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by afandian 3mo ago
Am I the only person who hates plugging their iPhone into their car to charge and completely losing control of it? When I plug it into the USB socket, my Peugeot 207 starts playing a random podcast track on my phone. No way of stopping it.
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by afandian 3mo ago
That third word, starting with 'n' is British slang, which you are welcome to look up. Presumably the etymology was in place before it took on its present meaning, but it is not a word I would use in a professional context. My com
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by afandian 3mo ago
Equally, I doubt there was a single Brit involved in RFC 2617 Section 4.3 (for example).
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by afandian 4mo ago
Then Sony should have business insurance so they can refund all the customers.
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by afandian 4mo ago
Well I was confused by it! I was expecting an article on amateur semiconductor fabrication. Granted, that was due to my misreading it as 'optocoupler'.
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by afandian 4mo ago
I’ve been down this path (it was a script for scraping and extracting text). You write your text utility in bash. It works. Then you need a regex so you use sed. Then you wonder why it doesn’t work in your other environment. Then you find t
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by afandian 4mo ago
Cool! I didn’t know it was transreflective. Do you have one? How’s the contrast?
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by afandian 4mo ago
Pebble is back, with MIP reflective LCD. I have one. It's great. https://repebble.com/
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by afandian 4mo ago
This is where the morphological approach falls down. This is an "analogous trait", i.e. something that's arrived at through two independent evolutionary pathways. These palps are due to a reproduction process called "sta
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by afandian 4mo ago
Lots of governments. In the UK this has come up again in the past few days. This came across as part lip service, part cheeky “this should be the parent’s job, not the state”.
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by afandian 4mo ago
Behind my question was another one: is there too much in the source tree that doesn't _strictly_ need to be? Maybe not? I just got the impression that there are a _lot_ of obscure drivers that have to be carried, and are eventually rem
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by afandian 4mo ago
I know is a naive question, but it's genuine! Is this the direct result of a monolithic kernel? And would moving more drivers out-of-tree mitigate this?
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by afandian 5mo ago
Careful what you wish for. It might be played by Terry Jones… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=saY10AWXLIY
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by afandian 5mo ago
This has much in common with PocketMage, which I think is great: https://pocketmage.org/ But after seeing Orion I'm torn. The ability to record voice notes, plus Sharp MIP display, puts it much closer to the Psion 5 wh
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by afandian 5mo ago
So it is. I could have sworn it was missing at least for a couple of years. Or maybe I just couldn't find it. Pitch is still missing though.
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by afandian 5mo ago
They removed the speed and pitch adjuster in QuickTime player, some time in the past decade, I forget when. That was a useful feature to me. It's not on the site, and I don't care _quite_ enough to figure out how to add it. That&#
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by afandian 5mo ago
That wasn't meant to be the top comment, it was meant to be buried somewhere round the bottom! I did read the whole article and have some thoughts about it. But they are pessmistic and difficult, so I'd rather share something fun.
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by afandian 5mo ago
It's scandalous that no-one has yet posted Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon "Bullknitters". https://www.instagram.com/p/C2OQtokvzCa/ (or google image search)
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by afandian 5mo ago
Saved you a click: > But right now, the most coveted product coming out of ASML is the 1,000-piece Lego version. I thought it might be something like service contracts or chemical refills.
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by afandian 6mo ago
Cool to see this experiment crowdsourced. Guy Deutscher’s “Through the Language Glass” is a very readable history of linguistic relativism, including the long history of this experiment. It even has some colour plates to illustrate. Recomme
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by afandian 6mo ago
I think the "therefore we should implement it well" is not forgotten, it's elided because we don't think it's likely to happen. Tech-naïve people think that we can build super duper encryption systems. The more jad
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by afandian 6mo ago
I agree that switching over to an exclusively grassroots sponsorship level would be impossible. But there may be hybrid options available. Purely conjecture. Does the Google money come with some kind of funding non-compete? If not, why not
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by afandian 6mo ago
It goes to show that Mozilla(s) could, if they really wanted, restructure Mozilla Corporation / Foundation. (edit - to allow users to fund Firefox, allowing us to better sleep at night, and to align our incentives)
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by afandian 6mo ago
Similar story here with Minecraft. Luanti + Mineclonia is absolutely excellent open source software. I get a great sense of peace knowing that my incentives are aligned with the people who made it.
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by afandian 6mo ago
Yes, absolutely that. I nearly put a passive aggressive "employees" in my post, but that would mix concerns. But having drivers as "contractors", and dodging employers' responsibilities and liabilities, is really th
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by afandian 6mo ago
Cool idea. But bizarre that they worked with Deliveroo. Bike bells were designed for a time when cyclists travelled at speeds where you could safely get out of the way. Most "independent" cyclists do cycle safely. But delivery rid
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by afandian 6mo ago
I don't know if "the youth" are doing this, but if they are, the generation before probably bears a lot of the blame! Digital Tax! Digital camera! Digital marketing! Digital distribution! Digital radio! Digital TV! Digital do
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by afandian 6mo ago
I learned the word 'analogue' as meaning something like 'there is a change in the medium in proportion to the signal being recorded'. And digital as 'the signal being recorded is transformed into a numerical value w
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by afandian 6mo ago
Can you do your taxes on a computer without a phone?
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by afandian 6mo ago
When "the browser is the OS", scanning that is a pretty big chunk of "your computer".

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