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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Newgrange, in Ireland, c.3300 BC (older than the Pyramids) was "discovered" in 1699, really just became a household name since archeology in 1962. When you take the tour, it's described as ~"well, everyone living here kn
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Sounds like there must be a few classes required, probably three. Before Covid there were group classes, so there'd be four people paying $25 each, learning together. Then as restrictions eased they started only one-on-one classes, at
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
> I don't recall The British army opened fire on a civil rights march, killing 14 people, all of whom were unarmed. It is the most significant day of the Troubles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(19
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Anecdotally, drink driving is more common in California than in Ireland, maybe because I grew up with ads like these on TV: https://youtu.be/xtJqw--DGl8 And a cursory search says: > threat-based road safety communication
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I am/was a member of Hacker Lab for the past ~four years. It's one of the best things about Sacramento. My only regret is that I didn't join sooner. It's basically a library for makers with a plethora of equipment I woul
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Graphic car safety ad about seatbelts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
There's an active effort to (again) implement Swift on Colab: https://github.com/philipturner/swift-colab/
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
A very good account to follow on Twitter who is fighting for our rights: https://twitter.com/equalityAlec Because of this post on HN, I've set up a monthly donation.
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
https://reddit.com/r/acab The guns and support they have give them the power. The law does not always support them, but often does. Watch the videos in the link and the corresponding lack of justice to understand what
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I find reading untyped code unnecessarily difficult. Just this week I came across Swift for Arduino, and SwiftIO, both Swift language solutions for low level boards. I'm looking forward to giving them a spin. https://www.swi
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I took Amtrack around the US: Sacramento -> Santa Barbara -> LA -> New Orleans -> New York -> Boston -> Syracuse -> Chicago -> Sacramento. I didn't buy the Rail Pass because I wasn't sure before I started t
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
Yet 53,000 people a year in the US suffer traumatic brain injuries from motor vehicle crashes. If we are to believe a helmet will help a cyclist, it must be true that helmets would have helped those drivers and passengers too. The airbag ar
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
> SD cards fail I came here to say the same thing. I'm in the process of migrating to an SSD because I've had two SD failures. I picked up a Samsung 850 250GB for $25 on eBay and need to buy a USB cable for ~$25. So it's a
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
PHPStorm/PHPStan (I'm not certain which) will tell me `"My {$var} string"` doesn't need the `{}`, but won't give me the same notice when using `"My {$obj->getVar()} string"`. Personally, I prefer k
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
As a full-time WordPress developer, I often do "go write a better plugin" when I have a problem with it. But that doesn't mean it's incorrect to say > The incredibly goofy code I saw in those plugins was shocking. Thi
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I put my trust in Kodak Gold CD-Rs and a few years later they just didn't read. https://brianhenryie.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/kodak-gold-cdr.jp...
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by BrianHenryIE 4y ago
I never thought to donate to Internet Archive before. Thanks, done. I use the Wayback Machine too much to not pay for it!
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I have GoPros on my bike and often when I arrive to work/home I forget to turn them off and the batteries die, so I wrote an app so I can shout across the room, "Hey Siri, stop all cameras". I don't use it anymore myself
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I was reverse engineering my microwave a few years ago and couldn't MITM on XMPP because of the TLS so I used a jailbroken iPhone and was able to "swizzle" the Objective-C methods to log the data at a method right before encr
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I signed up for YouTube Premium because I wanted to watch some videos offline (on a flight). The download speed is awful. Now I use YouTube-dl when I want to watch videos offline. I still have Premium because ad-free is great!
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
Its position as a non-violent crime is seen as good by police since otherwise the thieves might mug people.
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I learned recently, there used to be trains on the Bay Bridge! https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/50-years-since-trains-cr... I'm surprised there's not an easy rule of thumb: if a road has over two lane
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118847
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
"The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel", Roberto Escobar. > I know that Pablo was earning so much cash that each year we would simply write off approximately 10 percent of our money becau
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
Clearly we need a double-blind study.
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I keep my cans and bottles separate from paper etc and place them at the top of the wheelie bin when I put out the recycling.
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
A man after my own heart! I've been living in California (Sac) for five years, I'm 37, I've never learned to drive. I've been in a car only twice in the past 500+ days (both times to bring my dog to the vet). I feel good
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
> it took until 2003 for NHTSA to put [a female dummy] in the car. > female dummy either rides as a passenger or doesn’t participate in the test at all > Currently, there is no physical crash test dummy that represents an average a
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
> I now keep Activity Monitor open while I work I also do this, but I wonder is it a bad idea? Is Activity Monitor enabling any extra logging that itself is slowing things down further, or is it just subscribing to already enabled events
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by BrianHenryIE 5y ago
I live in Sacramento. I've been in a car twice in the past 480 days, and not a whole lot before then (living since 2017 in Carmichael, Arden, downtown and East Sac., Fair Oaks for a few weeks). I think what you're trying to say is

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