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tony

@tony@hoyle.me.uk

Geek, Linux User, Retro gaming enthusiast.

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bitsunited, to random German
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Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

tony,
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@mira @bitsunited You know they will..

tony, to random
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Enter a new password

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Correct! Welcome aboard

(Just happened on Disney Plus.. they force reset my password presumably due to a compromise and their complexity checking logic is broken.. it prevents me choosing a good password).

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

tony,
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@mhoye GM are doing a worse.. but yes on average the market is healthy.

Absolute numbers aren't much use when Tesla sells 6 times the number of EVs as everyone else.

rgm, to random
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ask your docker if kubernetes is right for you side effects may include bladder pain nausea joint pain unusual tiredness or weakness vomiting urge to extend a middle finger to middlebrow bourgeois capital as it continues like so many lemmings to senselessly overcomplicate without regard for context mostly to nerf labour power via deskilling runny nose shivering sore throat confusion anxiety blurred vision depression nervousness pounding in the ears

tony,
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@rgm
I find microk8s fairly sane but I imagine it gets quite complex when you go full fat.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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To be clear: I don't have any sympathy for the Tories...

but the key problem they have (like any government after a decade & a half in power), is when, for instance they say they are going to clamp down on tax avoidance, its not unreasonable to ask, well if you are going to do it now why haven't you done it sometime in the previous fifteen years.....

And, its pretty difficult to campaign on a dreadful recent record, while saying well, now we can rectify this often noted problem.

#election

tony,
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@ChrisMayLA6 The existing government is supposed to campaign on 'look how great things are, if you vote for the other guy they'll ruin it'.

The tories can't do that, they'd be laughed out of the room.

PeterEbenezer, to random

Ok. So. First post on Mastadon so bear with me…first time at , also first time camping with a 6 year old… I’ve read the info on the site, can anyone weigh in with random one-liner bits of advice? It may also be helpful other emf newbies?

tony,
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@PeterEbenezer If you can, join a village

tony,
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@PeterEbenezer You have access to good internet and power, so don't forget your gadgets and chargers.

acf, to random
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There's something very sad about reading "there was no money in giving water we extracted from the air to drought-ridden people so we're selling it to hotels instead"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11nnwp646o

tony,
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@acf It's got a bad rep. after the waterseer scam I expect.. investors not wanting to be bitten.

maia, to random
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tony,
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@Stefan_S_from_H
If it's the same as a Tesla yes, but it won't be sriveable during the update.

However you choose when the update starts, and starting an update that can take 45 minutes just before you're due in court is bloody stupid.
@TeflonTrout @maia

robpike, to random
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Also, today's good code is likely tomorrow's bad code.

https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz/112507379669620422

tony,
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@stevel
'Future maintainers' will of course include you.
@robpike @srtcd424

tony, to random
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Yet another sandisk SD self destructed & let the magic smoke out.

They used to be good. What went wrong?

tony, to random
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As children we were always taught 'don't talk to strangers'..'stranger danger'. As a child if a neighbour said hi I'd run home crying.
As that's taught early it sticks.. we carry it into adulthood, just under the surface.

1/

tony,
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I'm lucky enough to live in a town where nothing ever happens.. the local facebook is all about lost cats. Yet to walk down the high street everyone lives in their little bubble.. It has become normal, even in a small town, to not talk to each other. I'm not immune, if I see a group of teenagers on the street my instinct is to cross the road to
avoid them.. I'm doing a threat assessment of people I've never met, when the overwhelming chances are they're just going about their day.

2/

tony,
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Are we reaping the cost of creating generations of mistrust? The original campaign was probably well meaning but misguided (risk from 'strangers' is miniscule.. risk from your own
family, however.. but who is going to teach children 'family danger'?). I don't know if we still do it, or it's more nuanced these days.

3/

tony,
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(That's not to say there aren't places to live where precautions are sensible.. I've lived in rough areas in the past too.. but even there looking back I suspect I overreacted).

tony,
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It's only a part of the problem of course.. news media sells fear (it's fundamental to how they continue to exist) and you can't easily remove that because it's human nature.. (is that noise in the forest a lion or just wind? Make the wrong decision and darwin wins).

And no, national service isn't going to fix it either (but that's just james cleverly not being very clever).

Geri, to random
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Rachel Johnson.

"We need because we have not got enough people to pick our fruit ."

There you go folks, half an hour into the show

Sometime later she then says

"It will be really useful because they could get a qualification they could show [prospective] employers"

It all got a bit Girl Guide there.

IDIOT

tony,
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@Geri 'A level in fruit picking'

tony, to random
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"Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service"

What the actual fuck.

They think this will get them votes?

tony, to random
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Went to everything electric north. Good points.. lots of smaller 'compact' EVs coming out. Bad.. they want to charge as much as an SUV for them. That has to change.

I tried a 'posh*' ebike on a demo ring and it had almost the same problem that my cheap(ish) one has.. the moment you start pedalling the motor takes over and you're effectively on a motorbike without any padding and a weedy helmet. It scared me so much I had to go for a sit down afterwards..

  • £2.5k! For a bike!
tony,
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@lopta That was apparently the lowest setting. They call it 'pedal assist' but it really isn't, it's just pedalling switching the motor on.

You then can't slow down for several seconds until the motor stops after you stop pedalling.. the brakes were so harsh they were an instant stop.

It seems to me by banning throttles all they did was move the throttle to the pedal, and it's terribly unsuited to that use.. there's no nuance at all.

richardknott, to TeslaMotors
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Private Eye highlights the Ev reporting in the Telegraph. And why this is just one subject, Ev reporting is a microcosm of how many other issues are reported in much of the press. The next 6 weeks are going to be really special…

tony,
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@richardknott Whenever the press report about anything I have knowledge about, they get it wrong.

So I assume everything I'm not familiar with they get wrong too.

ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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The (centrist) Social Market Foundation asked a group of economists to look at the Labour Party's economic policies & see what theorising lies behind them (if anything).

They concluded that pragmatism & small scale/focussed policy interventions seemed to be the driving logic(s) rather than any more general economic theory or position (in this sense they lack the coherence of Biden's policy approach).

Whether this is a problem remans to be seen.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-economists-think-of-labours-economic-policy/

tony,
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@lennardvanotterloo @ChrisMayLA6 @KimSJ The moment they announce a policy the right wing press will attack it.

How much that'll affect voting these days, I'm not so sure (back in the day it could decide elections) but they're obviously trying to avoid talking about anything.

NanoRaptor, to random
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What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

tony,
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@NanoRaptor 60, 70, 100, 135, 2100

CountBinface, to random
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It’s meant to be.

tony,
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@CountBinface
Bins. . can only get better

GossiTheDog, to random
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Fourth of July election in the UK

Season 5 Lol GIF by Real Husbands of Hollywood

tony,
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@GossiTheDog Let the independence day memes commence!

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