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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
If you want to stick with Linux, I can vouch for Dell's XPS range. I've been running Ubuntu and Arch on various generations of XPS 13 for about 8 years now with minimal issues. Honestly, my work-issued Macbooks have been more prob
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I always find it interesting when people brag about not paying fines — especially when the fine is issued in a foreign country. To me it shows a lack of responsibility and a huge lack of respect for the local laws. I guess not everyone feel
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I've used React as a server-side templating language on many projects small and large. The main feature that makes React great for rendering HTML is higher-order components. In my experience any project of sufficient complexity starts
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
Every time I read something like this it blows my mind that there are still places in the world where you can be "let go" so easily. I'm really sorry to hear that this happened to you. I hope your next employer can be more co
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
Which licence did you distribute the code with? Surely there's solid grounds for a legal case if the licence didn't permit commercial use?
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I picked up a RPi 4B the other day to use as a pi-hole[1] and was surprised to see it running at 65C while idling. It doesn't help that I have the board enclosed in the official case, which provides absolutely no airflow. Everything ru
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
Tesla fans will tell you otherwise, but pretty much all of the EVs from "traditional" automakers are more reliable than Tesla vehicles. Cheaper & easier to service too. I've heard very good things about the Nissan LEAF, H
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I've been using Firefox Preview since it was announced in June and so far I'm really impressed. It's much faster than "regular" Firefox for Android, and I like the UI better. There have been a few bugs and annoyance
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I don't think many vegetarians or vegans would disagree that meat was historically important for human survival and development. Meat was (and still is in many parts of the world) one of the easiest ways to attain calories and importan
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
From https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors We are investigating reports of occasional DNS resolution errors with Route 53 and our external DNS providers. We are actively working towards resolutio
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I've owned a Nokia 6 Plus for the last year and I've been pleasantly surprised to receive the monthly security patches within a week of them being released. If I buy another Android device it will probably be a Nokia for this reas
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
In my experience most hardware works flawlessly, although admittedly some hardware is better-supported. I've owned two (soon three) Dell XPS 13 laptops since 2013 and have always had a really smooth experience running Ubuntu. The worst
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
The Wikipedia article mostly talks about Type I NF. The author of this post had Type II NF, which is not necessarily associated with the same preconditions as Type I NF.
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by wldlyinaccurate 7y ago
I'm guessing this is not true for all species of salmon. I've "caught" salmon from a farm in New Zealand and the meat was a very deep orange-red colour.
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by wldlyinaccurate 8y ago
Yes. This is the entire purpose of film rating systems like the well-known MPAA system. People want to be informed about the content of a film before watching it so that they can decide whether it is appropriate for them (or their children,
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by wldlyinaccurate 8y ago
The main difference being that instant.page respects users' data allowances by prefetching only resources that it thinks the user intends to load. You could combine it with H2 push and/or prefetch response headers to improve the l
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by wldlyinaccurate 8y ago
I used to work for the companies that build these bloated websites. I spent a year rebuilding the BBC News front page to make it not-awful[1] but it felt like I was fighting against the rising tide. I've since moved on and now work at
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Google diversity figures show little change(bbc.com)
2 points by wldlyinaccurate 8y ago|0 comments
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Powering BBC Online with nanoservices(medium.com)
3 points by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago|0 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
There are hurdles for sure. I guess I'm just publicly venting my frustration at having HTTPS on one of the world's biggest news websites be under-prioritised for years and years :) I'm really glad to hear that btw. I wish I c
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
There's actually not much to stop the rollout of HTTPS on the BBC News site now. In fact, the major hurdles were overcome nearly a year ago. The final hurdle is convincing the product and editorial teams that enabling HTTPS is more imp
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's by design - more of a fun consequence of the way the BBC's web platforms have been retired so far. Most of the retired platforms generated static content (some XML, some HTML) so when the platform needed t
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Introducing Second: a framework for mostly-static React applications(wildlyinaccurate.com)
2 points by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago|0 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
When you put it like that, yep, pretty costly! But a large chunk of this project has been building up the frameworks, infrastructure, tooling, and processes that enable us to migrate from our legacy PHP 5.3 apps running in 2 physical data c
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
We've found that React is actually really great for building complex UIs out of small reusable components. I often struggle to put into words just how much better it is than, say, using Mustache templates or PHP/ERB/etc. I th
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
Just to clarify: We aren't redirecting HTTP -> HTTPS and don't have any plans to do so, at least in the short-term. All we're doing is enabling HTTPS for bbc.{com,co.uk}/news because at the moment we issue a 301 for H
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
Thanks! We'll take a look at this ASAP. In the mean time, I guess all I can do is apologise for the broken experience... We use a technique called cutting the mustard to determine whether a browser is modern (read: >=IE9). This al
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
I'll raise this with our product team. I think it's totally reasonable to expect the banner not to appear as soon as you load the page — if there's a breaking news story, it will already be on the page, right? So there&#x27
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
Sorry about this... The BBC has some extremely strict rules around not showing advertising to UK users (who already pay a license fee to the BBC). We attempt to prevent this by redirecting people to the "correct" edition based o
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
On your last point — the new breaking news banner doesn't have the infuriating jump-to-top behaviour. At the moment the new banner is only on the new front page but I think we're going to backport it to other pages in the not-so-d

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