Hacker News: douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=douglasfshearerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:58:47 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "GitHub CLI is now in beta"]]>The main developer of this at Github wrote a blogpost about the design decisions behind CLI, and how it fits/replaces Hub. [0]

[0] https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/

]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:02:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311035douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311035<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Dyson has scrapped its electric car project"]]>October 19, 2018 - Singapore and EU sign free-trade agreement. [0]

January 22, 2019 - Dyson announces move to Singapore. [1]

After such strong support for Brexit, it is not a good look.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/dyson-to-...

]]>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:31:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216433douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216433<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond"]]>I had this same experience in regards to support interaction. Starting from scratch is a less than ideal process IMO, so much so I have not done it in the hope that a future update fixes this, and I don't have to jump through all the hoops.

]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:27:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196145douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196145<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Pi-Hole 4.3.2"]]>I use two Max OS "Locations" (Apple Menu -> Location), one which uses the router default DNS (which is a Pi-Hole at home), and another which is set to use the Cloudflare DNS servers.

This allows me to to switch location, and instantly reload a page without the Pi-Hole interfering. Of course this only works on my Mac.

]]>Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:05:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059670douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059670<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully"]]>Criminal, the podcast, did an episode about the killing of Ken McElroy. [0]

An episode that stuck in my head.

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-66-bully-5-5-2017/

]]>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:21:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657001douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657001<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up"]]>Haven't seen this data in the form of an interactive map before.

For anyone else wondering "Geographic Access" is based on public transport times to selected public services. This is outline in the methodology documentation [0].

[0] https://www2.gov.scot/simdpublictransport

]]>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:36:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653014douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653014<![CDATA[Update on 2015 Security Incident]]>Article URL: https://blog.linode.com/2019/08/08/update-on-2015-security-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20648205

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 20:14:46 +0000https://blog.linode.com/2019/08/08/update-on-2015-security-incident/douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20648205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20648205<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views"]]>This functionality is broken in Safari for me. Works in Chrome.

]]>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:08:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439386douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439386<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views"]]>Try pressing the spacebar.

]]>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:03:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439375douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439375<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Blender 2.80 release candidate"]]>> left click select as the new default

This is a huge improvement for new users. Right click was very un-intuitive when coming from other applications.

Congrats to the Blender team on this release.

]]>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:25:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419859douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419859<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera"]]>It appears that two of Zoom's competitors, Blue Jeans and Webex, also use web servers on localhost:

https://twitter.com/anthonypjshaw/status/1148470933901864960

]]>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:57:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391239douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391239<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source"]]>> This library has been around for 20 years and it contains pieces of code that were written in the 90's.

Whilst I am sure there are good reasons for the omission, it would have been interesting to see the entirety of the commit history for this library.

]]>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:27:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325542douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325542<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Apple Recalls 15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Computers Due to Fire Hazard"]]>Previous discussion:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235259

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238181

]]>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:51:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20324111douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20324111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20324111<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030"]]>> "The weighted average trip distance is 9.4 miles. Vehicles owned by urban households averaged 8.5 miles and rural vehicles averaged 12.1 miles." [0]

In the U.S, a considerably larger country than Ireland, greater-than-EV-range journeys are outliers.

The same purchasing decisions that are applied to vehicle capacity will get applied to range. People don't own large vans for the once-in-a-decade they move house with all their furniture. Owning an EV that can do 200 miles might be the norm, but the regular journeys are <10% of that.

[0] http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php

]]>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:20:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210910douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210910<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "UK energy bills 'used to subsidise nuclear submarines'"]]>CCGT - Combined Cycle Gas Turbine

FYI

]]>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:36:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102993douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102993https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102993<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like?"]]>Does Erlang not satisfy this?

]]>Thu, 02 May 2019 15:31:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19808926douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19808926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19808926<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "Slack S-1"]]>Slack has a 5-year, $50M/year minimum commitment with AWS.

From the document:

> In April 2018, the Company executed an amendment to its existing agreement with Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). The amended agreement was effective as of May 1, 2018 and continues through July 31, 2023. The Company has minimum annual commitments of $50.0 million each year of the agreement term for a total minimum commitment of $250.0 million. As of January 31, 2019, the Company had a remaining minimum payment obligation of $212.5 million to AWS through July 31, 2023.

]]>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:35:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19757269douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19757269https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19757269<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit"]]>One of the developers tweeted last night "...nowhere near crashing the site - you all need to try harder tomorrow"

https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108518184301268995

]]>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:57:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450493douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450493<![CDATA[Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays (2015)]]>Article URL: https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/02/regular-expression-search-with-suffix-arrays/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106451

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:56:17 +0000https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/02/regular-expression-search-with-suffix-arrays/douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106451https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106451<![CDATA[New comment by douglasfshearer in "EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors"]]>Rick Branson ran a benchmark with Phoronix. a1 is ~2/3 of the cost/performance of a5. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/1067304265696202752

]]>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:24:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541104douglasfshearerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541104