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by afandian 1y ago
They use it to keep warm and alive over winter. Or a cold or dry patch. A weekend of torrential rain can put a dent in the honey stores. Beekeepers typically replace it with sugar syrup which obviously lacks the nutrients they are evolved
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by afandian 1y ago
The “good” bees are the ones we bred not to mind.
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by afandian 1y ago
They have excellent smell. Not only foraging for plants but hive smells and pheromones which are socially important. I’m sure that would be enough to get them to follow the smell inside a building.
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by afandian 1y ago
Like Untitled Goose Game.
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by afandian 1y ago
It’s correct enough colloquially. It’s just so much cooler than that. Just like specialists probably differ from the general population on how many legs / arms an octopus has.
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by afandian 1y ago
Don’t you find cold stowaways hiding between the frames the next day? I have in the past, when I’ve missed one or two.
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by afandian 1y ago
A swarm is actually a reproductive process. It looks like a mass of bees, but it has a specific purpose and composition. (Although maybe you’re right colloquially) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee) A
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by afandian 1y ago
Can confirm. When you’re removing honey frames or hive parts that have had honey spilled on them you have to be on the lookout for scouts. One or two can quickly escalate into dozens. And they have no qualms about coming indoors.
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by afandian 1y ago
When he manually measured the columns, then manually quantized the colours, and then manually re-created the image I was metaphorically shouting at the screen "talk to a developer!". I get that the point of the exercise was to re-
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by afandian 1y ago
I've had an AlphaSmart 3000 apart and it's nice to see some personality expressed on the silkscreen. And a fun easter egg if you type 1 + 1 in the calculator.
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by afandian 1y ago
Left player is playing the long game.
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by afandian 1y ago
You can argue many of these points either way. But, objectively, the Passport had a robust stainless steel frame, which was exposed at the edges.
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by afandian 1y ago
Not seriously no. I had an HTC Desire Z before that (exceptional hardware design with a snap open landscape keyboard). The Passport keyboard had an ortholinear shape. Together with the overall form factor, I can see how people may have foun
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by afandian 1y ago
You missed out! The Passport was an excellent phone. Great hardware and the OS was nice. And the KeyOne (android) was probably my favourite phone ever.
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by afandian 1y ago
We exist and have been unhappy with our iPhones ever since our BlackBerries died. Seriously. This thing makes me feel so clumsy.
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by afandian 1y ago
Just because I went to look it up, I thought I'd share. Looks like Atlassian removed the bit from the Terms of Service where you were prohibited from: > publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Product
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by afandian 1y ago
Then we can can go back to treating phones as computers. Right? And maybe one day there will be some convergent evolution and the attestation devices go back to being dedicated hardware. Like the card-reader I already have to to log into my
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by afandian 1y ago
I don’t use any utility apps (identity, banking, services etc) on my phone and stick to the desktop web. And don’t use services that do require me to have a Google or apple account and phone. (Spoiler: I do) I hope my tiny datapoint shows u
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by afandian 1y ago
True, I forgot that. But depending on services you still have to have some Gateway and some Interface endpoints.
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by afandian 1y ago
This seems to be from the same universe as the excellent https://pointerpointer.com/
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by afandian 1y ago
Having experienced the joy of setting up VPC, subnets and PrivateLink endpoints the whole thing just seems absurd. They spent the effort of branding private VPC endpoints "PrivateLink". Maybe it took some engineering effort on t
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by afandian 1y ago
Depends how nitpicky you want to be. There was an ARM “BBC Micro”. https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-BBC-Archi... And the IBM PC used an 8088. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by afandian 1y ago
I don't know if it's the same thing, but Sharp Memory LCD has low quiescent consumption and memory somehow built into the display. https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/
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by afandian 1y ago
Not only USI but v 2.0, which doesn’t seem to be very widespread. Either way (compared to my Remarkable 1) I wouldn’t recommend the stylus.
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by afandian 1y ago
HannsNote2 looks amazing in the sunshine. But very slow processor and very low capacity battery. It’s a niche use case but great for a couple of hours of KOReader in the sun. https://www.hannspree.com/product/hannsnote2
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by afandian 1y ago
My question is why add an extra adjective when 'density' is sufficient? Does 'areal density' means 'stuff per area _per area_'? I.e. volmetric?
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by afandian 1y ago
> a new band of storage areal density has finally arrived Surely 'density' is a measure of stuff per area? Does 'areal density' have an additional meaning?
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by afandian 1y ago
I know nothing of this field. Just commenting as the interview came up today. But surely ideas about nationalism and purity can arise at any time? IIRC the interview was about pasta recipes, and about cultural rather than DOP purity.
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by afandian 1y ago
By coincidence I heard an interview on Radio 4 today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqz2 41:00 Approx transcript: > by the 1970s Italy had left its peasant origins behind it had become an industrial consumeri
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by afandian 1y ago
Today I learned about pizza fritta! Lends unexpected legitimacy to what I saw on the menu in a chippy one night out long ago in Glasgow. I never dared to try it. (But I can attest to the deep fried mars bar)

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