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by HansardExpert 2y ago
Apropo of nothing in particular if you miss those Old Peel Session days (like I do) YouTube is very much your friend now - https://www.youtube.com/@FruitierThanThou/videos
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
Yes completely. I have both an old Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Gen I think and a Kobo Clara. The kindle 'lives' in the car and the Kobo at home so I always have something to read. I use Calibre to sync to both. Rather than directly acce
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Everything that happened after we left Substack(platformer.news)
3 points by HansardExpert 2y ago|1 comments
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
Ever since Platformer left Substack in January, readers have been asking us how it’s been going. Today, in keeping with our annual tradition of anniversary posts (here are one, two, and three), I’ll answer that question — and share some oth
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
What about your moral obligation?
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When Women Stopped Coding (2014)(npr.org)
3 points by HansardExpert 2y ago|1 comments
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer s
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$34k Picasso plate to be sold for $500 in stunt that exposes collector hypocrisy(tdynews.com)
2 points by HansardExpert 2y ago|1 comments
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
> At which point I stop reading and I'm thinking "finally, I see why he's emailing us". I never like to discourage 'too much' information because frankly 'end users' don't know what they need
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by HansardExpert 2y ago
As a support engineer... "Hey Mr Customer... don't worry that all your data is corrupt or you lost access to your disks ... you have been set in a new direction and we're just making your day job 'fun'" They&#x
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My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack(mcsweeneys.net)
11 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|2 comments
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
by Gwynna Forgham-Thrift
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Engineer Designs On-Vehicle Solar Charging System for His Tesla(core77.com)
2 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|1 comments
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Engineer Omid Sadeghpour has designed and built an on-vehicle charging system for his Tesla Model Y. Now, whenever he parks it in a sunny lot, he can deploy the panels; and rather than merely baking the interior of the car, he's genera
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
You can browse previous issues of the paper here ( https://sag.stparchive.com/ This is lovely article (albeit in a sad way). I worked in the print industry for many years; offset-litho than letter press but I learnt how to
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Generic cabinets from the Golden Age of arcade gaming tended to be functional workhorses...That said, there were occasions when some manufacturers toyed with design ideas to attract players to these generic cabinets. In 1981, Japanese manuf
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The Taito Taitan arcade cabinet(arcadeblogger.com)
70 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|9 comments
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
I enjoyed that. --snip-- She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question.
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Generative audio-visual ambient light sculpture WS2812B / Arduino / Raspberry Pi / C++
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I need to grow away from these roots(vitling.xyz)
459 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|83 comments
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The Soup That Stopped a War (2019)(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|2 comments
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
This two-ingredient dish allegedly halted religious conflict, and is still cherished today.
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Hmm https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/11/11/kants-theory-of-th... The essay is (roughly 850 words) and I can forgive the not-insignificant pre-amble, but the notes take this up to 2600 words. Is this really
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
First I get an UNKNOWN ISSUER from Firefox as a security warning, if I bypass that I get. Then my corp network reports FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked Web Page Blocked You have tried to access a web page that is in violatio
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Combining function with designey-ness, last year manufacturer CyberPower unveiled this PC case with automated cooling vents:
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A DIY Kinetic PC Case(core77.com)
1 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|1 comments
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
Why? It seems no different than actors or musicians. Maybe they didn't make a living and 'just got by'. While we're on HN I ask the same question about software engineers. How did (do) so many people make a living produc
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by HansardExpert 3y ago
james Starley – considered the “father of the bicycle.” He left Coventry Machinists Co in 1870 and, with William Hillman set up their own business. In 1876 James Starley patented the ‘Coventry Lever’ Tricycle as depicted on the Starley Memo
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The Rudge Coventry Rotary Tricycle from the Late 19th Century(vintag.es)
2 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|1 comments
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Impertinent Questions with Kristine Harper (2008)(neh.gov)
8 points by HansardExpert 3y ago|2 comments

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