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jonatron··on Ask HN: Should I checkmate my employer?
Are you applying to PHP dev jobs? And what type - office, hybrid, or remote, in London or not London?
jonatron··on UK energy bills are soaring to record highs
£0.52 per kWh. I did some napkin maths showing how it's more expensive than diesel generators: https://gist.github.com/jonatron/1a0c6398356fd8ae56d435e9363...
jonatron··on A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
I can imagine the question being asked in the UK, because of this case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-35048851
jonatron··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
I'm not aware of a benchmark, but puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth can be detected: https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/detecting-head...

Crawlee does appear to do the basic checks though, like checking navigator.webdriver: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/blob/master/test/browser-po...

Last time I checked (over a year ago) I couldn't find any public code to make Chrome/Firefox properly undetectable.

That said, going to extreme lengths to be undetectable is rarely necessary, because some sites will serve up CAPTCHA's to real people on clean uncompromised residential connections anyway.

jonatron··on Improving Postgres text search speed
I know this now, but when I didn't and when Postgres returned the same order thousands of times, then changed for no apparent reason, it made fixing flaky tests very tricky.
jonatron··on France risks winter blackouts as nuclear-power generation stalls
You can't ctrl+f on images because they're images. https://archive.ph/LoiNQ/902d6a73d02ba7a74370c060fb24e99c7f0...
jonatron··on France risks winter blackouts as nuclear-power generation stalls
If only there was a way to express gigawatt-hours per hour in a simpler way.
jonatron··on Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle
I'm currently over 2 months and 4 emails into a battle to get a tiny amount of compensation for a train delay in the UK. Similar situation, it's not about the money, it's the principle.
jonatron··on Descriptors Are Hard
Did you just invent subreddits?
jonatron··on Descriptors Are Hard
I thought it might have been about Feature Descriptors like SIFT/HOG/ORB from Computer Vision
jonatron··on U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the article, the problem with the Online Censorship Bill is that it allows the Secretary of State and OFCOM to define what is "harmful", it doesn't specifically mention "offensive" speech.
jonatron··on Uses for an old Android device
You could connect power to the battery connector, like I did recently to a Nook: https://github.com/jonatron/trook/
jonatron··on How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years
I thought the first internet bank was Smile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(bank) , but it looks like the claim is "first fully digital bank".
jonatron··on Django 4.1
Once the underlying database queries become async, I can see it becoming popular. Many views do multiple database queries that aren't dependent on each other, which would be a quick win to make async.
jonatron··on Photogrammetry Guide
You could try cutting some colored masking tape into angular pieces, and sticking them on until there's enough places to track.
jonatron··on Photogrammetry Guide
It's worth trying out polycam even without a Lidar iPhone, the standard photogrammetry is pretty cool.
jonatron··on S3 isn't getting cheaper
Uploaded about 100 images. Put those images on a page. 50% of them timed out when downloading. Maybe I was just unlucky, but it was a good way to make me instantly lose all confidence DO Spaces. S3 and Backblaze B2 worked fine for the same thing at the same time as when this happened.
jonatron··on S3 isn't getting cheaper
DO's spaces didn't even work for the most basic test of putting a few images on a page when I tried it. I couldn't say it's comparable to S3.
jonatron··on AWS us-east-2 outage
I just set up a few small sites (not live yet) on us-east-2, because us-east-1 has a poor reputation. I wanted to avoid multi-region to keep things simple, but now I'm thinking I might have to spend the additional time on it. Not ideal when there's no dedicated ops.
jonatron··on West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres
I can't imagine much new investment into UK datacentres will happen with electricity prices at £0.66/kWh ($0.80). That's a quoted day time price for a fixed 12 month tariff at the moment.
jonatron··on Ask HN: Where can I get a old Android studio?
Update: using the ADT bundle of eclipse+SDK. https://stackoverflow.com/a/27682695

Using with sdkman, 8.0.302-open, because openjdk 11 is too new.

Mirroring the stackoverflow comment:

For historic reasons, I leave you the links to the last versions of ADT:

    linux 64 bit: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702.zip
    linux 32 bit: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20140702.zip
    MacOS X: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702.zip
    Win32: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-windows-x86-20140702.zip
    Win64: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702.zip
After that, you can update ADT plugin after 20140702 version. This answer was intended for the ones starting from zero.
jonatron··on Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit
So Amazon do nothing when this is reported to them. I reported an eBay listing recently, they did nothing. I reported a spam youtube comment, nothing. Google scam ads investigated by the BBC - nothing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56886957 .
jonatron··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/ not Libya, but Morocco.
jonatron··on Casio F91 smart watch reboot
The watch with a "Usage in terrorism" section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrorism
jonatron··on TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
A side effect is that it allows anyone running a website to build a database of TeamViewer installs behind IP addresses. If there was a TeamViewer security issue, that database could be useful.
jonatron··on Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
It's less about the AC units, and more about the buildings. In places like Spain and Portugal, white painted outside walls, shading, and shutters on the outside of windows all help keep the heat out. My house has none of that, it just absorbs most of the heat from the sun.
jonatron··on Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
I had a portable 14000 BTU unit running flat out, and it couldn't keep up. 40c is hard to deal with here.
jonatron··on Use `Python -m Pip`
If you're on Debian/Ubuntu, you'd first need to install python3-virtualenv. It does say that though IIRC, if you try without it installed.
jonatron··on Analyzing Indie Hacker Products with Verified Revenue
"Buy Request Pakcs" hmmm
jonatron··on The first ever Red Extreme heat warning issued in UK
You can avoid deep tube lines for many journeys. Elizabeth line, Thameslink, overground, circle, district are all air conditioned. I've definitely taken slightly longer routes to avoid the deep tube lines when it's been hot before.
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