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New comment by baylisscg in ".name Termination"

baylisscg — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:10:07 +0000

What's wild is that when initially launched you could only register 3LD domains. If you were quick out the gate and registered one in 2002 and have been using 10 year renewals you're about to have a domain you've owned for almost a quarter century with 6 years left on its registration nuked.

New comment by baylisscg in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

baylisscg — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:51:29 +0000

More completely the 8 hour work day movement. Loosely, 8hrs each for work, sleep, and everything else with everything else often being called recreation. Add in a 5 day work week and 40hrs. There's monument in Melbourne commemorating stonemasons winning an 8 hour work day in 1856 but they were working 6 days a week.

New comment by baylisscg in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

baylisscg — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:05:54 +0000

Which is fair as is not expecting everyone to be able to deliver a barnstorming talk. At least not without training.

I'd also flag that the audio is not good which isn't your fault. The trend towards conferences just pointing a camera at a lectern and throwing the footage on YouTube is unfortunate especially when it replaces circulating the slides as opposed to augmenting them. As a form of archive for attendees to review it works but not as a distribution channel.

New comment by baylisscg in "Macrodata Refinement"

baylisscg — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:22:27 +0000

Point of order. They were cancelled.

There was a surge in viewership as they tried to tie up the story prompting the renewal of the show. But way too late. That they were able to pull off season 5 with the scraps and missing major cast members is kind of impressive. Perhaps indicative of what it would have been like had it been produced piecemeal

New comment by baylisscg in "Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal"

baylisscg — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:20:20 +0000

The removal of EU legislation from British law and the UK-US trade deal. With the US demanding it's healthcare and pharma unfettered access to the NHS on terms equivalent to current US not UK standards. The UK is not, technically, slapping a FOR SALE sign on the NHS they've just put themselves in a position where pretty much anyone and everyone can demand a slice. Of course this assumes that the current gonverment doesn't view the NHS as an asset to be strip mined which I'm damn sure they do.

New comment by baylisscg in "Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine"

baylisscg — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 03:08:35 +0000

No, it's not centrally collected. There is a national eHealth system, MyHealthRecord, but it's opt in for patients, supplementary to your provider's records, and various pieces of privacy legislation at the state and national level make handing out this data, at best, legally fraught.

Speaking from experience. Getting data out of a hospital is phenomenally hard even when the hospital is wants to provide it. Patient confidentiality is a thing they all take very seriously.

New comment by baylisscg in "New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery"

baylisscg — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:25:16 +0000

Yeah, its the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. For any item covered by it made after 2005 it's the producer or distributor's responsibility to recycle it.

New comment by baylisscg in "The Greatest Keyboard of All Time Reborn (2018) [video]"

baylisscg — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:26:46 +0000

WRT [1]. Mitsubishi’s Diamondtron was the other one. Pretty much the only way to get a flat fronted CTR at the time.

New comment by baylisscg in "I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams"

baylisscg — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 23:30:13 +0000

When you hybridise like that it’s up to you to highlight the benefits. As you point out it’s much easier to do that with closely related fields. You need to have an idea of what the one field brings to the other. If you don’t know and can’t articulate that how is the hiring manager supposed to?

New comment by baylisscg in "Installing system packages in Docker with minimal bloat"

baylisscg — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:19:23 +0000

The initial container is a contrived worst case example. Not necessarily a bad idea when you want to make a point but most of the gains are from not doing things you’re told not to do on page 2 of the docker tutorial.

Also, while vanilla Dockerfiles do need to carefully clean up after themselves BuildKit offers you a friendlier way of handling this with ‘--mount=type=cache’ on the appropriate directories

New comment by baylisscg in "NSW Digital Driver Licence"

baylisscg — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:56:55 +0000

So I unlock the phone and hold it in front of an officer? At which point the office relieves me of my phone and takes it as evidence.

New comment by baylisscg in "LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack"

baylisscg — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:04:41 +0000

It's been spun out into it's own project here: https://github.com/localstack/localstack or https://localstack.cloud/

edit: Extra URL

New comment by baylisscg in "Bazel Release 1.0"

baylisscg — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:45:40 +0000

Speaking as someone who just got bitten by Maven’s dependency resolution now only building broken artefacts. (Sub-dependency’s dependency is loose enough to pull in a version built with an incompatible JDK) I prefer Bazel

New comment by baylisscg in "Australia Just Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S."

baylisscg — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 02:32:30 +0000

Herd immunity is important too. Not everyone, and especially those most vulnerable to flu, can get vaccinated so helping keep it down in the general population helps.

New comment by baylisscg in "How Is Python 2 Supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux After 2020?"

baylisscg — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:17:12 +0000

Tellingly they go out of their way to say security fixes are always at their discretion and come from upstream. After explaining that a no feature updates is fine as upstream will be effectively dead. This ain’t Python’s problem Red Hat this has been slated for years

New comment by baylisscg in "A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java"

baylisscg — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:00:45 +0000

Microsoft has been tinkering with systems stuff in C# for years so I'm not surprised[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

New comment by baylisscg in "Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year"

baylisscg — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:18:48 +0000

Then you’ve kinda reinvented Kerberos or at least half of it. You’d be creating a hell of a lot of load on the server and the CA generating and signing all those new certificates.

Way back when “Grid computing” was a thing you’d use daily client certificates. You’d be issued a highly restricted signing cert which could only be used to generate extremely short lived certificates with your user CN. Which avoids the whole melting CA issue by having the end user generate them.

New comment by baylisscg in "OSGi After 20 Years"

baylisscg — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:57:36 +0000

Yeah, It implies bad things about the expected performance of the JVM or the quality of the application being run. Either startup time or the time taken for the JIT to get a handle on things is apocalyptically bad.

New comment by baylisscg in "Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default"

baylisscg — Tue, 28 May 2019 22:09:49 +0000

Thou shalt be able to recognise the Unix Epoch 0

New comment by baylisscg in "Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest"

baylisscg — Mon, 13 May 2019 00:49:33 +0000

The UK still has a site too but yes there's only a handful globally. The former site at Dounreay in Scotland used to leak particles on a regular basis which were all kinds of bad news for anything living that came into contact with them or perhaps one kind of bad news: horrible death.