davidhowlett

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Aug 16

Most of my work is unfortunately not public but you can see my favourite hobby project at: https://github.com/DavidHowlett/family_chess_tournament

I enjoy juggling and when we are not in a global pandemic I like to attend juggling conventions.

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Comment · 1 year ago

I use and pay for the professional review site https://www.which.co.uk/

They are a charity funded by subscribing consumers. They don't get paid by the sellers so the incentive structure benefits the consumer. I trust what they write.

Comment · 1 year ago

The official pdf for the paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769

I can find "Coconut" 54 times in the PDF. The movie does not look made up.

Comment · 3 years ago

Your altitudes for satellites are too high. Low earth orbit is defined as being below 2000km and very low orbit as being below 450 km. Starlink is at about 550km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit https://ts2.space/en/what-is-the-altitude-at-which-starlink-...

Comment · 3 years ago

I suspect you mean infallible rather than fallible.

Comment · 3 years ago

This might be a wording issue but how can a currency lose more than 100% of its value?

Comment · 4 years ago

As a UK customer, I use Monzo bank and have pretty consistently had good experiences. They are a new bank. Recieving international money transfers was the only bit that they didn't support.

Comment · 4 years ago

I believe you mean West Africa.

Comment · 5 years ago

I enjoyed the collection at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140

Comment · 5 years ago

I am British and will be directly affected by this. What can I do to help stop this becoming law?

Comment · 5 years ago

The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen. Carbon dioxide forms about 0.04%

Comment · 5 years ago

"car path ey" sounds like a thing connected to finding paths for cars.

Comment · 5 years ago

I spent years worrying about misleading descriptions and fake reviews. I then bought a subscription to which.co.uk and have been a happy customer since. They review a wide variety of products and they are a non-profit registered as a charity in the UK. They are mainly funded by consumer subscriptions so conflicts of interest are avoided.

Comment · 5 years ago

Flask was originally an April fools joke with what the author thought was a silly design. It is now widely used, including in production systems at my company.

http://mitsuhiko.pocoo.org/flask-pycon-2011.pdf

Comment · 5 years ago

Individual contributor. A programmer who does not manage others.