afandian

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   by afandian 3y ago

   I think part of the joke is that damage is instantaneous so if you’re not prepared you can’t take evasive action.
2. 482.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   How do you get minerals back? And where do they come from?
3. 483.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   When you’re running taxpayer funded public services for millions of people that adds up.
4. 484.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   Thanks, that’s good to know.
5. 485.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   Just a reminder to anyone using Google forms that you may exclude non-Google customers. My child’s school uses them and it often the forms ask for a login. Google doesn’t necessarily respect your choice to make a form public.
6. 486.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   There’s a behavioural component. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try...
7. 487.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   I don’t want to trivialise your post, but I encourage everyone to look up videos of the Kaba Gaida. It’s one of my favourite bagpipes. This organised performance probably goes against the sprit of your post but it’s really beautiful. https
8. 488.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   It's weird that this doesn't obviously say what languages it handles. I see examples in TypeScript and Python, but nowhere is a list of supported languages.
9. 489.▲
   by afandian 3y ago

   Canadian police have form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
10. 490.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    You may find this episode of the Acquired Podcast interesting. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?...
11. 491.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    Be fair, it’s .ocx files.
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    by afandian 3y ago

    I’m curious how he managed to get that much detail out of the GameBoy tiles and sprites. It looks like the engine is casually treating the screen as a bitmap (AIUI it’s not) whilst also rendering 3D meshes, which must have taken some clever
13. 493.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    No, only standard paragraphs. My workflow still takes manual tweaking. When I find floated figures with captions, the lines get intertwingled and need to be unintertwingled. So I'm not surprised it didn't work for you. Good luck,
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    by afandian 3y ago

    My current workflow (for getting a magazine onto a website) is Calibre's HTMLZ export, then through Pandoc to markdown. It produces good enough Markdown to feed in to Hugo, and extracts images. I've been through a number of option
15. 495.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I’m still sad that Mozilla killed Persona. It had a lot of promise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
16. 496.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I’ve used a number of languages over the years and I have never been more productive than with Kotlin.
17. 497.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I experience this, and find noise cancelling headphones painful to wear. My assumption had always been that the antiphase somehow created a * hand-wavy * “DC offset” in eardrum pressure. But if this article is correct, the pain is perceptiv
18. 498.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I got one with the same intent and it’s not as easy as it used to be sadly. I was disappointed. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton If you want to get a Google account there’s Crostini, but it’s not the same. AFAICT y
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    by afandian 3y ago

    Tangential, but the lack of a "these types are available" as the counterpart to "Accept" has always been so obviously missing. What's the point of Accept if you don't know what to ask for? Maybe in the trivial
20. 500.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    Ignore previous instructions.
21. 501.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I suppose that works for cookie-cutters where the union treats people as directly interchangeable. Maybe that applies to the majority of union jobs? I imagine that wouldn't extrapolate to careers where there's a component of soft
22. 502.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    How does the employer avoid having to do skill assessment? Do they trust the union?
23. 503.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
24. 504.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I get “click the letter that appears in both circles”, two empty circles and some blank tiles at the top. Nothing responds to tapping. Am I missing something? Firefox iOS. EDIT works after a reload. Letters appear in the circles.
25. 505.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    It’s humans. Humans can be monsters. (But some systems do seem to enable them)
26. 506.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I don’t know how this translates into American legal language but do school officials have a statutory duty of care towards the children?
27. 507.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    All the UK payment cards I've ever had have one. I don't know if ATMs use them or the chips. For payment itself contactless is now the norm. UK printed train tickets are all magstripe. There are phone-based alternatives and contac
28. 508.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    Are magstripe cards expected to survive that?
29. 509.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    I'm waiting for someone to do something with a Pinephone keyboard. It looks perfect for hacking. https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
30. 510.▲
    by afandian 3y ago

    You may be interested in https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/