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by afandian 4y ago
This may be how it is in the States, but in the UK all mobiles phones start with 07 (other area residential codes start 01, 02 etc). I always found it weird that the US numbering system assumes that mobile phones are static. Must be some we
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by afandian 4y ago
I do agree. In this case I think it should be common enough knowledge that the doctor should have known that it wasn't reasonable to ask someone to use this email provider (or frankly any provider) for this purpose. But Google needs to
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by afandian 4y ago
Maybe they should shout a bit louder about the “this is not fit for any particular purpose “. Not buried as some legalese boilerplate in the EULA but on the signup page in big letters.
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by afandian 4y ago
Here’s an American one used in the UK. That had a data breach exposing sensitive images. I won’t ever trust consumer computers for sensitive medical stuff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52986629 Discussion htt
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by afandian 4y ago
I’m not sure it’s that simple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_i...
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by afandian 4y ago
I’m quietly excited about the MNT Pocket Reform [0]. There’s some real progress being made by the looks of it [1]. [0] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt... [1] https://mobile.
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by afandian 4y ago
Meanwhile people in Myanmar are desperate enough to pump poisonous chemicals into mountainsides to make magnets for motors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32489998
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by afandian 4y ago
Yes, the plugs are next to each other. And a mains tester is happy with the mains output.
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by afandian 4y ago
But in doing so you'd need to admit to the crime.
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by afandian 4y ago
This isn't simply "your aggressor" this is hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
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by afandian 4y ago
Yeah I'm using a Macbook Pro power adaptor and an Apple Cinema display. Both have earth pins (UK plug). Somehow their 'grounds' disagree enough to ionize air!?
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by afandian 4y ago
I know it's not exactly the same thing, but the elecric feeling I get from my Macbook (I think it's some kind of capacitive coupling, some people can't feel it but some can), and the spark between the magsafe power adapte
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by afandian 4y ago
Try Kotlin. I love it. Feels like the best bits of Clojure, Ruby, Python and Java.
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by afandian 4y ago
What's the difference between what localstack provides and an emulator as you describe? Just support, or do they do different things?
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by afandian 4y ago
All I can say is that I bank with two mainstream high-street banks and use password + SMS authentication, with the option of a card reader.
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by afandian 4y ago
In what country? In the UK I've never been forced (or even encouraged) to install the banking app. Which is lucky, becuase I'd sooner switch bank.
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by afandian 4y ago
Context: Liz Truss being the favourite for next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I'm not comparing her to Donald Trump, but there's the same sense of incredulity that the political system would install someone so populist and
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by afandian 4y ago
It's not gone, it just changed colour. The featureless, black, glass slab is IMHO worse. At least with beige you had some exciting designs, such as that STARLET.
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by afandian 4y ago
Crossref | Remote +/- 2 UTC | 80K-124K EUR | https://www.crossref.org Principal R&D Developer. Join Crossref and help solve problems in open scholarly infrastructure. We’re looking for a developer who will thrive takin
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by afandian 4y ago
The story of the Buddha ’inviting Mara to tea’ stuck with me. It involves more embracing of fears than “just worry”, but probably does take more emotional investment. https://www.tarabrach.com/inviting-mara-to-tea/
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by afandian 4y ago
The supreme court can at least hide behind some abstract legal argument (spurious or otherwise). Much more concerning to me is the states who have enacted the actual bans with whatever passes for a democratic mandate. And it's that sys
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by afandian 4y ago
Except the software it’s powered by, Blazegraph, by is deprecated (afaict the devs were poached by AWS to work on Neptune). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206560
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by afandian 4y ago
There’s a complex curve though. Clothes which you wear for a while, good idea. Cereal? If you stockpile medium term you’ll get more attached to it and fall harder when it’s withdrawn.
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by afandian 4y ago
I don't know, people do all kinds of crazy things! I thought someone in this thread might know. Imaginary examples: DRM for high-quality CAD symbols paired with a commercial software package. Or something combinatorially complex with r
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by afandian 4y ago
Yes, my question was whether there were special purpose cartridges / ROMs that had custom PostScript in them for dedicated applications.
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by afandian 4y ago
I wonder if there were ever any PostScript ROMs that did things other than fonts, like special purpose graphics procedures?
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by afandian 4y ago
I could literally smell the nostaliga on this. Whatever solvent HP put in their DeskWriter 310 all of thirty years ago just jumped back into my memory. http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=311 Of course it wasn'
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by afandian 4y ago
What’s the difference, in process and result?
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by afandian 4y ago
I have an Elgato Facecam which claims to work with Zoom on a Mac M1, but doesn’t (at least on my machine). I proxy it through an OBS virtual camera. Weird work around, but works!
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by afandian 4y ago
Another point of reference is the principles for scholarly structure. It has clauses to prevent exactly mission drift and other ills. Not adopted by WMF or WMDE, but in the same approximate space. https://openscholarlyinfrastruct

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