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streety
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About streety
Email jonathan at the domain above
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Comment #38014334
That might be an issue for smaller projects but at larger scales there is often an associated charity. For example https://apache.org/ and https://numfocus.org/community/mission ar…
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Comment #36231370
It doesn't look like it is active on their site but I would assume it is a link to the submit page with some conditional CSS based on whether the user has visited the site. Changin…
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Comment #31981198
Are you in France? https://www.cerascreen.fr would be an option. I've only used the UK site but assume it will be the same.
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Comment #30012442
It's a "natural" source of sodium nitrite. Sodium nitrite is used as a preservative in deli meats and generally thought to be bad for our health. It doesn't matter if it is mineral…
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Comment #29992040
I'm curious in what situations you were using the pulse oximeter. From what I've seen the performance of even the best watches is questionable in the normal range - one example: ht…
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Comment #19788365
Very doable. I have FIDO U2F set up on my personal site and wrote a barebones example at https://jonathanstreet.com/blog/flask-second-factor-authenti... I've thought about adding s…
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Comment #17793863
I came across Shamir's Secret Sharing recently when thinking about how a partial password scheme might best be implemented. I even went as far as writing up an implementation of th…
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Comment #17678961
Thanks. I'm pleased you mentioned the speed. When I created the site it wasn't something I focused on but I have thought about more recently. I'll aim for any changes I make to be …
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Comment #17676725
My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/ It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found p…
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Comment #17452214
Do you have a link where I could learn more about that "Lazy Boy Sump Mapper"? I've found several mentions of its use, but would be interested in more technical information.
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Comment #16884555
WJP004 is also good https://www.youtube.com/user/WJP004/videos Also doing much of the work himself.
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Comment #11976269
The apology made by Gordon Brown to Alan Turing was prompted by a petition https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/11/pm-apology-to-... A complete list that were debated is at h…
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Comment #6495738
Could a similar statement not be made for all the enabling technologies? If all the materials scientists, nanotechnologists, and biotechnologists went fishing as well I suspect the…
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Comment #4996540
For the login you ask for an email address. There are plenty of services providing disposable email addresses but I wonder if you need to ask for an email at all. Perhaps an 'Alias…
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Comment #4820610
Apparently there were too many under-18s who looked over-21, many bars now advertise a policy of checks for anyone who looks under-25.
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Comment #4496864
It would depend on how the slower RAM was treated. Boosting the memory to support memcache for example would seem to make sense.
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Comment #4481838
Some thoughts: - The focus seems to be largely on the software but if you're targeting mass consumers, and the kitchen, the case could be important as well. - 32 GB isn't really th…
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Comment #4277791
I'm not currently in the UK so I can't test it myself but I was under the impression you don't even need the SIM
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Comment #2802162
With the numbers supplied the calculation is correct. As written it is ambiguous though. Think of it as: MWh/year = MWh/h x 365 x 24 x CF
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Comment #2738832
Usually when attempting to take a backup or download multiple pages from a site I add pauses between requests in an attempt to limit the burden I place on the servers I'm fetching …
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Comment #2616341
I'm actually reading Accelerando at the moment but somehow totally forgot about the crowd sourcing aspect of the new look CIA. Investigating further Accelerando was published after…
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Comment #2474569
It's likely premature optimisation. You may have a problem with bots signing up but I suspect at this stage it is not as large a problem as recruiting users. You might also want to…
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Comment #2474352
Actually the python equivalent of "Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive)" would be random.randrange(0, n…
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Comment #2473877
It looks like a nicely designed homepage that gets your point across well. I clicked on the "Switch from Delicious?" button expecting to be able to authenticate with delicious and …
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Comment #2466077
I'm not so sure. A few years ago a similar statement could have been made about Myspace or friendster a few years before that. Would you be willing to make such a statement about e…