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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   Great explanation, thank you.
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   I've seen calendars use this format, but why? To me it would seem not to line up with how we treat our weeks? We talk about the work week as a contiguous block, and the weekend the same way, so why split one of those blocks over two ro
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   All this discussion, and I'm over here simply being mock-annoyed that Sunday is being listed as the first day of the week. I know it's a personal choice, but why do some people think the week starts on a Sunday? I'm curious a
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   A big +1 for risky business - I've been listening to Patrick's podcast for well over five years and will happily advocate for the quality of the coverage.
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   Oops.. I blame a lack of coffee this morning.
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   We should all strive to be a little more like Bob Ebling. I greatly respect and admire his dedication to the safety of those on board the Challenger, and it makes me proud to be an engineer. The sad passing of Mr Ebling deserves far more co
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   They do; it's a 2.5A, 5.1V adaptor. I've ordered one myself (from here: http://au.rs-online.com/web/p/plug-in-power-supply/9098135/?... )
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   I'm all alone and with a galaxy to care for. Or should I say my name is Eto Demerzel? Alas, poor friend Giskard is no longer with me..
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   by Daneel_ 11y ago

   I believe the power requirements have actually jumped to 2.5A for the charger (~12.5W). I'd be surprised if the Apple 12W charger couldn't power one of these without issue for most use cases (2.4A, vs 2.5A reference charger). I c
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    I stick with the gmail web interface while I'm on my PC, although I use Outlook (formerly Acompli) on the iPhone. It's one less piece of software to update and/or cause issues, and the client is identical across all platforms
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    Raspberry Pi 3 already available for purchase in Australia(lifehacker.com.au)

    8 points by Daneel_ 11y ago|6 comments
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Oracle in general is overdue for a re-design. Outdated thinking and design is present in almost all of their products, but I understand a fair portion of that comes from legacy debt. If Oracle started to pay off that debt, then they might
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    900MHz seems a curious choice to me as an Australian, because I know my mobile phone uses 850 and 900MHz to talk to the mobile towers. Attempting to use 900MHz for wifi wouldn't get you very far due to all the interference.
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    THIS. It baffles me how people expect devices such as the Echo to understand every nuance of human language, then get annoyed when it can't answer your overly-complex or vague question. Voice interfaces for me are always reduced to c
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Fight Club 5 on iOS is pretty good, I'd recommend trying it out if you have an iPhone/iPad. A bonus nicety is that it can back up to iCloud so you can sync between devices easily (and without a service that might one day go down).
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Most of these people have passed the stage of caring about the desktop itself. I would say they are simply interested in a bash shell that sits on a reliable, well maintained, stable distro with good community knowledge. When you spend all
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Google cars pay attention to emergency services workers already - they talked about it in their TED talk earlier this year - link: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_... Skip to 10:00 for the p
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    What a rubbish article.. It doesn't fly for a second under copyright law. Google is entirely within their rights doing what they're doing. The onus isn't on Google to detect the infringing content. For anyone interested in
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    I've done this in a non-professional environment to allow my partner to understand what I do. We used a whiteboard to draw a flowchart of the logical steps needed to make Tetris work, then wrote pseudocode for those modules.
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    This is what I see in Chrome on iOS 9.0.2 / iPhone 6s: http://i.imgur.com/idgEFon.png While I definitely support the larger format, I'd like to see the top bar laid out in a more mobile-friendly manner. Currently
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Seconded. The up-vote arrow is also in need of larger scaling, so it's easier to click.
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Non-mobile version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3 I remember reading about this and being astounded at the transmission power. 10MW is a phenomenally strong broadcast power.. Amazing.
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    I have to say, I accomplished all this with a simple bash script in about 60 minutes or less. Using a sledgehammer like Rethink for something that can be easily handled with a text file and logrotate is just...overkill. I understand that it
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    https://cipherli.st This should be on the list of valuable tools as well. It's a site which has strong example configurations for Apache, nginx, Openssh and many many others.. It's a great reference site. It's upd
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    'Maxicode' uses a hexagonal pattern to encode the data - it's probably how this idea would evolve if you wanted to store the data in the pattern itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxiCode
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Thanks for the recommendation! A related book would be 'Type Matters!' by Jim Williams - it's actually suggested for me at the bottom of the 'Just my Type' page. It's a fantastic book on typography, layout, fo
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    This game is a tool for experimentation - it gave me motivation to start learning. You need to write the control software for an elevator (or elevators), which has levels of increasing difficulty to clear, which will mean re-evaluating and
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    I completely agree - I have no problem with leveraging low-level functionality, but there's usually a safe and and unsafe way to approach it - and from what I've read 'unsafe' doesn't take the secure approach. (sepa
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    Thanks for the good advice. Yes, I've tried most of these (spectacle is new to me though), but I've found that shortcuts aren't very consistent between apps, plus there's no shortcuts for manipulating windows; eg, [alt+
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    by Daneel_ 11y ago

    I'm using Chrome on an iPhone 6, and I can read it just fine fully zoomed out with the phone at arm's length.. I still think that the industry trend has been towards zooming, rather than in-place size adjustment.