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rossriley

309 karma · joined June 7, 2008

Full stack developer. Contractor. Lives in Cornwall UK http://rossriley.co.uk
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rossriley··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
I imagine this is handled at a team level though, Red Bull were giving Max instructions over the radio to keep the revs at a certain level. Presumably if the team had simulated these conditions they'd have discovered the potential problem and then come up with a process to mitigate it.
rossriley··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Anthony Davidson who is the Mercedes test driver said that the teams can simulate these scenarios and it seemed that the Mercedes cars were not affected so it seems that other teams hadn't done similar testing in various scenarios.
rossriley··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
That's disingenuous because it's a neologism based on the population that were in America at the time of its colonisation. Native literally has the etymology of place of birth in the word.
rossriley··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
The literal definition and etymology of 'native' relates to birth, check a dictionary and the definition will read the same. The truth is that 60% of London's population is made up of native Brits and that hasn't changed at all over the last 25 years.
rossriley··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Native means that your place of birth is in a country and that definitely doesn't apply just to people who cite their ethnicity as white British.
rossriley··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
His article was literally in support of Tommy Robinson's marches, there isn't really any further right on the political spectrum than you can go, these politics are so extreme that no political party no matter how far right would risk association with and they go out of their way to vet and exclude them.
rossriley··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
With his infamous "As I remember London" article [1] he directly correlated skin colour to nationality leading to the claim that native Brits had dropped from 60% to a third.

If you check now using current sources the British-born population is still around 59% the only thing that has changed is that fewer people identify themselves on the census as 'White British' which has a host of reasons around it. So he took a misleading statistic, interpreted it incorrectly and then built some kind of nostalgic story around it to support what was essentially an excuse to support far-right thugs protesting.

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

rossriley··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Yes, fayres are popular in the UK especially in schools and small villages. A Tombola is a type of raffle where people buy tickets and the winning numbers are picked from a rotating drum. Normally done to raise small amounts of money for local causes.
rossriley··on Waymo in Singapore
For the official taxis they are not, but for ride hailing taxis like Grab/Gojek they are.
rossriley··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Automattic are the biggest sponsors of the PHP foundation so they do give back there.
rossriley··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
The busiest flight corridor in the world is Singapore to Kuala Lumpur which is only 45 minutes.
rossriley··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
It sounds kind of crazy now but we genuinely used to buy computer magazines that had basic code printed in them, to try the game you would type the basic into a file, save and then run it.
rossriley··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
Kenny Dalglish for Liverpool too, winning the double whilst a player-manager.
rossriley··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Nice, mine is 5082
rossriley··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
I'd have thought an OAuth flow to a government run ID system, to create an account you first must verify your age by redirecting to the ID provider logging in via FaceID/Fingerprint to verify it's you and then you are redirected back to the original site with a verification code.

Admittedly on paper that means the Gov system would know which sites you were approved for, not logging that would require legislation to not store these logs.

rossriley··on Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
A local beer in a bar will normally be around 60k IDR so $3-4, wine is more expensive generally in SEA you'll normally pay around 90-100k IDR per glass.
rossriley··on Gem.coop
The population of London at the last census was still 60% British born. The difference between 2000 is that the figure was 60% white British.

He's not saying London doesn't have enough British people, he's saying it doesn't have enough white people in it.

That and saying it was heartwarming to see a Tommy Robinson march who represents the most extreme fringe of British right wing politics.

rossriley··on Patagonian Welsh
If anyone is interested Gruf Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) made a film, Separado!, where he tried to track down his Welsh family that migrated to Patagonia.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1505405/

rossriley··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
I believe the Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand ones are linked too, I noticed last time I went over to Malaysia that they could accept the Singapore PayNow payments too.
rossriley··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
PHP RFC for version 8.5 too: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3
rossriley··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
UK has 10% of the entire world's digital exports: https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/The-Worlds-Largest-Dig...
rossriley··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
I think Singapore has a pretty good experience worked out now, the immigration is automated just with an iris scan.

Additionally moving security to the gate rather than having a single security point for all flights also makes the wait here shorter and more importantly predictable.

If I'm just taking a cabin bag I always arrive 35-40 minutes before a flight and have had no trouble with time, normally enough time to grab a coffee too before boarding.

rossriley··on U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
Out of interest, from a US point of view since I'm not there, is this going to end up as a relatively damp squib in the very near future now we have access to 5G and all the competition there.

Last year I was able to abandon completely my broadband provider and now have two sims, one for a home router and one for a mobile router with pretty much unlimited data.

There is so much competition in the 5G mobile space that the ability of these older closed market providers over cable/fiber is surely going to be a thing of the past very soon and thus the need to enforce legal neutrality will fade?

rossriley··on Meta Movie Gen
This is awesome, thanks for the link.
rossriley··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
variables and constants too
rossriley··on Rethinking the Luddites
People bring the value that they generate for an economy. Once they can be replaced with AI/Robots then that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain which in turn makes our economies and culture richer and more productive.

Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive, it's ridiculous to argue that eschewing automation for anything is detrimental, it only serves to enhance society and make it more productive.

rossriley··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Let's put this in context, Reddit has somewhere in the region of 1.2 Billion users a month and supposedly earn somewhere in the region of $350Million a year in advertising revenue. This is a very good business and something that could easily be profitable.

The issue is they took in VC investment at a $10Billion+ valuation and for that $350M is not enough they need to probably triple it to get somewhere close to that valuation.

So let's not confuse on paper profitability with desired profitability at current VC valuation.

rossriley··on Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
mainly we're moving to the fediverse sites, for most people it's one of Lemmy, Kbin or beehaw and a lot of communities have grown to be really substantial over the last few days.
rossriley··on Reddit Strike Has Started
2000 employees at an average cost of 200k / year is a $400m a year burn rate.

If they're not breaking even with revenue then that money starts to run out quite quickly.

rossriley··on The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death
Always remember Ed Whitlock, he didn't start running till he was passed 40 and he was still running sub-3 hour marathons at 69 years old.

You have plenty of time, I've trained with lots of people that started late and were still running impressive times.

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