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by wlll 4y ago
This isn't really true, it means "capture the fascinated attention of". A child could be enthralled by a jigsaw puzzle. You could argue that their attention has somehow been enslaved, but I can't recall ever hearing or r
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by wlll 4y ago
No, it means "capture the fascinated attention of". A child could be enthralled by a jigsaw puzzle.
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by wlll 4y ago
Others have pointed out the specifics related to websites and GDPR/the ePrivacy directive, but there's another example of why what you say isn't really true that might help understand, and that's EU (and for now UK) cons
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by wlll 4y ago
> some random ad would popup with a close button the size of a pixel. Run an adblocker. The Web was a total mess even before GDPR came along and not limited to Europe. If the issue of denying sites a revenue stream bothers you then perha
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by wlll 4y ago
As far as I know they're attracted to things they can use as a food source, but that's a guess.
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by wlll 4y ago
> directly in their flight path My experience of sitting outside in the summer (modulo NW England) is that their flight path covers getting close to 100% of the airspace in my garden. Though I'm sure there are other varieties I&#x27
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by wlll 4y ago
It was though, a fine was levied. There's flexibility in the punishments that are dished out in a lot of justice systems and I suspect it's to take into account that the law is not really nuanced. It's hard to write down &#x2
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by wlll 4y ago
> I went on a lately popular but politically incorrect diet Well, what was it?
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by wlll 4y ago
"A process is writing to a 200GB file" There's two problems here, the process and the file, it seems you need to deal with both situations on both styles of OS. You could truncate the file (there's also a `truncate` comm
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by wlll 4y ago
That wasn't what I said.
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by wlll 4y ago
I contracted for a company in the US (I'm in the UK usually) and the stalls were terrible. Big gaps between the doors and frames, and really big gaps underneath the dividing walls too, so you could identify your co-worker by their shoe
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by wlll 4y ago
Yes and no, it depends whether you mean verified as in "Twitter verified" or verified as in "the journalist verified this is the genuine person". Their job is to verify who it is that they're quoting. Having a blue
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by wlll 4y ago
If you fired a gun into the air in the UK I'm pretty sure that a) You'd get in pretty serious trouble for it by itself and b) if you killed or injured someone that trouble would be significantly multiplied to the extent you'd
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by wlll 4y ago
To be fair, I've always upgrade my hardware before the hardware has lost OS support. If I really wanted to I guess I could run linux on these and use them for something, but I never do (I have one server in my house, it's enough).
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by wlll 4y ago
> Mastodon is like the 1990’s internet came back. Don't you threaten me with a good time!
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by wlll 4y ago
> I'm a recruiter. I'm a CTO, for context. > The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone. … I say "I think it will be about $X, but lets put a job ad up and indica
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by wlll 4y ago
I think so, 42U of full-depth server capacity.
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by wlll 4y ago
The place I work (CTO for now, looking for opportunities pretty soon) can sustain nearly 400 RPS through a Rails app on a single Performance-L Heroku dyno without a sweat (though we run two min), but it's the tip of the iceberg. The in
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by wlll 4y ago
*whoops, this got long* Basecamp started on one single Rackspace server, before I was there. I started at 20 people, left at ~55. When I left there were I don't remember how many racks exactly, but more than 10, less than 30 in the pri
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by wlll 4y ago
I worked at Basecamp/37signals up until 2015. We had peaks and troughs, with as you might predict traffic ramping at ET morning, and tailing off PT afternoon/evening. We had some European traffic, but it was substantially less tha
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by wlll 4y ago
When I was there, they rented space in a DC outside Chicago (near the airport), and later near NY for a backup location. The DC in Chicago was fantastic. We had a whole load of racks (about a row in the DC), and we bought our own servers. R
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by wlll 4y ago
> In my opinion Fukushima should be an argument _for_ nuclear power. The death toll was really low, roughly 2000, and many of those death were caused by the evacuation rather than radiation. The death toll of the tsunami/earthquake
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by wlll 4y ago
> If you are going to attend a funeral, any funeral, be it the Queen’s or anyone else’s and hurl abuse or hold up signs with obscenities, you will be arrested. The funeral hasn't happened yet, Google tells me it's on September
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How to code sign Windows installers with an EV cert on GitHub Actions(melatonin.dev)
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by wlll 4y ago
This is more reasonable. I have 2x400W solar panels sitting in my kitchen right now (they’re going on a boat) that cost me £215 each.
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by wlll 4y ago
> Funny, since for a long while, the "correct" way to run Ruby workloads in production was to run JRuby, therefore Java. cite please? I've worked with Rails since 2008 (as well as a lot of other languages) and JRuby has ra
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by wlll 4y ago
> That's precisely the problem. If engineers were a dime a dozen, then Rails could be a great choice. If engineers are hard to find then isn't using a framework that maximises developer productivity the way to go? Rails definit
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by wlll 4y ago
I'd still love to get a response to the comment I made on my submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31450100 ) > I'd love to hear from someone at GitHub (anonymously or not) what they've done to b
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by wlll 4y ago
I'm curious, can you link to any details of this?
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by wlll 4y ago
I'd love to hear from someone at GitHub (anonymously or not) what they've done to be satisfied with action Heroku have taken that would allow the integration to be turned back on. My confidence in Heroku to give me accurate inform

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