more specifically, the teams and manufacturers involved) won't be ready for a full-electric p
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Standard season of WEC tends to have more overtaking than Le Mans itself. For interest rather than overtaking, WRC is obviously well up there. And if you really want no-holds barred overtaking, anything on the BTCC schedule should be well u
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I once walked the footbridge over the hillclimb at Goodwood during the Festival of Speed as a V10 F1 car went underneath. Was something else entirely. Seeing the musical demos the Renault team used to do was always interesting too - if you
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by wastedhours 6y ago
That being said, the attraction to manufacturers coming into FE is large and it'll only take a few more generations before I'm sure there'll be differentiation in some parts. I'm bullish on FE, especially when they can r
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Not books, but Racecar Engineering magazine [0] is a fantastic source, as is Craig Scarborough [1] for little nuggets of current developments. [0] https://www.racecar-engineering.com/ [1] https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by wastedhours 6y ago
The follow-on question is therefore, are they going to save more time in the long run by writing poorly optimised queries for a particular quantum hardware stack (that we assume as being easier/faster to write), rather than writing hig
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Using Boot Camp or a Hackintosh to be able to do that on the same computer? Might help to make the distinction between it overperforming via Boot Camp or underperforming on a Hackintosh.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I agree somewhat, but I also do appreciate reading why the company themselves think I should care. Often times it's the best way to get to the meat and potatoes of what their actual unique selling point is - you can get that from third
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Yeah, or something like Drop.com for those interested as well.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I mean, marketing's my background so I get that. But you see small brands like Pine64 and System76 doing it for specific types of (often generalised OEM, "off the shelf") hardware. If they can pull it off for more sophisticat
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by wastedhours 6y ago
The thing with TV panels is that they're essentially a commodity, right? Once every TV from a large brand becomes "smart", would the next logical step be for a small privacy-minded collective to go to an OEM and commission th
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by wastedhours 6y ago
It's even perhaps a little bit narrowly named - I'm not a developer, I don't live in the terminal, but I often need to format JSON, decode URLs, and work with timestamps. This looks great. As another commenter mentioned, even
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by wastedhours 6y ago
But convenience and ubiquity was the black cab's selling points, especially since the advent of live updating traffic-aware GPS made storing The Knowledge in your head an occasionally useful party trick.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Interesting perspective, though personally I find the black cabs more uncomfortable than a Prius, often getting bounced up and down, luggage rolling around in the middle, much more jarring stops/starts I've found too (though a lot
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Depends on the time of day - Hackney cabs during the day in Zones 1 and 2 were good (though only if you had a good chunk of cash before they all had to have card readers), whereas private hire was better for those 2am trips home from some Z
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by wastedhours 6y ago
At my old company we had an innovation consultant come in and tell us that kind of approach was nearly impossible to manage in the longer term. Apparently teams dedicated to holding the fort grew bitter and had much lower retention than tea
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Could you not also use one of the open binaries of VSCode with the telemetry removed? https://vscodium.com/ or build from source (with reference that the Microsoft specific functionality is not present: https://g
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Isn't it down to the app developers though whether they allow the ID to be used to serve ads in their app (whether or not in practice there's a mechanism to do that, it's the app developer that's essentially choosing to
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by wastedhours 6y ago
There's always a sector influence on the valuation of stocks - if an analyst writes a report saying the gaming sector as a whole is going to grow 1000x in the next 10 years, you can bet people will be looking for stocks to ride that wa
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I think the only cultural references I see are football-result nostalgia. Quite a few do still crop up though (and even more so, almost every day I get an ad for a Ceefax inspired mug with my team's results on it).
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Didn't realise I was playing into a meme - I've basically replaced most of my white meat use with off the bone thigh meat. You get a stronger taste for sure, but I've not yet found it actually jars with a recipe (and to be cl
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Cannot agree more - I really don't understand the argument the post is trying to make. At some point, you are doing sales, and you are doing marketing. Heck, even talking to a mate at another company and pitching them on what you'
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I don't forsee it having a major impact in the purchasing of raw meat (I think most supermarkets are on board with not selling it as most consumers don't want it). What'll be interesting/disturbing is how it's integ
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Yeah, I've never understood this - given the choice, I'd choose dark meat over chicken breast every time.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
We used to have one server for a website I was a content guy on - it was in a standard PC case, plugged into a switch in the IT team's office (this was not a tech-centered org). The main IT guy went on holiday and one of the cover guys
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by wastedhours 6y ago
We have a number of tools at our disposal as drivers to minimise bad situations. Personally I think overuse of high-beams is more valid than under-use in quite a number of circumstances (and exceptionally bad in others). Your comment implie
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by wastedhours 6y ago
I misworded my point on that bit, I more meant I'd rather take a full-beam to the face when I'm on the pavement if it means the driver is aware of the hazards around them. Occasionally (and in my experience it is only a handful of

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