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douglasfshearer

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About douglasfshearer

Software engineer. CTO at Distrify Media. Co-host of Pincount Podcast.

github.com/dougal @douglasfshearer

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    Comment #22311035

    The main developer of this at Github wrote a blogpost about the design decisions behind CLI, and how it fits/replaces Hub. [0] [0] https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/

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    Comment #21216433

    October 19, 2018 - Singapore and EU sign free-trade agreement. [0] January 22, 2019 - Dyson announces move to Singapore. [1] After such strong support for Brexit, it is not a good …

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    Comment #21196145

    I had this same experience in regards to support interaction. Starting from scratch is a less than ideal process IMO, so much so I have not done it in the hope that a future update…

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    Comment #21059670

    I use two Max OS "Locations" (Apple Menu -> Location), one which uses the router default DNS (which is a Pi-Hole at home), and another which is set to use the Cloudflare DNS server…

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    Comment #20657001

    Criminal, the podcast, did an episode about the killing of Ken McElroy. [0] An episode that stuck in my head. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-66-bully-5-5-2017/

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    Comment #20653014

    Haven't seen this data in the form of an interactive map before. For anyone else wondering "Geographic Access" is based on public transport times to selected public services. This …

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    Comment #20439386

    This functionality is broken in Safari for me. Works in Chrome.

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    Comment #20439375

    Try pressing the spacebar.

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    Comment #20419859

    > left click select as the new default This is a huge improvement for new users. Right click was very un-intuitive when coming from other applications. Congrats to the Blender team…

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    Comment #20391239

    It appears that two of Zoom's competitors, Blue Jeans and Webex, also use web servers on localhost: https://twitter.com/anthonypjshaw/status/1148470933901864960

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    Comment #20325542

    > This library has been around for 20 years and it contains pieces of code that were written in the 90's. Whilst I am sure there are good reasons for the omission, it would have be…

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    Comment #20324111

    Previous discussion: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235259 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238181

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    Comment #20210910

    > "The weighted average trip distance is 9.4 miles. Vehicles owned by urban households averaged 8.5 miles and rural vehicles averaged 12.1 miles." [0] In the U.S, a considerably la…

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    Comment #20102993

    CCGT - Combined Cycle Gas Turbine FYI

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    Comment #19808926

    Does Erlang not satisfy this?

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    Comment #19757269

    Slack has a 5-year, $50M/year minimum commitment with AWS. From the document: > In April 2018, the Company executed an amendment to its existing agreement with Amazon Web Services …

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    Comment #19450493

    One of the developers tweeted last night "...nowhere near crashing the site - you all need to try harder tomorrow" https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108518184301268995

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    Comment #18541104

    Rick Branson ran a benchmark with Phoronix. a1 is ~2/3 of the cost/performance of a5. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/1067304265696202752

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    Comment #18400360

    If video is being served via HLS (which it probably is in 2018), then the manifests support redundant streams, where multiple hosts can be specified for each stream. [0] hls.js sup…

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    Comment #18393192

    Only in selected regions at the moment. I can see the m5a and r5a instances available in the console from the Ireland and Virginia regions.

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    Comment #18393122

    Two sockets.

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    Comment #18393088

    A vCPU is a logical core, not a physical core. So yes, based on HT.

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    Comment #18338882

    CPUs available are: * Core i3-8100 [0] * Core i5-8500 [1] * Core i7-8700 [2] All of these are listed as having embedded version available, which I would expect Apple to be using, s…