BrianHenryIE

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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
I think this post was supposed to link to the newer draft (June 20). I'm not sure how different it is (their diff tool didn't work for me).
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
This might be the source: https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-newsletters
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
The order number is the WooCommerce order id, which is the WordPress post id. It is not sequential. The extensibility of WordPress comes in part from its "custom post types", so any WordPress plugin that uses a custom post type co
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
Yes, when they introduced aviation fuel tax they similarly didn't inconvenience the rich. > Corporate jets to escape EU’s ‘green’ aviation fuel tax https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
Thanks. I wasn’t sure were you suggesting it was fine or awful! I’ve only ever taken the Gold line, and it’s been uneventful. But, as I say, not often.
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
I don't get what your point is, if you could explain please. I live in Sacramento, but I rarely use the light rail. And I almost never use cars.
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
Here's an earlier tweet of his lamenting what has been taken away from children by the rising dominance of cars in society, a function of suburban living: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1656249684300640259
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by BrianHenryIE 3y ago
I saw a comedy clip recently: > Pot doesn't make me paranoid, pot being illegal makes me paranoid
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
The more recent news is that they have run out of money. > 'Unprecedented' demand: $300 million set aside for home loan assistance program gone in 11 days https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate&#x2
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Beautiful article. There's a similar neat video, "Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work", where they fix the steering so the handlebars can only be turned left, and people then aren't able to turn left. https:&#x2F
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2009 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now. Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they rem
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
The Atlantic (2016) is a good documentary on natural resources in Ireland and Newfoundland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRHSWGYNFc https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5744820/
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I read a line recently ~~ > the worst case scenario for rich people is that they will have to work like middle class people The people in the two examples you just used will be, at worst, fine.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Dara Ó Briain has a great skit on that (about a minute in, again at 4:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZN-hBTBUE
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I agree people don't realise how easy and useful a bike can be for them. People's main regret is not trying it sooner!
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Oh neat. I wrote that bit of code last July and I couldn't find anything then. I'll take a deeper look at this later.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
If anyone has a Dexcom and a jailbroken iPhone, I've written some code for MITMing the Bluetooth messages received, I'd like to test it out. I did a proof of concept with a Bluetooth scales so this should work. I'll add a REA
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Caffeine addiction is real.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Similarly interesting: CppCon 2018: Matt Godbolt “The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
The real info is in the instructions: https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2022_publink1... > For example, check “Yes” if at any time during 2022 you: * Received digital assets as payment for property o
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
A related bad UX is forcing users who do have accounts to log in to complete their purchase. I wrote a couple of WordPress/WooCommerce plugins to smooth this out – by prompting for login if an account exists matching the email address,
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Nathan Fielder (who graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades) tried to address this in an episode of Nathan For You (s04e07). The plan? Put customers at ease by offering the world's first asexual
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
https://www.libraryextension.com/ is a browser extension which tells you if a book you're browsing on Amazon is available in your local library.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
The author, Serhack, is a prominent developer in the Monero community, and has written a book "Mastering Monero"
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
OT: Disputes are a farce. I supply USPS tracking for all disputes and they are always ruled in favour of the customer.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Have you got a link to the EU directive? I haven’t heard of that and a quick search didn’t bring anything up.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
From the article: > When the Zodiac killed his last victim, taxi driver Paul Stine, he left behind several bloody fingerprints (which, it should be noted, have never been linked to any of the other suspects). Although the San Francisco P
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
> the San Francisco Police Department used a woman’s DNA previously obtained from a rape kit to arrest her for a property crime. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-allegedly-used-r...
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
> Where we already do it that already, Sounds the same in Ireland. The bike infrastructure seems built to get cyclists out of the road for the benefit of drivers, it's not built with the cyclist's experience in mind.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
My renters insurance (Lemonade) "covers 'pedal-assist' bikes, and only models that do not have a throttle option." Subtle point that might catch people out.

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