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tristanperry

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Full stack dev mainly working in the Java enterprise World.

https://www.tristanperry.com/

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tristanperry··on The Isle of Man is not in the UK
For those downvoting, there is truth in this e.g.:

* Ireland voting (twice) on the Nice Treaty - 2001 then 2002

* Denmark voting (twice) Maastricht Treaty - first 1992 then 1993

* Ireland (again) this time on the Lisbon Treaty - 2008 then 2009

There was also a case where the Labour government (in the UK) promised a referendum on a couple of EU treaty changes, before changing their mind after other countries' referendums voted them down, and just ratified it in parliament instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Consti...

tristanperry··on New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
I agree it's a big deal. However I think the stress/division is coming from political rows and ill-felling more than genuine discussions on the UK's future relationship with Europe (and/or Ireland).
tristanperry··on New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
It's unfortunately very similar here in the UK: whilst most people are 'getting on with it', there's an increasing amount of division and stress due to the whole Brexit debacle.
tristanperry··on Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
Security by obfuscation, anyone?

He's being flippant. If the logo wasn't there, it would just be a case of measuring N cm to know where to drill.

tristanperry··on Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI
Agreed and it's nice to hear it's first on the todo list.

Until then, though, just change the word in the tag (with hyphens for multiple words), e.g.:

https://taken.photos/tags/chess/ https://taken.photos/tags/tabletop-game/

tristanperry··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
It's from 5 years ago, but I don't think much has changed since https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/29/new-mot... was published.

I should add that, from what I've heard, same day discharges is much more common for the second (/third/etc) child compared to having a first.

tristanperry··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
Just to clarify that - having had a baby in the UK in the past 3 months - what you say isn't correct (at least for England and Wales; I can't comment on Scotland and NI but I very much doubt they have different systems).

Mothers are frequently discharged from hospital the same day, or the following day. My wife had some (relatively minor) complications and thus had a 2 day stay. This is longer than average. Even mothers who had C-sections (i.e. major abdominal surgery) seem to stay <= 3 days, unless there's bigger complications.

Once home, the mother's 'midwife' will make home visits 2-4 times in the first week before 'passing' the care onto a 'health visitor'. They will also visit at home (1-2 times a week) for the next few weeks, before this becomes an at-clinic care.

There's also 'infant feeding nurses' (i.e. breastfeeding support) as needed, although this one does vary per area.

So it's no-where near the Netherlands level of care (having someone do the chores those first few weeks would have been very useful!), but it is definitely not the case that "you're on your own" after leaving hospital after a multi-day stay.

tristanperry··on AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
Ouch, good catch!

The page loads 41 requests and 12.88 MB of data, with the page taking 2+ seconds to properly load the content (1.09s according to Chrome dev tools, but this is just the initial DOM load).

For a simple webpage with white background and dark text.

tristanperry··on How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website
It's the eternal debate: is content truly king? Can you just push awesome content out there, and get floods of traffic in?

Or is it a "If a tree falls in a forest..." type situation in that an unknown website with great content will continue to be an unknown website?

Since Google can't truly understand content quality/semantics, a certain level of marketing does seem to be needed to bring traffic in.

tristanperry··on Oil Needs to Fall Below $20 to Compete With Green Alternatives
Sure, and whilst this is _slowly_ changing, a large part is the high up-front cost.

A Kia e-Niro is £32,995 (including the recently cut Government subsidy) whilst a similar size+spec petrol car (The Kia Rio 3) is £17,285.

The Nissan Leaf is from £27,995 whilst the larger Qashqai is from £19,995.

I know that the up-front cost issue is similar in many countries, but that's where Government subsidies usually kick in. America has the $7,500 federal tax credit on EVs (to a point), plus state subsidies sometimes top it up to $10k. This compares to the UK which has recently cut the £4,500 subsidy down to £3,500 for EVs.

tristanperry··on Oil Needs to Fall Below $20 to Compete With Green Alternatives
OPEC are much less powerful than the decades of past - thankfully - but it'll be a while before oil will be _truly_ priced by supply and demand and nothing else.
tristanperry··on The Web We Want
If this wasn't technology-specific, I'd submit an idea of:

"The Web We Want... doesn't require you to accept a cookie notice, ignore an anti-ad-blocker warning and newsletter pop-up before circumventing a soft paywall in order to read a quick, shared article."

tristanperry··on Norweigan oil fund
It may have in the early days (just like many countries' oil programmes), however now the fund is helping to provide subsidies which makes gasoline cars more expensive than electric cars (amongst other policies), and hence Norway is now one of leaders of EV adoption (per person):

https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/how-norway-so-many-e...

tristanperry··on Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition
Agreed - the title of "Anxiety nightmare" also isn't accurate based on the actual story they outline.

I know that clickbait sells and all, but even "Wrong song played for pianist..." would be better and mostly accurate.

tristanperry··on We can't get enough of audiobooks
I watch YouTube (and downloaded) videos at 1.75+ playback, because I _think_ that some videos are slowed down before being published.

I'm not sure why this is done - whether it is to make the video easier to follow for non-native speakers, or to give a more 'authoritative' feel (slower speech = more confidence etc?), but I find such videos unbearable to watch at x1 speed.

So for me it's not about rushing and not enjoying the experience. It's about listening to it at a speed which is bearable: and hence enjoyable.

tristanperry··on London bans cars for a day in the fight against air pollution
There's a self-build TV show in the UK called 'Grand Designs' that had a great episode[0] whereby their children were suffering badly with allergies (even being hospitalised at times). They stayed within London (albeit moving to a slightly better area for pollution) but built their house with filtered air systems and low VOC products in mind - and their children's symptoms improved dramatically.

It's concerning how big of a role air pollution seems to be playing, considering it doesn't seem to be a mainstream concern.

[0] - https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/des...

tristanperry··on Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings
Yep: and of course their own expectations (partially fueled by other people's weddings and movies).

The priority in this case (for the subset the article is referring to, of course) is always expectations > practicalities like money.

"After all, you only get married once"...

tristanperry··on What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (2015)
Thanks, TIL :)
tristanperry··on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
From a quick Google, "Performance Summary Cycle" - presumably regular reviews and bonuses.
tristanperry··on What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (2015)
Hashes are one-way, so cannot be decrypted. The server can _compare_ the results of a hash (by doing the hash itself, and comparing the results), though.
tristanperry··on Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/2018/12/12/are-evs-h...

The actual production of an EV _can_ result in more emissions (along the whole supply chain) than petrol cars, yes.

Although the vast majority of car manufacturers (and supply companies) are geared up for producing petrol cars and not EVs, so it's no real surprise that _right now_ electric cars aren't as efficient to build.

The more that electric cars are produced, and the more that Li-ion/solid-state batteries are developed, the better the picture will be at the building stage.

tristanperry··on A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
And somehow IE5.5 was even worse. There was a brief period whereby CSS was becoming more popular and the recommended approach for layouts (_"tables are for tabulated data, not layouts"_), but IE5.5 still had enough market share to warrant trying to make it _somewhat_ work with the div/CSS based layout. Ugh.
tristanperry··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
> Disney’s service will cost just over half the monthly price of the most popular Netflix plan... The goal is to achieve revenue through reach, not overcharging.

That sounds exactly like what Netflix promised originally: cheap subscriptions, growing revenue through reach not higher prices.

Y'know, like when they offered a $11.99/month subscription in 2017... which now costs $15.99/month - a 33% rise in 1.5 years, whilst reducing the amount of content available.

tristanperry··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
Yep, and that's the sad thing.

As a Brit, it used to be a simple flow: check Netflix, almost certainly on there, watch.

Now it's usually not on there, and checking JustWatch shows that it's unavailable in the UK (without paying to buy or 'lease' the content, usually for a similar price to the streaming service's monthly rate).

You can see why torrenting is on the rise again: a Netflix subscription just doesn't cut it anymore, and Hulu isn't available in the UK without a VPN.

tristanperry··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
You don't with Netflix - you can just re-subscribe whenever you would like.
tristanperry··on Name one thing in this photo
I was thinking wedding gifts on a table, but same sort of thing.
tristanperry··on Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries
> The $35,000 Model 3 is still absent from the product line.

I find it bad that they hyped it up for so long and then removed it from online sales a month later, but you can still order it over the phone or in-branch.

Plus despite some rumours of 2+ month delays, they are actively being produced and have already been delivered to some customers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgjY2SRrck).

tristanperry··on Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland
"when"?

It'd only be nightmarish if the driver (and passengers) have no faith in autopilot.

.. in which case, I doubt the road-trip would be driven entirely on autopilot.

tristanperry··on Online pornography age checks for UK web users [video]
Wait, what?

I'm a Brit and assumed this was just an early April Fools Day joke - especially as a few articles said it was due to be implemented on 1st April 2018, but was delayed until 1st April 2019.

What a bizarre policy.

tristanperry··on Tesla Model Y
Their new Shanghai factory (Gigafactory 3) seems to be partially built with the Model Y in mind so I wouldn't count against this actually being true.
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