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Contact: sam (at) sampegler.co.uk
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poooogles··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
>We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work

Any reason why you think this given that studies show knowledge workers can't be productive over that long a period?

poooogles··on Taking Risk
You'd be ruled out of many FCA (financial conduct authority) regulated jobs for at minimum 6 years after.
poooogles··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
About half of that will go to electricity here in the UK (23.72p per kWh). After costs that's roughly $145 a month profit. Might be more worth it if you have rooftop solar and have free electricity during the day.
poooogles··on Is This 'Magic' Roundabout Made of 5 Mini-Roundabouts?
>Cirencester instead

Hey. Some of us chose Chippenham instead.

I honestly don't really understand what the fuss is with it, just keep looking right and drive forward when you're free to. It makes so much more sense than multiple stop signs where each side takes it in turn.

poooogles··on SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error
> Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results

Heavily agree here. LLMs have significantly shortened the time it takes me to write complex queries.

poooogles··on BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel
From memory at the time there was corrosion on the fixings and it would've been exceedingly expensive to repair/replace.
poooogles··on Rolling Airframe Missile
>...only a handful of cases in which ships equipped with Phalanx have been the subject of missile fire, and none that have actually seen the system tested.

Worth noting that this line is now out of date. Allegedly they've been tested in Yemen recently [1].

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/houthi-missile-close-us-wars...

poooogles··on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
From China to the EU it adds roughly 1/3rd to the time, which is a decent proxy for cost. There are savings in not having to pay Suez fees but these don't seem to make a huge affect to shipping costs.

It's probably worth adding that going round the cape doesn't add just more cost to fuel and time, insurance for cargo down there isn't cheap either as the weather is very changeable.

poooogles··on Mechanical Watch (2022)
Why not both?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive

Advertised at +-15 seconds a month, but in reality it's much better than that.

poooogles··on Think Python 2e
I can't be the only person that read this as Python5.43(...) before realising that 2e is second edition.
poooogles··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

  Location: UK (London or Bristol preferred)
  Remote: No Preference
  Willing to relocate: Yes pending Visa sponsorship.
  Technologies: Python, Clojure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, GCP, AWS, SRE
  Email: jobs@sampegler.co.uk
  Résumé/CV links: https://sampegler.co.uk/sam_pegler_cv_040620.pdf
Background in SRE and Ops but have been working as a SWE for the past 4 years. Recent work has been spent building named entity extraction models for insurance. Looking for something entertaining, open to both SRE and SWE work. Senior/Principal level roles only please, not looking to move into management.
poooogles··on EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
>I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”.

Look to the TV sector, you can't buy a non 'smart' TV any more. I highly doubt it will be profitable for a non 'smart' electric car.

I guess the closest we have right now is the Citroen Ami?

poooogles··on For the first time, the Fed is losing money
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
poooogles··on Where has all the Chartreuse gone?
People who drink way too much don't drink £55 a bottle spirits. They drink £20 a bottle spirits.
poooogles··on Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials
>Everything the mainstream media says is a lie.

You've lost credibility completely with this sentence. While I'd agree that many news outlets have their biases, some hugely so, saying everything they say is a lie is just categorically wrong.

Many news outlets like Reuters and the PA have business models based around factual reporting for others.

poooogles··on The Pretty Good House
>kobla vindu - I don't know the English word for it)

In the UK we'd call this secondary glazing if I'm understanding the image correctly.

poooogles··on 1885 Hex Map of London
I wonder why they defined the centre as St Paul's rather than Charring Cross? Very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen that anywhere else.
poooogles··on Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
I tend to find `site:reddit.com $product` is often worth a shot.
poooogles··on Regulators OK largest dam demolition in history to restore salmon habitat
That's not correct. Siemens energy turbines list the start up time as 10 minutes [1]. Pumped storage takes in the realm of 20 seconds [2].

1. https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/offerings/services/... 2. https://www.power-technology.com/analysis/featuredinorwig-a-...

poooogles··on As last module docks, China completes its space station
How have you come up with this number?
poooogles··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
How has IR35 treated you? By this I mean, how have things changed for you?
poooogles··on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
English mustard is food of the gods. Tracklements (few miles from where I'm typing now) Strong English Mustard especially so. Might be a regional thing (or a class/culture thing?), but mustard goes in lots of stuff where I am in the south.
poooogles··on 9-Euro-Ticket
>Not even that. Most lines are already at maximum capacity, and the number of cars is usually dependent on the shortest platform on the line already.

Here in the UK we run trains that are longer than platforms quite frequently. I'm talking about 9 car trains stopping at 2 car platforms here as well, not 9 car trains where the front and rear doors of the first and last carriage don't open.

poooogles··on New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
>The thing that really blew my mind was how cars honked when you lock/unlock them. Here they're usually silent or a short chirp. I thought people in the car park were just constantly honking their cars for some reason, then I locked mine and was shocked.

Yeah I noticed this as well, it seemed utterly insane. Here in the UK using a horn at night is illegal at night in built up areas [1] yet here you can't help but use it when locking a car which is normally at home in a built up area...

1. https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/answers/when-is-it-illegal-t...

poooogles··on Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed
I lived on Dartmoor last year. I can testify that the broadband rollout stopped. We managed to get 5mb which wasn't so bad, the real problem was the connection would drop 2/3 times an hour. Fine for casual use but terrible for remote work.

The house we stayed in is now in the starlink queue.

poooogles··on Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission electricity systems
>99 will tell you that they rather live next to a solar panel or a silicon extraction mine than next to a nuclear power plant or a uranium mine.

I'd guess that most people would rather live near a solar panel or a nuclear plant than a mine. One is potentially dirty and disruptive, the other IS dirty and disruptive.

poooogles··on Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?
If I finally get an RTX3080 I might be OK with that outcome.
poooogles··on Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?
BBC is pro whoever is in government at the time. Laura Kuenssberg thrown softballs to Johnson enough times to prove this.
poooogles··on Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it is?
>Probably because to use the term "corruption" in the media/press is quite a direct accusation and potentially will be challenged as libel (rightly or wrongly).

It's sad that this is the only mention of libel so far in the thread. UK libel laws are some of the easiest to get damages through; look at how many times Private Eye has been taken to court. MPs can use the corruption word easily due to parliamentary privilege, the media however don't have that privilege.

poooogles··on A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance
Yes. Often you'll do 3 - 5 tastings a week, sometimes even two in a day so spitting really helps keep the alcohol intake down.

The thing that really gets you is palette exhaustion though. Taste 40 ripe Cali cabs and they all start tasting the same after a point...

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