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JazCE··on Is a smart electricity tariff worth it?
What do you use for monitoring your mains supply?
JazCE··on Is a smart electricity tariff worth it?
Hmmm this is interesting... currently i'm on a 2 year fixed, i live in quite an energy efficient flat and mostly keep everything off unless i'm home. Currently i pay roughly £16 a month for my electricity. Literally the only things on during the day would be: my alexa, my router, my hue hub and bulbs (in an off state), my fridge/freezer, my home hot water/heating thermostat and the apartment extractor fan.

I'd love to charge my laptop and phones off of a solar battery.

JazCE··on Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time
Step 2 - ?
JazCE··on Outrage culture is out of control
Her husband's business, not her's, but otherwise i agree.
JazCE··on The subscription-pocalypse
This is a good thread to read that might give some more backstory: https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1088503510184927233
JazCE··on My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
> You'll pay for counseling.

what?

JazCE··on The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)
Haven't they now gone bust? I might be wrong.
JazCE··on Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
Could really do with one of these for pornhub and such sites.
JazCE··on Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?
For sending data to china?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138328

JazCE··on Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014)
What?

How do i downvote this nonsense. Well done on your bravery by the way.

JazCE··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
In the UK, 2 of the biggest chains offer subscription passes... Cineworld, which is the one I use, allows me to see any movie at any cineworld (there's a 2 tier system for London, but ignore that for now) at any time for free based on me paying £17 a month. I live in London and the average cost of a ticket is roughly £12, if i see 2 movies a month i'm quids in. It seems insane that moviepass isn't operated already by one of your big chains (AMC? i guess). There's normally at least 2 movies I want to see a month, and even if there's not if i have nothing better to do i'd likely go and see something.
JazCE··on EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
that's nothing to do with price fixing.
JazCE··on EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
This doesn't surprise me. Having been in the market for a AV Receiver recently, I was amazed at how little fluctuation in price there was between all the online stores for the likes of Denon and Marantz equipment.
JazCE··on EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
I would say the Asus Zenbooks were generally the response to the XPS line. I must admit I haven't looked at them for a while, but the original Zenbook UX510 (I think) was pretty damn good, but rather pricey. I always felt that Asus were a step up from ACER.
JazCE··on Beyoncé's and Kanye West's listener numbers manipulated in Tidal
yeah... i was being sarcastic really. should have added a \s or something to indicate that.
JazCE··on Beyoncé's and Kanye West's listener numbers manipulated in Tidal
> If not how do we solve both problems?

hmmm i wonder if the blockchain can be used for this

JazCE··on Ask HN: How can other members help you this month?
By helping me translate a perl module to JavaScript, or at least recommending a similar JS library: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHAY/Text-Balanced-2.03/lib/T...

_match_bracketed sub is the one i'm having trouble with. Understanding how best to translate pos.

JazCE··on MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies
In the UK we have a chain of cinemas called Cineworld, they have a card that allows you to go to any movie, any time, for a 12 month sub of £17.90 a month. I'm practically always at the movies with this card. Between this, netflix and my parents sky account, it's rare that i'll miss a movie for the year.

I'm surprised the USA movie chains haven't aped this (or even that Cineworld wasn't aping the USA chains).

JazCE··on ****** No Bootcamp Applicants ******
Because everyday millions and millions if not billions of transactions go on between humans of all genders and races, if your view was in the majority, then society would be different. You need to talk to someone about your world view and get help.
JazCE··on ****** No Bootcamp Applicants ******
> I know I suffer from the assumption that women don't know how to code.

How the hell do you come to that assumption? I don't understand at all how you can make an assumption that a person knows or doesn't know something based on race or gender.

You need to check yourself because:

> It is harder for me as a white man to talk to a woman or a minority because I am thinking about their gender or race

is not normal.

JazCE··on Ask HN: Best development laptop?
I bought an i7-6600U Lenovo Carbon X1 thinkpad earlier this year and absolutely love it. excellent keyboard, the screen is pretty great, battery life isn't bad and I can upgrade the memory. It's stupidly lightweight. Sure it doesn't have a HQ processor, but the U is getting me by perfectly well.
JazCE··on Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
So how can we disrupt this?
JazCE··on Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815183
JazCE··on Building a Modern Bank Backend
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09446231

basically all companies should file with companies house...

JazCE··on Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about toxic work environment
errr sex toys?
JazCE··on Keybase
Very kind of you, thank you.
JazCE··on Keybase
Would like one please. m8r-k1wb2c@mailinator.com
JazCE··on My review of Dell XPS 15 as a developer laptop
up voting for constructive feedback.
JazCE··on My review of Dell XPS 15 as a developer laptop
I'm glad people are doing reviews of laptops from developer perspectives.

It amazes me that it's 2016 and none of the windows based laptop makes have come out with anything that approaches the macbook pro. Microsoft seem closest with their surface book line, but that seems beset by driver issues, and Razer might have something with their Blade series, but that doesn't seem to be available in the UK 3 or 4 years on from launch. ASUS also seem close but again beset by a few odd build quality issues.

If I knew anything at all about this kind of thing i'd be tempted to do a kickstarter to fund the development of a quality developer laptop that was windows/*nix based that aped the macbook pro as much as possible.

JazCE··on John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on 'Last Week Tonight'
is he? It's been a little while since i've watched [his] show, maybe the last one was with Ricky Gervais. I don't have the same urgency, there isn't a bite to the way he presents. I miss watching the correspondents though, Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper are both awesome and they have been put to use a lot more.

Sam Bee's full frontal and Oliver's Last Week Tonight are now both my staples of american news consumption.

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