youngtaff

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by youngtaff 3mo ago
Buy two dishwashers — one of clean stuff and one for dirty stuff — my brother’s seriously thinking about doing it when his kitchen is remodelled
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by youngtaff 3mo ago
More posts about British politics than SpaceX recently!
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by youngtaff 3mo ago
Are you hypermobile? My son is and once subluxed his shoulder while running
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
How are you going to get rid on the heat? And they won't all be in constant unfiltered sunlight some will be in the earth's shadow
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
20,000 launches is 11 Starship launches a day for 5 years It's an unsustainable rate and even if we do get to that rate it'll wreck the planet
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
According to the authors numbers it'll take at least 20,000 launched to put a million satellite's in orbit And that's before you consider the issues of operating a DC in space It's just a a load of nonsense
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
A TAM that’s equivalent to 20% of worldwide GDP is just nonsense
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
They’re not long term contract though… some might only be 90days
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
> The valuation of SpaceX is due to AI, namely the revenue they get for renting out their GPUs to companies that actually have AI customers, as their own AI tech has not panned out. Renting them out for 90 days!
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
When people talk about breaking Google up… YT has always seemed an obvious candidate for separation
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
His former manager left Google last week
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Last I heard they were migrating to WASM based edge compute that could read Varnish configs but not sure how far they got
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
A Tu-22M3 going down makes it better day for Ukraine
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
I’ve got a Pixel 4a as a second phone just for work… it’s a perfectly fine phone I’ve stopped using it because Google abandoned it after 18 months There are plenty of Android phones out there that are usable but get abandoned by the makers
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Immigrants don’t get a vote in many countries For example Europeans were excluded from the Brexit vote
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Bootstrap was originally built so internal Twitter apps had a decentish UI
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Ikea relies heavily on Edge Side Includes, assembling static pages from parts at the CDN level and then having small islands of JS interactivity
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Which CEO?
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
And yet Akamai is profitable… whereas Cloudflare is not…
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Power plant - the car company is owned by BMW
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
Why do the Army Corps of Engineers get so involved in civil infrastructure in the US - thinking of the Mississippi in particular? In other countries the government would be involved but it would be a civilian rather than military role
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
An article on theming without any visuals :-(
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by youngtaff 4mo ago
For what ever reason reader mode appears to show different content
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
> Open source tech is a marketplace of ideas. If you have a more perfect alternative then it will prevail. React has had Facebook promoting it for over a decade… it's hardly a marketplace of ideas… more "Facebook is using this
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
The rise of the trillionaires is predicted on someone to buy their products and if 'everyone' is laid off due to AI they're not going to have the money to spend
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
I’ve heard enough about their past behaviour from separate independent sources to know I’d never use Ladybird
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
And how long before this gets flagged off HN?
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
You're not paying for someone else's roof… it forms part of the house value when you sell Given shingles last between 20-30 years someone's got to pay the cost of re-roofing on a regular basis throughout the house's life
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
When we moved in I had my house re-roofed to add insulation and a breathable membrane Took a day to take all the tiles off the front, add insulation, membrane and batten it. Then another half day or so to put the original tiles back on Back
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by youngtaff 5mo ago
I’ve never understood why so many houses in the US have felt shingles rather than a longer lasting alternative Tiles on my house are at least 150yrs old

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