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jonatron··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
We have ring circuits, which are typically on 32A breakers.
jonatron··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
UK actually uses 240V, which happens to be within +10% of 230V.
jonatron··on 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
How much is 1.5PB of tapes, and 1.5PB of hard drives?
jonatron··on 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
At what scale does tape begin to make financial sense?
jonatron··on Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger
Fuel ("Coffee Logs") and mushroom substrate, just off the top of my head
jonatron··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
You can also use mitmproxy to remove or add debugger statements.
jonatron··on Speed Test
You can download an entire album in minutes, that's crazy fast!
jonatron··on Speed Test
Googling says there's CityFibre and Giganet in the MK area. Did they skip your house? A fibre company skipped my street in London.
jonatron··on Blocked by Cloudflare
Does anyone who knows about GDPR know if being blocked by a CDN comes under "Automated individual decision-making"?
jonatron··on Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
Reddit is user generated content, so isn't exempt.

“provider content” means content published on a service by the provider of the service or by a person acting on behalf of the provider.

It's unclear if there's a difference between hosting your own blog, or using a blogging service, because the bill is terrible.

jonatron··on Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
Exempt under "Schedule 1 — Exempt user-to-user and search services"
jonatron··on No CSS Club
If you serve this with:

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
You can actually have no HTML at all
jonatron··on Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)
These days this would be in a video with a clickbait thumbnail with someone shouting at you after a VPN sponsor ad.
jonatron··on Gitlab.com is down
https://web.archive.org/web/20170527000404/https://docs.goog...
jonatron··on Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
I can immediately tell just from moving the mouse a little. I wouldn't say it's needed either though.
jonatron··on Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
There's a HN world of what's gaining traction and what "everybody" is using, and the real world reality. If I search for Django jobs on indeed, I get way more results for Django than if I search for Svelte (183:11). If I ctrl+f on "Who is Hiring?", the ratio gets a lot closer (13:4).
jonatron··on Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
There's a list here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains
jonatron··on Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support
What about WebP is proprietary?
jonatron··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is locking out Linux users
As a Linux user, I have been told that I'm a robot with no option to do a CAPTCHA a couple of times from different websites over the last couple of days (not Cloudflare, so it's not just them doing it).
jonatron··on Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases
The Old Reddit Redirect browser extension is good because old links to new a lot.
jonatron··on 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
Wikipedia/Wikimedia are quite open about their infrastructure. You can even see the Varnish Frontend Hitrate on their Grafana server: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/wiU3SdEWk/cache-host-drilldo... (currently 87.6%, min 69.9%, max 92.2%)
jonatron··on 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
https://davidwalsh.name/event-delegate By David Walsh on March 7, 2011

One of the hot methodologies in the JavaScript world is event delegation, and for good reason.

jonatron··on How's business at Stack Overflow?
Quoting https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/ (2008).

Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit.

Maybe a new new site for programming questions will come along.

jonatron··on UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
There is more detail of the Met's version of events here: https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1655665841575174145 (or https://nitter.nl/metpoliceuk/status/1655665841575174145 )
jonatron··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
When I had a cassette deck in my car, I added an AUX input by soldering a cable to a chip on the PCB, and running it out through the cassette slot.
jonatron··on Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion
This doesn't sound as bad as OVH's 2021 fire.
jonatron··on Day Ahead Market adventures: capacity restrictions and negative prices
As a consumer in the UK, the last time I got paid to use electricity was 11 April 2023. See https://agileprices.co.uk/ for how much I got paid per kWh and when.
jonatron··on Pydantic V2 leverages Rust's Superpowers [video]
Subtitled Video: https://jonatron.github.io/fosdem2023whisper/files/rust_how_...

Transcript: https://jonatron.github.io/fosdem2023whisper/files/rust_how_...

(transcribed with whisper)

jonatron··on Ask HN: Is PostgreSQL better than MySQL?
Do people still use pt-online-schema-change for production schema changes? I remember using it a long time ago.
jonatron··on Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers
This has come up a few times on HN, if you search comments for "Hetzner fraud". The solution is to use a different provider if you can't use Hetzner.
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