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by wlll 10y ago
Bolts are re-used between climbers. If someone bolts a route then other climbers use it. You never end up with a wall littered with bolts.
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by wlll 10y ago
I climb, but I'm not 100% familiar with the ethical considerations personally. I think there are different viewpoints. I think these cover some of the views. Some people think that bolting a wall "spoils" it ecologically, dam
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by wlll 10y ago
Or 39 days… You might be interested in the ascent of "Wings of Steel" which originally took Mark Smith and Richard Jensen 39 days, later also completed by Ammon McNeely and Kait Barber. The first ascent team had to deal with a lot
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by wlll 10y ago
Pish, it will surely be unlocked when maintaining exactly 88mph for a certain time :)
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by wlll 10y ago
This is the thing that has me utterly scared. I've got young daughters who may potentially live to 2100 and the state of the world in the years leading up that point has me incredibly worried. I wish I was thinking more positively abou
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by wlll 10y ago
Can confirm. It's just "the NHS" wherever you are.
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by wlll 10y ago
It helps. No reason to artificially limit processing power available. If I spend seconds more waiting for my Go command line program to compile, or Rails to boot up, or a complex web page to load, or my VMs to respond, or Elasticsearch to b
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by wlll 10y ago
The point was more about the reaction of the rep, that it was ludicrous of me to consider passwords to be case sensitive, but yeah, not a good sign in general, though as I use a unique password for everything (1Password) I'm less conce
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by wlll 10y ago
In reality a lot of people don't see any difference between "Password123", "password123" or "PASSWORD123". I was once talking to a bank and had to give char n of my password and I said something like &quot
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by wlll 10y ago
I thought I didn't visit sites with lots of ads, until I saw what one of the sites I used looked without my ad blocker on. It was horrendous.
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by wlll 10y ago
Maybe it's not worth it? Maybe the value add just isn't there? I don't know how much Pornhub charge (I checked, £9.99/month, joys of working from home), but I do get harangued every once in a while for newspaper sites. &
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by wlll 10y ago
When this comes up a lot of my time is spent trying to tell this to people. Why don't I have a Dell XPS? It's faster and has more memory and bla bla. The computer is a useful tool only when it has an OS. What you run on it is as i
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by wlll 10y ago
> I find them at least a third cheaper than taxis in London They're much cheaper than black cabs in Manchester too, but still about equivalent to private hire companies, surge pricing aside.
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by wlll 10y ago
I personally like the idea, if not the implementation. I'd buy a pair tomorrow if they were made by someone like Etymotic, but I've always found the comfort level of Apple earphones to be something akin to trying to wedge a spoon
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by wlll 10y ago
I'd say minimal for the fact that the new iPhones don't have a headphone socket alone.
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by wlll 10y ago
> A month ago, I went to Europe and my date had to wrap a scarf around her waist to visit a church (she was wearing shorts). My experience of visiting a Greek orthodox church was that bare legs weren't tolerated on either sex.
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by wlll 10y ago
I built a robot with mine: https://blog.willj.net/category/robotics/
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A six pronged Rails performance philosophy(blog.scoutapp.com)
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Real-time dashboards considered harmful(m.signalvnoise.com)
17 points by wlll 10y ago|1 comments
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by wlll 10y ago
HTTPS everywhere is a good thing, and if you don't understand why that's fine, I don't have the time to explain to you why you are wrong, but you are. Good luck deploying Internet connected services in the past.
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by wlll 10y ago
> keep using HTTP, and provide HTTPS for important website content (like shop payment) What if someone MITM's your site, injects some code so that when the user clicks on the checkout link/button they get sent to a malicious si
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by wlll 10y ago
You seem to be ignoring the comments to the contrary made on your original comment when stating this. Sure it's going to cost some orgs more, and it makes sense that it does. I'd wager that data at rest (lots of repos) costs a hel
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by wlll 11y ago
One of the first things I did at my current place was to add a Nagios check "Is the most recent backup size within x bytes of the previous one". It wasn't comprehensive, but was fast to implement and was later replaced with f
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Basecamp's “Until the End of the Internet” Promise(m.signalvnoise.com)
2 points by wlll 11y ago|0 comments
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by wlll 11y ago
I thought the same about 3d printing, I lazily didn't look past the trinkets and crap that was on show. When I finally thought about the possibilities I realised there was probably a whole lot more potential, did some experimenting and
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by wlll 11y ago
As someone else replied, contacts, friends and old colleagues. I got my first remote job by going to the local Ruby user group and getting to know people. You might also check https://weworkremotely.com/ (full disclosure, c
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Basecamp 3 has launched(signalvnoise.com)
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Basecamp hires their first COO(signalvnoise.com)
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by wlll 11y ago
I really did mean the Mac Pro! I've also done VR on a MacBook Pro and that's obviously much worse even than the Mac Pro. VR doesn't work well with SLI right now, many people end up disabling all but one GPU in a multi GPU s
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by wlll 11y ago
There are issues with SLI and VR. It works for some people, for others they need to disable all but one card. There's details on the oculus subreddit if you want to search for it.

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