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Comment · 1 month ago
I have 3 ZSA boards and I recently said to a friend I will always buy new ZSA products as I enjoy them so much. But $399 for a backpack, that's hard for me to justify. If I am not buying this I'm not sure who will.
Comment · 1 year ago
So 16 year olds are wise enough to vote, but not fully leave education, buy alcohol, drive a car, join the army and get married without your parents consent, the lists goes on.
Comment · 2 years ago
Dumb question, but how can a 32 bit number be converted to 2 bits and still be useful? It seems like magic.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for mentioning FireSync, we haven't even offically launched yet! After 10+ years of building real time collabrative apps based on Operational Transformation (ShareLaTeX -> Overleaf.com) we have become quietly very excited about CRDT's and Yjs. Now we are focused on building a scalable Yjs compliant backend ontop of PG with FireSync.

If anyone has thoughts about this space, feature requests, would like a preview of what we are building, or anything else, please do reach out direcly to me at [email protected], I'm talking to as many people as possible at the moment.

Comment · 3 years ago
Location: London UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: node.js, react, typescript, terraform, redis, k8, elixir, mongo, Postgres, docker. GCP/AWS, hashicorp stack, Linux, Nginx, haproxy, bash etc

Résumé/CV: Former founder of ShareLaTaX, successful exit from bootstrapping it. Now on First job hunt in 10+ years. Lots of experience in ops/dev ops, fast real time collaboration with big scale. Full stack developer at heart, with lots ops experience in recent years managing large scale cloud migrations and infrastructure. 12+ year’s experience.

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 3 years ago
Just - https://just.systems/man/en/

Simple, readable task runner. It has replaced make and rake in a lot of use cases.

Comment · 3 years ago
replacement for dialyzer?
Comment · 4 years ago
It's also possible your email address is guessable
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i've spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move.

It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.

After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?

Comment · 4 years ago
I have found it easy to overload SQLite with too many write operations (20+ Concurrently), is this typical behaviour referred to in the post, or a write heavy workload?
Comment · 5 years ago
Some of the franchises did make decent profits, westcost/virgin etc. This generally happens at the end of the franchise once most of the up front investment happened. A lot of other franchises make a loss so it isn't quite so black and white.

With the previous model a lot of the risk was on the private company, if times were good profits were there, in bad times they made losses. Now with the new model the risk has gone over to the UK government, for better or worse.

The new setup should guarantee a low level of profitability for private companies, with a theoretical lower max, what will be interesting is to see how many companies actually bid.

The private companies actually own very little when running a franchise, most things are leased, such as rolling stock which is largely owned by German funds if memory serves. Investments into stations/parking/ticketing etc is left in place for the next person to take the keys.

Comment · 5 years ago
I completely agree, Northern trains are a disgrace.

I don't think it was a failure of private companies though, rather Network Rail failing to deliver. The government has speced electrification for decades like you say. The cost of eletricifcation has gone through the roof, mainly due to health and safety (good thing). We have also lost a lot of expertise in electrification, much like how we lost the skill to tunnel.

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