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   by afandian 5y ago

   You can make the process much more speedy by laminating the receipts.
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   by afandian 5y ago

   Is that ISBN 9780801868092?
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   by afandian 5y ago

   As someone with a child the same age, I see it very differenly. The way I explain it is that traffic lights, roads, crossings, etc, are a mechanism by which society co-operates. Everyone's trying to do something a little different, and
4. 844.▲
   by afandian 5y ago

   Per my other comment, my fault for not double checking. But it's still illegal to sell refills.
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   by afandian 5y ago

   My fault for posting in haste and not dobule checking. The bit about restauraunts was retracted. But not, as far as I know, the law against selling refills still stands. My attention was drawn to this law by a refill shop which as far as I
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   by afandian 5y ago

   Careful of trivializing easy-sounding solutions. "Of course it's a good idea to monitor the quality of oil". Now it's regulated in the European Union, it's illegal to sell olive oil in an open container, such as in
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   by afandian 5y ago

   I'm holding out for an MNT Pocket Reform. Though it won't be $15. https://pocket-reform.ghost.io/ weirdly the most info is in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/pocket-reform
8. 848.▲
   by afandian 5y ago

   Closer to home and a bit more extreme, a few transposed numbers in a scholarly article would be enough to rekindle another autism/vaccine conspiracy theory!
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   by afandian 5y ago

   I'm curious what a legal case would look like around steganography. "Trust that our system says that this string is embedded". Or would the prosecution be obliged to divulge the algorithm.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    As a customer I want a thriving, commercially viable, decentralised publishing industry. I don't want DRM encumbered formats, or a single vendor, or a point of failure that prevents me from reading books I've purchased. If my emai
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    by afandian 5y ago

    What if you can't log in?
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    by afandian 5y ago

    I do wonder how many people will be locked out of their lives when they change phone numbers. 2FA across the industry seems to have rolled out this critical dependency without drawing enough (IMHO) awareness.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Stories like this about IBM were handed down to me by my father. They've been doing this a long time!
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Is there no continuing training throughout the career of a doctor? And if not, how are they qualified to evaluate the claims of a sales rep?
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Me too, but I'm reasonably sure this is information I will never use.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    What about databases? Is there a postgres-type-thing 'closer to users'?
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Thanks, that's what I hope will work. I might drop you a mail at some point.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    We're at early stages of planning an architecture where we offload pre-rendered JSON views of PostgreSQL onto a key value store optimised for read only high volume. Considering DynamoDB, S3, Elastic, etc. (We'll probably start wit
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    by afandian 5y ago

    How does this work with radio?
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    by afandian 5y ago

    It can, you just have to reject the pushy signup screens on startup. Can it be kept updated with system updates? Don't know any more.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    I've got a unihertz titan pocket and it's great. Not as good as a Blackberry Passport, but better than anything else on the market, I think.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    More insidious is the requirement to have an account with Google or Apple.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Yes but it seems a bit perverse to do this for an Open Source project.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Or they do the equivalent of forgetting to update a root CA, orphaning your machine, as happened to a family member of mine.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    This looks really cool. I'v been looking for something like this for a while. Is there an APK download? I don't use the google store and the github page didn't seem to have an obvious link?
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    by afandian 5y ago

    Not sure if I missed the joke here but a recent thread here had a fair amount of discussion about working two jobs, putting in minimum hours, and calling that 'full time'.
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    by afandian 5y ago

    For the laity there's /r/sbubby https://old.reddit.com/r/sbubby/top/?sort=top&t=all
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    by afandian 5y ago

    I didn't see it explcitly mentioned: arithmetic coding was one of the more mind bending things to learn about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
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    by afandian 5y ago

    I believe the etymology of 'router' (sending network packets along a route) and 'router' (cutting wood) are different. They are pronounced differently in British English, at least. Rout, via Old English 'wrotan&#x27
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    by afandian 5y ago

    I'd say that technology has had a deep and profound impact on all of them.