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by afandian 5y ago
I had a great time with Kafka for prototyping. Being able to push data from a number of places, have mulitple consumers able to connect, go back and forth though time, add and remove independent consumer groups. Ran in pre-production very r
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by afandian 5y ago
I could maybe understand the value of this if it were somehow impossible to display nicely styled code as text. But in the edit box they literally have the editor formatting the code. The image seems to be a snapshot of that.
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by afandian 5y ago
I was thinking of another Aleph One who made both ARM processor upgrades [0] and biofeedback boxes [1] [0] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesA2G... [1] http://www.aleph1.co.uk/about-us
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by afandian 5y ago
This is why two successive Deliveroo drivers went to the wrong street this week. The first 'tried to deliver' and gave up, and I had to run after the replacement one. Despite the address and postcode being both correct and unambig
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by afandian 5y ago
I just used a Clojure library from a Kotlin project via Java interop. And it wasn't even weird.
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by afandian 5y ago
I still don't know! Will Google give you the mechanism to ask your question? Will you trust the answer? Will you take that gamble?
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by afandian 5y ago
I had a google suite account (with one email user) for years. I had used the account to purchase stuff on Google Play. I wanted to close the GSuite organization account but retain the purchases. Either by transferring to another (disposable
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by afandian 5y ago
I used to, before leaving for fastmail. But it's a joke to suggest that you get any meaningful support for your money. And I don't think that my account would get better treatment than a free one if they decided to delete it for s
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by afandian 5y ago
Then it wouldn't be Gmail. Not being flippant. Google's whole business model is predicated on operating like this. An accountable Google would probably be a very different company with different products.
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by afandian 5y ago
Not if you leave Google. You can do it.
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by afandian 5y ago
Adding a DOI comes with obligations too. A persistent identifier is persistent largely because of shared obligations. https://www.crossref.org/documentation/metadata-stewardship/...
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by afandian 5y ago
DOIs are assigned to journals too. It's not entirely consistent though, and journal DOIs can overlap with ISSNs.
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by afandian 5y ago
I agree, it was wonderful on a Passport. But I do wonder what a mess would result if it had collided with mass market Android and the shovelfulls of sofware that treats the notifications like a 90s systray. BBOS 10 not being Android might h
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by afandian 5y ago
I'm typing this from my Unihertz Titan Pocket, which was very successfully crowd funded recently. It's a good little phone. Prior to that I had a Blackberry Key2 whinch was pretty much the perfect Android phone IMHO. I have a Gemi
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by afandian 5y ago
I would like to try this out on Android but the link goes to Google Play and I don't link my phone to a Google account. Any chance of an APK download?
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by afandian 5y ago
Update 2: ``` I have heard back from our privacy team and I’d love to share their responce to your query: Thanks for reaching out to us about the recent bill in Australia. We love that our customers care about their digital rights and want
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by afandian 5y ago
For years I had planned to make a DIY one, but never got round to it. But a week ago bought one of the IKEA ones, plus a carbon filter, and I've been very happy. The air feels cleaner and somehow just nicer. Lots of reviews say it&#x27
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by afandian 5y ago
Generally you hollow out a goat, then stick blow-pipes, chanters, drones or stitch closed the arms and legs. I don't know what kind of pipe this is, but compare to the French Bodega and Bulgarian Kaba Gaida. https://en.wikip
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by afandian 5y ago
For those of you who saw the "instrument", noticed that it's a bagpipe, check out the huge range of bagpipes from round the world: http://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/guide/
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by afandian 5y ago
Update: ``` Hi, Thank you for contacting Fastmail support. I’ve escalated your ticket to our privacy team, who is best suited to assist with this issue. You can expect to receive an update in approximately two business days. I thank you for
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by afandian 5y ago
Me too, and I just submitted a support request seeking clarification. I'll update with any reply I get.
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by afandian 5y ago
No I'm not.
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by afandian 5y ago
What is old is new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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by afandian 5y ago
Given those very limited snippets of PulpScript I'm surprised to see no mention of HyperTalk and HyperCard from 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk#Messages_and_events HyperTalk had similar objectives: m
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by afandian 5y ago
Does anyone think what was done to Native Americans was just?
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by afandian 5y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that! It doesn't let you go slower than 1x speed though, which was the useful thing. I used to use it to learn tunes by playing half speed.
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by afandian 5y ago
Even if that were the true motivation (which I don't believe), there's a standard UI paradigm for that: grey out the control if it doesn't apply. I'm more inclined to believe that it was a UX designer with a misplaced dr
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by afandian 5y ago
I'm still bitter that they removed variable speed and variable pitch playback. It was invaluable, and there was no reason to remove it.
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by afandian 5y ago
Install things resembling 'bee hotels' everywhere you can. Very low cost, potentially might be of great benefit. I was very surprised to see a few solitary bees using the ones that we put in our garden. Then plant a patch of bee-f
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by afandian 5y ago
I find it hard to believe that someone simultaneously doesn't know the first thing about bit operations, but has come to the conclusion that they need to find the first 42 bits. Also, JavaScript's handling of numbers is so weird

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