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by afandian 4y ago
Yes, that looks likely. AIUI, there's no such as thing on "on mastodon", it has to be on a given server? So I didn't want to assume. I searched for "Volkswagen" on mastodon.xyz and found a Volkswagen with a blu
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by afandian 4y ago
Because Bloomberg is paywalled and the tiny sliver of text you can see doesn't mention a server I asked a chat agent on volkswagen.co.uk > Thank you for the information. If this is not on our official website we at Customer Services
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by afandian 4y ago
I’m curious, do you have more details?
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by afandian 4y ago
I think you'd probably start with a dense matrix of questions x answers populated by humans. But I imagine there's a clever preprocessing step that's used to build the optimum tree of questions, avoiding getting caught in a l
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by afandian 4y ago
Surely there's an automated battery of configurations that devs can test against if they really want to fix the bug?
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by afandian 4y ago
It's amusing that for the huge amounts Google pay developers it doesn't necessarily buy common sense or empathy for the user. Google's currently demanding I settle an invoice for an account I closed... and the only way to do
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by afandian 4y ago
Not about sales data, per this article, but bibliographic metadata. Check out POSI, the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure: https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/ There are people dedicated to open metadata and
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by afandian 4y ago
I used to use NewPipe when I had an Android. It was great for "subscribing" to creators without needing a Google account. Youtube kept breaking it. Don't know if it still works. https://newpipe.net/
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by afandian 4y ago
I don’t see Multipass mentioned here. We switched from Docker desktop when the license changed and it’s been relatively smooth. The installer is friendly, there’s a vm with docker preinstalled and all we had to do was configure network brid
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by afandian 4y ago
I've been hit by a cyclist whilst walking on a pedestrian pavement ('sidewalk' in American). I was OK, but my child wouldn't have been.
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by afandian 4y ago
That seems crazy to me! How are blind people, or people with reduced mobility, expected to navigate a crossing if they can't trust the light? A bike has less mass than a car, but I'd rather not be hit by a bike at all, to be hones
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by afandian 4y ago
What's the volume of pedestrians on pedestrian crossings in places where this is implemented? Seems dangerous to get a 'cross' / 'walk' signal when there's still traffic.
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by afandian 4y ago
I've not paid attention to that detail of the news website. We but we've always had named correspondents on BBC Radio news. And newsreaders for that matter.
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by afandian 4y ago
They've already shown they're willing to go vertical with the recent announcement about legs.
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by afandian 4y ago
Did you have test cases provided an intended contract for the code? Did they break? And did they provide a justification for the change of contract?
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by afandian 4y ago
I object to that. Some of Apple's most serious features are missing vital documentation details!
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by afandian 4y ago
Got a link (or explanation) for that temperature stipulation?
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by afandian 4y ago
I wonder how different it would be to use an off the shelf heat exchanger, e.g. this one? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263272702860 You'd probably have to filter the shower water before sending it through, but beyon
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by afandian 4y ago
This conversation isn't in the context of the concept of prisons, or even crime and punishment in general. It's specifically about solitary confinement which, along with corporal punishment, is torture that does permanent damage t
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by afandian 4y ago
Do you have the same amount of confidence that the legal system can tell innocent people apart from guilty people?
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm honestly torn. I love the positive statement of minimalism. But I think a product category has grown up around them and eaten some of the lunch that they decided not to eat. Even if they continue to differentiate themselves from ot
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by afandian 4y ago
These promotional videos show their deliberate positioning as an anti-"mobile device". (warning- jump scare!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdxW2XF0v8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZ9QEbJ5sc
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by afandian 4y ago
Like it or not, they're pitching it as an appliance to replace a notepad. I think the marketing is quite clever, and I applaud their focus. But it does mean that they deliberately exclude bells and whistles that you would expect from a
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by afandian 4y ago
Ah, I'd misremembered. > The new Marker and Marker Plus have been designed specifically to work in conjunction with reMarkable 2’s second-generation CANVAS display. We can therefore not guarantee an optimal experience if used with t
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by afandian 4y ago
I think I saw that the pens aren't compatible between reMarkable version 1 and 2. EDIT not incompatible: https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Markers-and-Marker-...
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by afandian 4y ago
It does highlight the ambiguity around how people define the word 'cloud'. I think the first para of Wikipedia does it well: > Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage
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by afandian 4y ago
I've posted some negative stuff in this thread but I had some great fun hacking my rM1. https://blog.afandian.com/2020/10/pipes-and-paper-remarkable... https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-a
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by afandian 4y ago
See my reply to your other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33354089
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by afandian 4y ago
That's a selective quote. I'm talking about being able to get files on and off the device. That notwithstanding, looking at the page you link, let's look at each heading and what it says. Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive
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by afandian 4y ago
With this issue I think it’s just they’re in move fast break things mode still. Probably feeling the heat from the competition and focusing on competitive features. But as a user, my impression is that they don’t consider this feature to b

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