DerekBickerton

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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   Don't forget, this is not just billionaires and their toys, it's about Democratizing Space Tourism[0]. You have to admire the billionaires who act as guinea pigs in these endeavors. Soon people with a lot less money than Branson&#
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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   I like James Joyce's phrase `Mama Matrix Most Mysterious`. He was ahead of his time and probably would have referred to The Internet in similar terms if he was alive to witness it. The web is like The Matrix (as depicted in the movie f
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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   > ditch social media Personally I have made my addiction to social media work for me. I make full use of curated feeds, and make sure my feed has a good signal to noise ratio. The ADs are annoying, but I would rather trade my data for th
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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   > You extroverts will never drag me into an office again. And people after tasting what working from home feels like, want to continue doing it: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/economy/articles-reports/2020&#x2
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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   I never understood the term. 99% of computing is a client talking to some sort of server. Forgoing a server leaves just the client (which I think is what 'serverless' implies)
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   OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App(osmapp.org)

   2 points by DerekBickerton 5y ago|0 comments
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   by DerekBickerton 5y ago

   The SingleFile[0] Firefox addon is handy too, if you just want to archive a webpage with all the images, styling etc intact all enclosed in a single HTML file. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon&#x2